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
- 1817 –The Bank of Montreal, Canada’s oldest chartered bank, opens in Montreal, Quebec.
- 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.
- 1913 –The United States introduces an income tax.
- 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.
- 1943 –World War II: 500 aircraft of the U.S. 8th Air Force devastate Wilhelmshafen harbor in Germany.
- 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.
- 1986 –The Federated States of Micronesia gain independence from the United States of America.
- 1988 –Sri 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.
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