What is November 3?
{{calendar}} {{day}} == Events == === Up to 1900 === * [[1333]] &ndash; [[Flood]]ing of the River Arno causes damage to the city of [[Florence]], [[Italy]]. * [[1493]] &ndash; [[Christopher Columbus]] lands on the island of [[Dominica]]. * [[1592]] &ndash; The [[city]] of [[San Luis Potosí]] in present–day [[Mexico]] is founded. * [[1783]] &ndash; The American [[Continental Army]] is dissolved. * [[1793]] &ndash; French [[playwright]], [[journalist]] and [[feminist]] [[Olympe de Gouges]] is [[guillotine]]d. * [[1812]] &ndash; [[Napoleon]]'s armies are defeated at the [[Battle]] of Vyazma. * [[1817]] &ndash; The [[Bank]] of [[Montreal]], [[Canada]]'s oldest chartered bank, opens in [[Montreal]], [[Quebec]]. * [[1838]] &ndash; [[The Times of India]], the world's best–selling broadsheet [[English language]] [[newspaper]], is founded as ''The Bombay Times and Journal of Finance''. * [[1848]] &ndash; A revised [[Netherlands|Dutch]] [[constitution]] is announced, drafted by [[Johan Rudolf Thorbecke]], it makes the powers of [[parliament]] stronger, while strongly restricting the powers of the [[monarchy]]. * [[1867]] &ndash; [[Giuseppe Garibaldi]] and his followers are defeated in the [[Battle]] of Mentana. * [[1868]] &ndash; [[Ulysses S. Grant]] is elected [[President of the United States]]. * [[1883]] &ndash; American Old West: Self–described [[Black Bart the Poet]] gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves a clue that will eventually lead to his capture. * [[1893]] &ndash; The freight ship ''Cabo Machichaco'' explodes in the harbour of [[Santander, Spain|Santander]], northern [[Spain]]. Some of its load included [[dynamite]], and the resulting [[fire]] kills 590 people. * [[1896]] &ndash; [[William McKinley]] is elected [[President of the United States]]. === 1901 &ndash; 2000 === * [[1903]] &ndash; [[Panama]] becomes independent, separating from [[Colombia]]. * [[1908]] &ndash; [[William Taft]] is elected [[President of the United States]]. * [[1911]] &ndash; [[Chevrolet]] enters the [[automobile]] m