1817 : Bank of Montreal, Canada’s oldest chartered bank, opened.
1838 : The Times of India first published in Mumbai as The Bombay Times and General of Commerce.
1903 : Panama became independent from Colombia.
1911 : Chevrolet Automobile Company was started.
1913 : Income tax introduced in the United States.
1918 : Poland became independent from Russia.
1944 : Akhil Bharatiya Sangeet Parishad started in Pune by Bharatiya Sangeet Pracharak Mandal.
1957 : A dog named Laika became the first living creature to travel through Russia’s Sputnik-2 spacecraft. But she died within hours of the launch.
1984 : Anti-Sikh riots took place in the capital after the assassination of Indira Gandhi on 31 October. In which thousands of people were killed and made homeless.
1988 : The Maldives was invaded by mercenaries from Sri Lanka. At the request of the local government, the Indian army dismantled it and rescued the government.
2004 : US President George Bush was elected President of the United States for the second time on
2014, 3rd November: One World Trade Centre officially opened.
Famous Birthdays – November 3
1618: Aurangzeb, the sixth Mughal emperor.
1688: Sawai Jaisingh (II), King of Amber Sansthan, India.
1900: Adolf Dassler, founder of Adidas.
1901: Prithviraj Kapoor, Indian actor, cinematographer, and Rajya Sabha member.
1917: Annapurna Maharana, an Indian freedom fighter.
1921: Charles Bronson, American actor.
1933: Amartya Sen, Indian economist, Nobel Laureate.
1937: Laxmikant Shantaram Kudalkar, an Indian composer of the Laxmikant-Pyarelal duo, who have been playing popular music for four decades.
1985: Monali Thakur, an Indian singer, and actress.
1995: Kendall Nicole Jenner, an American media personality, socialite, and model.
1997: Sarthak Golui, Indian footballer.
Death Anniversaries – November 3
1954: Henri Émile Benoît Matisse, a French painter, and artist.
1975: Tajuddin Ahmed, the first Prime Minister of Bangladesh.
1992: Prem Nath, Indian-Hindi film actor.
1996: Jean-Bédel Bokassa, second South African President.
1998: Dr. R. C. Hiremath, Kannada Literary, Vice-Chancellor of Karnataka University.
1998: Bob Kane, American comic book writer, creator of the Batman character.
2012: Kailashpati Mishra, Governor of Gujarat, Indian.
2014: Sadashiv Dattaray Amrapurkar, an Indian actor.
1834 : On this day a ship named Atlas reached Mauritius with Indian laborers. They celebrated as Indian arrival day.
1914 : Russia declared war on the Ottoman Empire.
1936 : The British Broadcasting Corporation launched the BBC television service.
1936 : The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation was formed.
1940 : In World War II, War started between Greece and Italy.
1951 : About 6 thousand British soldiers arrived in Egypt to overcome the demonstrations against Britain. Apart from this, a large number of soldiers were on their way to Egypt.
1953 : The Assembly of Pakistan renamed the country the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
1986 : David Jacobson, an American citizen held hostage through Islamic extremists in Beirut, was released.
1988 : In the general elections held in Israel, no party could get a clear majority and there was only one seat difference between the two major parties.
1999 : Southern playback singer S. P. Balasubramaniam selected for Lata Mangeshkar Award to be given by Madhya Pradesh Government.
Famous Birthdays – November 2
971AD: Mahmud of Ghazni was the first independent ruler of the Turkic dynasty of Ghaznavids.
1470: King Edward of England.
1755: Marie Antoinette, French Empress.
1795: James Knox Polk, the 11th president of the United States.
1833: Mahendra Lal Sarkar, co-founder of the Indian Association of Cultivation of Science, a homeopath, social reformer, and disseminator of science.
1865: Warren Gamaliel Harding, the 29th president of the United States.
1877: Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah, the 48th Imam of the Nizari Ismaili religion.
1765 : Stamp Act was implemented in British colonies.
1870 : US Meteorological Department issued the first official weather forecast.
1848 : The first medical college for women opened in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. It was later merged into Boston University.
1896 : Nude pictures were published, for the first time, in National Geographic Magazine.
1928 : The Government of India changed the Bill into law as it sees fit and enacts a new Revenue Code.
1945 : Australia entered the United Nations.
1950 : First steam engine in India built at Chittaranjan Rail factory.
1956 : Linguistic regionalism came into existence in India, The state of Andhra Pradesh was formed. At that time, Kurnool as its capital, The Kannada-speaking region of South India was merged to form the state of Karnataka. Kerala State Establishment Day, Kanyakumari district was transferred from Kerala to Tamil Nadu.
1958 : The then Soviet Union conducted nuclear tests.
1966 : Punjab divided into Punjab and Haryana.
1968 : The Motion Picture Association of America’s film rating system was officially launched.
1922 : Benito Mussolini became Prime Minister of Italy.
1923 : With the announcement of the end of the Ottoman Empire, parliamentary democracy in Turkey gained its footing and became a country republic on this day.
1958 : Awarded Bharat Ratna to Maharshi Dhondo Keshav Karve.
1961 : Syria withdrew from the United Arab Republic.
1964 : Tanganyika and Zanzibar merged to form Tanzania.
1994 : Homi Bhabha Award for Outstanding Achievement in Science and Technology Awarded to Dr. T. Gyanshekaran and R.E. K. Murthy.
1996 : Indian-made Kamini 30 MW reactor commissioned at Kalpakkam.
1999 : The cyclone left the coastal region of eastern India tingling.
2005 : Terrorist bombings killed more than 60 people in Delhi.
2008 : Delta Airlines merged with Northwest Airlines and became the world’s largest airline.
2015 : China’s one-child policy was discontinued after 35 years.
Famous Birthdays – October 29
1739: Jayi Rajaguru, a prominent figure of the Indian independence movement in the state of Odisha.
1897: Joseph Goebbels, Chancellor of Germany and Nazi leader.
1937: S. R. Ramaswamy, an Indian writer, journalist, biographer, social activist, and environmentalist.
1950: John Paul Puthusery, an Indian writer who has penned screenplays for nearly 100 Malayalam movies.
1956: Joy Alukkas, an Indian businessman from Kerala, India.
1971: Matthew Hayden, Australian cricketer.
1985: Cal Crutchlow, English motorcycle racer.
1985: Vijender Singh, Indian boxer.
1996: Swapna Barman, an Indian heptathlete.
Death Anniversaries – October 29
1783: Jean-Baptiste le Rond d’Alembert, a French mathematician, mechanical, physicist, philosopher, and music theorist.
1911: Joseph Pulitzer, Hungarian-American political leader, and publisher.
1933: Paul Painleve, Prime Minister of France and mathematician.
1959: Edith Clarke, the first woman to be professionally employed as an electrical engineer in the United States.
1978: Vasant Ramji Khanolkar, the founder of medical research in India.
1988: Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, Magsaysay Award-winning Indian freedom fighter and social activist.