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November 3 in history

233 sourced entries recorded on November 3, from 82 BCE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 82 BCESulla passes his proscription through a popular assembly; he publishes a list of 520 senators and equites to be murdered on sight.source
  • 907The Former Shu Kingdom is founded by the warlord Wang Jian (Prince of Shu) in Chengdu. His power is centered in Sichuan province, in Southwest China.source
  • 1090King William Rufus of England tries to take advantage of the unrest in Normandy and take it from his brother Robert Curthose. Though he wins over several Norman nobles to his side, his plot to capture the capital city of Rouen fails.source
  • 1306From Lanercost Prior, King Edward of England summons Parliament to meet in Carlisle, starting on January 20, "to "treat of the ordering and settling of the land of Scotland."source
  • 1322Margaret de Clare, widow of the Contrariant Baron Baldesmere, is freed from incarceration after having spent more than a year as the first woman ever to be imprisoned in the Tower of London (having defied the queen). Margaret retires to a religious life at the convent of the Minorite Sisters (later known as the Poor Clares).source
  • 1324At Kilkenny in Ireland, Petronilla de Meath, the maidservant of Dame Alice Kyteler, becomes the first person in the British Isles to be burned at the stake as a witch. Dame Alice had been able to escape before capture.source
  • 1380Charles VI of France, who succeeded his father (Charles V of France) in September, is crowned.source
  • 1381The English Parliament assembles at Westminster on orders of King Richard II. The House of Commons elects Sir Richard Waldegrave as the Speaker of the House. The Parliament meets for almost four months before being adjourned on February 25.source
  • 1391King Richard II opens the new session of Parliament at Westminster.source
  • 1411The English Parliament is assembled after being summoned by King Henry IV, and again elects Thomas Chaucer as Speaker of the House of Commons.source
  • 1440Charles, Duke of Orléans, is released from incarceration in England, 25 years after he had been taken as a prisoner of war at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. His freedom is gained after negotiations made by two of his former enemies, the Duke of Burgundy and the Queen of Portugal, and payment of a ransom of 80,000 gold coins. The Duke of Orleans, now aged 46, returns to French soil after more than a quarter of a century in England.source
  • 1445(3rd waxing of Nadaw 807 ME) In the city of Bhamo (now in Myanmar), Chinese troops invade and proceed toward Inwa, the fortified capital of the Kingdom of Ava in pursuit of Thonganbwa, the ruler of the independent state of Mogaung, who had led numerous raids into China's Yunnan Province. King Narapati I of Ava, who had captured Thonganbwa in 1442, negotiates an agreement to hand Thonganbwa over to the Chinese in return for assistance in helping Ava conquer rebels in Yamethin. Before he can be turned over to China for execution, Thonganbwa commits suicide, but China accepts his corpse as a recognition of Ava's submission.source
  • 1450The University of Barcelona is founded by the grant of King Alfonso V of Aragon.source
  • 1473Peter II, Duke of Bourbon married Anne of France.source
  • 1480Ludovico Sforza succeeds his sister-in-law, Bona of Savoy, as regent of Milan for his 12-year-old nephew Gian Galeazzo Sforza, Bona's son and the Duke of Milan.source
  • 1492The Peace of Étaples is signed between England and France, ending French support for Perkin Warbeck, the pretender to the English throne. All English-held territory in France (with the exception of Calais) is returned to France.source
  • 1492The Peace of Étaples is agreed between France and king Henry VII of England. Charles VIII grants a number of concessions including a payment of £153,000 to Henry VII to withdraw his forces.source
  • 1527Archduke Ferdinand of Austria is formally crowned as the King of Hungary at the Basilica of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Székesfehérvár.source
