November 3

November 3 is the 307th (thirty-seventh) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the 308th in leap years. There are 58 days left to end the year.

Events

• 644: In the mosque of Medina, Umar ibn al-Jattab, second caliph, is murdered by a Persian slave.
• 1450: The University of Barcelona is founded.
• 1481: In the Kingdom of Navarre, Francis of Foix is crowned king.
• 1493: in the Caribbean Sea, Christopher Columbus up to the island of Dominica on his second trip.
• 1534: The British Parliament approved the Act of Supremacy, placing King Henry VIII in the head of the Church of England - a function previously in power of the pope.
• 1536: In the Viceroy of Peru a Royal Cell confirms the transfer of the capital city from Jauja to the valley of the river Rimac, in Lima, known as "City of Kings".
• 1591: In the territory currently occupied by Venezuela, the Portuguese captain Juan Fernández de León founded the city of Guanare.
• 1592: In Mexico, the city title is awarded to San Luis Potosí.
• 1624: In the Viceroy of New Spain, Rodrigo Pacheco and Osorio, Marquis of Cerralvo, took possession as the 15th viceroy.
• 1762: Treaty of Paris between Spain and France, through which Louisiana becomes Spanish.
• 1770: In Louisiana his governor Luis de Unzaga and Amézaga issued his legal code that abolished the ineffective regulation of the acquisition of slaves.
• 1780: in Buenos Aires (Argentina) the first documents are printed in the Real Imprenta de Niños Expósitos.
• 1792: in the New Galicia (now the State of Jalisco, Mexico) opens its doors the University of Guadalajara.
• 1795: in France the Board is constituted.
• 1812: in Vyazma the armies of Napoleon are defeated.
• 1820: Cuenca is violently independent of Spain.
• 1823: In Peru, President José de la Riva-Agüero sent a letter to José de La Serna (Spanish exvirrey of Peru), requesting the establishment of the Kingdom of Peru, independent of Spain, but placing a Spanish prince on the throne.
• 1839: In Istanbul, the Edict of Gülhane was promulgated, by which the time known as Tanzimat, or of the reforms, was initiated within the Ottoman Empire.
• 1844: In Italy, the Arno River floods the region of Tuscany and the city of Florence.
• 1844: In the Argentine theatre of Rome, the opera I due FoscariGiuseppe Verdi.
• 1853: In Mexico, William Walker and his group of filibusters proclaim the independence of Baja California.
• 1867: In Spain, Spanish politician and writer Antonio Cánovas del Castillo joined the Royal Spanish Academy.
• 1874: in Peru, President Manuel Pardo elevates the city to the city of Abancay, capital of the department of Apurímac.
• 1883: in Spain, the modernist architect Antonio Gaudí is commissioned to continue the construction of the Expiatory Temple of the Sagrada Familia.
• 1891: In Brazil, Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca dissolves the Brazilian Congress and proclaims itself a dictator.
• 1893: In Santander, Spain, the steamship Cabo Machichaco explodes.
• 1898: in Colombia he assumes the presidency Manuel Antonio Sanclemente.
• 1898: In the city of Santiago del Estero (Argentina) the newspaper is founded The LiberalDean of the Argentine North.
• 1903: Panama is permanently separated from Colombia and is born as an independent state.
• 1903: In the city of Rosario (Argentina) the Club Atlético Newell's Old Boys is founded.
• 1905: In Russia Tsar Nicholas II signed an amnesty decree for political prisoners.
• 1906: In Berlin the International Telegraph Conference ends, which makes it compulsory to exchange reports between the coastal stations and the ships.
• 1908: In the United States, William Howard Taft is elected 27th President.
• 1911: In the United States, the Chevrolet automotive brand enters the market, taking this date as its foundation.
• 1912: In Chihuahua, Mexico, the revolution against Francisco I. Madero begins.
• 1914: As part of World War I, the United Kingdom announces that the entire North Sea has become a battlefield.
• 1918: the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Trile Entente sign the armistice of Padua.
