About November 3
November 3, 2021 is the 307th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 58 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 90 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 3
- 361 –Emperor Constantius II dies of a fever at Mopsuestia in Cilicia, on his deathbed he is baptised and declares his cousin Julian rightful successor.
- 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 –The American Continental Army is disbanded.
- 1793 –French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.
- 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.
- 1913 –The United States introduces an income tax.
- 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.
- 1932 –Panagis Tsaldaris becomes the 142nd Prime Minister of Greece.
- 1942 –World War II: The Koli Point action begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on November 12.
- 1964 –Washington D.C. residents are able to vote in a presidential election for the first time.
- 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.
- 1982 –The Salang tunnel fire in Afghanistan kills up to 2,000 people.
- 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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