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 307^th 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.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 21, 2025 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,762,128,000 seconds 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 ‘trihectaheptagon’ 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 106 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 4,700 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

November 3 Historical Events

• 1468 –
  Liège is sacked by Charles I of Burgundy’s troops.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1932 –
  Panagis Tsaldaris becomes the 142nd Prime Minister of Greece.
• 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.
• 1967 –
  Vietnam War: The Battle of Dak To begins.
• 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.
• 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.

Who were born on November 3?

• 1816 –
  Calvin Fairbank, American abolitionist minister (d. 1898)
• 1856 –
  Jim McCormick, American baseball player (d. 1918)
• 1918 –
  Claude Barma, French director and screenwriter (d. 1992)
• 1919 –
  Jesús Blasco, Spanish comic book author (d. 1995)
• 1926 –
  Maurice Couture, French-Canadian Roman Catholic archbishop
• 1933 –
  Michael Dukakis, American politician
• 1936 –
  Roy Emerson, Australian tennis player
• 1953 –
  Dennis Miller, American comedian
• 1982 –
  Moniek Kleinsman, Dutch iceskater
• 1990 –
  Ellyse Perry, Australian footballer and cricketer

Who died on November 3?

• 361 –
  Constantius II, Roman Emperor (b. 317)
• 1428 –
  Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (b. 1388)
• 1794 –
  François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1715)
• 1890 –
  Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1811)
• 1918 –
  Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov, Russian scientist (b. 1857)
• 1933 –
  Émile Roux, French scientist (b. 1853)
• 1983 –
  Alfredo Antonini, American conductor and composer (b. 1901)
• 1990 –
  Mary Martin, American actress (b. 1913)
• 1993 –
  Leon Theremin, Russian inventor (b. 1895)
• 1994 –
  Alvin Andreas Herborg Nielsen, American physicist (b. 1910)