About November 3
November 3, 2025 is the 307th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 58 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Scorpio is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 106 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 3
- 644 –Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Muslim caliph, is assassinated by a Persian slave in Medina.
- 1333 –The River Arno flooding causing massive damage in Florence as recorded by the Florentine chronicler Giovanni Villani.
- 1468 –Liège is sacked by Charles I of Burgundy’s troops.
- 1783 –John Austin, a highwayman, is the last person to be publicly hanged at London’s Tyburn gallows.
- 1793 –French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.
- 1812 –Napoleon’s armies are defeated at the Battle of Vyazma
- 1838 –The Times of India, the world’s largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.
- 1883 –American 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.
- 1911 –Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
- 1913 –The United States introduces an income tax.
- 1918 –Poland declares its independence from Russia.
- 1930 –Getúlio Dornelles Vargas becomes Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24.
- 1942 –World War II: The Koli Point action begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on November 12.
- 1943 –World War II: 500 aircraft of the U.S. 8th Air Force devastate Wilhelmshafen harbor in Germany.
- 1944 –World 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.
- 1957 –Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika.
- 1973 –Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 10 toward Mercury. On March 29, 1974, it becomes the first space probe to reach that planet.
- 1978 –Dominica gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1996 –Death 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).
- 1997 –The 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.
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