On November 3, 1964, the citizens of Washington D.C. walked into polling places carrying more than ballots—they carried the weight of history, the echo of silenced voices, and the pride of finally being recognized as participants in the democratic promise of America. For the first time since the capital’s founding in 1790, the people of …
On November 3, 1957, the world looked up and gasped as a tiny speck of light passed silently across the night sky. That speck was Sputnik II, a metal capsule launched by the Soviet Union, carrying not only instruments and technology but a small, trembling life: Laika, a stray dog from the streets of Moscow …
On November 3, 1493, the sails of Christopher Columbus’s ships caught the winds of destiny as they crested the Caribbean horizon, and before his eyes rose the lush green mountains of an island that would be named Dominica. It was not the first island he had seen, nor would it be the last, but this …
