On November 3, 1903, Panama declared its independence from Colombia, giving birth to one of the most strategically significant nations in the Western Hemisphere. The declaration wa
On November 3, 1957, at 02:30 UTC, a modified R-7 intercontinental ballistic missile lifted off from Launch Complex 1 at the NIIP-5 Test Range in the Kazakh steppe, the same pad th
On November 3, 1992, American voters ended twelve consecutive years of Republican control of the White House by electing Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton as the 42nd President of the
On November 3, 1964, Americans went to the polls to choose between two visions of their country’s future that could hardly have been more different. When the votes were count
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
