Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 3

This is a list of selected November 3 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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  Johan Rudolf Thorbecke
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  Olympe de Gouges
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  Battle of Vyazma monument
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  Harry S. Truman
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  Pervez Musharraf
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  Postage stamp depicting Laika
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  Godzilla film poster
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  George II of Greece
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  Remains of the trenches at Majdanek where Jews were shot

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Independence Day in Dominica (1978), the Federated States of Micronesia (1986), and Panama (1903)	Dominica: refimprove section, expansion; Micronesia: unreferenced section; Panama: multiple issues
644 – Umar, the second Caliph in Sunni Islam after Muhammad's death, was fatally stabbed by Piruz Nahavandi, a Persian slave.	lots of CN tags (34)
1838 – The Times of India, the world's highest-circulation English-language daily broadsheet newspaper, was founded as the The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.	recentism
1887 – The Coimbra Academic Association, Portugal's oldest students' union, was founded at the University of Coimbra.	refimprove, refimprove section
1918 – The German Revolution began when 40,000 sailors took over the port of Kiel.	Revolution needs more footnotes; Kiel mutiny needs more refs
1967 – Vietnam War: A series of major engagements that were some of the hardest-fought and bloodiest battles of the war began at Đắk Tô in the Central Highlands.	refimprove section
1971 – The Unix Programmer's Manual was first published.	date not cited
1979 – Five members of the U.S. Communist Workers' Party were shot and killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party while in a protest in Greensboro, North Carolina.	refimprove section
1991 – The Peruvian paramilitary death squad Grupo Colina massacred at least fifteen people in the Barrios Altos neighborhood of Lima.	needs more footnotes
2007 – Pakistani president and chief of army staff Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency across Pakistan, suspending the Pakistani Constitution.	refimprove section

Eligible

• 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.
• 1805 – War of the Third Coalition: The Treaty of Potsdam was signed compelling Prussia to join the coalition if it failed to negotiate peace between Russia and France.
• 1812 – French invasion of Russia: As Napoleon's Grande Armée began its retreat, its rear guard was defeated at the Battle of Vyazma.
• 1848 – A new constitution drafted by Johan Rudolph Thorbecke was proclaimed, limiting the powers of the Dutch monarchy.
• 1880 – The current melody of Kimigayo, the national anthem of Japan, was adopted.
• 1881 – Indigenous Mapuche began an uprising against the occupation of Araucanía by Chile.
• 1935 – Almost 98 percent of reported votes in a Greek referendum supported the restoration of George II as King of the Hellenes.
• 1943 – The Holocaust: The largest massacre of Jews by German forces began at Majdanek concentration camp (execution trenches pictured).
• 1954 – The first film featuring the giant monster known as Godzilla was released nationwide in Japan.
• 1956 – Suez Crisis: During an invasion of the Gaza Strip, Israeli soldiers shot and killed hundreds of Palestinian refugees and local inhabitants in Khan Yunis.
• 1969 – U.S. president Richard Nixon made a plea for support from the "silent majority", referring to those Americans who did not join in the large demonstrations against the Vietnam War at the time.
• 1996 – Abdullah Çatlı, a leader of the ultra-nationalist Grey Wolves, was killed in a car crash near Susurluk, Turkey, sparking a scandal that exposed the depth of the state's complicity in organized crime.
• Born/died this day: John III Doukas Vatatzes |d|1254| Petronilla de Meath |d|1324| Andrew Báthory |d|1599| Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom |b|1777| Carlo Fornasini |b|1854| Carrie Steele Logan |b|1877| Rosalie Edge |d|1900| Gus Winckel |d|1912| Olav Aukrust |d|1929| Bert Jansch |b|1943| Anna Wintour |b|1949 Dawn Marie Psaltis |b|1970 |

Notes

• Félicette appears on October 18, so Laika should not appear in the same year
• George I of Greece appears on October 30, so George II should not appear in the same year

November 3: Culture Day in Japan

Truman showing the "Dewey Defeats Truman" headline

• 1793 – French Revolution: Playwright, journalist and outspoken feminist Olympe de Gouges was guillotined.
• 1898 – The Fashoda Incident ended with French forces withdrawing after several months of military stalemate with the British in Fashoda (now in South Sudan).
• 1942 – World War II: U.S. Marines and U.S. Army forces began an attempt to encircle and destroy a regiment of Imperial Japanese Army troops on Guadalcanal.
• 1948 – The Chicago Daily Tribune published the erroneous headline "Dewey Defeats Truman" (pictured) in its early morning edition shortly after incumbent U.S. president Harry S. Truman officially upset the heavily favored governor of New York Thomas Dewey in the presidential election.
• 1957 – The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2, carrying the space dog Laika as the first living creature to enter orbit around Earth.

• Achilles Gasser (b. 1505)
• Kinjirō Ashiwara (b. 1850)
• Bangalore Nagarathnamma (b. 1878)
• Ronald Barnes (d. 1997)

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