Today in History

November 3

1714 - Birth of William Shenstone, British poet and landscape gardener. 1868 - Ulysses S. Grant is elected the 18th President of the US.

1918 - Poland declares its independence from Russia.

1928 - Turkey switches from Arabic to Roman alphabet.

1968 - Storms, landslides and floods claim more than 100 lives in northern Italy.

1973 - Nasa launches the ‘Mariner 10’ space probe to Venus and Mercury. 2004 - Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan is elected president of the UAE. 2010 - Former Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin dies at the age of 72.

2016 - Sa’ad Hariri is named Lebanese Prime Minister.