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 308^th 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.

November 3 Historical Events

• 644 –
  Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Muslim caliph, is assassinated by a Persian slave in Medina.
• 1468 –
  Liège is sacked by Charles I of Burgundy’s troops.
• 1783 –
  John Austin, a highwayman, is the last person to be publicly hanged at London’s Tyburn gallows.
• 1783 –
  The American Continental Army is disbanded.
• 1911 –
  Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1978 –
  Dominica gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
• 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?

• 1633 –
  Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (d. 1714)
• 1893 –
  Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1986)
• 1895 –
  Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1918)
• 1915 –
  Hal Jackson, American radio personality
• 1918 –
  Elizabeth P. Hoisington, American Brigadier General (d. 2007)
• 1919 –
  Jesús Blasco, Spanish comic book author (d. 1995)
• 1923 –
  Tomás Ó Fiaich, Irish cardinal (d. 1990)
• 1930 –
  D. James Kennedy, American theologian (d. 2007)
• 1965 –
  Jenny Packham, English fashion designer
• 1979 –
  Tim McIlrath, American musician (Rise Against)

Who died on November 3?

• 1643 –
  Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (b. 1577)
• 1787 –
  Robert Lowth, British bishop and grammarian (b. 1710)
• 1957 –
  Wilhelm Reich, Austrian psychotherapist (b. 1897)
• 1993 –
  Leon Theremin, Russian inventor (b. 1895)
• 1994 –
  Alvin Andreas Herborg Nielsen, American physicist (b. 1910)
• 1996 –
  Jean-Bédel Bokassa, President of the Central African Republic (b. 1921)
• 1999 –
  Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (b. 1928)
• 2004 –
  Sergei Zholtok, Latvian hockey player (b. 1972)
• 2006 –
  Paul Mauriat, French musician (b. 1925)
• 2010 –
  Jerry Bock, American musical theatre composer (b. 1928)