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  Today in history, november third, KKK and Neo Nazis kill five in
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  Greensboro Massacre. This article is being read by an automated voice generated
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  by Everlet. Today is Tuesday, November 3rd, the 307th day of 2026.
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  There are 58 days left in the year. Today in history. On
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  november third, nineteen seventy nine, five Communist Workers Party members were killed
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  in a clash with heavily armed Ku Klux Klansmen and Neo Nazis
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  during an anti Klan protest in Greensboro, North Carolina, in what became
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  known as the Greensboro Massacre. State and federal trials subsequently acquitted six
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  defendants of murder and rioting charges. Also on this date, In nineteen
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  oh eight, Republican William Howard Taft was elected president, defeating Democrat William
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  Jennings Bryan. In nineteen eleven the Chevrolet Motor Car Company was founded
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  in Detroit by Louis Chevrolet and William C. Durant. In nineteen thirty
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  six, President Franklin D. Roosevelt easily won reelection to a second term,
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  losing just two states to the Republican candidate Kansas Governor Alf Landon.
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  In nineteen fifty seven the Soviet Union launched the spacecraft Sputnik II,
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  carrying the first animal into orbit, a dog named Leica. In nineteen
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  sixty one, diplomat Youth Ant of Burma, now Myanmar, was
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  elected Secretary General of the United Nations following the death of his
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  predecessor, Dag Hammerskold, in an airplane crash. In nineteen sixty four, Lyndon
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  B. Johnson, who assumed the presidency after John F. Kennedy was assassinated
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  in nineteen sixty three, won election as president, defeating Republican Senator Barry
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  Goldwater. In nineteen ninety two, Democrat Bill Clinton was elected the forty
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  second President of the United States, defeating Republican President George H. W.
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  Bush. In twenty twelve, the lights went back on in Lower Manhattan,
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  to the relief of residents who had been plunged into darkness for
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  nearly five days by Hurricane Sandy. In twenty fourteen, thirteen years after
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  the nine eleven terrorist attack on the World Trade Center towers, a
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  new one hundred four storey, one thousand seven hundred and seventy six
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  foot high skyscraper called the One World Trade Center opened for business
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  at the site, marking an emotional milestone for both New Yorkers and
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  the nation. In 2020, Democrat Joe Biden won the presidency, though his
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  victory would not be known for more than three days as counting
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  continued in battleground states. Republican President Donald Trump would refuse to concede,
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  falsely claiming that he was a victim of widespread voter fraud. Today's
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  Birthdays. Former Massachusetts Governor Michael S. Dukakis is ninety-three. Economist and Nobel
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  Prize laureate Smart Yasin is ninety-three. Vogue Global Editorial Director Anna Wintour
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  is seventy-seven. Boxing Hall of Famer Larry Holmes is seventy-seven. Scientist David
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  Ho is seventy-four. Comedian actor Roseanne Barr is seventy-four. Actor Kate Capshaw
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  is seventy-three. Comedian Dennis Miller is seventy-three. Singer Adam Ant is seventy-two.
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  Actor Dolph Lundgren is sixty-nine. Olympic gold medal figure skater Evgeny Plushenko
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  is forty four. Actor Antonia Thomas T V The Good Doctor is
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  forty. Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick is thirty nine. Kidnap survivor and
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  child safety activist Elizabeth Smart is thirty nine. Grammy winning singer Ella
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  Mai is thirty two. Actor and model Ever Anderson is nineteen.