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1961 – U Thant is unanimously appointed as the 3rd Secretary-General of the United Nations, becoming the first non-European individual to occupy the post. [ 6 ] 1964 – Lyndon B. Johnson is elected to a full term as U.S. president, winning 61% of the vote and 44 states, while Washington D.C. residents are able to vote in a presidential ...
The Tiradores Battalion arrived in the Panamanian city of Colón the morning of November 3, 1903. [11] There, Generals Tovar and Amaya encountered Panama Railway authorities aligned with the secessionist movement, who ushered Tovar and his senior staff onto a train bound for Panama City to see Obaldía , but delayed the passage of the tiradores ...
Culture Day was first held in 1948 to commemorate the announcement of the post-war Japanese constitution on November 3, 1946. [1]November 3 was first celebrated as a national holiday in 1868 when it was called Tenchō-setsu (天長節), a holiday held in honour of the birthday of the reigning Emperor—at that time, Emperor Meiji (see also The Emperor's Birthday).
After much heavy rain on 3 November 1966, devastating floods occurred in Florence, damaging or destroying millions of works of art and rare books. New conservation techniques were inspired by the disaster, but even decades later, hundreds of works still await restoration.
This is a list of selected November 3 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit.
Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 3, 1936. In the midst of the Great Depression, incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Republican governor Alf Landon of Kansas in a landslide victory.
On October 3rd in 1994, OJ Simpson was acquitted of double murder charges. The former Heisman Winner and Buffalo Bills player was accused of the murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
The Greensboro massacre was a deadly confrontation which occurred on November 3, 1979, in Greensboro, North Carolina, US, when members of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party (ANP) shot and killed five participants in a "Death to the Klan" march which was organized by the Communist Workers Party (CWP).