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November 3

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2020 United States presidential election

5 years ago

Born this day

1995

Kendall Jenner

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1986th

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Famous births26

AD 39 · 1986 yrs

Lucan

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (3 November AD 39 – 30 April AD 65), better known in English as Lucan, was a Roman poet, born in Corduba, Hispania Baetica (present-day Córdoba, Spain). He is regarded as one of the outstanding figures of the Imperial Latin period, known in particular for his epic Pharsalia.

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LiteratureDied aged 25

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1604 · 421 yrs

Osman II

Osman II (Ottoman Turkish: عثمان ثانى ‘Osmān-i sānī; Turkish: II. Osman; 3 November 1604 – 20 May 1622), also known as Osman the Young (Turkish: Genç Osman), was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 26 February 1618 until his regicide on 20 May 1622.

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LiteratureDied aged 17

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1618 · 407 yrs

Aurangzeb

Alamgir I (Muhi al-Din Muhammad; 3 November 1618 – 3 March 1707), commonly known by the title Aurangzeb, was the sixth Mughal emperor, reigning from 1658 until his death in 1707. Under his reign, the Mughal Empire reached its greatest extent, with territory spanning nearly the entirety of the Indian subcontinent.

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RoyaltyDied aged 88

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1801 · 224 yrs

Vincenzo Bellini

Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini (3 November 1801 – 23 September 1835) was an Italian opera composer of the early Romantic era famed for his long, graceful melodies and evocative musical settings.

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MusicDied aged 33

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1852 · 173 yrs

Emperor Meiji

Emperor Meiji (3 November 1852 – 29 July 1912), personal name Mutsuhito, was Emperor of Japan from 30 January 1867 until his death in 1912. The Meiji Restoration proclaimed the Empire of Japan in 1868, beginning the Meiji era.

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RoyaltyDied aged 59

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1895 · 130 yrs

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia

Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia (Russian: Ольга Николаевна; 15 November 1895 – 17 July 1918) was the eldest child of the last Russian emperor, Nicholas II, and his wife Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. Before the birth of her brother Alexei Nikolaevich, rumors spread that Nicholas II would declare Olga his heir.

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1901 · 124 yrs

André Malraux

Georges André Malraux ( mal-ROH; French:; 3 November 1901 – 23 November 1976) was a French novelist, member of the French Resistance, art theorist, and minister of cultural affairs.

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1901 · 124 yrs

Leopold III of Belgium

Leopold III (3 November 1901 – 25 September 1983) was King of the Belgians from 23 February 1934 until his abdication on 16 July 1951.

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RoyaltyWould be 124

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1908 · 117 yrs

Giovanni Leone

Giovanni Leone (Italian:; 3 November 1908 – 9 November 2001) was an Italian politician, jurist and university professor who was the president of Italy from 1971 to 1978.

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1912 · 113 yrs

Alfredo Stroessner

Alfredo Stroessner Matiauda (Spanish:; 3 November 1912 – 16 August 2006) was a Paraguayan politician, army general, and military dictator who ruled as the 42nd president of Paraguay from 15 August 1954 until his overthrow in 1989. Known as El Stronato or El Stronismo, his dictatorship was marked by political violence.

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MilitaryWould be 113

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1921 · 104 yrs

Charles Bronson

Charles Bronson (born Charles Dennis Buchinsky; November 3, 1921 – August 30, 2003) was an American actor. He was known for his roles in action films and his "granite features and brawny physique".

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FilmWould be 104

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1926 · 99 yrs

Valdas Adamkus

Valdas Adamkus (born Voldemaras Adamkavičius; 3 November 1926) is a Lithuanian politician, diplomat and civil engineer and an American civil servant. He served as the fifth and seventh president of Lithuania from 1998 to 2003 and again from 2004 to 2009.

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Famous deaths15

AD 361 · 1664 yrs

Constantius II

Constantius II (Latin: Flavius Julius Constantius; Ancient Greek: Κωνστάντιος, romanized: Kōnstántios; 7 August 317 – 3 November 361) was Roman emperor from 337 to 361.

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RoyaltyDied aged 44

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1584 · 441 yrs

Charles Borromeo

Charles Borromeo (Italian: Carlo Borromeo; Latin: Carolus Borromeus; 2 October 1538 – 3 November 1584) was an Italian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Milan from 1564 to 1584. He was made a cardinal in 1560.

