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Did you know ...
- ... that the New York City Board of Estimate voted to demolish Fort Clinton (pictured) six times before the fort became a U.S. national monument?
- ... that the 1947 World Snooker Championship was the first world snooker championship where the winner wasn't Joe Davis?
- ... that according to the Open Syllabus Project, Diana Hacker is the second most-read female author on college campuses after Kate L. Turabian?
- ... that a scene featuring Michael Fassbender kissing himself in Alien: Covenant was cut from the Chinese release due to censorship?
- ... that "Kommt herbei, singt dem Herrn" is a Christian hymn that Diethard Zils wrote in 1972 as a paraphrase of Psalm 95 to an Israeli melody?
- ... that at the Calais Conference of July 1915 both the British and French thought they had persuaded the other to support their opposing war strategies?
- ... that the seats on Pipeline: The Surf Coaster shift up and down to mimic the feeling of surfing?
- ... that Ted Heaton advertised himself as "Liverpool's famous swimming master"?
In the news
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- In the Brazilian general election, two-term former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (pictured) defeats incumbent Jair Bolsonaro.
- In India, a footbridge collapse in Morbi, Gujarat, results in the deaths of at least 135 people.
- In baseball, the Orix Buffaloes defeat the Tokyo Yakult Swallows to win the Japan Series.
- More than 100 people are killed and 300 others are injured by two car bombs in Mogadishu, Somalia.
- At least 156 people are killed and more than 150 others are injured in a crowd crush during Halloween festivities in Seoul, South Korea.
On this day
November 3: Culture Day in Japan
- 1880 – The current melody of Kimigayo, the national anthem of Japan, was adopted.
- 1881 – Indigenous Mapuche began an uprising against the occupation of Araucanía by Chile.
- 1942 – World War II: U.S. Marines and U.S. Army forces began an attempt to encircle and destroy a regiment of Imperial Japanese Army troops on Guadalcanal.
- 1943 – The Holocaust: The largest massacre of Jews by German forces began at Majdanek concentration camp (execution trenches pictured).
- 1954 – The first film featuring the giant monster known as Godzilla was released nationwide in Japan.
- Andrew Báthory (d. 1599)
- Bert Jansch (b. 1943)
- Anna Wintour (b. 1949)
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