Today is Tuesday, November 3, 307th day of 2009. There are 58 days left in the year.
1679 _ Great panic occurs in Europe over the close approach of a comet
1839 _ First opium war ― two British frigates engage several Chinese junks
1888 _ Jack the Ripper kills last victim
1918 _ Austro-Hungarian Empire dissolves
1918 _ Poland proclaims independence from Russia after WW I
1931 _ First commercially produced synthetic rubber manufactured
1936 _ President FDR wins landslide victory over Alfred M. Landon (R)
1970 _ Salvador Allende inaugurated as President of Chile
1979 _ 63 Americans taken hostage at U.S. Embassy (Teheran, Iran)
1992 _ Bill Clinton elected U.S. President