  • 1534The English Reformation Parliament passes the Act of Supremacy, establishing Henry VIII as supreme head of the Church of England.source
  • 1579The English puritan John Stubbs, author of numerous pamphlets against the doctrines of the Church of England, is convicted of sedition, and his right hand is amputated as punishment.source
  • 1591O'Rourke is hanged at Tyburn. His son, Brian Oge O'Rourke, succeeds as lord.source
  • 1592The city of San Luis Potosí is founded.source
  • 1605Jahangir, the fourth Mughal Emperor, begins his 22-year reign over the Mughal Empire in northern India.source
  • 1613English royal favourite Robert Carr is created 1st Earl of Somerset.source
  • 1615Japanese diplomat Hasekura Tsunenaga and his delegation are received by Pope Paul V in Rome, and present a request for trade between the Roman Catholic Church and the Japanese shogunatesource
  • 1620The Great Patent is granted to Plymouth Colony.source
  • 1624Rodrigo Pacheco becomes the Viceroy of New Spain after arriving in Mexico City.source
  • 1625November 1–7 – Cádiz Expedition: English forces commanded by Admiral George Villiers (which set out from Plymouth on October 8) are decisively defeated by the Spanish at Cádiz.source
  • 1628Royal proclamation prohibiting markets and fairs on Sundays and holy days in the Duchy of Luxembourgsource
  • 1640The English Long Parliament is summoned; it will not be dissolved for 20 years.source
  • 1640the Long Parliament is summoned; it will not be dissolved for 20 years.source
  • 1651The Manx Rebellion of 1651 comes to an end as the Countess of Derby surrenders the Isle of Man to the forces of Oliver Cromwell in return for a guarantee of safe passage for herself, her family and her servants, off of the island.source
  • 1654Prince-bishop of Liège posthumously rehabilitates Pierre de Bex, executed in 1651source
  • 1655England and France sign military and economic treaties.source
  • 1656The Truce of Vilna is signed between Russia and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. In addition to agreeing to a temporary ceasefire in their ongoing war, Tsar Alexis of Russia agrees to help defend the commonwealth against Sweden's invasion in return for Tsar Alexis being named heir to the thrones of Poland and Lithuania by King John II Casimir Vasa.source
  • 1704Queen Anne's Bounty (a fund established to augment the incomes of poorer Church of England clergy) receives a Royal Charter.source
  • 1734As part of the Ottoman–Persian War, Safavid Iran started laying siege to the Ottoman city of Ganja.source
  • 1752A hurricane destroys the Spanish settlement on Florida's Santa Rosa Island, leaving only two buildings standing; the remaining residents decide to move from the barrier island on the Gulf of Mexico and to start a settlement on the nearby mainland and construct the Presidio San Miguel de Panzacola, which later forms the nucleus of the city of Pensacola, Florida.source
  • 1760Seven Years' War: Battle of Torgau – In another extremely hard battle, Frederick defeats Daun's Austrians, who withdraw across the Elbe.source
  • 1760Seven Years' War – Battle of Torgau: The Prussian army defeats Daun's Austrians, who withdraw across the Elbe.source
  • 1762According to the preliminaries of peace, signed at Fontainebleau, England is to have, with certain West Indies, Florida, Louisiana, to the Mississippi River (without New Orleans), Canada, Acadia, Cape Breton Island and its dependencies, and the fisheries, subject to certain French interests. Spain is to have New Orleans and Louisiana, west of the Mississippi, with an undetermined Western boundary.source
  • 1767King Ferdinand IV of the Spanish dominated Kingdom of Naples follows Spain's lead and orders the expulsion of the Jesuits from Naples and has them marched northward to the Neapolitan border with the Papal States.source
  • 1771Siamese conquest of Ha Tien ends the Siamese civil war of 1767-71.source
  • 1775Hindered by Colonel Warner, of Vermont, Governor Guy Carleton cannot relieve St. Johns, which surrenders to Montgomery.source
