TODAY INHISTORY
Today is Friday, Nov. 3.
TODAY’SHIGHLIGHT
the first majorU.S. automobile showopened atNewYork’s MadisonSquareGarden underthe auspices of the Automobile Club ofAmerica.
ONTHISDATE
In1839, the firstOpiumWar betweenChina and Britain broke out.
In1903, Panamaproclaimed its independence from Colombia.
In 1911, theChevroletMotor CarCo. was founded in Detroitby LouisChevrolet andWilliamC. Durant. (The companywas acquired by GeneralMotors in 1918.)
In 1936, President Franklin D. Rooseveltwon a landslide election victoryover Republican challengerAlfred “Alf”Landon.
In1957, theSoviet Union launchedSputnik 2, the secondmanmadesatellite, into orbit; on boardwas a dog namedLaika, whowas sacrificed in the experiment.
In1960, theMeredith Willson musical“The Unsinkable Molly Brown”opened on Broadway withTammy Grimes in the title role.
In 1961, Burmese diplomatU Thantwas appointed acting U.N. Secretary-General following the death ofDag Hammarskjold. President John F. Kennedyestablished theU.S. Agency for InternationalDevelopment.
In1964, President LyndonB. Johnson soundlydefeated RepublicanBarryGoldwater towin aWhiteHouse termin his own right.
In 1970, SalvadorAllendewas inaugurated as president of Chile. In 1979, fiveCommunist WorkersPartymemberswere killed in a clash with heavily armedKuKluxKlansmen and neo-Nazis during an antiKlanprotest in Greensboro, North Carolina. In1986, the Iran-Contra affaircameto light asAshShiraa, a pro-Syrian Lebanese
magazine, first broke the storyofU.S. arms sales to Iran.
In1992, DemocratBill Clintonwas elected the 42nd president of the United States, def eating President George H.W. Bush. In Illinois, Democrat Carol MoseleyBraun became the first black womanelected to theU.S. Senate.
Tenyears ago: Gen. Pervez Musharraf declared a state ofemergency inPakistan. United Auto Workers agreed to a tentative contract with FordMotorCo. Two astronauts conducteda successful spacewalk to save a ripped solarwing on the international space station.
Fiveyearsago: The lights cameback on in lower Manhattan to the relief of residents who’dbeen plunged into darkness fornearly five daysby SuperstormSandy, but there wasdeepening resentment in the city’s outer boroughs and suburbs overa continued lackofpowerand maddening gas shortages. NewYork’s newly relocatedNBAteam, the former New Jersey Nets, hostedthe first regularseason gameby amajor sports teamin Brooklyn since theDodgers left in 1957; the BrooklynNets beat the TorontoRaptors 107-100.
Oneyearago: Democratic vicepresidential nominee TimKaine delivered a speech entirely inSpanish as he addressed a small crowdin a largely Hispanic area of Phoenix aspart of Hillary Clinton’spush into traditionally Republican Arizona. China’s plans fora permanent space station remained firmlyon trackwith the successful launch of its newheavy-lift LongMarch 5 rocket.
THOUGHTFORTODAY
“All politics arebased on the indifference of the majority.” — JamesReston,American journalist (born this date in 1909, died 1995) ASSOCIATED PRESS