Today in History the following were elected President of the United States: 1868 Ulysses S. Grant, 1896 William McKinley, 1908 William Taft, 1936 Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected for a second term, 1964 Lyndon B. Johnson is elected to continue as President, in 1992 Bill Clinton is elected defeating George H. W. Bush, and in 2020 Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump.

The On This Day In History archives at “Simple English Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia” contains over 200,000 events, birthdays and deaths from 6,000 years of history. Here is a roundup of a few of them:

November 3 is the 307th day of the year (308th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 58 days remaining until the end of the year.

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1333 - Flooding of the River Arno causes damage to the city of Florence, Italy.

1493 – Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Dominica.

1592 - The city of San Luis Potosí in present-day Mexico is founded.

1783 - The American Continental Army is dissolved.

1793 - French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.

1812 - Napoleon's armies are defeated at the Battle of Vyazma.

1817 - The Bank of Montreal, Canada's oldest chartered bank, opens in Montreal, Quebec.

1838 - The Times of India, the world's best-selling broadsheet English language newspaper, is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Finance.

1848 - A revised Dutch constitution is announced, drafted by Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, it makes the powers of parliament stronger, while strongly restricting the powers of the monarchy.

1867 - Giuseppe Garibaldi and his followers are defeated in the Battle of Mentana.

1868 – Ulysses S. Grant is elected President of the United States.

1883 - American Old West: Self-described Black Bart the Poet gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves a clue that will eventually lead to his capture.

1893 - The freight ship Cabo Machichaco explodes in the harbour of Santander, northern Spain. Some of its load included dynamite, and the resulting fire kills 590 people.

1896 – William McKinley is elected President of the United States.

1903 – Panama becomes independent, separating from Colombia.

1908 – William Taft is elected President of the United States.

1911 - Chevrolet enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.

1918 – Austria-Hungary enters an armistice with the Allies, dissolving the Habsburg-ruled Empire.

1918 – Poland declares independence from Russia.

1918 - The German Revolution of 1918-1919 begins when 40,000 sailors take over the port city of Kiel.

1930 - Getulio Vargas becomes Head of the Provisional Government of Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24.

1932 - Panagis Tsaldaris becomes the 142nd Prime Minister of Greece.

1935 - George II of Greece regains his throne.

1936 – Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected for a second term as President of the United States.

1943 - World War II: 500 aircraft of the US 8th Air Force devastate Wilhelmshaven Harbor in Germany.

1946 - Constitution of Japan is officially created.

1954 - The first Godzilla movie is shown in Japan for the first time.

1956 - The Khan Yunis killings are committed by Israel's Defense Forces in Egyptian-controlled Gaza, resulting in the deaths of 215 male Arabs.

1957 – The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2, with Laika, the world's first space dog, on board. Laika does not survive the mission.

1964 - Washington, DC residents are able to vote in a Presidential Election for the first time.

1964 – Lyndon B. Johnson is elected to continue as President of the United States.

1966 – A series of tropical storms over the Bay of Bengal kill over 1,000 people.

1973 - Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 10 probe towards the planet Mercury.

1975 - Four Bangladeshi politicians loyal to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman are murdered in Dhaka Central Jail.

1978 – Dominica receives independence from the United Kingdom.

1979 - Greensboro massacre: Five Communist Party members are shot dead and seven are injured by a group of Klansmen and Neo-Nazis during a "Death to the Klan" rally in Greensboro, North Carolina.

1982 - The Salang tunnel fire in Afghanistan kills 2,000 people.

1986 - The Federated States of Micronesia become independent from the United States.

1986 - Iran-Contra affair: The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shirga reports that the United States has been secretly selling weapons to Iran in order to secure the release of seven American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon.

1988 - Sri Lankan Tamil mercenaries attempt to overthrow the government of the Maldives.

1991 - Ayrton Senna wins the Formula One world championship for the third time.

1992 – Bill Clinton is elected President of the United States, defeating George H. W. Bush.

1997 - The United States imposes economic sanctions against Sudan in response to human rights abuses and assistance to Islamic extremist groups across the Middle East and East Africa.

2003 – Michael Howard becomes leader of the British Conservative Party.

2007 – Pervez Musharraf declares emergency rule in Pakistan, and suspends the constitution.

2012 - The 2012 New York City Marathon is cancelled late on, due to the clean-up after Hurricane Sandy.

2016 - Two boats carrying refugees sink in the Mediterranean Sea, killing over 200 people.

2016 - A train crash near Karachi, Pakistan, kills at least 20 people.

2020 - The 2020 United States presidential election was the 59th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. The Democratic ticket of former vice president Joe Biden and the junior U.S. senator from California Kamala Harris defeated the incumbent Republican president Donald Trump, and vice president Mike Pence.