What happened on November 3? There are more than 290 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About November 3
November 3 is the 308th day of the year 2024. There are 58 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday. This day falls under the 44th week of the year 2024.
On this day in Muncie, Indiana 47304 sunrise will occur at 07:12 AM and sunset will occur at 05:37 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Scorpio. The modern birthstone for this month is Topaz while the mystical birthstone is Pearl.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 87 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For November 3
- 361Emperor Constantius II dies of a fever at Mopsuestia in Cilicia, on his deathbed he is baptised and declares his cousin Julian rightful successor.
- 644Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Muslim caliph, is assassinated by a Persian slave in Medina.
- 1333The River Arno flooding causing massive damage in Florence as recorded by the Florentine chronicler Giovanni Villani.
- 1468Liège is sacked by Charles I of Burgundy’s troops.
- 1493Christopher Columbus first sights the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea.
- 1783John Austin, a highwayman, is the last person to be publicly hanged at London’s Tyburn gallows.
- 1783The American Continental Army is disbanded.
- 1793French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.
- 1812Napoleon’s armies are defeated at the Battle of Vyazma
- 1817The Bank of Montreal, Canada’s oldest chartered bank, opens in Montreal, Quebec.
- 1838The Times of India, the world’s largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.
- 1848A greatly revised Dutch constitution, drafted by Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, severely limiting the powers of the Dutch monarchy, and strengthening the powers of parliament and ministers, is proclaimed.
- 1867Garibaldi and his followers are defeated in the Battle of Mentana and fail to end the Pope’s Temporal power in Rome (it would be achieved three years later).
- 1883American Old West: Self-described “Black Bart the poet” gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves a clue that eventually leads to his capture.
- 1898France withdraws its troops from Fashoda (now in Sudan), ending the Fashoda Incident.
- 1903With the encouragement of the United States, Panama separates from Colombia.
- 1911Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
- 1913The United States introduces an income tax.
- 1918Austria-Hungary enters into an armistice with the Allies, and the Habsburg-ruled empire dissolves.
- 1918Poland declares its independence from Russia.
- 1918The German Revolution of 1918–1919 begins when 40,000 sailors take over the port in Kiel.
- 1930Getúlio Dornelles Vargas becomes Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24.
- 1932Panagis Tsaldaris becomes the 142nd Prime Minister of Greece.
- 1935George II of Greece regains his throne through a popular plebiscite.
- 1942World War II: The Koli Point action begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on November 12.
- 1943World War II: 500 aircraft of the U.S. 8th Air Force devastate Wilhelmshafen harbor in Germany.
- 1944World War II: Two supreme commanders of the Slovak National Uprising, Generals Ján Golian and Rudolf Viest are captured, tortured and later executed by German forces.
- 1957Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika.
- 1964Washington D.C. residents are able to vote in a presidential election for the first time.
- 1967Vietnam War: The Battle of Dak To begins.
- 1969Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon addresses the nation on television and radio, asking the “silent majority” to join him in solidarity on the Vietnam War effort and to support his policies.
- 1973Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 10 toward Mercury. On March 29, 1974, it becomes the first space probe to reach that planet.
- 1975Syed Nazrul Islam, A. H. M. Qamaruzzaman, Tajuddin Ahmad, and Muhammad Mansur Ali, Bangladeshi politicians and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman loyalists, murdered in the Dhaka Central Jail.
- 1978Dominica gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1979Greensboro massacre: Five members of the Communist Workers Party are shot dead and seven are wounded by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis during a “Death to the Klan” rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.
- 1982The Salang tunnel fire in Afghanistan kills up to 2,000 people.
- 1986Iran-Contra Affair: The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa reports that the United States has been secretly selling weapons to Iran in order to secure the release of seven American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon.
- 1986The Federated States of Micronesia gain independence from the United States of America.
- 1988Sri Lankan Tamil mercenaries try to overthrow the Maldivian government. At President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom’s request, the Indian military suppresses the coup attempt within 24 hours.
- 1996Death of Abdullah Çatlı, leader of the Turkish ultra-nationalist organisation Grey Wolves in the Susurluk car-crash, which leads to the resignation of the Turkish Interior Minister, Mehmet Ağar (a leader of the True Path Party, DYP).
- 1997The United States of America imposes economic sanctions against Sudan in response to its human rights abuses of its own citizens and its material and political assistance to Islamic extremist groups across the Middle East and Eastern Africa.
Who Were Born On November 3?