  • 1783The American Continental Army is disbanded as the first act of business by the Confederation Congress, after Thomas Mifflin is elected the new President to succeed Elias Boudinot.source
  • 1796John Adams defeats Thomas Jefferson, in the 1796 U.S. presidential election.source
  • 1801James Murphy succeeds Hugh O'Reilly as Roman Catholic Bishop of Clogher, an office which he will hold until 1824.source
  • 1804The Treaty of St. Louis is signed by Quashquame and William Henry Harrison; controversy surrounding the treaty eventually causes the Sauk people to ally with the British during the War of 1812, and is the main cause of the Black Hawk War of 1832.source
  • 1805Treaty of Potsdam (1805), Prussia to join alliance if negotiations with France failedsource
  • 1809John Molson's steamboat, PS Accommodation, starts for Quebec City. It is 85 ft overall, has a 6 hp engine, and makes the distance in 36 hours, but stops at night and reaches Quebec on November 6. The Accommodation is the second steamboat in America, and probably the world.source
  • 1812Napoleonic Wars – Battle of Vyazma: The rearguard of Napoleon's retreating army is defeated.source
  • 1813October 24–November 5 – Persia and Russia sign the Treaty of Gulistan at the end of the Russo-Persian War, by which Persia loses modern-day Georgia, Dagestan and most of Azerbaijan to Russia.source
  • 1815Sir Humphry Davy announces his invention of the Davy lamp as a coal mining safety lamp.source
  • 1815Sir Humphry Davy announces his invention, the Davy lamp (a coal mining safety lamp),source
  • 1817The Bank of Montreal opens in Montreal.source
  • 1819The USS Congress becomes the first American warship to visit China, landing at Lintin Island, off of the coast of Canton.source
  • 1819The USS Congress, commanded by Captain John D. Henley, becomes the first U.S. warship to visit China, landing at Lintin Island off of the coast of Canton.source
  • 1823An explosion at the Rainton Colliery Company's Plain Pit mine at Chilton Moor in the north-east of England, kills at least 57 coal miners.source
  • 1823An explosion at the Rainton Colliery Company's Plain Pit mine at Chilton Moor in County Durham kills at least 57 coal miners, six years after an accident at the same pit killed 27.source
  • 1826The Paris Stock Exchange opens at the Palais de la Bourse.source
  • 1826The Paris Stock Exchange opens at the Palais de la Bourse.source
  • 1835Sparekassen for Roskilde By og Omegn is established.source
  • 1835The Savings Bank for Roskilde and Surroundings is established in Roskilde.source
  • 1838The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce is founded (renamed The Times of India in 1861).source
  • 1844Giuseppe Verdi's opera I due Foscari debuts at Teatro Argentina, Rome.source
  • 1847November 3–29 – Sonderbund War: In Switzerland, General Guillaume-Henri Dufour's Federal Army defeats the Sonderbund (an alliance of seven Catholic cantons) in a civil war, with a total of only 86 deaths.source
  • 1848A new Constitution of the Netherlands (drafted by Johan Rudolph Thorbecke), severely limiting the power of the monarchy and introducing representative democracy, is proclaimed.source
  • 1853Troops of William Walker capture La Paz in Baja California Territory and declare the (short-lived) Republic of Sonora.source
  • 1859Celebration of the 25th anniversary of the founding of the Catholic University of Leuven.source
  • 1860The combined forces of Giuseppe Garibaldi and King Victor Emmanuel II besiege King Francis II of the Two Sicilies in Gaeta, his last remaining stronghold.source
  • 1863Banker wins the Melbourne Cup, in the smallest field in Cup history of six horses.source
  • 1865Opening of the first Printemps department store, in Paris.source
  • 18681868 United States presidential election: Republican Ulysses S. Grant defeats Democrat Horatio Seymour.source
  • 1869Hamilton Tigers Canadian football team is foundedsource
  • 1876October 28-November 5 - Hagi Rebellionsource
  • 1881The Mapuche uprising of 1881 begins with an attack on Quillem, Chile.source
  • 1883The 14th Century AH begins in the Islamic calendar on the 1st of Muharram, 1301 AH.source
