Today in History: November 3, KKK and neo-Nazis kill five in Greensboro massacre
Currently is Monday Nov the th day of There are days left in the year Daylight saving time ends the present day The present day in history On Nov 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 Also on this date In Republican William Howard Taft was elected president outpolling Democrat William Jennings Bryan Related Articles What s on the ballot in the first general voting since Donald Trump became president Trump says he won t be extorted by Democrats shuns negotiations as shutdown drags on injured in gunfire at teen party in Ohio rental home It is a predicament Mayors share how grappling with housing has shaped their jobs Catastrophic hack underscores populace defender safety gaps In the Chevrolet Motor Car Co was founded in Detroit by Louis Chevrolet and William C Durant In President Franklin D Roosevelt easily won reelection to a second term losing just two states to the Republican candidate Kansas Gov Alf Landon In the Soviet Union launched the spacecraft Sputnik carrying the first animal into orbit a dog named Laika In 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 Lyndon B Johnson who assumed the presidency after John F Kennedy was assassinated in won ballot as president defeating Republican Sen Barry Goldwater In Democrat Bill Clinton was elected the nd president of the United States defeating Republican President George H W Bush In 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 years after the terrorist attack on the World Deal Center towers a new -story -foot-high skyscraper called the One World Business Center opened for business at the site marking an emotional milestone for both New Yorkers and the nation In Democrat Joe Biden won the presidency though his accomplishment 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 In the current era s Birthdays Former Massachusetts Gov Michael S Dukakis is Economist and Nobel Prize laureate Amartya Sen is Sen Mazie Hirono D-Hawaii is Vogue global editorial director Anna Wintour is Boxing Hall of Famer Larry Holmes is Scientist David Ho is Comedian-actor Roseanne Barr is Actor Kate Capshaw is Comedian Dennis Miller is Singer Adam Ant is Actor Dolph Lundgren is Olympic gold medal figure skater Evgeni Plushenko is Actor Antonia Thomas TV The Good Specialist is Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick is TV personality-model Kendall Jenner is
