What are the important events that happened on November 3? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
November 3: Facts & Myths About This Day
November 3 is the 308th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 58 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 21, 2024 – a Sunday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 480,720 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘trihectaoctagon’ day.
Scorpio is the zodiac 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 87 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,335 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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November 3 Historical Events
- 1493 –Christopher Columbus first sights the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea.
- 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.
- 1918 –Poland declares its independence from Russia.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1975 –Syed Nazrul Islam, A. H. M. Qamaruzzaman, Tajuddin Ahmad, and Muhammad Mansur Ali, Bangladeshi politicians and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman loyalists, murdered in the Dhaka Central Jail.
- 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.
Who were born on November 3?
- 1793 –Stephen F. Austin, American pioneer (d. 1836)
- 1815 –John Mitchel, Irish nationalist (d. 1875)
- 1918 –Raimon Panikkar, Spanish theologian (d. 2010)
- 1926 –Valdas Adamkus, Lithuanian politician, former President
- 1947 –Mazie Hirono, American politician
- 1948 –Lulu, British actress and singer
- 1956 –Bob Welch, American baseball player
- 1962 –Gabe Newell, co-founder of Valve Corporation
- 1972 –Ugo Ehiogu, English footballer
- 1986 –Paul Derbyshire, Italian rugby player
Who died on November 3?
- 1787 –Robert Lowth, British bishop and grammarian (b. 1710)
- 1869 –Andreas Kalvos, Greek poet (b. 1792)
- 1917 –Léon Bloy, French novelist and essayist (b. 1846)
- 1918 –Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov, Russian scientist (b. 1857)
- 1933 –Émile Roux, French scientist (b. 1853)
- 1957 –Laika, Soviet space dog (b. 1954)
- 1973 –Marc Allégret, French director and screenwriter (b. 1900)
- 1991 –Mort Shuman, American singer and songwriter (b. 1936)
- 2001 –Ernst Gombrich, Austrian art historian (b. 1909)
- 2002 –Jonathan Harris, American actor (b. 1914)
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