November 3<\/p>\n
1493 \u2013 On his second voyage to the new world, Christopher Columbus first sights the island of Dominica in the Caribbean.<\/p>\n
1534 \u2013 English Parliament passes the first Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the Anglican Church.<\/p>\n
1783 \u2013 The American Continental Army is disbanded.<\/p>\n
1868 \u2013 John Willis Menard (R-LA) is the first African American elected to Congress. Because of an electoral challenge, he is never seated.<\/p>\n
1903 \u2013 Panama declares independence and separates from Colombia.<\/p>\n
1908 \u2013 William H. Taft is elected the 27th President of the United States.<\/p>\n
1911 \u2013 Louis Chevrolet and William C. Durant, a former manager of General Motors, found the Chevrolet Motor Company in Detroit with investors William Little of Little Automobile, and former Buick owner James H. Whiting<\/p>\n
1926 \u2013 Phoebe ‘Annie Oakley’ Butler dies at Greenville, Ohio, age 66.<\/p>\n
1936 \u2013 Franklin D. Roosevelt is re-elected President of the United States.<\/p>\n
1946 \u2013 Written under supervision of General MacArthur, by occupation officers, the new Constitution of Japan is adopted, ending ‘Imperial Japan’ and reducing the Emperor to a symbolic position<\/p>\n
1957 \u2013 The Soviet Union launches Sputnik with the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika.<\/p>\n
1964 \u2013 Lyndon B. Johnson is elected to a full term as President of the United States.<\/p>\n
1973 \u2013 NASA launches the Mariner 10<\/em> toward Mercury. On March 29, 1974, it becomes the first space probe to reach that planet.<\/p>\n 1978 \u2013 Dominica gains its independence from the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n 1986 \u2013 The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa<\/em> reports that the United States government has been secretly selling weapons to Iran in order to secure the release of seven American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon and secretly finance the Nicaraguan Contra<\/em> rebels.<\/p>\n 1992 \u2013 Arkansas Governor William J. Clinton is elected the 42nd President of the United States.<\/p>\n 2014 \u2013 One World Trade Center officially opens as the replacement for the World Trade Center Twin Towers<\/p>\n 2020 \u2013 The United States presidential election takes place, but not until 5 days later is Joe Biden declared to be the winner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" November 3 1493 \u2013 On his second voyage to the new world, Christopher Columbus first sights the island of Dominica in the Caribbean. 1534 \u2013 English Parliament passes the first Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the Anglican Church. 1783 \u2013 The American Continental Army is disbanded. 1868 \u2013 John Willis Menard … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61359"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97393,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61359\/revisions\/97393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}