Thursday, November 03, 2011

TODAY IN HISTORY

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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