On November 3, 1957, the Soviet Union astonished the world by launching Sputnik 2. Laika, the first animal to orbit Earth, was aboard the tiny satellite. Laika, however, was not the first mammal in space. Since 1947, the United States and the Soviet Union have been placing animals atop rockets. No one understood what the repercussions of weightlessness would be in the early days of rocket technology. Animals, mostly dogs, monkeys, and chimps, were used to assess the safety and practicality of launching a live being into space and returning it intact.

Chevrolet, sometimes known informally as Chevy and formally as the Chevrolet Subsidiary of General Motors Company, is an American vehicle division of the American company General Motors (GM). The Chevrolet brand would go on to become the volume leader in the General Motors family, offering mainstream automobiles to compete with Henry Ford's Model T in 1919 and eventually overtaking Ford as the best-selling car in the United States by 1929.

Shakuntala Devi was born on November 4, 1929, in Bangalore to a typical Kannada Brahmin family. Unlike the rest of her family, who were priests, her father worked in a circus as a tightrope walker, trapeze performer, lion tamer, and stage magician. Shakuntala Devi - commonly known as "the human computer" – was a mathematical genius and writer who established a place for herself in Indian history as a mathematical genius and writer, in a country where women in STEM research subjects are still underrepresented.

David Lawrence Schwimmer, an American actor, comedian, director, and producer, was born on November 2, 1966. He rose to fame by playing Ross Geller in the sitcom Friends, for which he was nominated in 1995 for an Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series Primetime Emmy Award and won a Screen Actors Guild Award. His first major motion picture role was in The Pallbearer (1996) while he was still performing in Friends. This was followed by parts in Kissing a Fool, Six Days, Seven Nights, Apt Pupil (all 1998), and Picking Up the Pieces (2000). He was then chosen to play Herbert Sobel in the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers.

Ngo Dinh Nhu was South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem's younger brother and main political adviser. Nhu commanded the ARVN special forces and the Personalist Labor Revolutionary Party organization, as well as the regime's secret police. He was assassinated during the coup against his brother in 1963. Nhu was bayoneted three times while travelling in an armored personnel carrier with guards, and Diem was shot in the head with a handgun. The killings of the two brothers resulted in the formation of a military junta in the South.

Tabu was born on November 4, 1971 (birthday, dob) in Hyderabad, Telangana, India. Her current age is 47 years old. Tabu is a well-known Indian actress. She is most known for her work in Hindi films, but she has also appeared in Telugu, Tamil, Malayalam, Marathi, and Bengali films, as well as one American film. She has twice received the National Film Award for Best Actress, and she holds the record for the most Filmfare Critics Awards for Best Female Performer victories, with four.

Aga Khan III, Sultan Sir Muhammad Shah, was born in Karachi on November 2, 1877. He succeeded his father, Aga Khan II, as imam when he was eight years old. Under his leadership, the office gained the most clout. The Aga Khan was a well-known figure in European society due to his personal appeal, vast fortune, and brilliance. His passion for horse racing aided his friendships with the great and renowned in politics, industry, and the arts. This was a family legacy, and the Aga Khan's stables were world-class. His horses won the Derby three times, as well as many other notable races.

The Hughes Flying Boat, once the biggest aircraft ever built, is flown on its first and only flight by creator Howard Hughes. The gigantic wooden aircraft, built of laminated birch and spruce (thus the moniker the Spruce Goose), had a wingspan larger than a football field and was planned to transport more than 700 men to battle. When Howard Hughes created the Hughes Aircraft Company in 1932, he was a renowned Hollywood movie producer. He personally tested cutting-edge aircraft of his own design and set a transcontinental flight time record in 1937. He flew around the world in three days, 19 hours, and 14 minutes in 1938.

Khan married his first cousin Shahzadi Begum at Pune, India on November 2, 1896. In 1908, after their divorce, he married Cleope Teresa Magliano. Prince Aly Khan and Prince Giuseppe Mahdi Khan were the couple's two sons.

