Right this moment is Sunday, Nov. 3, the 308th day of 2024. There are 58 days left within the yr. Daylight saving time ends as we speak.
Right this moment in historical past:
On Nov. 3, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the spacecraft Sputnik 2, carrying the primary animal into orbit, a canine named Laika.
Additionally on this date:
In 1908, Republican William Howard Taft was elected president, outpolling Democrat William Jennings Bryan.
In 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt simply received reelection, shedding simply two states to the Republican candidate, Kansas Gov. Alf Landon.
In 1961, diplomat U Thant of Burma (now Myanmar) was elected secretary-general of the United Nations following the loss of life of his predecessor, Dag Hammarskjold, in an airplane crash.
In 1979, 5 Communist Staff Occasion members have been killed in a conflict with closely armed Ku Klux Klansmen and neo-Nazis throughout an anti-Klan protest in Greensboro, North Carolina.
In 1992, Democrat Invoice Clinton was elected the forty second president of america, defeating President George H.W. Bush.
In 2012, the lights went again on in decrease Manhattan to the reduction of residents who had been plunged into darkness for practically 5 days by Hurricane Sandy.
In 2014, 13 years after the 9/11 assault, a brand new 1,776-foot skyscraper on the World Commerce Heart web site opened for enterprise, marking an emotional milestone for each New Yorkers and the nation.
In 2020, Democrat Joe Biden received the presidency, although his victory wouldn’t be identified for greater than three days as counting continued in battleground states; Republican President Donald Trump would refuse to concede, falsely claiming that he was a sufferer of widespread voter fraud.
Right this moment’s Birthdays:
Former Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis is 91.
Economist and Nobel Prize laureate Amartya Sen is 91.
Sen. Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, is 77.
Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour is 75.
Boxing Corridor of Famer Larry Holmes is 75.
Scientist David Ho is 72.
Comic-actor Roseanne Barr is 72.
Actor Kate Capshaw is 71.
Comic Dennis Miller is 71.
Singer Adam Ant is 70.
Actor Dolph Lundgren is 67.
Olympic gold medal determine skater Evgeni Plushenko is 42.
Actor Antonia Thomas (TV: “The Good Doctor”) is 38.
Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick is 37.
TV personality-model Kendall Jenner is 29.
