Historical Events on November 3

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• 644 Umar ibn al-Khattab, second Muslim caliph, is killed in Medina by Lu'lu, an enslaved Persian captive
• 1394 Jews are expelled from France by Charles VI

• 1527 Ferdinand of Austria and Bohemia chosen as king of Hungary
• 1529 1st sitting of the Reformation Parliament in London

• 1620 Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony

• 1640 English Long Parliament forms
• 1655 England & France sign military & economic treaties
• 1656 Treaty of Vilnius: Russia & Poland sign anti-Swedish covenant [NS]
• 1676 Kara Mustafa succeeds Ahmed Kiprulu as Turkish grand vizier

• 1760 Battle at Torgau, Saxony: Prussia beats Austria
• 1762 Britain & Spain sign Treaty of Paris
• 1762 Spain acquires Louisiana

• 1783 John Austin, a footpad turned murderer, is the last to be publicly hanged at London's Tyburn gallows
• 1791 Battle at Wabash: Indians assault general St Clair, 637 soldiers killed

• 1794 French troops conquer Maastricht

• 1813 US troops under General Coffee annihilate the Red Stick Creek Indian village at Tallasseehatchee, Alabama
• 1817 First permanent bank in British North America - the Bank of Montreal founded [1]
• 1820 Cuenca (Santa Ana de los Ríos de Cuenca), Ecuador, declares independence
• 1838 The Times of India, world's largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce
• 1839 First Opium War - 2 British frigates engage several Chinese junks
• 1839 Palace of Gulhane Turkey, freedom of religion proclaimed
• 1848 Johan Thorbeckes revises the Constitution of the Netherlands
• 1856 A British fleet bombards Canton

• 1861 Battle of Port Royal, fought in Port Royal Sound, South Carolina begins, Union victory (US Civil War)
• 1862 Battle until the 5th November between gunboats at Bayou Teche, a waterway in Louisiana
• 1863 Battle of Grand Coteau in Southwestern Louisiana in the American Civil War

• 1868 John Willis Menard from Louisiana is elected the first black US Congressman (opposition to his election means he never sits in Congress)

• 1869 Canada's Hamilton Football Club forms
• 1874 James Theodore Holly, elected bishop of Haiti
• 1883 American Old West: Self-described "Black Bart the poet" gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves an incriminating clue that eventually leads to his capture
• 1883 Race riots kill 4 blacks in Danville Virginia
• 1883 US Supreme Court decides federal courts have no jurisdiction over Native American tribal Council (Ex parte Crow Dog)
• 1885 Tacoma vigilantes drive out Chinese, burn their homes & businesses
• 1886 Friars of Tilburg arrives on Curacao
• 1888 Concertgebouw Orchestra debuts in the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, under the baton of founding conductor Willem Kes
• 1889 Chaplain Ariëns founds first Roman Catholic Workers group

• 1896 J H Hunter patents portable weighing scales
• 1896 Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah elected 1st female state senator in the US

• 1900 First US automobile show opens at Madison Square Garden (NYC)
• 1903 Colombia grants independence to Panama

• 1906 International Radiotelegraph Conference in Berlin selects "SOS" (· · · – – – · · ·) distress signal as the worldwide standard for help

• 1911 Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T
• 1914 1st modern elastic brassiere is patented by New York socialite Mary Phelps Jacob

• 1916 Treaty establishes British suzerainty over Qatar
• 1917 1st class US mail now costs 3 cents per ounce
• 1918 Austro-Hungarian Empire dissolves
• 1918 Poland proclaims independence from Russia after WW I
• 1918 Thousands of revolutionary German sailors with the fleet at Kiel mutiny, seize the city, and set up councils of workers and sailors
• 1922 Greek parliament bans Prince Andreas for life

• 1927 22.3 cm rainfall at Somerset, Vermont (state record)
• 1927 Tropical storm flooding kills 84 in Winooski River Valley, Vermont

