| 3-November-1605 |
| Salim renamed himself as Jahangir and became the king of Agra. |
| 3-November-1618 |
| Aurangzeb, [Alamgir], great Mughal emperor (1658-1707), was born at Dohad in Gujarat. |
| 3-November-1900 |
| Sagarmal Gopa, freedom fighter, was born. |
| 3-November-1906 |
| Prithviraj Kapoor, stage and film artist, member of Rajya Sabha and Dadasaheb Phalke awardee, was born. |
| 3-November-1908 |
| Shreyansprasad Jain, famous industrialist, was born. |
| 3-November-1929 |
| Dr. Hemant Vishnu Inamdar, thesis writer and editor, was born. |
| 3-November-1933 |
| Amartya Kumar Sen, economist, was born at Santiniketan (Bangal). |
| 3-November-1945 |
| Temporary Octroi Mandal established. |
| 3-November-1948 |
| Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India, delivered his maiden speech in United Nations Organisation (U.N.O.) General Assembly. |
| 3-November-1961 |
| Gold Bond scheme was started to boost Indian economy after Indo-China war. |
| 3-November-1966 |
| Hurricane strikes Bengal, killing 1,000. |
| 3-November-1984 |
| 3,000 die in a three-day anti-Sikh riotsin India. |
| 3-November-1984 |
| Body of assassinated Indian PM Indira Gandhi cremated. |
| 3-November-1986 |
| Dr. Indrachandra Shastri, versatile in Sanskrit and Pali, died. |
| 3-November-1988 |
| Indian armed forces mounted special operations to help the Indian Ocean archipelago of the Maldives and dealt with the 150 sea-borne invaders who stormed Maldivian Capital, Male and soughted to overthrow the democratically elected Government of the Maldives. |
| 3-November-1990 |
| Manmohan Krishna, famous film actor, passed away. |
| 3-November-1991 |
| India's short range surface-to-air missile (SAM) 'Trishul' successfully tested. |
| 3-November-1992 |
| Premnath, hero and villan of Hindi film industry, passed away. |
| 3-November-1995 |
| Sheila Kaul becomes Governor of Himachal Pradesh, P. Shivshankar of Kerala and V Reghunath Reddy takes additional charge of Sikkim. |
| 3-November-1996 |
| Deve Gowda, PM, to attend G-15 summit in Harare. This was his first foreign trip as PM. |
| 3-November-1997 |
| Vice President Krishan Kant presents India's 3-point 'South's positive agenda' at G-15 meet at Kuala Lumpur to ensure a fair deal in the process of globalisation. |
| 3-November-1997 |
| American Consulate General in Chennai starts issuing visitor's visa with 10-year validity. |
| 3-November-1997 |
| India presents G-15 with agenda for a fair deal in Kuala Lumpur. India calls upon Group of 15 developing countries to "build convergences among nations and encourage G-7 to pursue structured and issue-based dialogue with us". |
| 3-November-1998 |
| Mamta Banerjee, the TMC leader resigns from Central Coordinating Committee of the BJP and Allies to highlight the issue of spiralling vegetable prices, but Vajpayee refused to accepts the resignation. |
| 3-November-1998 |
| The first geo-scientific data centre of the country is inaugurated at the Geological Survey of India. |
| 3-November-1999 |
| Dr. M. S. Swaminathan, well-known agricultural scientist, is selected for the UNESCO Gandhi gold medal. |
| 3-November-1999 |
| Harkishan Singh Surjeet donates property share to his party CPI(M). |
| 3-November-2000 |
| BCCI suspends five cricketers -Mohammed Azaruddin, Ajay Sharma, Ajay Jadeja, Nayan Mongia and Manoj Prabhakar--for a period of 15 days after the CBI report |