On the morning of November 3, 1493, a lookout aboard one of seventeen Spanish ships spotted land rising steeply from the Caribbean Sea. The fleet had been at sea for twenty-one day
Shortly after midnight on November 2, 1963, CIA officer Lucien Conein received a message at his post in Saigon. Ngo Dinh Diem, the president of South Vietnam, and his brother and p
Shortly after 2:00 in the afternoon on November 2, 1947, the Hughes H-4 Hercules eased across the surface of Long Beach Harbor, California, in what was supposed to be a routine tax
On November 2, 1917, British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour signed a short letter addressed to Lionel Walter Rothschild, the 2nd Baron Rothschild and a leading figure of th
On November 3, 1838, a new newspaper rolled off the presses in Bombay, the bustling commercial capital of British India on the western coast of the subcontinent. It was called The
At precisely 3:00 in the afternoon on November 2, 1936, the British Broadcasting Corporation launched the world’s first regularly scheduled high-definition television service
