November 3


November 3 is the 307th day of the year (308th in leap years) in the
Gregorian Calendar, with 58 days remaining.

Events:

   * 1394 - Charles VI of France expels the Jews
   * 1839 - Beginning of the first Opium War
   * 1848 - Greatly revised Dutch constitution proclaimed
   * 1888 - Jack the Ripper kills his last victim
   * 1918 - Austria-Hungary breaks up
   * 1903 - Panama proclaims itself independent from Colombia
   * 1918 - Poland declares its independence from Russia
   * 1928 - Mickey Mouse debuts, in Steamboat Willy
   * 1935 - George II of Greece regains his throne
   * 1942 - Battle of El Alamein ends
   * 1955 - Australia gains control of the Cocos Islands
   * 1957 - Launch of Sputnik 2
   * 1970 - Salvador Allende inaugurated as President of Chile
   * 1971 - The UNIX Programmer's Manual is published
   * 1978 - Dominica gains its independence from the United Kingdom
   * 1979 - Iranian radicals take control of the United States Embassy in
     Tehran

Births:

   * 1718 - John Montague, Earl of Sandwich
   * 1793 - Stephen F. Austin, American pioneer
   * 1794 - William Cullen Bryant, poet, journalist
   * 1801 - Vincenzo Bellini, Italian opera composer
   * 1816 - Jubal Early, Confederate General (+ 1894)
   * 1874 - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian novelist (+ 1942)
   * 1895 - Grand Duchess Olga Nicolaievna Romanova (+ 1918)
   * 1901 - Andre Malraux, French novelist (+ 1976)
   * 1901 - Leopold III of Belgium (+ 1983)
   * 1903 - Walker Evans, photographer
   * 1908 - Bronko Nagurski, American football star (+ 1990)
   * 1909 - James Reston, journalist
   * 1918 - Bob Feller, baseball star
   * 1921 - Charles Bronson, actor
   * 1933 - Michael Dukakis, American politician
   * 1933 - Jeremy Brett, actor (+ 1995)
   * 1933 - Ken Berry, actor
   * 1934 - John Barry, composer
   * 1938 - Martin Dunwoody, British mathematician
   * 1946 - Tom Savini, actor, film maker, makeup artist
   * 1948 - Lulu (singer), actress, singer
   * 1949 - Larry Holmes, American boxing champion
   * 1952 - Roseanne, American actress, comedienne
   * 1953 - Kate Capshaw, actress
   * 1953 - Dennis Miller, comedian
   * 1954 - Adam Ant, singer
   * 1960 - Karch Kiraly, volleyball star
   * 1977 - Aria Giovanni, model

Deaths:

   * 361 - Constantius II, Roman Emperor
   * 1580 - Jeronimo Zurita y Castro, Spanish historian
   * 1787 - Robert Lowth, British bishop, grammarian
   * 1891 - Louis Lucien Bonaparte, French politician
   * 1918 - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov, Russian scientist
   * 1954 - Henri Matisse, French artist
   * 1957 - Wilhelm Reich, psychotherapist
   * 1990 - Mary Martin, American actress
   * 1993 - Leon Theremin, Russian inventor
   * 1995 - Gordon S. Fahrni, physician and president of the Canadian
     Medical Association, dies at age 108
   * 1996 - Jean-Bedel Bokassa, president of the Central African Republic
   * 1999 - Ian Bannen, actor
   * 2002 - Lonnie Donegan, musician