• 1930 First vehicular tunnel to a foreign country (Detroit-Windsor) opens

• 1931 First commercially produced synthetic rubber manufactured

• 1935 George II returns to Greece after 12 years and regains monarchy
• 1935 Korean runner Sohn Kee-chung sets new men's marathon world record, 2:26:42 in Tokyo, Japan
• 1935 Philadelphia Eagles beat Boston Redskins, 7-6 at Fenway Park; respective quarterbacks combine to throw an NFL record 11 interceptions

• 1937 Frenchman Maurice Archambaud cycles world record for distance in one hour, 45.796 km in Vigorelli, Milan, Italy
• 1939 Clare Booth's "Margin for Error" premieres in NYC

• 1942 12th day of battle at El Alamein: Scottish assault

• 1942 William L. Dawson elected to the US Congress from Chicago

• 1943 P-47D Thunderbolt shot down above North Holland
• 1944 Allied commandos land at Westkapelle, on the Dutch island of Walcheren
• 1944 German troops in Vlissingen surrender
• 1944 Pro-German government of Hungary flees
• 1944 US 28th Infantry division occupies Schmidt Hurtgenwald
• 1945 Australian Test cricket batsman Lindsay Hassett is 124 not out as Australian Services draws with Prince's XI at Delhi; follows his 187 in 1st innings
• 1945 Dmitri Shostakovich's 9th Symphony premieres in 25th season opening concert of the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, under Yevgeny Mravinsky

• 1948 Kleggie Hermsen and Bones McKinney each score 17 points as Washington Capitols beat Philadelphia Warriors, 77-70 at Washington Coliseum to win first of 15 straight games to start season; best start in NBA history

• 1952 Egypt protests German retribution payments to Israel
• 1953 "Tokyo Story", Japanese film directed by Yasujirō Ozu, starring Chishū Ryū, Chieko Higashiyama and Setsuko Hara, is released
• 1953 MLB Rules Committee restores the sacrifice fly rule, eliminated in 1939; rule says a sacrifice fly is not charged as a time at bat
• 1954 Nobel for physics awarded to Max Born & Walter Bothe

• 1955 Australia takes control of Cocos Islands
• 1955 First virus crystallized (announced)

• 1956 Suez Crisis: After several days of fighting, Israeli forces capture the Gaza Strip

• 1958 USSR performs nuclear test

• 1960 Ivory Coast adopts constitution
• 1960 Pittsburgh Pirates starter Vern Law (20-9, 18 complete games) wins MLB's Cy Young Award

• 1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1964 For 1st time since 1800, residents of Washington, D.C. permitted to vote

• 1964 Philadelphia voters narrowly approve $25 million to build a new multi-purpose stadium that would become Veterans Stadium, home to MLB Phillies and NFL Eagles

• 1967 Vietnam War: The Battle of Dak To begins, becoming one of the bloodiest battles of the war

• 1968 Ex-Prime Minister of Greece Georgios Papandreou buried. 300,000 demonstrate against fascist junta
• 1968 New York Jets kicker Jim Turner lands 6 field goals and an extra point to beat Buffalo Bills, 25-21 at Shea Stadium
• 1969 Congo president Mobutu visits Belgium
• 1970 Future Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Bob Gibson wins his second NL Cy Young Award (23-7 record, 274 strikeouts and 3.12 ERA)

• 1971 "Play Misty For Me" premieres
• 1973 Atlantic Records releases "Abandoned Luncheonette", the second studio album by the American pop rock duo Daryl Hall & John Oates
• 1973 BYU receiver Jay Miller sets an NCAA football single game record with 22 catches (for 263 yards) en route to a 56-21 victory over New Mexico at Cougar Stadium, Provo, Utah
• 1973 Mariner 10 launched-1st Venus pics, 1st mission to Mercury