• 1930: In Brazil, Getúlio Vargas proclaims himself president after a coup.
• 1934: In Argentina the Argentine League of Football and the Argentine Association of Amateur and Professional Football are united to form the Association of Argentine Football.
• 1935: in Greece, King George II returns to the throne after a plebiscite.
• 1936: In the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is re-elected 32nd president.
• 1942: In El Alamein (Egypt) the Second Battle of El Alamein ends in which, the armies of Erwin Rommel are overcome by the British, and forces the Afrika Korps to withdraw from Egypt.
• 1943: the Blue Division is repatriated in Spain.
• 1946: in Japan, the sovereignty of the Japanese emperor with the Constitution of Japan passes to the Parliament.
• 1954: France begins sending troops to Algeria to crush attempts at independence.
• 1955: On the Nevada nuclear test site, the United States performs the second of the four atomic tests Project 56, which does not generate a nuclear reaction because its purpose was to determine whether a nuclear head would explode in case its explosive components were detonated. In this and three other tests (in the following weeks) will be contaminated with plutonium 3.62 km2 of land. It was the bomb n. 68 of 1132 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1957: The Soviet Union orbits the Sputnik 2 that takes the Laika bitch aboard.
• 1957: In the prison of Lewisburg, in Pennsylvania, the Austrian psychoanalyst and essayist Wilhelm Reich dies.
• 1958: the Unesco headquarters is opened in Paris.
• 1959: In Israel, the Israeli Labour Party (MAPAI) of Ben Gurión wins the victory in the legislative elections.
• 1961: In the United States, the Burmese Sithu U Thant is elected Secretary General of the United Nations.
• 1964: In the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson is elected president (the first elect after the murder of John Kennedy).
• 1964: in Bolivia, René Barrientos Ortuño assumes power after overthrowing President Victor Paz Estenssoro for a military coup.
• 1966: The state of siege is established in Guatemala throughout the territory.
• 1969: in Malaga, Spain, the first International Week of Author Cinema of Benalmadena is celebrated.
• 1970: in Chile, President Salvador Allende assumes as constitutional president. He is the first Marxist president to access the government through elections.
• 1971: In the city of Rosario (Argentina) the Newell's Hockey Club is founded by members of the Newell's Old Boys Club to participate in the Tournaments of the Litoral Hockey Association.
• 1973: United States Launches Mariner 10 Space Probe
• 1978: Dominica is independent of the United Kingdom.
• 1978: the Soviet Union and Vietnam sign a treaty of friendship and cooperation for 25 years.
• 1978: The first South American Games in history are opened in La Paz, Bolivia
• 1983: Palestinian dissidents, with the help of Syrians and Libyans, attack Yasir Arafat in northern Lebanon.
• 1985: Pope John Paul II beatifies the first journalist of the Church: Tito Brandsma, a Dutch Carmelite (assisited in 1942 by the Nazi regime).
• 1986: the Federated States of Micronesia are independent of the United States.
• 1986: in Mozambique, Joaquim Chissano is appointed president, replacing the late Samora Machel.
• 1987: British singer George Michael launches his solo studio debut album titled Faith.
• 1988: The political reforms proposed by President Chadli Benyedid are approved in referendum.
• 1992: In the United States, Bill Clinton is elected 42nd President.
• 1992: American hard rock band Bon Jovi, launches his fifth studio album titled Keep The Faithafter success Slippery When Wet (1986) and New Jersey (1988), respectively.
• 1995: in the city of Río Tercero (Argentina), the Military Factory explodes, leaving a balance of 7 dead and hundreds wounded.
• 1997: In London, UK launches the second Spice Girls album titled Spiceworld.
• 2020: Presidential elections are held in the United States.

