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Today in History: Saturday, November 03, 2012
On Nov. 3, 1868, Republican Ulysses S. Grant won the presidential election over Democrat Horatio Seymour.
1839 The first Opium War between China and Britain broke out.
1903 Panama proclaimed its independence from Colombia.
1908 Republican William Howard Taft was elected president, outpolling William Jennings Bryan.
1911 The Chevrolet Motor Car Co. was founded in Detroit by Louis Chevrolet and William C. Durant.
1936 President Franklin D. Roosevelt was re-elected in a landslide over Republican Alfred M. "Alf" Landon.
1957 The Soviet Union launched into orbit Sputnik 2, the second manmade satellite; a dog on board named Laika was sacrificed in the experiment.
1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson soundly defeated Republican challenger Barry Goldwater to win a White House term in his own right.
1970 Salvador Allende was inaugurated as president of Chile.
1986 A Lebanese magazine broke the story of U.S. arms sales to Iran, a revelation that escalated into the Iran-Contra affair.
1992 Democrat Bill Clinton was elected the 42nd president of the United States, defeating President George H.W. Bush.
1992 Illinois Democrat Carol Moseley-Braun became the first African-American woman elected to the U.S. Senate.
2004 Hamid Karzai was declared the winner of Afghanistan's first-ever presidential election.
2005 Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, pleaded not guilty to a five-count felony indictment in the CIA leak case. (Libby was convicted, but President George W. Bush commuted his 30-month prison sentence.)
2009 Maine residents narrowly voted down a same-sex marriage law.
2010 The Federal Reserve announced a plan to buy $600 billion in Treasury bonds over the next eight months in an attempt to boost lending and stimulate economy.
