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.
- 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.
- 1783 –The American Continental Army is disbanded.
- 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.
- 1898 –France withdraws its troops from Fashoda (now in Sudan), ending the Fashoda Incident.
- 1911 –Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
- 1918 –Austria-Hungary enters into an armistice with the Allies, and the Habsburg-ruled empire dissolves.
- 1918 –Poland declares its independence from Russia.
- 1918 –The German Revolution of 1918–1919 begins when 40,000 sailors take over the port in Kiel.
- 1930 –Getúlio Dornelles Vargas becomes Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24.
- 1957 –Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika.
- 1964 –Washington D.C. residents are able to vote in a presidential election for the first time.
- 1967 –Vietnam War: The Battle of Dak To begins.
- 1969 –Vietnam 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.
- 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.
- 1986 –Iran-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.
- 1986 –The Federated States of Micronesia gain independence from the United States of America.
- 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).
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