Births

• 39: Marco Anneo Lucano, a Spanish poet (f. 65).
• 1500: Benvenuto Cellini, sculptor, writer and native Florentine (f. 1571).
• 1560: Annibale Carracci, Italian painter and engraver (f. 1609).
• 1564: Francisco Pacheco, a Spanish painter (f. 1644).
• 1618: Aurangzeb, the last great Mogol emperor (f. 1707).
• 1635: Daniel Leví de Barrios, militar, poet and Spanish historian (f. 1701).
• 1793: Stephen Austin, American politician (f. 1836).
• 1794: William Cullen Bryant, American poet, journalist and critic (f. 1878).
• 1801: Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (f. 1835).
• 1816: Jubal Anderson Early, American military (f. 1894).
• 1852: Meiji, Japanese emperor (f. 1912).
• 1856: Marcelino Menéndez Pelayo, Spanish polygraph (f. 1912).
• 1857: Henry Lane Wilson, American lawyer, politician and diplomat (f. 1932).
• 1858: Alfred Marsh, English anarchist (f. 1914).
• 1860: Alfredo Andersen, Norwegian painter (f. 1935).
• 1871: Carlos Pereyra, lawyer, politician, diplomat, writer and Mexican historian (f. 1942).
• 1877: Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, Chilean politician, president of Chile between 197-1931 and 1952-1958 (f. 1960).
• 1880: Carles Flets i Galtés, Spanish sculptor (f. 1949).
• 1900: Adolf Dasssler, German businessman, founder of Adidas (f. 1978).
• 1901: Leopoldo III, Belgian king (f. 1983).
• 1901: André Malraux, writer, adventurer and French politician (f. 1976).
• 1903: Walker Evans, American photographer (f. 1975).
• 1908: Giovanni Leone, Italian politician (f. 2001).
• 1910: Richard Hurndall, British actor (f. 1984).
• 1912: Alfredo Stroessner, Paraguayan dictator (f. 2006).
• 1915: Osvaldo Miranda, Argentine actor (f. 2011).
• 1916: Julieta Palavicini, Mexican actress (f. 1991).
• 1918: Raimon Panikkar, philosopher, theologian and Spanish writer (f. 2010).
• 1918: Bob Feller, American baseball player (f. 2010).
• 1919: Jesús Blasco, author of comics and Spanish cartoonist (f. 1995).
• 1921: Charles Bronson, American actor (f. 2003).
• 1922: Luis Villoro, Mexican philosopher (f. 2014).
• 1924: Samuel Ruiz García, Mexican Catholic priest (f. 2011).
• 1924: Julio Lucena, Mexican actor (f. 1985).
• 1926: Valdas Adamkus, Lithuanian president.
• 1928: Osamu Tezuka, Japanese cartoonist and animator (f. 1989).
• 1930: Juan José Sebreli, Argentine philosopher.
• 1931: Monica Vitti, Italian actress.
• 1931: Ikkō Narahara, Japanese photographer (f. 2020).
• 1932: Albert Reynolds, Irish politician and prime minister (f. 2014).
• 1933: María Herminia Avellaneda, producer and filmmaker of Argentina (f. 1997).
• 1933: John Barry, British composer of film music (f. 2011).
• 1933: Jeremy Brett, British actor (f. 1995)
• 1933: Michael Dukakis, American politician.
• 1933: Amartya Sen, Bengali economist.
• 1933: Jaime Yavitz, actor, theatre director, journalist and Uruguayan professor (f. 2016).
• 1936: Roy Emerson, Australian tennis player.
• 1938: Jean Rollin, French filmmaker (f. 2010).
• 1943: Bert Jansch, Scottish musician.
• 1943: Jorge Lafauci, Argentine journalist.
• 1943: Malén Aznárez, journalist (f. 2017).
• 1944: Augusto Ferrero Costa, Peruvian constitutionalist and political.
• 1945: Gerd Müller, German footballer (f. 2021).
• 1946: Tom Savini, American special effects actor and artist.
• 1946: Manuel Elkin Patarroyo, Colombian immunologist.
• 1948: Amapola Cabase, Filipino singer.
• 1948: Helmuth Koinigg, Austrian racing pilot.
• 1948: Lulu, British singer.
• 1949: Larry Holmes, American boxer.
