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November 3
National day of Panama. Feast day of St Rumwald, St Malachy of Armagh, St Amicus, St Winifred or Gwenfrewi, St Martin de
Porres, and St Pirminus.
Events
1493: Christopher Columbus, on his second voyage of discovery, sighted Dominica, in the West Indies.
1706: A violent earthquake occurred in the Abruzzi, Italy, killing some 15,000 inhabitants.
1927: Turkey adopted the Roman alphabet, abolishing the use of Arabic.
1942: British troops, led by Field Marshal Montgomery, broke through Rommel's front line in Africa.
1957: The Russian dog, Laika, became the first in space aboard Sputnik 2.
1964: President Lyndon Baines Johnson, a Democrat, had a sweeping victory over Republican Barry Goldwater in the US presidential elections.
1975: The North Sea pipeline, the first to be built underwater, was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II.
1992: Democrat William Jefferson ('Bill') Clinton, Governor of Arkansas, won the US presidential election with 370 electoral college votes.
1993: A mystery woman paid a record 5 million Swiss francs (£2.2 million) for an envelope with two stamps sent from Mauritius to a Bordeaux wine exporter in 1847.
1996: The death of Conservative MP Barry Porter narrowed to one seat the majority held by the Conservative Party in the UK parliament.
1996: Ffyona Campbell, who in 1994 had been named in the Guinness Book of Records as the first woman to walk around the world, admitted that she had not actually accomplished the feat.
Births
1801: Vincenzo Bellini, Italian operatic composer
1801: Karl Baedeker, German guide-book publisher
1922: Charles Bronson, US film actor
1936: Roy Emerson, Australian tennis player
1949: Larry Holmes, US boxing champion
1954: Adam Ant, English rock musician
Deaths
361: Constantius II, Roman emperor of the East
1926: Annie Oakley, US entertainer and markswoman
1954: Henri Matisse, French painter
1962: Ralph Hodgson, English poet
1993: Leon Theremin, Russian inventor
2001: Ernst Gombrich, Austrian-born British art historian
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