- 39Lucan, Roman poet (d. 65)
- 1500Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist (d. 1571)
- 1558Thomas Kyd, English author (d. 1594)
- 1560Annibale Carracci, Italian painter (d. 1609)
- 1587Samuel Scheidt, German composer (d. 1654)
- 1604Osman II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1622)
- 1618Aurangzeb, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1707)
- 1633Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (d. 1714)
- 1718John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, English statesman (d. 1792)
- 1749Daniel Rutherford, Scottish chemist and physician (d. 1819)
- 1757Robert Smith, American politician, 2nd Secretary of the Navy and 6th Secretary of State (d. 1842)
- 1793Stephen F. Austin, American pioneer (d. 1836)
- 1794William Cullen Bryant, American poet and journalist (d. 1878)
- 1799William Sprague III, American politician (d. 1856)
- 1801Karl Baedeker, German author and publisher (d. 1859)
- 1801Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (d. 1835)
- 1815John Mitchel, Irish nationalist (d. 1875)
- 1816Calvin Fairbank, American abolitionist minister (d. 1898)
- 1816Jubal Early, American Confederate general (d. 1894)
- 1845Edward Douglass White, 9th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1921)
- 1852Emperor Meiji, 122nd Emperor of Japan (d. 1912)
- 1856Jim McCormick, American baseball player (d. 1918)
- 1857Mikhail Alekseev, Russian general (d. 1918)
- 1862Henry George, Jr., American politician (d. 1916)
- 1863Alfred Perot, French physicist (d. 1925)
- 1871Albert Goldthorpe, English rugby league footballer (d. 1943)
- 1876Stephen Peter Alencastre, Roman Catholic prelate (d. 1940)
- 1877Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, Chilean president. (d. 1960)
- 1884Joseph W. Martin, Jr., American politician, 51st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1968)
- 1887Samuil Marshak, Russian writer and children’s poet (d. 1964)
- 1890Eustáquio van Lieshout, Dutch priest (d. 1943)
- 1890Harry Stephen Keeler, American author (d. 1967)
- 1893Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1986)
- 1894Sofoklis Venizelos, Greek politician, three times Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1964)
- 1894William George Barker, Canadian First World War fighter ace (d. 1930)
- 1895Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
- 1896Gustaf Tenggren, Swedish illustrator (d. 1970)
- 1899Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-born Italian physicist (d. 1986)
- 1899Rezső Seress, Hungarian singer songwriter (d. 1968)
- 1900Adolf Dassler, German sporting goods executive (d. 1978)
- 1901André Malraux, French writer (d. 1976)
- 1901Léopold III of Belgium (d. 1983)
- 1903Walker Evans, American photographer (d. 1975)
- 1908Bronko Nagurski, American football player (d. 1990)
- 1909James Reston, American journalist (d. 1995)
- 1910Richard Hurndall, British actor (d. 1984)
- 1911Kick Smit, Dutch footballer (d. 1974)
- 1912Alfredo Stroessner, Paraguayan politician (d. 2006)
- 1915Hal Jackson, American radio personality
- 1918Bob Feller, American baseball player (d. 2010)
- 1918Claude Barma, French director and screenwriter (d. 1992)
- 1918Dean Riesner, American film and television writer (d. 2002)
- 1918Elizabeth P. Hoisington, American Brigadier General (d. 2007)
- 1918Raimon Panikkar, Spanish theologian (d. 2010)
- 1918Russell B. Long, American politician (d. 2003)
- 1919Jesús Blasco, Spanish comic book author (d. 1995)
- 1919Ludovic Kennedy, British broadcaster and political activist (d. 2009)
- 1920Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australian writer (d. 1993)
- 1921Charles Bronson, American actor (d. 2003)
- 1922Dennis McDermott, Canadian trade unionist (d. 2003)
- 1923Tomás Ó Fiaich, Irish cardinal (d. 1990)
- 1923Yamaguchi Hitomi, Japanese novelist and essayst (d. 1995)
- 1924Samuel Ruiz García, Mexican Roman Catholic bishop (d. 2011)
- 1926Maurice Couture, French-Canadian Roman Catholic archbishop
- 1926Valdas Adamkus, Lithuanian politician, former President
- 1927Harrison McCain, Canadian businessman (McCain Foods) (d. 2004)
- 1928Goseki Kojima, Japanese manga artist (d. 2000)
- 1928Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist (d. 1989)
- 1930Brian Robinson, British cyclist
- 1930D. James Kennedy, American theologian (d. 2007)
- 1930Frits Staal, Dutch philosopher and scholar
- 1930Lois Smith, American actress
- 1930Peggy McCay, American actress
- 1930Tsutomu Seki, Japanese astronomer
- 1931Michael Fu Tieshan, Chinese bishop (d. 2007)
- 1931Monica Vitti, Italian actress
- 1931Yon Hyong-muk, North Korean politician (d. 2005)
