SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2007

Today is Saturday, November 3, the 307th day of 2007. There are 58 days left in the year.

1394 _ Jews are expelled from France by Charles VI

1620 _ Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony

1762 _ Spain acquires Louisiana

1839 _ The first opium war; 2 British frigates engage several Chinese junks

1903 _ Colombia grants Panama independence

1918 _ Poland proclaims independence from Russia after WWI

1928 _ Turkey switches from Arabic to Roman alphabet

1956 _ ``Wizard of Oz" first televised (CBS-TV)

1957 _ The USSR launches Sputnik 2 with a dog (Laika), first animal in orbit

1970 _ Salvador Allende inaugurated as president of Chile

1978 _ U.K. grants Dominica independence

1979 _ 63 Americans taken hostage at U.S. Embassy in Teheran, Iran

1984 _ 3,000 die in 3 day anti-Sikh riot in India

1984 _ The body of assassinated Indian PM Indira Gandhi cremated

1988 _ The Soviet Union agrees to allow teaching of Hebrew

1992 _ Bill Clinton elected U.S. president