3 November: On This Day In History | What Special Day Is Today?

3 November: In a year, the 3rd of November is the 307^th day as per the Georgian Calendar. In a leap year, it is the 308^th day of the year. This day has its distinctiveness and importance in history.

Let’s explore people who have carved a niche for themselves on 3^rd November. We may also need to scan through the events that happened on this day.

What Happened Today? On This Day in History: 3 November

Art & Artists

- 1860 – The lecture series “On Translating Home” began at Oxford University by Matthew Arnold (poet and critic)
- 1927 – Rodgers & Hart’s great musical creation “Connecticut Yankee”(based on an 1889 satirical novel by Mark Twain) opens at a theatre in New York.
- 1939 – The maiden television show of the classic film “The Wizard of Oz”
- 1943 – 8th Symphony by Dmitri Shostakovich premiered in Moscow

3 November: 1939 – The maiden television show of the classic film “The Wizard of Oz”

Science & Technology

- 1906 – Distress signal “SOS” was selected by the International Radiotelegraph Conference held in Berlin
- 1931 – Manufacture of synthetic rubber, produced commercially for the first time

Leaders & Politics

- 1812 – The army of Napoleon Bonaparte was defeated by the Russian Empire at Vyazma
- 1936 – Franklin D. Roosevelt won the US presidential election for a second time
- 1946 – A new Japanese constitution was proclaimed by the Emperor Hirohito
- 1984 – Cremation of Indira Gandhi, the Prime Minister of India (Assassinated on 31^st October 1984).

People & Society

- 1793 – Olympe de Gouges (French playwright, journalist, and feminist) was guillotined
- 1838 – “The Times of India”, the famous newspaper was founded in Mumbai, India.
- 1896 – Patent of portable weighing scales by J. H. Hunter

Disasters: Natural & Man-made

- 1927 – A powerful flood caused a tropical cyclone that killed 84 in Vermont, USA.
- 1927 – Greycliffe (the harbor ferry) collided with Tahiti (the Union Steamship Company steamer) in the Greycliffe disaster which happened in Sydney Harbour (Australia).

Discoveries & Explorations

- 1493 – The island of Dominica was ‘discovered’ by Christopher Columbus
- 1957 – Sputnik 2 (carrying dog Laika) was launched by the Soviet Union.
- 1987 – Gordon Gould got a US patent for the invention of a laser

Leisure & Sports

- 1899 – James J. Jeffries (USA) thrashed Tom Sharkey (Ireland) at Brooklyn, NYC to retain his World heavyweight boxing champion title.
- 1937 – Maurice Archambaud set a world record by cycling a distance of 45.8 km in Milan, Italy.

Birth Anniversaries (3 November)

- 1500 – Benvenuto Cellini (Italian sculpture and painter)
- 1618 – Aurangzeb (Mughal Empire, India)
- 1921 – Charles Bronson (Actor and soldier from America)
- 1933 – Amartya Sen (Nobel laureate, Economist, and academic from India)
- 1949 – Anna Wintour (English-American journalist)

Death Anniversaries (3 November)

- 361 – Constantius II (Roman Emperor)
- 1926 – Annie Oakley (American target shooter and entertainer)
- 1960 – Paul Willis (American Actor-Director)
- 1983 – Jerry Pentland (Australian ace fighter)
- 2018 – Sondra Locke (American Actress-Director)

What Special Day is Today: (3 November)

- World Jellyfish Day
- World Sandwich Day
- One Health Day
- Culture Day (Japan)
- Flag Day (UAE)
- Victory Day (Maldives)
- Independence Day (Dominica and Micronesia)

Conclusion

Each day is different…so the 3^rd of November. The factual story of the day covers the entire globe and a lot of well-known personalities. The day has remained a silent observer of what happened on this day.

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