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Today is Tuesday, Nov. 3, the 307th day of 2026. There are 58 days left in the year.
On Nov. 3, 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.
In 1908, Republican William Howard Taft was elected president, defeating Democrat William Jennings Bryan.
In 1911, the Chevrolet Motor Car Co. was founded in Detroit by Louis Chevrolet and William C. Durant.
In 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt easily won reelection to a second term, losing just two states to the Republican candidate, Kansas Gov. Alf Landon.
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 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 1992, Democrat Bill Clinton was elected the 42nd president of the United States, defeating Republican President George H.W. Bush.
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 2020, Democrat Joe Biden won the presidency, though his victory would not be known for more than three days as counting continued in battleground states; Republican President Donald Trump would refuse to concede, falsely claiming that he was a victim of widespread voter fraud.
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