Major Events
- 644 The second Muslim caliph, Umar ibn al-Khattab, is injured in an assassination attempt in Medina by Lu’lu, an enslaved Persian captive; the caliph dies four days later
- 1534 English parliament passes the Act of Supremacy making Henry VIII and all subsequent monarchs the Head of the Church of England
- 1620 Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony
- 1640 English Long Parliament forms
- 1906 International Radiotelegraph Conference in Berlin selects the “SOS” (· · · – – – · · ·) distress signal as the worldwide standard for help
- 1957 Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2 with space dog Laika aboard, a mostly Siberian Husky, the first animal in space
- 1970 US President Richard Nixon promises gradual troop removal of Vietnam
Nov 3 in Film & TV
- 1953 “Tokyo Story”, Japanese film directed by Yasujirō Ozu, starring Chishū Ryū, Chieko Higashiyama and Setsuko Hara, is released
Nov 3 in Music
Nov 3 in Sport
- 1991 Ayrton Senna wins Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide; shortest F1 race ever run (14 laps) because of wet conditions; Senna retains his 3rd World Drivers Championship by 24 points from Nigel Mansell
Did You Know?
The Times of India, the world’s largest circulated English-language daily broadsheet newspaper, is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce
Fun Fact About November 3
First modern elastic brassiere is patented by New York socialite Caresse Crosby
Famous Weddings
- 1954 American aspiring songwriter Sonny Bono (19) weds American Donna Rankin; divorce in 1962
- 1956 American jazz saxophonist Stan Getz (29) weds second wife, Swedish student Monica Silfverskiold (22) in Las Vegas, Nevada; separate in 1981, divorce in 1988
- 1963 Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (26) weds Russian cosmonaut Andriyan Nikolayev (34) at the Moscow Wedding Palace; divorce in 1982
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