Franz Reinisch was a Catholic priest who refused to take an oath of allegiance to Hitler. At 3:00 a.m. on August 21, 1942, he dispersed what little belongings he had left, knowing that he would soon be beheaded by guillotine for his convictions.

In 1993, American visual artist and painter Xylor Jane started waking up at 3:07 a.m., allowing herself only to focus on painting during these hours awake.

In the Amazing Spider-Man (1999) #678-679, Peter Parker enters a time machine and has a glimpse at one day into the future, where he finds New York City in complete ruins. Finding a broken watch, he eventually concludes that the disaster happened at exactly 3:10 a.m., giving him precious little time to try to figure out how to prevent the impending doom from happening.

On June 6, 1968, at 3:17 a.m., a child was born in Rochester, NY. At that same exact moment in Los Angeles, Sirhan Sirhan was in police custody for having shot U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy multiple times the day before. For every second of the child’s life which has continued into adulthood, Sirhan Sirhan has remained incarcerated.

In Fayetteville, Arkansas, a City Council meeting that lasted ten hours centered around a key question; whether or not to extend civil rights protection against terminations and evictions based on gender identification and gender preference. The meeting included extensive testimony from the community, and the ordinance passed on August 20, 2014 at 3:20 a.m.

With temperatures below freezing, naked while physically restrained by police officers, and with a “spit sock” over his head, Daniel Prude stopped breathing on March 23, 2020, at approximately 3:25 a.m. in Rochester, NY.

In an attempt to thwart an assassination plot during his Whistle-Stop train ride from Springfield, Illinois to Washington, DC, President-elect Abraham Lincoln travelled by train in the middle of the night. Scheduled to stop in Baltimore on the afternoon of February 23, 1861, he instead passed through at 3:30 a.m., thereby frustrating the attempted assassination.

Telstar I, the world’s first commercial communications satellite, was launched into orbit on July 10, 1962, at 3:35 a.m. from Cape Canaveral.

After a weekend drinking binge at a company sponsored event, an alcoholic oil futures broker traded more than seven million barrels of oil during an alcohol-induced blackout, causing a change in the market usually associated with major geopolitical events. He made his last trade on June 30, 2009 at 3:41 a.m.

For decades Bermudian Johnny Barnes, would wake up at 3:45 a.m. every day in order to have enough time to walk to the Crow Lane roundabout in Hamilton and greet the earliest morning commuters. He would blow kisses to the people that drove past him, shouting “I love you!” to each one.

In the early morning of November 9, 1938, Nazi party leader Ernst Wettengel, commanded the Leipzig SA to instigate violence against Jewish establishments. By 3:51 a.m. that night, SA members dressed in regular clothes, burned down the Gemeinde synagogue in the town of Gottschedstraße. This is but one example of the violence perpetrated that night, known as Kristallnacht, when thousands of Jewish-owned businesses, homes, and synagogues were vandalized, looted, and set on fire by the Nazis and their supporters throughout Germany.

On August 5, 1987, sometime between 2:30 a.m. and 3:55 a.m., Ann Pettway kidnapped a baby girl and raised her as her own.