November 3: Culture Day in Japan; Independence Day in Panama (1903)
Johan Rudolf Thorbecke
- 1534 – The English Parliament passed the first Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the Anglican Church, supplanting the pope and the Roman Catholic Church.
- 1848 – A new constitution drafted by Johan Rudolph Thorbecke (pictured) was proclaimed, severely limiting the powers of the Monarchy of the Netherlands.
- 1898 – After several months of military stalemate between French and British forces in Fashoda (now in South Sudan), the French withdrew, ending the Fashoda Incident.
- 1956 – In the midst of the Suez Crisis, during an invasion of the Gaza Strip, Israeli soldiers shot dead hundreds of Palestinian refugees and local inhabitants in Khan Yunis.
- 1996 – Abdullah Çatlı, a drug trafficker, a contract killer, and a leader of the ultra-nationalist Nationalist Movement Party, was killed in a car crash near Susurluk, Balıkesir Province, Turkey, sparking the Susurluk scandal which exposed the depth of the state's complicity in organized crime.
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