11/3/14

New Income Tax, Mike Dukakis Born, Midterm Shellacking

November 3: On This Progressive Day
The U.S. introduces a federal income tax (1913)

The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2 with the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika (1957)

President B. Hussein Obama holds a news conference in the White House to acknowledge that he and the Democratic party took a "shellacking" in the mid-term elections (2010)

President B. Hussein Obama reads from the Teleprompter at the G-20 summit in Cannes, France (2011)

b: Russell B. Long (1918), Michael Dukakis (1933), Roseanne Barr (1952); d: Wilhelm Reich (1957), Viktor Chernomyrdin (2010)

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