Important Events From This day in History November 3

 

1957 Space -- Dog In Space

1957 : A dog was launched into orbit today as the first animal in space on board Sputnik 2, a Russian spacecraft, and became the first living animal to enter the Earth's orbit.

1975 UK -- First UK Oil Pipeline

1975 : The Queen formally opens the UK's first oil pipeline. The 130-mile pipeline from Cruden Bay to Grangemouth serves the Forties oil field 110 miles east of Aberdeen, which the BP discovered six years ago. The Forties is the largest oil field so far discovered in the British sector of the North Sea.

1969 U.S.A. - PBS Established

PBS is founded on November 3, 1969, on it's foundation it takes over its predecessor, National Educational Television (NET). Public Broadcasting Service is made up of 354 member TV stations who collectively own PBS.

PBS has no central program production arm or news department all content is created by or produced under contract with other outside parties including individual member stations. A good example is "The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer" produced by MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, which is 65% owned by Liberty Media.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting ( partially funded by the United States Federal Government to promote public broadcasting ) funds goes to public television and radio stations that are members of PBS and NPR.

1913

U.S.A. -- First Income Tax

The first American citizens receive information over the new national income tax. A married man living with his wife, who is in receipt of an income of $5,000 pays $10 a year and if his income is $10,000 he pays $60 per year.

1920 U.S.A. - - Rabies

A girl was bit by a dog that was suspected to be "mad". Usually this meant that a dog had a disease such as rabies. However, in this case the girl had become unaffected by a certain treatment given to her, and no mention of rabies (or treatment of rabies) was mentioned in the news record of this incident. This girl was affected severely, in that the dog bites had caused a nervous condition-at least temporarily.

1924 U.S.A. - - Pneumonic Plague

The death total from Pneumonic plague now stands at 25 in Los Angeles, the area where the deaths have occurred has been sealed and quarantined and health officials now believe a plague of rats in the area have spread the disease and drastic measures will be taken to kill the rats .

1933 U.S.A. - - Deficit $661,120,850

1933: During the first quarter of this current fiscal year the government reached a deficit of $661,120,850. This figure was six times more than the one from the previous year around this time.

1943 World War II - - Majdanek Concentration camp in Poland Murder of 42,000 in 2 days

Nazi's carry out "Operation Harvest Festival" to kill all Jews remaining in the Lublin District of Poland. The operation "Erntefest" began at dawn when German Nazi SS troops rounded up large numbers of Jews and took them out into nearby trenches and shot and murdered them, it is estimated that in two days 42,000 men, women and children were murdered.

1944 World War II - - The Air War

A report was made regarding current World War II activity. A total of 155 Nazi planes headed for Merseburg, Germany were shot down by the U.S. Eighth Air Force fighter pilot division. This was a new record set. Furthermore within 24 hours it was reported that 4,480 tons of explosives and fire bombs were dropped by the British on Dusseldorf. One of the targets included the Leuna synthetic oil plant, which used to supply Germany with 50,000 tons of petroleum.

1953 Korea - - POW's

Prisoners of war (POWs) in Korea became very outspoken as communists (Reds) tried to get the POWs to see things "their way." During interviews that were held between the prisoners and Reds, cursing attacks, taunting, singing, and other actions took place. Only 17 of the 483 prisoners interviewed had been scheduled to return to North Korea. The rest of the prisoners stayed put. More talks were scheduled the next day-some including Chinese citizens.

1963 South Vietnam - - President Ngo Dinh Diem

An account of the death of a Vietnamese president and his brother was published. This was a very important day in the history of this country. Crowds of exited people celebrated the downfall of President Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu. At the same time, Buddhist monks were freed from jail and had set up a new government.

Moreover, the word at the time was that Diem and Nhu had both committed suicide. However, word also spread that they may have been possibly shot while resisting arrest. These men were both Roman Catholic leading a predominately Buddhist nation.

1964 U.S.A. - - Washington D.C. Residents Gain The Vote

1964 : Washington D.C. residents were barred from voting in presidential elections but the Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution grants the District three votes in the Electoral College and residents are able to vote in a presidential election for the first time.

1964 U.S.A. - - Lyndon B Johnson

Lyndon B Johnson has won the presidential election with a landslide victory in the United States to become the 36th President of the United States. He has been the President since last year when President Kennedy was assassinated and as the vice president was sworn in as President.

1972 Canada - - Alberta

It was made known to the world that Alberta had cut energy ties with Ottawa. Alberta was the producer of two-thirds of all of Canadian oil. They had refused to discuss this matter with the federal government during this time as well.

1974 U.S.A. - - Lyndon Baines Johnson

Lyndon Baines Johnson has been elected president of the United States defeating hard line Republican Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona by an overwhelming majority.

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