• 1949: Anna Wintour, American editor.
• 1950: James Rothman, American biologist.
• 1952: Jim Cummings, an American voice actor.
• 1952: Roseanne Barr, American actress and comedian.
• 1952: Zalo Reyes, Chilean singer (f. 2022).
• 1953: Kate Capshaw, American actress.
• 1953: Dennis Miller, American comedian.
• 1954: Adam Ant, British musician, of the Adam and the Ants band.
• 1954: Carlos Girón Gutierrez, Mexican cloister (f. 2020).
• 1956: Kevin Murphy, American actor.
• 1956: Gary Ross, American filmmaker
• 1957: Dolph Lundgren, Swedish actor.
• 1957: Leo White Jr., American york.
• 1959: Hal Hartley, American filmmaker and screenwriter.
• 1962: Gabe Newell, co-founder and director of the developer company Valve Software.
• 1963: Ian Wright, British footballer.
• 1967: Pichu Straneo, Uruguayan actor and humorist.
• 1967: Steven Wilson, British musician, of the band Porcupine Tree.
• 1968: Alberto Iñurrategi, Spanish mountaineer.
• 1969: Nacho Goano, Argentine sports journalist.
• 1969: Robert Miles, producer, composer and Swiss musician.
• 1970: Yolanda Alzola, Spanish TV presenter.
• 1970: Martín Gianola, actor and screenwriter of Argentine theatre and television (f. 2013).
• 1970: Jeanette J. Epps, aerospace engineer and Afro-descendant astronaut
• 1971: Dylan Moran, comedian, writer, actor and Irish poet.
• 1971: Raúl Cano, Spanish actor and humorist.
• 1971: Unai Emery, a former soccer player and a football coach.
• 1971: Dwight Yorke, footballer trinitense.
• 1973: Sticky Fingaz, American actor and rapper.
• 1973: Mick Thomson, American musician, Slipknot band.
• 1973: Ana Milan, Spanish actress.
• 1973: Lisset, Mexican actress and singer.
• 1973: Ebelio Ordóñez, Ecuadorian footballer.
• 1974: Tariq Abdul-Wahad, French basketball player.
• 1975: Marta Domínguez, Spanish athlete.
• 1976: Guillermo Franco, Argentine soccer player.
• 1977: Mcoy Fundales, Filipino singer, Orange and Lemons band.
• 1977: Aria Giovanni, American model and actress.
• 1977: Óscar Salazar Blanco, Mexican taekwondista.
• 1979: Pablo Aimar, Argentine footballer.
• 1979: Tim McIlrath, American musician, Rise Against.
• 1979: Claudio Silva da Fonseca, Brazilian footballer.
• 1981: Travis Richter, American guitarist, from the band From First To Last.
• 1981: Vuoso Matías, Argentine footballer.
• 1981: Rodrigo Millar, Chilean footballer.
• 1981: Diego López Rodríguez, Spanish footballer.
• 1982: Hernán Encina, Argentine soccer player.
• 1982: Evgeni Plushenko, Russian ice skater.
• 1982: Raquel del Rosario, Spanish singer, of the band El Sueño de Morfeo.
• 1984: Christian Bakkerud, Danish racing pilot (f. 2011).
• 1984: Ryō Nishikido, Japanese singer and actor.
• 1984: Saul Craviotto, Palista and Spanish police.
• 1986: Heo Young Saeng, singer, dancer and South Korean model, band ss501.
• 1987: Gemma Ward, Australian model.
• 1988: Carlos Izquierdoz, Argentine footballer.
• 1988: Angus McLaren, Australian actor.
• 1988: Héctor Jiménez, American footballer.
• 1991: Renato Steffen, Swiss footballer.
• 1993: Minhyuk, South Korean singer, member of the Monsta X group.
• 1995: Kendall Jenner, American model.
• 1995: Kelly Catlin, American cyclist (f. 2019).
• 1995: Matías Nicolás Rojas, Paraguayan footballer.
• 1996: Pablo Hernández, Mexican philosopher.
• 1996: Aria Wallace, American actress and singer.
• 1997: Takumi Kitamura, Japanese actor.
• 2000: Kluivert Roa, a Venezuelan student (f. 2015).
• 2001: Robbe Quirynen, Belgian footballer.
• 2007: Ever Anderson, American actress and model.

