NOVEMBER 3
1992:Carol Moseley Braun is the first African American
woman elected to the U.S. Senate, as a Democrat representing the state
of Illinois. She is also the first woman to defeat an incumbent senator,
winning the election against Republican Richard S. Williamson.
1957: Laika, a stray mixed-breed dog whose name means "Barker" in Russian, is the first animal to orbit the Earth, launching into space aboard the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2.
1986: The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa reports that the United
States secretly sold arms to Iran to free seven American hostages held
by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon, thus violating the U.S. arms embargo
against Iran and President Ronald Reagan's
pledge never to negotiate with terrorists. The scandal deepens three
weeks later when Attorney General Edwin Meese reveals that the sale of
arms to Iran was illegally funding the right-wing Contra rebels in
Nicaragua.
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