| 1493 |
Christopher Columbus arrives at the Caribbee Isles (Dominica) during his second expedition. |
| 1507 |
Leonardo da Vinci is commissioned to paint Lisa Gherardini ("Mona Lisa"). |
| 1529 |
The first parliament for five years opens in England and the Commons put forward bills against abuses amongst the clergy and in the church courts. |
| 1794 |
Thomas Paine is released from a Parisian jail with help from the American ambassador James Monroe. He was arrested for having offended the Robespierre faction. |
| 1813 |
American troops destroy the Indian village of Tallushatchee in the Mississippi Valley. |
| 1868 |
Ulysses S. Grant elected the 18th president of the United States. |
| 1883 |
A poorly trained Egyptian army, led by British General William Hicks, marches toward El Obeid in the Sudan–straight into a Mahdist ambush and massacre. |
| 1883 |
The U.S. Supreme Court declares American Indians to be "dependent aliens." |
| 1896 |
William McKinley is elected 25th president of the United States. |
| 1912 |
The first all-metal plane flies near Issy, France, piloted by Ponche and Prinard. |
| 1918 |
The German fleet at Kiel mutinies. This is the first act leading to Germany’s capitulation in World War I. |
| 1921 |
Milk drivers on strike dump thousands of gallons of milk onto New York City’s streets. |
| 1935 |
Left-wing groups in France form the Socialist and Republican Union. |
| 1957 |
The Soviet Union launches Sputnik II with the dog Laika, the first animal in space, aboard. |
| 1964 |
Lyndon B. Johnson is elected the 36th president of the United States. |
| 1964 |
Robert Kennedy, brother of the slain president, is elected as a senator from New York. |
| 1983 |
Jesse Jackson announces his candidacy for the office of president of the United States. |
| 1992 |
Arkansas Governor Bill (William Jefferson) Clinton is elected 42nd president of the United States. |
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Born on November 3 |
| 1718 |
John Montague, fourth Earl of Sandwich and inventor of the sandwich. |
| 1794 |
William Cullen Bryant, poet and journalist. |
| 1801 |
Karl Baedeker, German publisher, well known for travel guides. |
| 1831 |
Ignatius Donnelly, American social reformer best known for his book Atlantis: The Antediluvian World. |
| 1901 |
Andre Malraux, French novelist (Man’s Fate). |
| 1903 |
Walker Evans, photographer. |
| 1909 |
James "Scotty" Reston, New York Times reporter, editor and columnist. |
| 1918 |
Russell Long, U.S. senator from Louisiana from 1951 to 1968 and son of Huey P. Long. |
| 1920 |
Oodgeroo Noonuccal [Kath Walker], Australian Aboriginal poet. |
| 1942 |
Martin Cruz Smith, novelist (Gorky Park). |
| 1952 |
David Ho, virologist, AIDS researcher. |
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