Today In History, November 3 • 1394 - Charles VI orders Jews expelled from France. • 1507 - Leonardo DaVinci is commissioned by the husband of Lisa Gherardini to paint her. The work is known as the Mona Lisa. • 1534 - Englands parliament confirms King Henry VIII holds all judicial and political powers formerly held by the Pope in England. • 1796 - John Adams is elected the second US President. • 1839 - Opium war flares up when a British frigate sinks Chinese fleet. • 1842 – Namibia: Hans-Christian Knudsen, together with Johannes Hendrik Bam, brother of Johann-Heinrich’s Schmelen’s second wife, starts work as a Rhenish missionary at Bethany, supported by Jan Boois. Knudsen produces the first legal code for the Nama of Bethany, Berseba and Rehoboth. • 1892 - The first automatic telephone goes into service, at LaPorte, Indiana. It was invented by Almon Strowger. 1900 – 1990 • 1903 - Panama proclaims its independence from Columbia. • 1911 - The Chevrolet Motor Car Company is founded by Louis Chevrolet and William C Durant. • 1918 - Poland declares its independence from Russia. • 1928 - Turkey switches from Arabic to Roman alphabet. • 1936 - US President Franklin Roosevelt is re-elected in a landslide over Republican Alfred M Landon. • 1946 - Power in Japan is transferred from the emperor to elected assembly. • 1952 - Frozen bread was offered for sale for the first time, in a supermarket in Chester, New York. • 1970 - Marxist Salvador Allende becomes president of Chile. • 1982 - Surinames largest labour union, Moederbond, ends a five-day general strike after the nations military commander promises free elections, a new constitution and the restoration of civil liberties. • 1986 - Ash-Shiraa, a pro-Syrian Lebanese magazine, breaks the story of US arms sales to Iran, a revelation that escalates into the Iran-Contra affair. 1990 – 2000 • 1990 - Mozambiques parliament approves a new constitution ending 15 years of one-party rule. • 1992 - Bill Clinton defeats President George HW Bush in US presidential election. • 1992 - Carol Moseley-Braun became the first African-American woman US senator. • 1993 - Bosnian government troops storm through a Croat district north of Sarajevo, prompting 15 000 terrified civilians to flee into the countryside. • 1994 - A Bosnian refugee, determined to call attention to the slaughter in his homeland, hijacks an airliner only to surrender when he believes the world had heard his plea. • 1996 - Relief officials scramble to find a way to get aid to a million Rwandan Hutu refugees engulfed in a rebellion in eastern Zaire. • 1998 - For the first time in a 30-year conflict, the Spanish government says it will hold talks with groups linked to the militant Basque ETA separatists. • 1998 - Bob Kane, the creator of Batman, dies at the age of 83. • 1998 - In the US, Minnesota elects Jesse The Body Ventura, a former pro wrestler, as its governor. 2000 – 2012 • 2002 - The party of moderate President Ibrahim Rugova wins municipal elections in Kosovo, but loses some ground to parties headed by former ethnic Albanian rebels. • 2007 - General Pervez Musharraf declares a state of emergency in Pakistan, suspending the constitution, replacing the chief justice before a crucial Supreme Court ruling on his future as president, and cutting communications in the capital. • 2008 - A US military jury at Guantanamo sentences Osama bin Ladens former media aide, Ali Hamza al-Bahlul, to life for encouraging terrorist attacks. • 2011 - The global output of heat-trapping carbon dioxide jumps by the biggest amount on record, the US Department of Energy calculates, a sign of how feeble the worlds efforts are at slowing man-made global warming. • 2012 - Three Syrian tanks enter the demilitarised zone in the Golan Heights, prompting an Israeli complaint to UN peacekeepers over the first such violation in 40 years. – On This Day In History, Today In History
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