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On This Day

November 3

1992
Your vote counts: A Randolph, New York man wins the election for town judge. No one ran for the position, so he wrote himself in and won by one vote, his, the only vote cast.

1988
Geraldo Rivera is hit by a chair during a scuffle while taping an upcoming episode called Teen Hatemongers.

1987
World's loudest snorer: Mark Thompson Hebbard (Canada) is recorded snoring at 90 dB. (source: Guinness Book of World Records)

1978
Diff'rent Strokes debuts on NBC.

1957
First animal in orbit: A dog named Laika aboard the Soviet Sputnik II. Although he survived the launch and orbiting, he died before the mission was completed.

1783
Congress disbands the Army.

1987
Elizabeth Smart, American crime victim.  She was kidnapped in June of 2002 and not rescued until March 2003.

1954
Adam Ant (Stewart Goddard), English singer, actor. Music: Goody Two-Shoes (1982, UK #1). Film: Slamdance (1987).

1953
Dennis Miller, comedian. TV: Saturday Night Live.

1952
Roseanne (Roseanne Barr), American comedienne. TV: Roseanne.

1949
Larry Holmes, American heavyweight boxing champion (1978-85).

1948
Lulu (Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie), Scottish singer. She sang the title songs in You Only Live Twice and The Man with the Golden Gun.

1933
Michael Stanley Dukakis, Massachusetts governor, presidential candidate, "liberal."

1933
Ken Berry, American actor. TV: F Troop (Capt. Wilton Parmenter) and Mama's Family (Vint).

1933
John Barry (John Barry Prendergast), English film composer, three-time Oscar-winner. He composed scores for several James Bond movies.

1921
Charles Bronson (Charles Bunchinsky), American actor. Film: The Magnificent Seven (1960), Once Upon a Time in the West (1969), and Death Wish (1974).

1794     d. 1878
William Cullen Bryant, American poet, called the "Father of American Poets." He is considered to be the first noteworthy American poet.

1793     d. 1836
Stephen Fuller Austin, American pioneer, "Father of Texas." He established the first American settlement in Texas (Austin, 1822).

1771     d. 1854
Francis Place, English reformer, considered the first political campaign manager (1807) in English electoral history.

1718     d. 1792
John Montagu, English diplomat, 4th Earl of Sandwich, for whom the Sandwich Islands are named, and inventor of the sandwich which he devised as quick meal to allow him more time to gamble.

2002     b. 1914
Jonathan Harris (Jonathan Charasuchin), American actor. TV: Lost in Space (Dr. Zachary Smith).

1990     b. 1913
Mary Martin, American Tony-Emmy-winning actress. Stage: Peter Pan (title role), South Pacific, and The Sound of Music. TV: Peter Pan (1956, Emmy). She is the real-life mother of Larry Hagman.

1954     b. 1869
Henri Matisse, French painter. He founded the fauve movement (1905) and was one of the most influential of the modern French artists.

1949     b. 1861
Solomon R. Guggenheim, American philanthropist. In 1937 he founded the Guggenheim foundation, which maintains the museum in New York.

1945     b. 1868
Elmer Smith, American baseball player. He hit the first World Series bases-loaded home run (1920).

1926     b. 1860
Annie Oakley (Phoebe Anne Oakley Mozee), American western performer, member of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.

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