Today in History.......November 3

On this day in …

* 1900, the first automobile show in the United States opened at New York's Madison Square Garden under the auspices of the Automobile Club of America

* 1928, cartoon star Mickey Mouse appears in Steamboat Willie, an animated short produced by Walt Disney. Steamboat Willie was the first fully synchronized sound cartoon ever produced, with Mickey's squeaky voice provided by Walt Disney himself

* 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik II, the second manmade satellite, into orbit; on board was a dog named "Laika" who was sacrificed in the experiment

* 1966, President Lyndon Johnson gave the green light to the Truth in Packaging bill. As enacted, the bill called for supermarket goods to be decked out in labels that detailed their contents, as well as manufacturing information. The bill also forced manufacturers and overenthusiastic copywriters to stop using hyperbolic slogans such as "jumbo ounces" on packaging labels

* 1969, President Richard Nixon goes on television and radio to call for national solidarity on the Vietnam War effort and to gather support for his policies; his call for support is an attempt to blunt the renewed strength of the antiwar movement

* 1979, five radicals were killed when gunfire erupted during an anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstration in Greensboro, N.C., after a caravan of Klansmen and neo-Nazis had driven into the area

* 1995, President Clinton dedicated a memorial at Arlington National Cemetery to the 270 victims of the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103

* 2004, Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry conceded defeat to President Bush in make-or-break Ohio rather than launch a legal fight reminiscent of the contentious Florida recount of four years earlier. ALSO: Hamid Karzai was officially declared the winner of Afghanistan's first-ever presidential election after a three-week probe into vote fraud found no grounds to invalidate his triumph