  • 1883American Old West: Self-described Black Bart the Po-8 makes his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves a handkerchief with a laundry mark that eventually leads to his capture.source
  • 1884Imvo Zabantsundu (Xhosa: The Native People's Opinion of South Africa), South Africa's first newspaper by and for Black people, is founded by John Tengo Jabavu in King William's Town.source
  • 1885Sheet Anchor wins the Melbourne Cup.source
  • 1886In the British Raj, what will become one of the biggest boys' schools in Pakistan, Aitchison College, Lahore, is founded under the auspices of Sir Charles Umpherston Aitchison.source
  • 1887The Coimbra Academic Association, the students' union of the University of Coimbra in Portugal, is founded.source
  • 1888the Great Sheep Panic, in which thousands of sheep across Oxfordshire stampede.source
  • 1891President Fonseca dissolves the National Congress and declares a "state of emergency".source
  • 1894Waziristan campaign (1894–1895): Battle of Wana Camp – British colonial forces stationed in Wana would come under attack by rebel Mahsud tribesmen. The battle began a campaign of offensive actions against the Mahsud tribes in Waziristan to reduce their strength.source
  • 18961896 United States presidential election: Republican William McKinley defeats William Jennings Bryan. The event is viewed by some as a political realignment for the United States Republican Party.source
  • 1896Newhaven wins the Melbourne Cup - the first horse-racing films produced in Australia.source
  • 1898With increasing violence threatened by rebels in China, the Russian fleet at Port Arthur and the British warships at Wei-Hai-Wei are readied for battle.source
  • 1902Postmaster-General James Drake opens a submarine telegraph cable from Southport, Queensland to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, completing a British Empire communications line.source
  • 1903Separation of Panama from Colombia: With the encouragement of the United States, Panama proclaims itself independent of Colombia.source
  • 1903Giovanni Giolitti forms his second government that would last until 12 March 1905. Giolitti tried to sign an alliance with the Italian Socialist Party, which was growing fast in the popular vote, but did not succeed. He strongly opposed the repression of labour union strikes. According to him, the government had to act as a mediator between entrepreneurs and workers.source
  • 1904Natal – Pietermaritzburg to Elandskop, 35 mi 39 ch.source
  • 1906SOS becomes adopted internationally as a distress signal (originally for ship-to-shore wireless telegraphy) on inclusion in the service regulations of the first International Radiotelegraph Convention signed in Berlin and coming into effect on 1 July 1908.source
  • 1907Gustave Garrigou wins the Giro di Lombardia.source
  • 19081908 United States presidential election: Republican candidate William Howard Taft defeats William Jennings Bryan, 321 electoral votes to 162.source
  • 1911Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in the United States, in competition with the Ford Model T.source
  • 1913Exposition universelle et internationale (world's fair) in Ghent ends.source
  • 1918WWI: The Armistice of Villa Giusti is signed between Austria-Hungary and the Allies near Padua.source
  • 1918German Revolution: Kiel mutiny by sailors in the German fleet at Kiel while throughout northern Germany soldiers and workers begin to establish revolutionary councils on the Russian soviet model.source
  • 1918Armistice of Villa Giusti ends warfare between Italy and Austria-Hungary on the Italian Front during World War I. The armistice was signed in the Villa Giusti, outside of Padua in the Veneto, northern Italy, and was to take effect 24 hours later. The occupation of all Tyrol, including Innsbruck, was completed in the following days.source
  • 1927The Sydney ferry Greycliffe is cut in half by the liner RMS Tahiti, killing 40 persons.source
  • 1927November 3–4 – Great Vermont Flood of 1927: Floods devastating Vermont cause the "worst natural disaster in the state's history".source
