November
3
Independence
Day
Dominica : November 3 1978
Micronesia Federated States of : 3 November 1986
Panama : November 3 1903
Events
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.
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.
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.
1898 – France withdraws its troops from Fashoda (now in Sudan),
ending the Fashoda Incident.
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 – Austria-Hungary enters into an armistice with the Allies,
and the Habsburg-ruled empire dissolves.
1918 – Poland declares its independence from Russia.
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.
1932 – Panagis Tsaldaris becomes the 142nd Prime Minister of
Greece.
1935 – George II of Greece regains his throne through a popular
plebiscite.
1942 – World War II: The Koli Point action begins during the
Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on November 12.
1943 – World War II: 500 aircraft of the U.S. 8th Air Force
devastate Wilhelmshafen harbor in Germany.
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.
1957 – Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2.
On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika.
1960 – The land that would become the Great Swamp National Wildlife
Refuge was established by an Act of Congress after a year-long
legal battle that pitted local residents against Port Authority
of New York and New Jersey officials wishing to turn the Great
Swamp into a major regional airport for jet aircraft.
1964 – Washington D.C. residents are able to vote in a presidential
election for the first time.
1967 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Dak To begins.
1969 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon addresses
the nation on television and radio, asking the "silent
majority" to join him in solidarity on the Vietnam War
effort and to support his policies.
1973 – Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 10 toward
Mercury. On March 29, 1974, it becomes the first space probe
to reach that planet.
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.
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.
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.
1988 – Sri Lankan Tamil mercenaries try to overthrow the Maldivian
government. At President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom's request, the
Indian military suppresses the coup attempt within 24 hours.
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.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Acepsimas of Hnaita and companions (Greek Orthodox Church)
Hubertus
Malachy O' More
Martin de Porres
Rupert Mayer
Winefride
November 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Culture Day (Japan), and its related observances:
Feudal Lord's Parade or Hakone Daimyō Gyōretsu (Hakone, Kanagawa)
Independence Day / Separation Day, celebrates the separation
and independence of Panama from Colombia in 1903.
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Dominica from
the United Kingdom in 1978.
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of the Federated
States of Micronesia from the United States in 1986.
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