Wikipedia:Main Page history/2015 November 3

In the

Termites

• ... that 43 termite species (examples pictured) are used as food by humans or are fed to livestock?
• ... that Mark Slonim, professor of Russian literature at Sarah Lawrence College in the 1950s, was once offered a job by Benito Mussolini?
• ... that a burial urn on display in Aydın Archaeological Museum depicts destiny's gods Moirai, the god of the underworld Hades, the judges of the underworld, and Hades' three-headed guard dog Cerberus?
• ... that Constance Leathart, one of the first women to fly over the Alps, flew heavy bombers in the Second World War?
• ... that Federal Emergency Plan D-Minus was a U.S. government plan for recovery efforts in the aftermath of a devastating nuclear attack?
• ... that, if King Louis I of Hungary is to be trusted, his in-law Maria of Bosnia had children in her fifties and lived to be over 90?
• ... that the actor Ewan McGregor is making his directorial debut with American Pastoral, after the original director left?
• ... that Colonel John Shelton was so unpopular with his men that they gave three cheers upon hearing of his death?

Salvador Pérez

• In baseball, the Kansas City Royals defeat the New York Mets to win the World Series (MVP Salvador Pérez pictured).
• Stanley Biwott wins the men's and Mary Jepkosgei Keitany wins the women's race at the New York City Marathon.
• The
  snap general election
  .
• American Pharoah wins the Breeders' Cup Classic, marking the first-ever "grand slam" in American horse racing.
• Kogalymavia Flight 9268 crashes in the Sinai Peninsula en route to Saint Petersburg
  , Russia, killing all 224 people on board.

• Ongoing events:
  • European migrant crisis
• Recent deaths
  :
  • Günter Schabowski
  • Philip French
  • Ranjit Roy Chaudhury

November 3: Culture Day in Japan; Independence Day in Panama (1903)

• Piruz Nahavandi
  , a Persian slave.
• rear guard was defeated at the Battle of Vyazma
  .
• plebiscite supported the restoration of George II as King of the Hellenes
  .
• 1957 – The Soviet Union launched the Sputnik 2 spacecraft, carrying Laika (pictured on stamp) the Russian space dog as the first living creature from Earth to enter orbit.
• 1979 – Five members of the 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.

• More anniversaries:
  • November 2
  • November 3
  • November 4