- 1933Amartya Sen, Indian economist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1933Aneta Corsaut, American actress (d. 1995)
- 1933Jeremy Brett, English actor (d. 1995)
- 1933John Barry, English composer (d. 2011)
- 1933Ken Berry, American actor
- 1933Michael Dukakis, American politician
- 1934Hans Janmaat, Dutch politician (d. 2002)
- 1936Roy Emerson, Australian tennis player
- 1937Dietrich Möller, German politician
- 1938Akira Kobayashi, Japanese singer
- 1938Jean Rollin, French director and screenwriter
- 1938Martin Dunwoody, British mathematician
- 1938Takao Saito, Japanese manga artist
- 1943Bert Jansch, Scottish folk musician (d. 2011)
- 1944Jan Boerstoel, Dutch writer and poet
- 1945Gerd Müller, German footballer
- 1945Ken Holtzman, American baseball player and manager
- 1946Tom Savini, American actor
- 1946Wataru Takeshita, Japanese politician
- 1947Mazie Hirono, American politician
- 1948Helmuth Koinigg, Austrian racing driver (d. 1974)
- 1948Lulu, British actress and singer
- 1948Rick Kreuger, American baseball player
- 1948Takashi Kawamura, Japanese politician
- 1949Anna Wintour, English-born American magazine editor
- 1949Larry Holmes, American boxer
- 1949Mike Evans, American actor (d. 2006)
- 1950Joe Queenan, American writer
- 1950Massimo Mongai, Italian writer
- 1951André Wetzel, Dutch footballer, manager and technical director
- 1951Dwight Evans, American baseball player
- 1951Ed Murawinski, American cartoonist
- 1952David Ho, Taiwanese-American AIDS researcher
- 1952Jim Cummings, American voice actor
- 1952Roseanne Barr, American actress and comedian
- 1953Dennis Miller, American comedian
- 1953Helios Creed, American musician (Chrome)
- 1953Kate Capshaw, American actress
- 1953Larry Herndon, American baseball player
- 1954Adam Ant, English singer
- 1955Phil Simms, American football player
- 1955Teresa De Sio, Italian singer-songwriter
- 1956Bob Welch, American baseball player
- 1956Gary Ross, American film director
- 1956Kevin Murphy, American actor and puppeteer
- 1957Dolph Lundgren, Swedish actor
- 1957Gary Olsen, British actor (d. 2000)
- 1959Hal Hartley, American film director and writer
- 1960Karch Kiraly, American volleyball player
- 1962David J. Schiappa, American politician
- 1962Gabe Newell, co-founder of Valve Corporation
- 1962Jacqui Smith, British politician
- 1963Ian Wright, English footballer
- 1963Shigeaki Hattori, Japanese racing driver
- 1964Paprika Steen, Danish actress
- 1965Ann Scott, French novelist
- 1965Gert Heerkes, Dutch footballcoach
- 1965Jenny Packham, English fashion designer
- 1967John Tomac, American cyclist
- 1967Mike O'Neill, Canadian hockey player
- 1967Steven Wilson, English musician (Porcupine Tree)
- 1968Paul Quantrill, Canadian baseball player
- 1969Niels van Steenis, Dutch rower
- 1969Robert Miles, Swiss record producer and musician
- 1969Tommy Tiernan, Irish comedian
- 1971Diego Alessi, Italian race car driver
- 1971Dwight Yorke, Trinidad and Tobago footballer
- 1971Dylan Moran, Irish comedian
- 1972Marko Koers, Dutch athlete
- 1972Ugo Ehiogu, English footballer
- 1973Ben Fogle, TV personality, writer and broadcaster
- 1973Kirk Jones, American musician
- 1973Mick Thomson, American guitarist (Slipknot)
- 1973Nemone, British athlete and broadcaster
- 1974Sonali Kulkarni, Indian actress
- 1974Tariq Abdul-Wahad, French basketball player
- 1975Darren Sharper, American football player
- 1976Guillermo Franco, Argentine/Mexican footballer
- 1976Jake Shimabukuro, American ukulele player
- 1976Tōko Aoyama, Japanese voice actress
- 1977Aria Giovanni, American model
- 1977Sean Ringgold, American actor
- 1978Hiroko Sakai, Japanese softball player
- 1978Julia Taylor, European pornographic actress
- 1978Koshiro Take, Japanese jockey
- 1979Beau McDonald, Australian rules footballer
- 1979Pablo Aimar, Argentine footballer
- 1979Tim McIlrath, American musician (Rise Against)
- 1981Sten Pentus, Estonian racing driver
- 1982Evgeny Plushenko, Russian figure skater
- 1982Moniek Kleinsman, Dutch iceskater
- 1983Julie Marie Berman, American actress
- 1983Suzane von Richthofen, Brazilian murderess
- 1984Christian Bakkerud, Danish racing driver (d. 2011)
- 1984Ryo Nishikido, Japanese idol (NEWS, Kanjani Eight)
- 1985Tyler Hansbrough, American basketball player
- 1986Heo Young Saeng, Korean singer (SS501)
- 1986Paul Derbyshire, Italian rugby player
- 1986Piet Velthuizen, Dutch footballer
- 1987Ariane Andrew, American professional wrestler, manager and ring announcer
- 1987Felix Schütz, German ice hockey player
- 1987Gemma Ward, Australian model
- 1988Angus McLaren, Australian actor
- 1989Paula DeAnda, American singer
- 1990Ellyse Perry, Australian footballer and cricketer
Who Died On November 3?