• 1975 Good Morning America premieres on ABC (David Hartman & Nancy Dussault)
• 1975 U.S. advice columnist for "Good Housekeeping" Ann Landers asks parents in a mail-in survey "‘If you had it to do over again, would you have children?" 70% of participants say no
• 1978 Dominica gains independence from UK & adopts constitution
• 1978 First broadcast of "Different Strokes" on NBC TV
• 1978 USSR & Vietnam sign peace & friendship treaty
• 1979 Five people mortally wounded during anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstration in NC
• 1979 Moroccan offensive against Polisario Front
• 1980 After acquiring MLB's Oakland A's for $12.7m, Walter Haas Jr. appoints himself CEO; leads team to 4 AL West Divisional titles and 1989 World Series Championship
• 1980 Ianford Wilson's "5th of July" premieres in NYC
• 1980 Walter Hass Jr becomes CEO of Oakland A's
• 1981 Milwaukee Brewers future Baseball Hall of Fame reliever Rollie Fingers (6-3 record, 28 saves and 1.04 ERA) wins American League Cy Young Award, with 22 of 28 possible 1st-place votes

• 1982 San Diego guard Randy Smith plays his 845th consecutive game in Clippers' 130-111 loss in Philadelphia; passes Johnny “Red” Kerr's NBA record; goes on to play in 906 straight games
• 1983 Jesse Jackson launches his 1st campaign for presidency (D)
• 1983 Nashville Network begins on cable TV
• 1984 3,000 die in 3 day anti-Sikh riot in India

• 1985 President Alfonsín's Radical Burgerunie wins in Argentine legislative elections
• 1986 Federated States of Micronesia signs Compact of Free Association with US
• 1986 Joaquim Chissano elected president Mozambique

• 1986 Lebanese magazine Ash Shirra reveals secret US arms sales to Iran
• 1986 Northern Mariana Islands becomes a Commonwealth associated with US

• 1987 On Wall Street, after 5 consecutive gains, Dow Jones down 50.56
• 1988 Pakistan claims it downed Afghan warplane

• 1988 Soviet Union agrees to allow teaching of Hebrew

• 1989 100s of Bulgarian demonstrate in Sofia for democratic rights

• 1989 NBA expansion Minnesota Timberwolves make NBA debut; lose 106-94 against SuperSonics at Seattle Center Coliseum; Tyrone Corbin T-Wolves top scorer with 20 points
• 1989 Šarūnas Marčiulionis and Alexander Volkov become first Russians to play in a regular season NBA game; Marciulionis scores 19 as Golden State lose 136-106 to Phoenix; Volkov held scoreless in Atlanta's 126-103 defeat by Indiana

• 1990 Gro Harlem Brundtland is installed as Prime Minister of Norway
• 1990 MLB club owners agree to pay players $280 million in damages under a settlement to close aftermath of the owners' 3-year conspiracy case against free agents; largest owner-to-player payment ever made in sports
• 1990 TCU quarterback Matt Vogler completes 44 passes including 5 touchdowns for an NCAA football record 690 passing yards in a 56-35 loss to Houston at the Astrodome; Cougars quarterback David Klingler throws for 7 TDs

• 1992 Carol Moseley-Braun elected first African-American woman in US Senate, representing Illinois

• 1992 Dianne Feinstein is elected to the US Senate, goes on to become longest serving female there, serving until her death in 2023

• 1993 Defenseman Ken Daneyko sets New Jersey Devils 'Ironman' record by playing 322nd consecutive NHL game in 2-3 loss at LA Kings

• 1994 Dutch & British astronomers find spiral nebula Dwingeloo 1
• 1994 First PlayStation console released by Sony Interactive Entertainment in Japan
• 1994 Small forward Glenn Robinson signs the then most lucrative rookie contract in NBA history, a 10-year, $68.15 million deal with the Milwaukee Bucks
• 1994 Space shuttle STS-66 (Atlantis 13), launches
• 1994 Susan Smith who claimed her two children were carjacked arrested for murder
• 1994 Total solar eclipse in South America (4m23s)
• 1995 First NBA game at FleetCenter in Boston; Celtics lose to Milwaukee Bucks, 101-100
• 1995 First NBA game at Rose Garden in Portland; Trail Blazers lose 92-80 to Vancouver Grizzlies
• 1995 First NBA game at SkyDome in Toronto; Raptors beat New Jersey Nets, 94-79
• 1995 With a 105-91 victory over Charlotte at the United Centre, Chicago wins their first of an NBA record 72 games in one season and their first of an NBA record 37 home games won at the start of a season
• 1996 "It's a Slippery Slope" opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC

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