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One World Trade Center opens in New York City, on the site of the Twin Towers

Born on This Day

Anna Wintour

1949 -

Former longtime Vogue magazine editor who shaped fashion trends for decades. Known for her signature bob paired with sunglasses.

Dolph Lundgren

1957 -

Swedish martial artist and action film star in 1980s and ’90s blockbusters like Rocky IV and The Punisher franchise.

Colin Kaepernick

1987 -

Former San Francisco 49ers quarterback who, in 2016, protested racial injustice by kneeling during the pre-game national anthem.

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1900

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The first U.S. Auto Show opens at New York’s Madison Square Garden, where carmakers showcase 160 vehicles. With early internal combustion engines noisy, noxious and teeth-rattling, consumers of the time favored steam- and battery-powered vehicles.

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Also on This Day in History

Discover more of the major events, famous births, notable deaths and everything else history-making that happened on November 3rd

William Makepeace Thackeray completes his novel ‘Barry Lyndon’

On November 3, 1844, William Makepeace Thackeray completes “The Luck of Barry Lyndon: A Romance of the Last Century,” published in Fraser’s Magazine. The novel became one of his best-known works.

Black Bart makes his last stagecoach robbery

Authorities almost catch the California bandit and infamous stagecoach robber called Black Bart; he manages to make a quick getaway, but drops an incriminating clue that eventually sends him to prison—a handkerchief with a laundry mark. Black Bart was born Charles E. Boles, probably in the state of New York around 1830. As a young man, […]

Panama declares independence from Colombia

With the support of the U.S. government, Panama issues a declaration of independence from Colombia. The revolution was engineered by a Panamanian faction backed by the Panama Canal Company, a French-U.S. corporation that hoped to connect the Atlantic and Pacific oceans with a waterway across the Isthmus of Panama. In 1903, the Hay-Herrán Treaty was […]

Central Powers face rebellion on the home front

As the First World War draws to a close, angry rebels in both Germany and Austria-Hungary revolt on November 3, 1918, raising the red banner of the revolutionary socialist Communist Party and threatening to follow the Russian example in bringing down their imperialist governments. By the last week of October 1918, three of the Central […]

Newspaper mistakenly declares “Dewey Defeats Truman”

On November 3, 1948, the Chicago Tribune jumps the gun and mistakenly declares New York Governor Thomas Dewey the winner of the previous days’ presidential race against incumbent Harry S. Truman in a front-page headline: “Dewey Defeats Truman.” Many of America’s major newspapers had predicted a Dewey victory early on in the campaign. A New […]

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Soviet Union launches a dog into space

The Soviet Union launches the first animal to orbit the earth into space—a dog nicknamed Laika—aboard the Sputnik 2 spacecraft. Laika, part Siberian husky, lived as a stray on the Moscow streets before being enlisted into the Soviet space program. Laika survived for a few hours as a passenger in the USSR’s second artificial Earth […]

The Crystals earn a No. 1 hit with “He’s A Rebel”—which they did not sing

On November 3, 1962, female vocal act the Crystals score a No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 with the song “He’s A Rebel”—a record on which the credited artists had not sung a single note.

Lyndon B. Johnson defeats Barry Goldwater for presidency

In one of the most crushing victories in the history of U.S. presidential elections, incumbent Lyndon Baines Johnson defeats Republican challenger Barry Goldwater, Sr. With more than 60 percent of the popular vote, Johnson turned back the conservative senator from Arizona to secure his first full term in office after succeeding to the presidency after […]

D.C. residents cast first presidential votes since 1800

On November 3, 1964, residents of the District of Columbia cast their ballots in a presidential election for the first time since 1800. The passage of the 23rd Amendment in 1961 gave citizens of the nation’s capital the right to vote for a commander in chief and vice president. They went on to help Democrat […]

President Nixon calls on the “silent majority”

President Richard Nixon goes on television and radio to call for national solidarity on the Vietnam War effort and to gather support for his policies; his call for support is an attempt to blunt the renewed strength of the antiwar movement. Pledging that the United States was “going to keep our commitment in Vietnam,” he […]

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Communists and Klansmen clash in Greensboro

Five members of the Communist Workers Party, participating in a “Death to the Klan” rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, are shot to death by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis. Several others were wounded in what became known as the Greensboro massacre. Members of the Communist Workers Party had organized the anti-Ku Klux Klan rally […]

Massive truck explosion in Afghanistan’s Salang Tunnel

On November 3, 1982, a truck explodes in Afghanistan’s Salang Tunnel, killing an unknown number of Soviet soldiers and Afghan civilians. Casualty estimates range from the hundreds into the thousands.

Dianne Feinstein elected California senator in the “Year of the Woman”

Dianne Feinstein, the former mayor of San Francisco, makes history on November 3, 1992, when she wins election to the U.S. Senate. The first woman to represent the state of California in the upper chamber, she joins a record number of women winning seats in Congress that year, earning 1992 the label “Year of the […]

Former wrestler Jesse “The Body” Ventura is elected governor of Minnesota

On November 3, 1998, former professional wrestler Jesse “The Body” Ventura is elected governor of Minnesota with 37 percent of the vote. His opponents, seasoned politicians Hubert Humphrey III (son of Lyndon Johnson’s vice-president and the attorney general of Minnesota) and St. Paul mayor Norm Coleman, spent a total of $4.3 million on their campaigns. […]

Chicago Cubs win first World Series title since 1908, snapping “curse”

In the early hours of November 3, 2016, the Chicago Cubs win their first World Series championship since 1908, beating the Cleveland Indians, 8-7, in a thrilling Game 7 delayed by rain. “Let It Reign,” reads the headline in the next day’s Chicago Tribune sports section. The win snaps the “Billy Goat Curse,” one of the more […]

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