On this day 3rd November

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Facts

644 Umar ibn al-Khattab, second Muslim caliph, is killed by a Persian slave in Medina

1534 English parliament accepts Act of Supremacy: Henry VIII becomes Head of Church of England

1620 Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony

1640 English Long Parliament forms

1906 International Radiotelegraph Conference in Berlin selects "SOS" distress signal as the worldwide standard for help

1957 USSR launches Sputnik 2 with a dog (Laika), 1st animal in orbit

1970 US President Richard Nixon promises gradual troop removal of Vietnam

Deaths

753 Pirminius, German saint (b. 753)

1600 Richard Hooker, English theologian (b. 1554)

1873 Kintpuash, "Captain Jack", chief of Modoc-indians, dies

1926 Annie Oakley, US sharp shooting star, dies at 66

1954 Henri E B Matisse, French painter/sculptor (Dance II), dies at 84

1962 Harlow Curtice, President of General Motors (1953-8), dies at 69

1966 Eric Spear, British composer for film and TV (Coronation Street theme)

2002 Lonnie Donegan, Scottish singer-songwriter and the King of Skiffle, dies at 71

Born on this day

1995 Kendall Jenner, model and TV personality (Keeping Up with the Kardashians), born in Los Angeles, California

Annie Oakley

Lonnie Donegan