Overview
- Salvador Allende assumed Chile’s presidency on November 3, 1970, becoming the first freely elected socialist head of state in Latin America.
- Panama declared independence from Colombia on November 3, 1903, paving the way for subsequent canal construction under U.S. direction.
- The Soviet Union launched Sputnik II with the dog Laika on November 3, 1957, marking the first orbit by a living being.
- In 1906, German psychiatrist Alois Alzheimer delivered the first medical description of the dementia that later carried his name.
- On November 2, 1955, researchers Carlton-Schwerdt and Schaffer reported the poliovirus in crystalline form, a landmark in virology.