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