Notable Historical Events on November 3rd
November 3rd Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
644 |
Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Muslim caliph, is killed by a Persian slave in Medina. |
1394 |
Jews are expelled from France by Charles VI |
1468 |
Liège is sacked by Charles I of Burgundy's troops. |
1493 |
Christopher Columbus discovers island of Dominica |
1527 |
Ferdinand of Austria/Bohemia chosen as king of Hungary |
1529 |
London - 1st sitting of the Reformation Parliament |
1534 |
English parliament accepts Act of Supremacy: Henry VIII becomes Head of Church of England |
1620 |
Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony |
1629 |
Prince Frederik Hendrik festival in The Hague |
1640 |
English Long Parliament forms |
1655 |
England & France sign miltary & economic treaties |
1656 |
Treaty of Vilnius Russia/Poland sign anti-Swedish covenant [NS] |
1676 |
Kara Mustafa succeeds Ahmed Kiprulu as Turkish grand vizier |
1716 |
Pacification Treaty of Warsaw: Tsar Peter the Great guarantees Saxon monarch August I's Polish kingdom |
1752 |
George Frideric Handel undergoes (failed) eye operation |
1760 |
Battle at Torgau, Saxony: Prussia beats Austria |
1762 |
Britain & Spain sign Treaty of Paris |
1762 |
Spain acquires Louisiana |
1783 |
Washington orders Continental Army disbanded |
1783 |
John Austin, a highwayman, is the last to be publicly hanged at London's Tyburn gallows. |
1791 |
Battle at Wabash: indians assault general St Clair/killed 637 soldiers |
1793 |
French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined. |
1794 |
French troops conquer Maastricht |
1796 |
John Adams elected president of the United States of America |
1812 |
Napoleonic armies defeated at Vyazma |
1813 |
US troops under General Coffee destroy Indian village at Talladega Ala |
1820 |
Cuenca Ecuador declares independence |
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. |
1839 |
1st opium war - 2 British frigates engage several Chinese junks |
1839 |
Palace of Gulhane Turkey, freedom of religion proclaimed |
1848 |
Johan Thorbeckes revises the Constitution of the Netherlands |
1856 |
A British fleet bombards Canton. |
1862 |
Battle until the 5th November between gunboats at Bayou Teche, a waterway in Louisiana |
1863 |
Battle of Grand Coteau in Southwestern Louisiana in the American Civil War |
1867 |
Battle at Mentana: French & Papal troops beat Garibaldi |
1868 |
First black Congressman elected (John W Menard, Louisiana) |
1868 |
Ulysses Grant (R) wins US presidential election over Horatio Seymour (D) |
1869 |
Canada's Hamilton Foot Ball Club forms |
1874 |
James Theodore Holly, elected bishop of Haiti |
1883 |
Race riots in Danville Virginia (4 blacks killed) |
1883 |
US Supreme Court decides Native Americans can't be Americans |
1883 |
American Old West: Self-described "Black Bart the poet" gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves an incriminating clue that eventually leads to his capture. |
1885 |
Tacoma vigilantes drive out Chinese, burn their homes & businesses |
1886 |
Friars of Tilburg arrives on Curacao |
1888 |
Amsterdam: 1st concerto of Concert worker, under Willem Kes |
1889 |
Chaplain Ariëns founds first roman catholic workers group |
1896 |
J H Hunter patents portable weighing scales |
1896 |
Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah elected 1st female senator |
1896 |
William McKinley (R) defeats William Jennings Bryan (D) for president |
1899 |
james j jeffries beats Tom Sharkey in 25 for heavyweight boxing title |
1900 |
First US automobile show opens at Madison Square Garden (NYC) |
1903 |
Colombia grants independence to Panama |
1903 |
Giovanni Giolitti becomes Permier of Italy; a progressive liberal, he will hold his post through most of the next decade and introduce social, agrarian and labor reforms |
1905 |
Csar Nicholas II of Russia signs a document of amnesty for the political prisoners. |
1908 |
William Howard Taft (R) elected 27th pres over William Jennings Bryan |
1911 |
Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T. |
1913 |
The USA introduces an income tax. |
1916 |
Treaty establishes British suzerainity over Qatar |
1917 |
1st class US mail now costs 3 cents per ounce |
1918 |
Austro-Hungarian Empire disolves |
1918 |
Poland proclaims independence from Russia after WW I |
1920 |
"Emperor Jones" opens at Provincetown Theater |
1922 |
Greek parliament bans prince Andreas for life |
1926 |
15th party congress CPSU ends/5 year plan begins |
1926 |
Ty Cobb resigns as Detroit Tigers manager |
1927 |
22.3 cm rainfall at Somerset, Vermont (state record) |
1927 |
Rodgers & Hart's musical "Connecticut Yankee" premieres in NYC |
1927 |
Tropical storm flooding kills 84 in Winooski River Valley (Vt) |