- 361Constantius II, Roman Emperor (b. 317)
- 753Pirminius, German saint (b. 700)
- 1254John III Doukas Vatatzes, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1193)
- 1428Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (b. 1388)
- 1580Jeronimo Zurita y Castro, Spanish historian (b. 1512)
- 1584Charles Borromeo, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1538)
- 1600Richard Hooker, English theologian (b. 1554)
- 1639Martin de Porres, Peruvian Roman Catholic saint (b. 1579)
- 1643John Bainbridge, English astronomer (b. 1582)
- 1643Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (b. 1577)
- 1711John Ernest Grabe, German-born Anglican theologian (b. 1666)
- 1787Robert Lowth, British bishop and grammarian (b. 1710)
- 1793Olympe de Gouges, French feminist and revolutionary (b. 1748)
- 1794François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1715)
- 1858Harriet Taylor Mill, English feminist philosopher (b. 1807)
- 1869Andreas Kalvos, Greek poet (b. 1792)
- 1890Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1811)
- 1891Louis Lucien Bonaparte, French politician and linguist (b. 1813)
- 1917Léon Bloy, French novelist and essayist (b. 1846)
- 1918Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov, Russian scientist (b. 1857)
- 1926Annie Oakley, American sharp-shooter (b. 1860)
- 1927Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod, Czech journalist (b. 1860)
- 1929Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet (b. 1883)
- 1933Émile Roux, French scientist (b. 1853)
- 1939Charles Tournemire, French composer and organist (b. 1870)
- 1949Solomon R. Guggenheim, American art collector and philanthropist (b. 1861)
- 1954Henri Matisse, French artist (b. 1869)
- 1957Laika, Soviet space dog (b. 1954)
- 1957Wilhelm Reich, Austrian psychotherapist (b. 1897)
- 1960Paul Willis, American actor (b. 1901)
- 1962L.O. Wenckebach, Dutch sculptor, painter, and medallist(b. 1895)
- 1964John Henry Barbee, American guitarist and singer (b. 1905)
- 1970Peter II of Yugoslavia (b. 1923)
- 1973Marc Allégret, French director and screenwriter (b. 1900)
- 1975A. H. M. Qamaruzzaman, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1926)
- 1975Muhammad Mansur Ali, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1919)
- 1975Syed Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1925)
- 1975Tajuddin Ahmad, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1925)
- 1983Alfredo Antonini, American conductor and composer (b. 1901)
- 1987Mary Shane, American sportscaster (b. 1945)
- 1990Mary Martin, American actress (b. 1913)
- 1991Chris Bender American R&B singer (b. 1972)
- 1991Mort Shuman, American singer and songwriter (b. 1936)
- 1993Leon Theremin, Russian inventor (b. 1895)
- 1994Alvin Andreas Herborg Nielsen, American physicist (b. 1910)
- 1995Gordon S. Fahrni, Canadian physician (b. 1887)
- 1995John Orchard, British actor (b. 1928)
- 1996Abdullah Çatlı, Turkish nationalist and activist (b. 1956)
- 1996Jean-Bédel Bokassa, President of the Central African Republic (b. 1921)
- 1998Bob Kane, comic artist and Batman co-creator (b. 1915)
- 1999Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (b. 1928)
- 2001Ernst Gombrich, Austrian art historian (b. 1909)
- 2002Jonathan Harris, American actor (b. 1914)
- 2002Lonnie Donegan, Scottish musician (b. 1931)
- 2003Rasul Gamzatov, Russian poet (b. 1923)
- 2004Sergei Zholtok, Latvian hockey player (b. 1972)
- 2006Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorean footballer (b. 1937)
- 2006Marie Rudisill, American author (b. 1911)
- 2006Paul Mauriat, French musician (b. 1925)
- 2007Aleksandr Dedyushko, Russian actor (b. 1962)
- 2007Martin Meehan, Irish republican (b. 1945)
- 2007Ryan Shay, American runner (b. 1979)
- 2009Carl Ballantine, American magician and entertainer (b. 1917)
- 2009Francisco Ayala, Spanish novelist (b. 1906)
- 2010Jerry Bock, American musical theatre composer (b. 1928)
- 2010Jim Clench, Canadian bassist (April Wine and Bachman–Turner Overdrive) (b. 1949)
- 2010Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russian politician (b. 1938)
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