  • 1930Getúlio Vargas becomes president of Brazil.source
  • 1932Strike by transport workers in Berlin. The Nazis and the Communists both co-operate in support of the strike. The Nazi-Communist co-operation damages the Nazis at the upcoming election with many right-wing voters switching back to the German National People's Party.source
  • 1934October 20–November 3 – Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first eastward crossing of the Pacific Ocean, from his native Brisbane, Australia, to San Francisco, in the Lockheed Altair Lady Southern Cross. The November 3 Hawaii–San Francisco leg is the first eastward flight from Hawaii to North America.source
  • 1935A Greek monarchy referendum is held by self-proclaimed Regent Georgios Kondylis. Almost 98% of the votes favor restoration of the monarchy, although the referendum's integrity is dubious.source
  • 19361936 United States presidential election: Franklin D. Roosevelt is reelected to a second term, in a landslide victory over Kansas Governor Alf Landon; farmers support Roosevelt.source
  • 1936U.S. presidential election, 1936: Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt is reelected to a second term in a landslide victory over Republican governor of Kansas Alf Landon.source
  • 1940November 2–8 – WWII: Greco-Italian War – Battle of Elaia–Kalamas in Epirus: Outnumbered Greek forces repel the Italian Army.source
  • 1950Air India Flight 245 crashed near Mont Blanc, France.source
  • 1954Godzilla released in Japan.source
  • 1954The first Godzilla film premieres in Tokyo.source
  • 1955The Rimutaka Tunnel opens on the New Zealand Railways, at 5.46 mi (8.79 km), the longest in the Southern Hemisphere at this time.source
  • 1955President Café Filho is admitted to a hospital in Rio de Janeiro after suffering a heart attack.source
  • 1956Khan Yunis massacre (Suez Crisis): Israeli soldiers shoot dead hundreds of Palestinian refugees and local inhabitants in Khan Yunis Camp.source
  • 1956MGM's film The Wizard of Oz is the first major Hollywood film running more than 90 minutes to be televised uncut in one evening, in the United States.source
  • 1957Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2, with the first animal to orbit the Earth, a dog named Laika, on board. There is no technology available to return her to Earth.source
  • 1957The Workers' Party is formed by David Marshall with the inauguration held at the Hokkien Association Hall at Telok Ayer Street.source
  • 1958The new UNESCO building, World Heritage Centre, is inaugurated in Paris.source
  • 1958Jorge Alessandri is sworn in as President of Chile.source
  • 1959Mapai leader David Ben-Gurion wins the fourth Israeli legislative elections, capturing 47 of the 120 seats, but still 13 short of a majority.source
  • 1962Yngve Slyngstad, former CEO of Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM).source
  • 1962Earliest recorded use of the term "personal computer", in the report of a speech by computing pioneer John Mauchly in The New York Times.source
  • 19641964 United States presidential election: Incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson defeats Republican challenger Barry Goldwater with over 60 percent of the popular vote.source
  • 1967Vietnam War – Battle of Dak To: Around Đắk Tô (located about 280 miles north of Saigon near the Cambodian border), heavy casualties are suffered on both sides; U.S. troops narrowly win the battle on November 22.source
  • 1969Süleyman Demirel of AP forms the new government of Turkey (31st government).source
  • 1970Salvador Allende takes office as president of Chile.source
  • 1970The 1970 Bhola cyclone makes landfall in modern-day Bangladesh around high tide, causing $86.4 million in damage (1970 USD, $576 million 2020 USD) and becomes the world's deadliest storm killing over 500,000 people.source
  • 1973Mariner program: NASA launches Mariner 10 toward Mercury (on March 29, 1974, it becomes the first space probe to reach that planet).source
  • 1973Pan Am flight 160, a Boeing 707-321C, crashes at Logan International Airport, Boston, killing three people.source
