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Events on November 3

• 1760 At the Battle of Torgau, the last major battle of the Seven Years' War, the Prussian army under Frederick the Great defeats the Austrians under Field Marshal Leopold Joseph Count Daun, but has to incur heavy losses.
• 1906 Alois Alzheimer presents the clinical picture of the disease later named after him, Alzheimer's disease, in a lecture to psychiatrists and neurologists in Tübingen.
• 1918 The Kiel mutiny spreads to the workers and thus triggers the November Revolution in Germany.
• 1925 In Munich, the first completed (silent) film by the young director Alfred Hitchcock premieres. The German-British co-production The Pleasure Garden (Irrgarten der Leidenschaft), starring Virginia Valli, receives consistently positive reviews.
• 1949 On the question of the capital of the Federal Republic of Germany, the members of the first German Bundestag decide in favour of Bonn rather than Frankfurt am Main.
• 1956 In the programme Zwischen halb und acht on Bavarian Radio, advertising is broadcast for the first time in German television history. The actors Beppo Brem and Liesl Karlstadt advertise a detergent brand.
• 1957 Sputnik 2 carries the female dog Laika, the first living being in the history of spaceflight, into orbit around Earth.
• 1963 Ten days after the Lengede mine disaster in Lengede near Peine in Lower Saxony, new signs of life are reported from the trapped miners.
• 1989 The GDR permits its citizens there to travel directly from the ČSSR into the Federal Republic of Germany, after about 5,000 people have once again made their way to the West German Embassy in Prague.
• 1991 The Brazilian Ayrton Senna becomes the Formula 1 world champion for the third time. He was the overall leader from the beginning of the season and wins the final race, the Australian Grand Prix, at Adelaide Street Circuit.
• 2000 The singer Enya releases the song Only Time, which becomes more widely known around a year later as the musical accompaniment to the television broadcasts of the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001.
• 2014 The skyscraper One World Trade Center in New York City is officially opened.

Born on November 3

• 1900 Adolf Dassler, German inventor and entrepreneur, founder of Adidas
• 1901 Leopold III., Belgian king
• 1901 André Malraux, French writer and politician
• 1921 Charles Bronson, American actor
• 1942 Hans Meyer, German football player and coach
• 1952 Roseanne Barr, American actress
• 1953 Kate Capshaw, American actress
• 1954 Adam Ant, British pop singer and guitarist
• 1981 Jermaine Jones, German-American football player
• 1995 Kendall Jenner, American reality TV participant, model and author

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „3. November“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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