This day in #History 0311

This day in #history 0311

NOVEMBER 3rd

644 – Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Muslim caliph, is killed by a Persian slave in Medina.
1394 – Jews are expelled from France by Charles VI
1468 – Liège is sacked by Charles I of Burgundy’s troops.
1493 – Christopher Columbus discovers island of Dominica
1527 – Ferdinand of Austria/Bohemia chosen as king of Hungary
1529 – London – 1st sitting of the Reformation Parliament
1534 – English parliament accepts Act of Supremacy: Henry VIII church leader
1620 – Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony
1629 – Prince Frederik Hendrik festival in The Hague
1640 – English Long Parliament forms
1716 – Pacification Treaty of Warsaw: Czar Peter the Great guarantees Saxon monarch August I’s Polish kingdom
1752 – Georg Friedrich Handel undergoes (failed) eye operation
1760 – Battle at Torgau, Saxony: Prussia beats Austria
1762 – Britain & Spain sign Treaty of Paris
1762 – Spain acquires Louisiana
1796 – John Adams elected president of the United States of America
1812 – Napoleonic armies defeated at Vyazma
1820 – Cuenca Ecuador declares independence
1838 – The Times of India, the world’s largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce

1903 – Colombia grants independence to Panama

1918 – Poland proclaims independence from Russia after WW I
1954 – Nobel for physics awarded to Max Born & Walter Bothe

1960 – Ivory Coast adopts constitution

1978 – Dominica gains independence from UK & adopts constitution

FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

 

1933 – Amartya Sen, Santiniketan, Bengal, economist and Nobel Prize laureate (welfare economics and social choice theory
1952 – David Ho, Taiwanese-American AIDS researcher

FAMOUS DEATHS

361 – Flavius Julius Constantius II, 1st Byzantine Emperor, dies at 44

1982 – Edward H Carr, British historian, dies at 90

1970 – Peter II Karadjordjevic, last king of Yugoslavia (1934-45), dies at 57

1994 – Richard Krautheimer, US art historian, dies at 97