  • 1976Carrie, an American supernatural horror film directed by Brian De Palma, is premiered in 17 theaters in the Washington, D.C.-Baltimore area.source
  • 1979Greensboro massacre: In Greensboro, North Carolina, five members of the Communist Workers Party are shot to death and seven are wounded by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis, during a "Death to the Klan" rally.source
  • 19813 November – 3 November – Former prime minister Bülent Ecevit receives prison sentence for making political statements.source
  • 1982The Dow Jones Industrial Average surges 43.41 points, or 4.25%, to close at 1,065.49, its first all-time high in more than 9 years.source
  • 1982A gasoline (petrol) tanker explodes in the Salang Tunnel in Afghanistan, killing at least 176 people.source
  • 1983Commencement of the battle of Tripoli between Arafat loyalists and PLO dissidents.source
  • 1984November 1–4 – Anti-Sikh mass murder takes place in Delhi and various parts of India following the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.source
  • 1984600,000 to 1 million people were attending the funeral of Father Jerzy at St. Stanislaus Kostka Church in Żoliborz following his assassination.source
  • 1984Roman Catholic Diocese of Atlacomulco establishedsource
  • 1986The Northern Mariana Islands enter in a political union with the United States. The island's government adopted its own constitution in 1977, and the constitutional government took office in January 1978. The covenant was fully implemented November 3, 1986, pursuant to Presidential Proclamation no. 5564, which conferred United States citizenship on legally qualified island residents.source
  • 1986Iran–Contra affair: The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa reports that the United States has been selling weapons to Iran in secret, in order to secure the release of 7 American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon.source
  • 1987McDonald's opens its first restaurants in the South Island at Linwood and Merivale, Christchurch.source
  • 19881988 Maldives coup attempt: The People's Liberation Organisation of Tamil Eelam, a Sri Lankan Tamil militant group, attempts to overthrow the Maldivian government. At the request of President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, the Indian military suppresses the coup attempt within 24 hours.source
  • 1989East German refugees arrive at the West German town of Hof after being allowed through Czechoslovakia.source
  • 1990Construction starts on bridges linking mainland Singapore to Sentosa and Pulau Brani, which will be completed by 1992.source
  • 1991October 28–November 4 – The 1991 Perfect Storm strikes the northeastern U.S. coast and Atlantic Canada, causing over US$200 million of damage and resulting in 12 direct fatalities.source
  • 1991October 31–November 3 – The Halloween blizzard hits the U.S. Upper Midwest, killing 22 people and causing US$100 million in damage.source
  • 1992In the 1992 United States presidential election, Democratic Arkansas governor Bill Clinton defeats Republican president George H. W. Bush and Independent Ross Perot.source
  • 1995A series of explosions occur at the Río Tercero Military Factory in Córdoba, resulting in seven fatalities and over 300 injuries. The blast destroys the factory and causes extensive damage to the surrounding city.source
  • 1995November 2–3 – The most destructive of the series of tropical cyclones, Super Typhoon Angela (Rosing) rampages across southern Luzon with strong winds; devastates half of the country's regions including Bicol Region, the hardest hit, as well as the mainland part of the Southern Tagalog Region, Metro Manila, and Bataan. Final data reports 936 deaths and ₱10.829-billion worth of damages. —"Philippines -Typhoon Angela Information Report No. 4" ReliefWeb. November 14, 1995.source
  • 1998South Carolina voters repeal the state's 103-year-old constitutional ban on interracial marriage, making Alabama the last U.S. state with such a ban in place.source
  • 20022002 Denali earthquake: A 7.9 magnitude earthquake, one of the strongest North American earthquakes recorded, occurs in Alaska.source