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ReligionDied aged 46

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1793 · 232 yrs

Olympe de Gouges

Olympe de Gouges (French:; born Marie Gouze; 7 May 1748 – 3 November 1793) was a French playwright and political activist. She is best known for her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen and other writings on women's rights and abolitionism.

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LiteratureDied aged 45

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1807 · 218 yrs

Angelica Kauffmann

Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann ( KOWF-mən; 30 October 1741 – 5 November 1807), usually known in English as Angelica Kauffman, was a Swiss painter who had a successful career in London and Rome. Remembered primarily as a history painter, Kauffman was a skilled portraitist, landscape and decoration painter.

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ArtDied aged 66

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1914 · 111 yrs

Georg Trakl

Georg Trakl (Austrian German:; 3 February 1887 – 3 November 1914) was an Austrian poet and the brother of the pianist Grete Trakl. He is considered one of the most important Austrian Expressionists.

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1940 · 85 yrs

Manuel Azaña

Manuel Azaña Díaz (Spanish pronunciation:; 10 January 1880 – 3 November 1940) was a Spanish politician who served as Prime Minister of the Second Spanish Republic (1931–1933 and 1936), organizer of the Popular Front in 1935 and the last President of the Republic (1936–1939).

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1943 · 82 yrs

Maurice Denis

Maurice Denis (French:; 25 November 1870 – 13 November 1943) was a French painter, decorative artist, and writer. An important figure in the changing world of late 19th-century European art, Denis is associated with Les Nabis, Symbolism, and later Neo-classicism.

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ArtDied aged 72

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1954 · 71 yrs

Henri Matisse

Henri Émile Benoît Matisse (French:; 31 December 1869 – 3 November 1954) was a French visual artist, known for both his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship. He was a draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor, but is known primarily as a painter.

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ArtDied aged 84

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1957 · 68 yrs

Wilhelm Reich

Wilhelm Reich (Austrian German:; 24 March 1897 – 3 November 1957) was an Austrian doctor of medicine and a psychoanalyst, a member of the second generation of analysts after Sigmund Freud.

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1982 · 43 yrs

E. H. Carr

Edward Hallett Carr (28 June 1892 – 3 November 1982) was a British English historian, diplomat, journalist and international relations theorist, and an opponent of empiricism within historiography.

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1996 · 29 yrs

Jean-Bedel Bokassa

Jean-Bédel Bokassa (22 February 1921 – 3 November 1996) was a Central African politician and military officer who served as the second president of the Central African Republic (CAR) and Emperor of the Central African Empire (CAE) as Bokassa I, ruling these two states from 1966 to 1979.

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PoliticsWould be 105

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2003 · 22 yrs

Rasul Gamzatov

Rasul Gamzatovich Gamzatov (Avar: ХӀамзатазул Расул ХӀамзатил вас, romanized: Ħamzatazul Rasul Ħamzatil vas, IPA:; Russian: Расу́л Гамза́тович Гамза́тов, IPA:; 8 September 1923 – 3 November 2003) was a Soviet and Russian poet who wrote in Avar. Among his poems was Zhuravli, which became a well-known Soviet song.

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Events5

1970 · 55 yrs

1970 Bhola cyclone

The 1970 Bhola cyclone, also known as the Great Cyclone of 1970 or simply the Bhola Cyclone, was the deadliest tropical cyclone on record, as well as one of the deadliest humanitarian disasters ever recorded. It struck East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh) and India's West Bengal on 12 November 1970.

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Disaster

1992 · 33 yrs

1992 United States presidential election

Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 3, 1992. The Democratic ticket of Arkansas governor Bill Clinton and Tennessee junior senator Al Gore defeated incumbent Republican president George H. W.

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Politics

2013 · 12 yrs

Typhoon Haiyan

Typhoon Haiyan, known in the Philippines as Super Typhoon Yolanda, was an extremely powerful and catastrophic tropical cyclone that is among the most intense tropical cyclones ever recorded. Upon making landfall, Haiyan devastated portions of Southeast Asia, particularly the Philippines, during early November 2013.

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Disaster

2020 · 5 yrs

2020 United States presidential election

Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 3, 2020. The Democratic ticket of former vice president Joe Biden and California junior senator Kamala Harris defeated the incumbent Republican president Donald Trump and vice president Mike Pence.

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Politics

2020 · 5 yrs

Tigray war

The Tigray war was an armed conflict that lasted from 3 November 2020 to 3 November 2022. It was a civil war primarily fought in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia between forces allied with the Ethiopian federal government and Eritrea on one side, and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) on the other.

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