What happened on November 3 in other years, from the events Wikipedia's editors chose for its "On this day":
- 1534: The Parliament of England passed the first Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the Church of England, supplanting the pope and the Catholic Church. → Acts of Supremacy
- 1812: French invasion of Russia: As Napoleon's Grande Armée began its retreat, its rear guard was defeated at the Battle of Vyazma. → French invasion of Russia
- 1898: The Fashoda Incident ended with French forces withdrawing after several months of military stalemate with the British in Fashoda (now in South Sudan). → Fashoda Incident
- 1943: The Holocaust: The largest massacre of Jews by German forces began at Majdanek concentration camp. → Operation Harvest Festival
- 1957: The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2, carrying the space dog Laika as the first living creature to enter orbit around Earth. → Sputnik 2
- 2002: A CIA drone strike kills six militants in Yemen, constituting the first targeted killing of the war on terror. → 2002 Marib airstrike
Born on November 3
- 1618: Aurangzeb, Mughal emperor of India (died 1707)
- 1852: Emperor Meiji of Japan (died 1912)
- 1901: André Malraux, French historian, theorist, and author (died 1976)
- 1933: Amartya Sen, Indian economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
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