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Michael D. Higgins UNESCO becomes the first UN agency to admit Palestine as a full member state. industrial action . is elected President of Ireland . In baseball, the St. Louis Cardinals defeat the Texas Rangers to win the World Series. The Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow reopens after a six-year renovation costing 21 billion rubles (US$680 million). Recent deaths – More current events...
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November 3: Independence Day in Dominica (1978), the Federated States of Micronesia (1986), and Panama (1903); Culture Day in Japan Pirouz Nahavandi , a Persian slave. rear guard was defeated at the Battle of Vyazma . plebiscite supported the restoration of George II (pictured) as King of the Hellenes . U.S. Communist Workers Party were shot and killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party while in a protest in Greensboro, North Carolina . a state of emergency across Pakistan, suspending the Pakistani Constitution . More anniversaries: November 2 – November 3 – November 4 List of historical anniversaries It is now November 3, 2011 (UTC) – Refresh this page

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Satellite image of thick smoke in Borneo from numerous fires, most of them likely started by the "slash-and-burn" technique of local deforestation for agriculture, though logging activities may have started the fires accidentally. The exceptionally heavy smoke is caused by the burning of the peat in the peat swamp forests of the area and it results in air pollution, disruption of air traffic, and significantly adds to greenhouse gas

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