It happened on this day, November 3
Events:
1394 – King Charles VI exiles the Jews from France.
1839 – Start of the Opium War, declared by the United Kingdom against China.
1903 – Independence of Panama.
1906 – The evacuation of Ottoman Empire forces from the Qassim region begins by the forces of Abdul Aziz bin Abdul Rahman bin Faisal Al Saud, King of Saudi Arabia.
1911 – Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Model T Ford.
1913 – The United States passes the Income Tax Act.
1916 – Conclusion of the treaty creating the Emirate of Qatar.
1918 – Poland declares independence from Russia after World War I.
1928 – Türkiye begins using Latin letters instead of Arabic to write the Turkish language.
1935 – King George II returns to Greece and reclaims his kingdom after restoring the monarchy.
1942 – The first German F-2 missile is launched during World War II.
1956 – Israeli occupying forces massacre hundreds of Palestinian residents of the town of Khan Yunis during their campaign to occupy the Gaza Strip.
✴️ Arab workers blow up pipelines in Syria, Libya, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia to prevent oil from reaching the aggressors during the tripartite aggression against Egypt.
1957 – The dog Laika is launched into space by the Soviet ship Sputnik-2, becoming the first living creature to be launched into space.
1961 – The United Nations General Assembly unanimously approves the appointment of Burmese diplomat U Thant to succeed the late Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, who died in a plane crash.
1962 – The Kuwaiti Constituent Assembly finalizes the draft constitution and submits it to the Emir.
1992 – Bill Clinton is elected President of the United States after defeating President George Bush.
1995 – American footballer O Jay Simpson is acquitted of murdering his wife and her lover.
2004 – U.S. President George W. Bush wins a second presidential term after defeating his Democratic rival John Kerry.
✴️ The Supreme Council of the Federation elects Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, ruler of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, as President of the United Arab Emirates, succeeding his father, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan.
2013 – Typhoon Haiyan hits the Philippines and Vietnam, killing around 6,100 people.
2014 – Inauguration of the One World Trade Tower, making it the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, with a height of 541 meters.
2015 – Cyclone Chapala hits the Yemeni coastal governorates of Hadramaut, Shabwa and Socotra, destroying thousands of homes and killing eight people. It is considered the most powerful tropical cyclone in the Indian Ocean.
2016 – The Central Bank of Egypt announces the liberalization of the exchange rate of the Egyptian pound against foreign currencies.
2017 – The Syrian army succeeds in breaking the siege imposed by ISIS on parts of the city of Deir ez-Zor since 2014.
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Births:
1558 – Thomas Kyd, English playwright.
1604 – Sultan Osman II, Ottoman sultan.
1618 – Aurangzeb Alamkir, emperor of the Mughal Empire.
1749 – Daniel Rutherford, Scottish physician.
1794 – William Cullen Bryant, American poet.
1801 – Vincenzo Bellini, Italian musician.
1852 – Emperor Meiji, emperor of Japan.
1857 – Mikhail Alekseev, Russian soldier.
1863 – Alfred Perrault, French physicist.
1887 – Samuel Marshak, Russian poet, playwright and translator.
1900 – Adolf Dassler, founder of the German sportswear company Adidas.
1901 – King Leopold III, King of Belgium. André Malraux, French philosopher and novelist.
1908 – Giovanni Leoni, sixth president of Italy.
1911 – Kick Schmidt, Dutch footballer.
1913 – Albert Kosiri, Egyptian writer who writes in French.
1919 – Raja Abdo, Egyptian actress and singer.
1921 – Charles Bronson, American actor.
1926 – Valdas Adamkus, President of Lithuania.
1928 – Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist.
1931 – Anis Sayegh, Palestinian historian and thinker.
1933 – Amartya Sen, Indian economist, Nobel Prize in Economics in 1998.
1936 – Roy Emerson, Australian tennis player.
** Edward Owais, Jordanian poet.
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1953 – Kate Capshaw, American actress.
1957 – Dolph Lundgren, Swedish actor and director.
1960 – Karch Kirali, American volleyball player.
1962 – Marzouq Al-Ghanim, Kuwaiti politician.
** Gabe Noel, American video game producer.
**Jackie Smith, British politician.
1963 – Afef Jnifen, Italian model of Tunisian origin.
** Ian Wright, English footballer.
1967 – Laila Jabr, Syrian actress. Rashid Malhas, Jordanian actor.
1969 – Robert Miles, Italian-Swiss musician.
1971 – Dwight Yorke, Trinidadian footballer.
1973 Conviction of Abu Aisha, an officer of the Palestinian Preventive Security Service.
** Fadila Al-Mubasher, Bahraini actress.
1976 – Guillermo Franco, Mexican footballer.
1979 – Pablo Aimar, Argentine footballer.
1981 – Diego Lopez, Portuguese footballer.
1982 – Masaru Yokoyama, Japanese composer.
1988 – Angus McLaren, Australian actor.
1995 – Kendall Jenner, American model.
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Death:
361 – Constantius II, emperor of the Roman Empire.
1891 – Al-Hussein bin Ali Al-Tawlaqi, Maliki jurist and Algerian Ottoman Sufi.
1918 – Alexander Lyapunov, Russian mathematician and physicist.
1943 – Abbas Abu Shakra, Lebanese journalist.
1954 – Henri Matisse, French painter.
1973 – Muhammad Amin Al-Safi, Iraqi Muslim jurist and poet.
1992 – Mohamed Benhima, Prime Minister of Morocco.
1996 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa, Emperor of the Central African Empire.
2002 – Lonnie Donegan, Scottish singer.
2003 – Rasul Gamuztov, Russian poet.
2007 – Suzanne Bachelard, French philosopher.
2012 – Hani Al-Saadi, Saudi actor.
2014 – Maryam Fakhr El Din, Egyptian actress.
2015 – Ahmed Chalabi, Iraqi politician.
2017 – Nasser Gibran, Emirati poet and short story writer.
2020 – Yahya Al-Saud, Jordanian lawyer and politician.
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Holidays and Occasions:
⬅️ Independence Day in Panama.
⬅️ Independence Day in Dominica.
⬅️ Independence Day in the Federated States of Micronesia.
⬅️ Culture Day in Japan.
