About November 3
November 3, 2025 is the 307th 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.
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Scorpio is the sun 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.
What Happened On November 3
- 361 –Emperor Constantius II dies of a fever at Mopsuestia in Cilicia, on his deathbed he is baptised and declares his cousin Julian rightful successor.
- 644 –Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Muslim caliph, is assassinated by a Persian slave in Medina.
- 1333 –The River Arno flooding causing massive damage in Florence as recorded by the Florentine chronicler Giovanni Villani.
- 1468 –Liège is sacked by Charles I of Burgundy’s troops.
- 1493 –Christopher Columbus first sights the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea.
- 1783 –John Austin, a highwayman, is the last person to be publicly hanged at London’s Tyburn gallows.
- 1817 –The Bank of Montreal, Canada’s oldest chartered bank, opens in Montreal, Quebec.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1918 –Austria-Hungary enters into an armistice with the Allies, and the Habsburg-ruled empire dissolves.
- 1918 –The German Revolution of 1918–1919 begins when 40,000 sailors take over the port in Kiel.
- 1930 –Getúlio Dornelles Vargas becomes Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24.
- 1935 –George II of Greece regains his throne through a popular plebiscite.
- 1943 –World War II: 500 aircraft of the U.S. 8th Air Force devastate Wilhelmshafen harbor in Germany.
- 1973 –Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 10 toward Mercury. On March 29, 1974, it becomes the first space probe to reach that planet.
- 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.
- 1986 –The Federated States of Micronesia gain independence from the United States of America.
- 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).
- 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.
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