1928 |
Turkey switches from Arabic to Roman alphabet |
1930 |
First vehicular tunnel to a foreign country (Detroit-Windsor) opens |
1930 |
Bank of Italy becomes Bank of America |
1930 |
Getúlio Dornelles Vargas became Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24. |
1931 |
First commercially produced synthetic rubber manufactured |
1934 |
Although Lou Gehrig wins Triple Crown, Mickey Cochrane wins AL MVP |
1934 |
Dizzy Dean chosen as NL MVP |
1935 |
George II returns to Greece & regains monarchy |
1935 |
Kitei Son runs world record marathon (2:26:42) |
1936 |
President FDR (D) wins landslide victory over Alfred M Landon (R) |
1937 |
Maurice Archambaud bicycles world record for distance in one hour (45.796 km) |
1937 |
NHL Howie Morenz Memorial Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 6-5 in Mont |
1939 |
Clare Booth's "Margin for Error" premieres in NYC |
1941 |
Hirohiti's accord on Yamamoto's attack plan on Pearl Harbor fails |
1942 |
12th day of battle at El Alamein: Scottish assault |
1942 |
Despite Ted Williams winning Triple Crown, Yanks Joe Gordon wins AL MVP |
1942 |
Mort Cooper wins NL MVP |
1942 |
William L Dawson elected to Congress from Chicago |
1943 |
Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 8th Symphony premieres in Moscow |
1943 |
P-47D Thunderbolt shot down above North Holland |
1944 |
Allied commandos lands at Westkapelle Walcheren |
1944 |
German troops in Vlissingen surrenders |
1944 |
Pro-German government of Hungary flees |
1944 |
US 28th Infantry division occupies Schmidt Hurtgenwald |
1945 |
Lindsay Hassett scores 187 & 124* for Aust Services at Delhi |
1946 |
Emperor Hirohito proclaims new Japanese constitution |
1948 |
2nd NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Toronto 3-1 at Chicago |
1952 |
Clarence Birdseye markets frozen peas |
1952 |
Egypt protests German retribution payments to Israel |
1953 |
1939 sacrifice fly rule restored: no time at bat for sac fly |
1953 |
First live color US coast-to-coast telecast (NYC) |
1954 |
Nobel for physics awarded to Max Born & Walter Bothe |
1955 |
First virus crystallized (announced) |
1955 |
Alabama woman bruised by a meteor |
1955 |
Argentine ex-president Peron arrives in Nicaragua |
1955 |
Australia takes control of Cocos Islands |
1955 |
Bernardus J Alfrink installed as archbishop of Utrecht |
1956 |
"Wizard of Oz" 1st televised (CBS-TV) |
1957 |
USSR launches Sputnik 2 with a dog (Laika), 1st animal in orbit |
1958 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
1959 |
David Ben-Gurion's Mapai party wins Israeli parliamentary election |
1960 |
Tammy Grimes' "Unsinkable Molly Brown" opens at Winter Garden NYC for 532 perfs |
1960 |
Ivory Coast adopts constitution |
1960 |
Pittsburgh Pirates' Vern Law wins Cy Young Award |
1961 |
General Assembly unanimously elects U Thant acting secretary general |
1962 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1962 |
Wilt Chamberlain of NBA SF Warriors scores 72 points vs LA Lakers |
1963 |
Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Cavern City Golf Open |
1964 |
LBJ (D) soundly defeats Barry Goldwater (R) for pres |
1964 |
Phila voters approve $25 million to build a new sports stadium |
1965 |
Sandy Koufax wins NL Cy Young Award unanimously |
1967 |
Boston's Jim Lonborg wins AL Cy Young |
1967 |
Vietnam War: The Battle of Dak To begins. |
1968 |
Bob Packwood is elected senator of Oregon |
1968 |
Ex-premier Papandreou buried. 300,000 demonstrate against fascist junta |
1968 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Canyon Ladies Golf Classic |
1968 |
NY Jet Jim Turner kicks 6 field goals to beat Buffalo 25-21 |
1969 |
Congo president Mobutu visits Belgium |
1970 |
"President's Daughter" opens at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 72 perfs |
1970 |
Bob Gibson wins NL Cy Young Award |
1970 |
Pres Nixon promises gradual troop removal of Vietnam |
1970 |
Salvador Allende inaugurated as president of Chile |
1971 |
"Play Misty For Me" premieres |
1973 |
Mariner 10 launched-1st Venus pics, 1st mission to Mercury |
1974 |
"Lorelei" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 320 performances |
1974 |
Chako Higuchi wins Japan LPGA Golf Classic |
1975 |
Good Morning America premieres on ABC (David Hartman & Nancy Dussault) |
1976 |
Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA/Japan Mizuno Golf |
1977 |
Debbie Massey wins LPGA Mizuno-Japan Golf Classic |
1978 |
First broadcast of "Diff'rent strokes" on NBC TV |
1978 |
Dominica gains independence from UK & adopts constitution |
1978 |
Michiko Okada wins LPGA Mizuno-Japan Golf Classic |
1978 |
USSR & Vietnam sign peace & friendship treaty |
1979 |
Five people mortally wounded during anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstration in NC |
