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, 489,480 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 ‘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

• 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.
• 1812 –
  Napoleon’s armies are defeated at the Battle of Vyazma
• 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.
• 1911 –
  Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
• 1918 –
  The German Revolution of 1918–1919 begins when 40,000 sailors take over the port in Kiel.
• 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.
• 1978 –
  Dominica gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
• 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.

Who were born on November 3?

• 1794 –
  William Cullen Bryant, American poet and journalist (d. 1878)
• 1799 –
  William Sprague III, American politician (d. 1856)
• 1909 –
  James Reston, American journalist (d. 1995)
• 1912 –
  Alfredo Stroessner, Paraguayan politician (d. 2006)
• 1930 –
  D. James Kennedy, American theologian (d. 2007)
• 1943 –
  Bert Jansch, Scottish folk musician (d. 2011)
• 1945 –
  Gerd Müller, German footballer
• 1967 –
  Mike O'Neill, Canadian hockey player
• 1976 –
  Tōko Aoyama, Japanese voice actress
• 1987 –
  Ariane Andrew, American professional wrestler, manager and ring announcer

Who died on November 3?

• 1584 –
  Charles Borromeo, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (b. 1538)
• 1639 –
  Martin de Porres, Peruvian Roman Catholic saint (b. 1579)
• 1794 –
  François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1715)
• 1927 –
  Karel Matěj Čapek-Chod, Czech journalist (b. 1860)
• 1939 –
  Charles Tournemire, French composer and organist (b. 1870)
• 1991 –
  Mort Shuman, American singer and songwriter (b. 1936)
• 1994 –
  Alvin Andreas Herborg Nielsen, American physicist (b. 1910)
• 2003 –
  Rasul Gamzatov, Russian poet (b. 1923)
• 2009 –
  Francisco Ayala, Spanish novelist (b. 1906)
• 2010 –
  Jim Clench, Canadian bassist (April Wine and Bachman–Turner Overdrive) (b. 1949)