  • 2006Microsoft releases Office 2007 for manufacturing.source
  • 2008October 30–November 4 – Floods affected Northern and Central Vietnam.source
  • 2009The Czech Republic becomes the final member-state of the European Union to sign the Treaty of Lisbon, thereby permitting that document's initiation into European law.source
  • 2009The Prime Minister of Belgium, Herman Van Rompuy, is designated the first permanent President of the European Council, a position he takes up on December 1, 2009.source
  • 2010Constitutional referendum results in Niger show that 90% of voters approve a return to civilian rule from the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy military junta.source
  • 2013Two American missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) were attacked in the nation by a group of known Albanian Islamic terrorists in Pristina. Both missionaries made a full recovery.source
  • 2013A total solar eclipse was visible in the country.source
  • 2014The tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, One World Trade Center in New York City, opens.source
  • 2017Syrian Civil War: both Deir ez-Zor in Syria and Al-Qa'im in Iraq are declared liberated from ISIL on the same day.source
  • 2019Saudi Aramco announced a plan to list its initial public offering (IPO) in the domestic stock exchange (Tadawul) which expected to be the world’s biggest listing.source
  • 2021October 31–November 13 – The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference is held in Glasgow, after being postponed in 2020 due to COVID-19. A deal is agreed by world leaders, which includes a "phasedown" of unabated coal power, a 30% cut in methane emissions by 2030, plans for a halt to deforestation by 2030, and increased financial support for developing countries.source
  • 2022November 2–November 3 – Tigray War: The Ethiopian government and the TPLF agree to a formal cessation of hostilities, signing a peace agreement in Pretoria, South Africa.source
  • 2023El Hadi Idriss, a member of the Sudan Liberation Movement - Transitional Council, is fired from the ruling Transitional Sovereignty Council of Sudan for unknown reasons.source
  • 2025A powerful Mw 6.3 earthquake shakes the provinces of Balkh and Samangan in Afghanistan, causing 31 deaths and 956 injuries.source
  • 2025National Women's Daysource

Births

  • 39Marcus Annaeus Lucanus, Roman poet (died AD 65)source
  • 1500Benvenuto Cellini, Italian goldsmith and sculptor (died 1571)source
  • 1505Achilles Gasser, German physician and astrologer (died 1577)source
  • 1527Tilemann Heshusius, Gnesio-Lutheran theologian (died 1588)source
  • 1560Annibale Carracci, Italian painter (died 1609)source
  • 1566Charles, Count of Soissons, French prince du sang and military commander (died 1612)source
  • 1604Osman II, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (died 1622)source
  • 1605John Henderson, 5th of Fordell, Scottish noble (died 1650)source
  • 1618Aurangzeb, Mughal emperor of India (died 1707)source
  • 1659Hui-bin Jang, Korean royal consort (died 1701)source
  • 1718John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, English statesman (died 1792)source
  • 1718John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, statesman (died 1792)source
  • 1768Karađorđe Petrović, leader of the First Serbian Uprising against the Ottoman Empire, founder of the Serbian Karađorđević dynasty (died 1817)source
  • 1793Stephen F. Austin, American pioneer (died 1836)source
  • 1794William Cullen Bryant, American poet (died 1878)source
  • 1798Henry Wilder, English cricketer (died 1836)source
  • 1801Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (died 1835)source
  • 1801Karl Baedeker, German author, publisher (died 1859)source
  • 1816Jubal Early, American Confederate general (died 1894)source
  • 1816Jubal Early, Confederate general (died 1894)source
  • 1852Emperor Meiji of Japan (died 1912)source
  • 1852Mutsuhito, 122nd Emperor of Japan, child of Emperor Kōmei and Nakayama Yoshiko (died 1912)source
  • 1876Stephen Alencastre, Roman Catholic Bishop (died 1940)source
