Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 3

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 * 1534 – The Parliament of England passed the first Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the Church of England, supplanting the pope and the Catholic Church.
 * 1805 – War of the Third Coalition: The Treaty of Potsdam was signed compelling Prussia to join the coalition if it failed to negotiate peace between Russia and France.
 * 1812 – French invasion of Russia: As Napoleon's Grande Armée began its retreat, its rear guard was defeated at the Battle of Vyazma.
 * 1848 – A new constitution drafted by Johan Rudolph Thorbecke was proclaimed, limiting the powers of the Dutch monarchy.
 * 1880 – The current melody of Kimigayo, the national anthem of Japan, was adopted.
 * 1881 – Indigenous Mapuche began an uprising against the occupation of Araucanía by Chile.
 * 1935 – Almost 98 percent of reported votes in a Greek referendum supported the restoration of George II as King of the Hellenes.
 * 1943 – The Holocaust: The largest massacre of Jews by German forces began at Majdanek concentration camp (execution trenches pictured).
 * 1954 – The first film featuring the giant monster known as Godzilla was released nationwide in Japan.
 * 1956 – Suez Crisis: During an invasion of the Gaza Strip, Israeli soldiers shot and killed hundreds of Palestinian refugees and local inhabitants in Khan Yunis.
 * 1969 – U.S. president Richard Nixon made a plea for support from the "silent majority", referring to those Americans who did not join in the large demonstrations against the Vietnam War at the time.
 * 1996 – Abdullah Çatlı, a leader of the ultra-nationalist Grey Wolves, was killed in a car crash near Susurluk, Turkey, sparking a scandal that exposed the depth of the state's complicity in organized crime.
 * Born/died this day: John III Doukas Vatatzes |d|1254| Petronilla de Meath |d|1324| Andrew Báthory |d|1599|   Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom |b|1777|  Carlo Fornasini |b|1854|  Carrie Steele Logan |b|1877| Rosalie Edge |d|1900| Gus Winckel |d|1912| Olav Aukrust |d|1929| Bert Jansch |b|1943| Anna Wintour |b|1949  Dawn Marie Psaltis |b|1970 |