Marie Antoinette was born in Vienna, Austria, on November 2, 1755. Marie Antoinette was the 15th and final child of Austrian Empress Maria Theresa and Holy Roman Emperor Francis I. She had a rather carefree upbringing. Marie Antoinette contributed to the public dissatisfaction that led to the French Revolution and the monarchy's collapse in August 1792. She became a symbol of the monarchy's excesses and is commonly associated with the famous remark "Let them eat cake," despite the fact that there is no proof she really uttered it. Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI's consort, was killed by decree of the Revolutionary tribunal nine months after her husband.

Senator Barack Obama of Illinois defeated Senator John McCain of Arizona on November 4, 2008, to become the 44th President of the United States and the first African American elected to the White House. The 47-year-old Democrat received 365 electoral votes and nearly 53% of the popular vote, while his 72-year-old Republican opponent received 173 electoral votes and more than 45% of the popular vote.

In 1876, he relocated to London, where he continued to write but struggled financially. In 1895, he was hired as a theatrical critic for the Saturday Review and began composing his own plays. His play Pygmalion was eventually adapted into two films, the first of which received an Oscar for the script he created. During his career, Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw created more than 60 plays and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925. Shaw died in 1950, at the age of 94, while writing on a new play.

Sen was born on November 3, 1933, in West Bengal, India, to a well-respected and prosperous family. Amartya Sen is an Indian economist who won the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998 for his pioneering work in welfare economics. Sen is just the sixth Indian to win this accolade, and he is an expert in developing socioeconomic strategies to mitigate the negative consequences of famines and food shortages. During his infancy, he had a strong interest in Sanskrit, Mathematics, and Physics, and his idols were Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw. Bengali literature, as well as Indian and Greek folklore, captivated Sen.

Matthew David McConaughey was born in Uvalde, Texas, on November 4, 1969. He was an athlete from an early age, participating in golf and tennis at Longview High School and was named "Most Handsome Student." Matthew McConaughey earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Texas in Austin and his first major break with the 1993 picture Dazed and Confused. Matthew McConaughey is an Academy Award-winning actor who has appeared in films such as 'Dazed and Confused' and 'Dallas Buyers Club,' as well as the television series 'True Detective.'

A team led by British Egyptologist Howard Carter began excavating Tutankhamun's tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings on November 4, 1922. Tutankhamun, also known as King Tut, was an Egyptian pharaoh who reigned from 1333 BCE (when he was nine years old) until his death in 1323 BCE.

Kendall Nicole Jenner was born in Los Angeles, California on November 3, 1995, to Kris and Olympic champion Bruce Jenner. Kendall Jenner is a fashion model, Instagram sensation, and one of the renowned Kardashian siblings on the smash reality program 'Keeping Up With The Kardashians.' Jenner went on to pursue a modeling career. Jenner was driven to high fashion runways for big international designers and magazine covers soon after starring in an ad campaign for Forever 21. She has quickly established herself as one of the most sought-after and highest-paid models in the fashion business.

Shah Rukh Khan was born in Delhi, India on November 2, 1965. He is an award-winning Indian film actor who works in Bollywood films, as well as a film producer and television personality. Khan began his career in the late 1980s, participating in various television serials. With the financially successful Deewana, he made his cinematic debut. He has since been a part of countless commercial hits as well as a number of critically lauded performances. Throughout his career in the Indian cinema business, he has received multiple Filmfare Awards, including seven in the Best Actor category.

Abraham Lincoln marries Mary Anne Todd, a Kentucky native, on November 4, 1842, at her sister's house in Springfield, Illinois. Mary Todd, nicknamed Molly, was the daughter of rich parents and attended elite all-girls institutions where she excelled in cultural studies and the arts. Mary Todd, more than her husband, was a fervent abolitionist. She backed his political career as he ascended through the ranks of the Illinois assembly to become one of the country's most charismatic political orators to speak out against slavery.

The daily was formed in 1838 in Mumbai (then Bombay) under the British Raj to serve the British citizens of western India, after Lord Metcalfe's Act of 1835, which loosened limits on the freedom of the Indian press. J.E. Brennan, a retired Irish doctor who was also secretary of the Bombay Chamber of Commerce, was its first editor. Initially, the daily was produced twice weekly, on Wednesdays and Saturdays, under the guidance of Maharashtrian Reformist Raobahadur Narayan Dinanath Velkar, and carried news from Britain and throughout the world.