"Today is Monday, Nov. 3, the 307th day of 2025. There are 58 days left in the year. Daylight saving time ends today. Today in history: On Nov. 3, 1979, five Communist Workers Party members were killed in a clash with heavily armed Ku Klux Klansmen and neo-Nazis during an anti-Klan protest in Greensboro, North Carolina, in what became known as the Greensboro massacre. State and federal trials subsequently acquitted six defendants of murder and rioting charges."
"In 1957, the Soviet Union launched the spacecraft Sputnik 2, carrying the first animal into orbit, a dog named Laika. In 1961, diplomat U Thant of Burma (now Myanmar) was elected secretary-general of the United Nations following the death of his predecessor, Dag Hammarskjold, in an airplane crash. In 1964, Lyndon B. Johnson, who assumed the presidency after John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, won election as president, defeating Republican Sen. Barry Goldwater."
"In 2012, the lights went back on in lower Manhattan to the relief of residents who had been plunged into darkness for nearly five days by Hurricane Sandy. In 2014, 13 years after the 9/11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center towers, a new 104-story, 1,776-foot-high skyscraper called the One World Trade Center opened for business at the site, marking an emotional milestone for both New Yorkers and the nation."
Today is Monday, Nov. 3, the 307th day of 2025, with 58 days remaining in the year. Daylight saving time ends today. On Nov. 3, 1979, five Communist Workers Party members were killed in a clash with heavily armed Ku Klux Klansmen and neo-Nazis during an anti-Klan protest in Greensboro, North Carolina; state and federal trials subsequently acquitted six defendants of murder and rioting charges. William Howard Taft won the 1908 presidential election. The Chevrolet Motor Car Co. was founded in 1911 in Detroit by Louis Chevrolet and William C. Durant. Franklin D. Roosevelt won reelection overwhelmingly in 1936. The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2 with a dog named Laika in 1957. U Thant became UN secretary-general in 1961. Lyndon B. Johnson won the 1964 presidential election. Bill Clinton won the 1992 election. Power returned to lower Manhattan after Hurricane Sandy in 2012. One World Trade Center opened in 2014. Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election.
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