  • 1890Yamakawa Kikue, activist, writer, socialist, and feminist (died 1980)source
  • 18923 November 1892 – Maria Antonescu, socialite and philanthropist (died 1964).source
  • 1958Derrike Cope, American stock car racing driver and team ownersource
  • 2015Kolding, Thoroughbred racehorsesource

Deaths

  • 361Emperor Constantius II dies of a fever at Mopsuestia in Cilicia, age 44; on his deathbed he is baptised, and declares his cousin Julian rightful successor.source
  • 644The second caliph Umar, r. 634–644, dies of wounds inflicted by the Persian slave Abu Lu'lu'a Firuz at Medina. On his death bed he appoints a committee to determine his successor. They select Uthman ibn Affan, who becomes the third caliph of the Rashidun Caliphate.source
  • 659Denha I of Tikrit, Syriac Orthodox Grand Metropolitan of the East.source
  • 753Pirmin, Visigothic abbot (born c. 700), founder of many monasteries in the historical region of Alemanniasource
  • 1112Anna Vsevolodovna, Kievan princesssource
  • 1207Hartwig II, German archbishopsource
  • 1219Saer de Quincy, English nobleman (born 1170)source
  • 1220Urraca of Castile, queen of Portugal (born 1186)source
  • 1231Władysław III, Polish nobleman (born 1167)source
  • 1254John III Doukas Vatatzes, Byzantine emperorsource
  • 1254Manuel II, Byzantine patriarch of Constantinoplesource
  • 1324Petronilla de Meath, Irish maidservant (born 1300)source
  • 1324Petronilla de Meath, maidservant, first case in Ireland's history of burning at the stake for the crime of heresy (born 1300).source
  • 1373Jeanne de Valois, Queen of Navarre (born 1343)source
  • 1373Joan of Valois, Queen of Navarresource
  • 1428Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (mortally wounded in battle) (born 1388)source
  • 1456Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond, father of King Henry VII of England (born 1431)source
  • 1457Ludwig II, Count of Württemberg-Urach, German noble (born 1439)source
  • 1584Charles Borromeo, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal, canonised (born 1538)source
  • 1592Sir John Perrot, former Lord Deputy of Ireland, dies in the Tower of London awaiting sentence for a conviction for high treason.source
  • 1599Andrew Báthory, deposed Prince of Transylvania (decapitated) (born c. 1563)source
  • 1600Richard Hooker, English Anglican theologian (born 1554)source
  • 1639Martin de Porres, Peruvian monk, Roman Catholic saint (born 1579)source
  • 1769Diane Adélaïde de Mailly, third of the five famous French de Nesle sisters (born 1713)source
  • 1775Juan José Pérez Hernández, naval officer and explorer (born ca. 1725)source
  • 1787Robert Lowth, English bishop and grammarian (born 1710)source
  • 1793Olympe de Gouges, French playwright (executed) (born 1748)source
  • 1808Theophilus Lindsey, English theologian (born 1723)source
  • 1858Harriet Taylor Mill, British philosopher, women's rights advocate (born 1807)source
  • 1867Segundo Ruiz Belvis (born 1829)source
  • 1890Ulrich Ochsenbein, politician (born 1811)source
  • 1913Sava Grujić, Serbian diplomat, general and politician, 5-time Prime Minister of Serbia (born 1840)source
  • 1926Annie Oakley, American sharpshooter and entertainer (born 1860)source
  • 1943November 3–4 – The Holocaust: Aktion Erntefest ("Operation Harvest Festival") – The largest single day massacre of Jews in the entire war takes place when over 43,000 Jews are murdered by the SS, the Ordnungspolizei and the "Trawniki men" in Sonderdienst formations at the Majdanek, Trawniki and Poniatowa concentration camps in the General Government territory of occupied Poland.source
  • 1954Henri Matisse, French painter (born 1869)source
  • 1956Jean Metzinger, French painter, theorist and critic (born 1883)source
  • 1957Wilhelm Reich, Austrian psychoanalyst (born 1897)source
  • 1974A massibie caught fire in Daewang Corner(대왕코너,大旺코너) complex building, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, 88 people died, 35 people were hurt, according to Seoul Fire Department official confirmed report.source
  • 1977Muhammad Qudrat-i-Khuda, scientist. (born 1900)source