On this day: 3 November
Events, births and deaths on 3 November. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths ·
- Deaths · Kim Yong-nam
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Kay Starr
100 years ago1926
- Births · Valdas Adamkus
- Deaths · Annie Oakley
- Births · Maurice Couture
1000 years ago1026
Nothing recorded for that year.
Events · 28
- 1492(Julian date)Peace of Etaples — treaty between England and France in 1492
- 1812Battle of Vyazma — 1812 battle during the French invasion of Russia
- 1839Battle of Chuenpee — battle in Opium War (November 3, 1839)
- 1867Battle of Mentana — 1867 military engagement, part of the Unification of Italy
- 1881Mapuche uprising of 1881 — last major rebellion of the indigenous Mapuches of Araucanía, Chile
- 1903separation of Panama from Colombia — historical event in 1903, establishing the Republic of Panama
- 19081908 United States presidential election — 31st quadrennial U.S. presidential election
- 1911Chevrolet — American automobile division of GM
- 1920Northern Taurida Operation — 1920 military campaign of the Russian Civil War
- 1935Greek monarchy referendum, 1935 — on restoring the monarchy
- 19361936 United States presidential election — 38th quadrennial U.S. presidential election
- 1942Koli Point action — 1942 Japan-US engagement
- 1943Operation Harvest Festival — 1943 massacre of Jews during the Holocaust
- 1949Battle of Dengbu Island — 1949 battle of the Chinese Civil War
- 1950Air India Flight 245 — 1950 plane crash of an Air India L-749A Constellation into Mont Blanc, France
- 1956Khan Yunis massacre — the Israeli massacre of over 275 Palestinians in brutal house-to-house search for fedayeen in Khan Yunis in 1956
- 19641964 United States presidential election — 45th quadrennial U.S. presidential election
- 1967Battle of Dak To — 1967 battle of the Vietnam War
- 1979Greensboro massacre — massacre
- 1980Latin Carga Convair CV-880 crash — Aviation accident in Venezuela
- 19821982 Salang Tunnel fire — Mass-casualty incident
- 1986Federated States of Micronesia — island sovereign state in Oceania
- 19881988 Maldives coup d'état attempt — coup attempt
- 19921992 United States presidential election — 52nd quadrennial U.S. presidential election
- 1996Susurluk scandal — Political scandal in Turkey
- 20072007 Pakistani state of emergency — 2007 political crisis
- 2014One World Trade Center — main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex in Lower Manhattan, New York City
- 20202020 United States presidential election — 59th quadrennial U.S. presidential election
Births · 60
- 39(Julian date)Lucan — Roman poet (39–65)
- 1500(Julian date)Benvenuto Cellini — Florentine sculptor and goldsmith (1500–1571)
- 1560(Julian date)Annibale Carracci — Bolognese painter (1560–1609)
- 1604Osman II — 16th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1618–1622)
- 1618Aurangzeb — the sixth Mughal Emperor from 1658 to 1707
- 1718John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich — English Peer and statesman; inventor of the sandwich
- 1749Daniel Rutherford — British physician, chemist, botanist and physicist (1749–1819)
- 1794William Cullen Bryant — American romantic poet and journalist (1794-1878)
- 1801Vincenzo Bellini — Italian opera composer (1801–1835)
- 1852Emperor Meiji — Emperor of Japan from 1867 until 1912
- 1857(Julian date)Mikhail Alekseyev — Russian general of infantry (1857–1918)
- 1877Carlos Ibáñez del Campo — Chilean army officer and political figure (1877-1960)
- 1882Yakub Kolas — Belarusian writer (1882–1956)
- 1887Samuil Marshak — Russian and Soviet poet, playwright, translator, literary critic, screenwriter, author of popular children's books (1887–1964)
- 1900Adolf Dassler — German entrepreneur, founder of Adidas shoe company (1900–1978)
- 1901André Malraux — French novelist, art theorist, and statesman (1901–1976)
- 1901Leopold III of Belgium — king of the Belgians from 1934 to 1951 (1901–1983)
- 1903Walker Evans — American photographer and photojournalist (1903-1975)
- 1908Giovanni Leone — 6th President of Italy (1908-2001)
- 1910Karel Zeman — Czech film director, artist and animator (1910–1989)
- 1912Alfredo Stroessner — military dictator of Paraguay from 1954 to 1989
- 1921Charles Bronson — American actor (1921–2003)
- 1926Valdas Adamkus — Lithuanian politician, twice President of Lithuania (born 1926)
- 1927Odvar Nordli — 28th Prime Minister of Norway (1927–2018)
- 1928Osamu Tezuka — Japanese cartoonist and animator (1928–1989)
Deaths · 60
- 361Constantius II — Roman emperor (317-361)
- 644(Julian date)Umar ibn Al-Khattāb — 2nd Rashidun Caliph from 634 to 644
- 753Saint Pirmin — German saint
- 1220Urraca of Castile — Queen of Portugal
- 1254(Julian date)John III Doukas Vatatzes — Emperor of Nicaea
- 1373(Julian date)Joan of Valois, Queen of Navarre — daughter of John II of France (called The Good), and his first wife, Bonne of Luxembourg, as wife of Charles II of Navarre (called The Bad) Queen-consort of Navarre
- 1456(Julian date)Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond — father of Henry VII of England
- 1580(Julian date)Jerónimo Zurita y Castro — Aragonese historian (1512-1580)
- 1584Charles Borromeo — Italian Catholic prelate (1538–1584)
- 1600Richard Hooker — English bishop and Anglican Divine
- 1639Martin de Porres — Peruvian religious figure and saint (1579–1639)
- 1643Paul Guldin — Swiss mathematician and astronomer
- 1676Köprülü Fazıl Ahmed Pasha — Grand vizier (1635-1676)
- 1793Olympe de Gouges — French playwright and political activist (1748–1793)
- 1794François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis — Catholic cardinal (1715-1794)
- 1858Harriet Taylor Mill — British philosopher (1807–1858)
- 1869Andreas Kalvos — Greek poet (1792–1869)
- 1891Louis Lucien Bonaparte — French philologist and politician (1813-1891)
- 1914Georg Trakl — Austrian poet (1887-1914)
- 1917Léon Bloy — French writer, poet and essayist (1846–1917)
- 1918Aleksandr Lyapunov — Russian mathematician (1857–1918)
- 1919Terauchi Masatake — Japanese general (1852-1919)
- 1926Annie Oakley — American exhibition sharpshooter (1860–1926)
- 1929Olav Aukrust — Norwegian lyricist (1883–1929)
- 1933Pierre-Paul Émile Roux — French physician, bacteriologist and immunologist (1853-1933)
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