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, 1,730,592,000 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 ‘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.
- 1817 –The Bank of Montreal, Canada’s oldest chartered bank, opens in Montreal, Quebec.
- 1867 –Garibaldi and his followers are defeated in the Battle of Mentana and fail to end the Pope’s Temporal power in Rome (it would be achieved three years later).
- 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.
- 1903 –With the encouragement of the United States, Panama separates from Colombia.
- 1918 –The German Revolution of 1918–1919 begins when 40,000 sailors take over the port in Kiel.
- 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.
- 1979 –Greensboro massacre: Five members of the Communist Workers Party are shot dead and seven are wounded by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis during a “Death to the Klan” rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.
- 1982 –The Salang tunnel fire in Afghanistan kills up to 2,000 people.
- 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).
Who were born on November 3?
- 1633 –Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (d. 1714)
- 1801 –Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (d. 1835)
- 1815 –John Mitchel, Irish nationalist (d. 1875)
- 1919 –Ludovic Kennedy, British broadcaster and political activist (d. 2009)
- 1930 –Lois Smith, American actress
- 1933 –John Barry, English composer (d. 2011)
- 1962 –David J. Schiappa, American politician
- 1963 –Shigeaki Hattori, Japanese racing driver
- 1967 –John Tomac, American cyclist
- 1974 –Sonali Kulkarni, Indian actress
Who died on November 3?
- 1793 –Olympe de Gouges, French feminist and revolutionary (b. 1748)
- 1794 –François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1715)
- 1927 –Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod, Czech journalist (b. 1860)
- 1949 –Solomon R. Guggenheim, American art collector and philanthropist (b. 1861)
- 1960 –Paul Willis, American actor (b. 1901)
- 1983 –Alfredo Antonini, American conductor and composer (b. 1901)
- 1991 –Mort Shuman, American singer and songwriter (b. 1936)
- 1996 –Jean-Bédel Bokassa, President of the Central African Republic (b. 1921)
- 2006 –Paul Mauriat, French musician (b. 1925)
- 2010 –Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russian politician (b. 1938)
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