About November 3
November 3, 2024 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.
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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 87 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.
- 1333 –The River Arno flooding causing massive damage in Florence as recorded by the Florentine chronicler Giovanni Villani.
- 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.
- 1793 –French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.
- 1812 –Napoleon’s armies are defeated at the Battle of Vyazma
- 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.
- 1848 –A greatly revised Dutch constitution, drafted by Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, severely limiting the powers of the Dutch monarchy, and strengthening the powers of parliament and ministers, is proclaimed.
- 1903 –With the encouragement of the United States, Panama separates from Colombia.
- 1911 –Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
- 1913 –The United States introduces an income tax.
- 1918 –Poland declares its independence from Russia.
- 1930 –Getúlio Dornelles Vargas becomes Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24.
- 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.
- 1982 –The Salang tunnel fire in Afghanistan kills up to 2,000 people.
- 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.
- 1986 –The Federated States of Micronesia gain independence from the United States of America.
- 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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