1979 |
Amy Alcott wins LPGA Mizuno Japan Golf Classic |
1979 |
Marocco offensive against Polisario |
1980 |
Ianford Wilson's "5th of July" premieres in NYC |
1980 |
Walter Hass Jr becomes CEO of Oakland A's |
1981 |
Brewers reliever Rollie Fingers wins AL Cy Young Award |
1982 |
Detroit blocks 20 Cleve Cav shots tying NBA regulation game record |
1982 |
Pete Vuckovich becomes Milwaukee's 2nd consecutive AL Cy Young |
1983 |
Jesse Jackson launches his 1st campaign for presidency (D) |
1983 |
Nashville Network begins on cable TV |
1984 |
3,000 die in 3 day anti-Sikh riot in India |
1984 |
Body of assassinated Indian PM Indira Gandhi cremated |
1985 |
Argentine presdent Alfonsíns Radical Burgerunie wins elections |
1985 |
Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Nichirei Cup Team Match Golf Tournament |
1986 |
Federated States of Micronesia signs Compact of Free Association with US |
1986 |
Joaquim Chissano elected president Mozambique |
1986 |
John Lennon "Menlove Avenue" album released posthumously |
1986 |
Lebanese magazine Ash Shirra reveals secret US arms sales to Iran |
1986 |
Northern Mariana Islands becomes a Commonwealth associated with US |
1987 |
Oakland 1st baseman Mark McGwire wins AL Rookie of Year |
1987 |
On Wall Street, after 5 consecutive gains, Dow Jones down 50.56 |
1988 |
Pakistan claims it downed Afghan warplane |
1988 |
President Reagan signs credit-card disclosure-bill |
1988 |
Soviet Union agrees to allow teaching of Hebrew |
1988 |
Talk-show host Geraldo Rivera's nose is broken as Roy Innis brawls with skinheads at TV taping |
1989 |
100s of Bulgarian demonstrate in Sofia for democratic rights |
1989 |
Lou Piniella is named manager of the Reds, replacing banned Pete Rose |
1989 |
Minn Timberwolves' 1st NBA game, loses to Seattle, 106-94 |
1990 |
Gro Harlem Brundtland installed as premier of Norway |
1991 |
21st NYC Women's Marathon won by Liz McColgan of Scotland in 2:27 |
1991 |
22nd NYC Marathon won by Salvador Garcia of Mexico in 2:09:28 |
1991 |
Ayrton Senna wins shortest Formula One race ever run (17 laps) |
1992 |
Bill Clinton (D) wins US presidential election over President Bush (R) |
1992 |
Carol Moseley Brown elected first black woman in US Senate |
1993 |
Ken Daneyko sets NJ Devil 'Ironman' record by playing 322nd cons game |
1994 |
Dutch & British astronomers find spiral nebula Dwingeloo 1 |
1994 |
Space shuttle STS-66 (Atlantis 13), launches |
1994 |
Susan Smith who claimed her two children were carjacked arrested for murder |
1994 |
Total solar eclipse in South America (4m23s) |
1995 |
1st NBA game at FleetCenter, Boston Celtics lose to Mil Bucks, 101-100 |
1995 |
1st NBA game at Rose Garden, Port Trailblazers lose to Grizzlies 92-80 |
1995 |
1st NBA game at Skydome, Toronto Raptors beat NJ Nets 94-79 |
1996 |
"It's a Slippery Slope" opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC |
1996 |
26th NYC Women's Marathon won by Anuta Catuna of Romania in 2:28:18 |
1996 |
27th NYC Marathon won by Giacomo Leone of Italy in 2:09:54 |
1996 |
Mayumi Hirase wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Cup |
1996 |
Toray Japan Queens Cup |
1997 |
Boston shortstop Nomar Garciaparra is 6th unanimous AL Rookie of Year |
1997 |
California law ends affirmative action |
1997 |
David Duval wins Championship at the Champions Golf Club |
1997 |
Phillies 3rd baseman Scott Rolen selected unanimous Rookie of Year |
2003 |
Pat LaFontaine is inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame |
2007 |
Pervez Musharraf declared emergency rule across Pakistan. He suspended the Constitution, imposed State of Emergency, and fired the chief justice of the Supreme Court. |
2009 |
23rd Soul Train Music Awards: Michael Jackson, Charlie Wilson & Chaka Khan win |
2012 |
Syrian rebels launch a major assault on Taftanaz airbase |
2013 |
8 people are killed and 10 are injured after a turboprop plane crashes in northern Bolivia |
2013 |
6 people are killed after an overcrowded ferry sinks in Pattaya, Thailand |
2013 |
Bobby Orr's autobiography "Orr: My Story" debuts at the #8 position on The New York Times best seller list for nonfiction |
2014 |
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calls for world leaders to act on climate change following stark warning from scientists on its severe and irreversible effects |
2015 |
Overcrowded bus tilts, plunges down a hill in Nepal; at least 30 killed |
2015 |
Michelle Payne becomes first female jockey to win Melbourne Cup |
2015 |
9-year-old shot to death in Chicago alley |
2016 |
Cubs win World Series for first time since 1908 |
2016 |
Court to rule on whether London needs parliament to trigger EU exit |
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