| 125461 | November 3 | Event | 1812 – Napoleon's armies are defeated at the Battle of Vyazma. |
| 125462 | November 3 | Event | 1817 – The Bank of Montreal, Canada's oldest chartered bank, opens in Montreal. |
| 125463 | November 3 | Event | 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. |
| 125464 | November 3 | Event | 1848 – A greatly revised Dutch constitution, drafted by Johan Rudolph Thorbecke, severely limiting the powers of the Dutch monarchy, and strengthening the powers of parliament and ministers, is proclaimed. |
| 125465 | November 3 | Event | 1867 – Giuseppe Garibaldi and his followers are defeated in the Battle of Mentana and fail to end the Pope's Temporal power in Rome (it would be achieved three years later). |
| 125466 | November 3 | Event | 1868 – John Willis Menard was the first African American elected to the United States Congress. Because of an electoral challenge, he was never seated. |
| 125467 | November 3 | Event | 1883 – American Old West: Self-described "Black Bart the poet" gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves a clue that eventually leads to his capture. |
| 125468 | November 3 | Event | 1898 – France withdraws its troops from Fashoda (now in Sudan), ending the Fashoda Incident. |
| 125469 | November 3 | Event | 1903 – With the encouragement of the United States, Panama separates from Colombia. |
| 125470 | November 3 | Event | 1911 – Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T. |
| 125471 | November 3 | Event | 1918 – Austria-Hungary enters into the Armistice of Villa Giusti with the Allies, and the Habsburg-ruled empire dissolves. |
| 125472 | November 3 | Event | 1918 – Poland declares its independence from Russia. |
| 125473 | November 3 | Event | 1918 – The German Revolution of 1918–19 begins when 40,000 sailors take over the port in Kiel. |
| 125474 | November 3 | Event | 1930 – Getúlio Dornelles Vargas becomes Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24. |
| 125475 | November 3 | Event | 1932 – Panagis Tsaldaris becomes the 142nd Prime Minister of Greece. |
| 125476 | November 3 | Event | 1935 – George II of Greece regains his throne through a popular, though possibly fixed, plebiscite. |
| 125477 | November 3 | Event | 1942 – World War II: The Koli Point action begins during the Guadalcanal Campaign and ends on November 12. |
| 125478 | November 3 | Event | 1943 – World War II: Five hundred aircraft of the U.S. 8th Air Force devastate Wilhelmshaven harbor in Germany. |
| 125479 | November 3 | Event | 1944 – World War II: Two supreme commanders of the Slovak National Uprising, Generals Ján Golian and Rudolf Viest are captured, tortured and later executed by German forces. |
| 125480 | November 3 | Event | 1954 – The first Godzilla film is released and marks the first appearance of the character of the same name. |
| 125481 | November 3 | Event | 1956 – The Khan Yunis killings are perpetrated by the Israel Defense Forces in Egyptian-controlled Gaza, resulting in the deaths of 275 male Arabs. |
| 125482 | November 3 | Event | 1957 – Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika. |
| 125483 | November 3 | Event | 1960 – The land that would become the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge was established by an Act of Congress after a year-long legal battle that pitted local residents against Port Authority of New York and New Jersey officials wishing to turn the Gre |
| 125484 | November 3 | Event | 1964 – Washington D.C. residents are able to vote in a presidential election for the first time. |
| 125485 | November 3 | Event | 1967 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Dak To begins. |
| 125486 | November 3 | Event | 1969 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon addresses the nation on television and radio, asking the "silent majority" to join him in solidarity on the Vietnam War effort and to support his policies. |
| 125487 | November 3 | Event | 1973 – Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 10 toward Mercury. On March 29, 1974, it becomes the first space probe to reach that planet. |
| 125488 | November 3 | Event | 1975 – Syed Nazrul Islam, A. H. M. Qamaruzzaman, Tajuddin Ahmad, and Muhammad Mansur Ali, Bangladeshi politicians and Sheikh Mujibur Rahman loyalists, are murdered in the Dhaka Central Jail. |
| 125489 | November 3 | Event | 1978 – Dominica gains its independence from the United Kingdom. |
| 125490 | November 3 | Event | 1979 – Greensboro massacre: Five members of the Communist Workers Party are shot dead and seven are wounded by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis during a "Death to the Klan" rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States. |