Deaths

• 361: Consequent II, Roman Emperor (n. 317).
• 753: Pirminius, an Irish or French Benedictine saint and monk (n. 670).
• 1639: Martin de Porres, religious and holy Peruvian Dominican (n. 1579).
• 1736: José Patiño Rosales, Spanish politician (n. 1666).
• 1793: Olympe de Gouges, a French writer and feminist (n. 1748).
• 1794: François-Joachim of Pierre de Bernis, writer, clergyman and French diplomat (n. 1715).
• 1814: Isidore de Antillón, politician and Spanish historian (n. 1778).
• 1853: Juan Álvarez Mendizábal, a Spanish politician (n. 1790).
• 1864: Juan Chassaing, Argentine poet and politician (n. 1839).
• 1864: Antônio Gonçalves Dias, Brazilian poet (n. 1823).
• 1870: Prilidiano Pueyrredón, Argentine painter and architect (n. 1823).
• 1873: Antonio de los Ríos Rosas, a Spanish politician (n. 1812).
• 1911: Salvador Giner Vidal, Spanish composer (n. 1832).
• 1913: Hans Bronsart von Schellendorff, pianist, orchestra director and German composer (n. 1830).
• 1919: Abraham Valdelomar, a Peruvian writer (n. 1888).
• 1929: Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet (n. 1883).
• 1931: Juan Zorrilla San Martín, Uruguayan poet (n. 1855).
• 1935: Graciano Atienza Fernández, journalist, lawyer and Spanish politician (n. 1884).
• 1939: Pedro Antonio Echagüe, Argentine lawyer and politician (n. 1859).
• 1940: Manuel Azaña, politician, writer and Spanish journalist (n. 1880).
• 1949: Solomon R. Guggenheim, American patrons (n. 1861).
• 1954: Henri Matisse, French painter (n. 1869).
• 1957: Wilhelm Reich, psychoanalyst and Austrian writer (n. 1897).
• 1968: Adolf Abel, German architect (n. 1882).
• 1971: Manuel Lozano Garrido, journalist and Spanish beato (n. 1920).
• 1973: Arturo de Córdova, Mexican actor (n. 1908).
• 1975: Agustín Nieto Caballero, a Colombian writer and psychologist (n. 1889).
• 1977: Florence Vidor, American actress (n. 1895).
• 1979: Raffaele Bendandi, an Italian astrologer (n. 1893).
• 1979: José Puche Álvarez, a Spanish doctor (n. 1895).
• 1982: Edward Hallett Carr, British historian and journalist (n. 1892).
• 1988: Flora Rheta Schreiber, American journalist (n. 1918).
• 1990: Mary Martin, American actress and singer (n. 1913).
• 1992: Hanya Holm, German-American dancer (n. 1893).
• 1992: Armando Tejada Gómez, Argentine poet and folklorist (n. 1929).
• 1993: Léon Theremin, Soviet musician and investor (n. 1896).
• 1995: Isang Yun, Korean composer (n. 1917).
• 1996: Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Central African emperor (n. 1921).
• 1997: Pompeyo Camps, composer, musicologist and Argentine musical critic (n. 1924).
• 1998: Martha O'Driscoll, American actress (n. 1922).
• 1999: Ian Bannen, British actor (n. 1928).
• 2001: Ernst Gombrich, a British art historian (n. 1909).
• 2001: Mariano Navarro Rubio, politician and Spanish lawyer (f. 1914).
• 2002: Lonnie Donegan, British musician (n. 1931).
• 2002: Jonathan Harris, American actor (n. 1914).
• 2006: Paul Mauriat, director of French orchestra (n. 1925).
• 2006: Alberto Spencer, Ecuadorian footballer (n. 1937).
• 2007: Germán de Argumosa, Spanish parapsychologist (n. 1921).
• 2007: Enrique Gimeno, director of Spanish orchestra (n. 1929).
• 2009: Francisco Ayala, Spanish writer (n. 1906).
• 2010: Viktor Chernomyrdin, Russian mogul and politician (n. 1938).
• 2010: Rubén Basoalto, Argentine drummer, of the band Vox Dei (n. 1947).
• 2011: Flattus Máximus (Cory Smoot), American guitarist, Gwar band.
• 2011: Matty Alou, Dominican baseball player (n. 1938).
• 2011: Just Oscar Laguna, Argentine bishop (n. 1929).
• 2011: Rosángela Balbó, Mexican actress (n. 1941).
• 2014: Gordon Tullock, American economist (n. 1922).
• 2015: Adriana Campos, Colombian actress (n. 1979).
• 2015: Person (José Luis Properzi), Argentine rock drummer; cancer (n. 1967).
• 2015: Lauretta Ngcobo, a South African writer (n. 1931).
• 2021: Georgie Dann, French singer (n. 1940).

Celebrations

• World Sandwich Day
• International Day of the Jewelry and Watchmaker.
• Telos Day
• International Day of Biosphere Reserves

• DominicaDominica: Independence Day
• MicronesiaMicronesia: Independence Day
• Panama Panama: Separation from Panama from Colombia

Catholic saints list

• San Martín de Porres (f. 1639), religious
• Saints Germán, Theophilus and Cyril of Cesarea of Cappadocia, martyrs
• San Libertino de Agrigento (s. IV), bishop and martyr
• San Pápulo de Lauragais (s. IV), martyr
• St. Pirmino of Reichenau (s. IV), Abbot and Bishop
• Saints Valentine and Hilary of Viterbo, martyrs
• San Domnino de Vienne (f. 538), bishop
• San Guenael de Landevenec (s. VI), abad
• San Gaudioso de Tarazona (s. VI), Bishop
• Saint Silvia of Rome (s. VII)
• San Juanicio de Antidio (f. 846), monk
• Santa Odrada de Alem (s. XI), virgin
• Saint Ermengol of Urgel (f. 1035), bishop
• Beato Berardo de los marsos (f. 1130), bishop
• Beata Alpaide de Cudot (f. 1211), virgin
• Santa Ida de Fieschingen (f. 1226), prisoner
• Blessed Simon Balachi (f. 1319), religious
• San Pedro Francisco Nerón (f. 1860), priest and martyr