November 3 in history

1493 Christopher Columbus first sighted the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea.

1783 John Austin, a highwayman, was the last person to be publicly hanged at London’s Tyburn gallows.

1801  Karl Baedeker, German author and publisher, was born.

1817 The Bank of Montreal, Canada’s oldest chartered bank, opened.

1838  The Times of India, the world’s largest circulated English language  daily broadsheetnewspaper was founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.

1886 Anchor butter was launched from a dairy factory at Pukekura, Waikato,  by Henry Reynolds.

1887 Coimbra Academic Association, the oldest students’ union in Portugal, was founded.

 

1903 Panama proclaimed its independence from Colombia.

1911 Chevrolet officially entered the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.

1918  Poland declared its independence from Russia.

1941  Brian Poole, English musician of The Tremeloes, was born.

1942 Second Battle of El Alamein ended– German forces under Erwin Rommel were forced to retreat during the night.

1948 – Lulu, Scottish actress and singer, was born.

1952 Roseanne Barr, American actress and comedian, was born.

1954 Adam Ant, English singer, was born.

1957 The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit a dog named Laika.

1973 NASA launched the Mariner 10 toward Mercury.

1974 Daylight saving was reintroduced to New Zealand on a trial basis.

1978  Dominica gained its independence from the United Kingdom.

1986 The Federated States of Micronesia gain independence from the United States of America.

Sourced from NZ History Online & Wikipedia.