November 3: Culture Day in Japan; Independence Day in Panama (1903)
Hungarian postage stamp of Laika
- 644 – Umar, the second Muslim Caliph after Muhammad's death, was fatally stabbed by Piruz Nahavandi, a Persian slave.
- 1812 – French invasion of Russia: As Napoleon's Grande Armée began its retreat, its rear guard was defeated at the Battle of Vyazma.
- 1935 – Almost 98% of the reported votes in a Greek plebiscite supported the restoration of George II as King of the Hellenes.
- 1957 – The Soviet Union launched the Sputnik 2 spacecraft, carrying Laika (pictured on stamp) the Russian space dog as the first living creature from Earth to enter orbit.
- 1979 – Five members of the U.S. Communist Workers' Party were shot and killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party while in a protest in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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