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What happened in history on October 3rd?
Year | Name |
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2457 | Gaecheonjeol, Hwanung (환웅) purportedly descended from heaven. South Korea's National Foundation Day. |
2022 | Svante Pääbo is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. |
2021 | Eight people are killed in an airplane crash near Milan, Italy. |
2015 | Forty-two people are killed and 33 go missing in the Kunduz hospital airstrike in Afghanistan. |
2013 | At least 360 migrants are killed when their boat sinks near the Italian island of Lampedusa. |
2009 | Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey join in the Turkic Council. |
2008 | The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the U.S. financial system is signed by President George W. Bush. |
1995 | O. J. Simpson murder case: O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. |
1993 | An American attack against a warlord in Mogadishu fails; eighteen US soldiers and over 350 Somalis die. |
1991 | Nadine Gordimer is announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. |
1990 | The German Democratic Republic is abolished and becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany; the event is afterwards celebrated as German Unity Day. |
1989 | A coup in Panama City is suppressed and 11 participants are executed. |
1986 | TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories in Canada, is officially opened. |
1985 | The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight, carrying two DSCS-III Satellites on STS-51-J. |
1981 | The hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland ends after seven months and ten deaths. |
1963 | A violent coup in Honduras begins two decades of military rule. |
1962 | Project Mercury: US astronaut Wally Schirra, in Sigma 7, is launched from Cape Canaveral for a six-orbit flight. |
1957 | The California State Superior Court rules that the book Howl and Other Poems is not obscene. |
1952 | The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon in the Montebello Islands, Western Australia, to become the world's third nuclear power. |
1951 | Korean War: The First Battle of Maryang San pits Commonwealth troops against communist Chinese troops. |
1949 | WERD, the first black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta. |
1946 | An American Overseas Airlines Douglas DC-4 crashes near Ernest Harmon Air Force Base in Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, killing 39. |
1943 | World War II: German forces murder 92 civilians in Lingiades, Greece. |
1942 | A German V-2 rocket reaches a record 85 km (46 nm) in altitude. |
1935 | Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia. |
1932 | The Kingdom of Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom. |
1929 | The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Yugoslavia by King Alexander I. |
1919 | Cincinnati Reds pitcher Adolfo Luque becomes the first Latin American player to appear in a World Series. |
1918 | King Boris III of Bulgaria accedes to the throne. |
1912 | U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill. |
1873 | Chief Kintpuash and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War of northern California. |
1863 | The last Thursday in November is declared as Thanksgiving Day by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. |
1792 | A militia departs from the Spanish stronghold of Valdivia to quell a Huilliche uprising in southern Chile. |
1789 | George Washington proclaims Thursday November 26, 1789 a Thanksgiving Day. |
1739 | The Treaty of Niš is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia ending the Russian–Turkish War. |
1712 | The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor. |
1683 | Qing dynasty naval commander Shi Lang receives the surrender of the Tungning kingdom on Taiwan after the Battle of Penghu. |
1574 | The Siege of Leiden is lifted by the Watergeuzen. |
1392 | Muhammed VII becomes the twelfth sultan of the Emirate of Granada. |
382 | Roman Emperor Theodosius I concludes a peace treaty with the Goths and settles them in the Balkans. |
52 | Gallic Wars: Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending the siege and battle of Alesia. |
42 | Liberators' civil war: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight to a draw Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius in the first part of the Battle of Philippi, where Cassius commits suicide believing the battle is lost. |
Here is a random list who born on October 3. For full list please click on the link above.
Year | Name |
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1970 | Elmar Liitmaa, Estonian guitarist and songwriter |
1973 | Angélica Gavaldón, American-Mexican tennis player and coach |
1858 | Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (d. 1924) |
1984 | Bruno Gervais, Canadian ice hockey player |
1959 | Jack Wagner, American actor and singer |
1984 | Ashlee Simpson, American singer-songwriter and actress |
1983 | Andreas Papathanasiou, Cypriot footballer |
1931 | Glenn Hall, Canadian ice hockey player and coach |
1945 | Tony Brown, English footballer and sportscaster |
1958 | Louise Lecavalier, Canadian dancer and choreographer |
Here is a list of some famous peope who died on October 3. For full list please click on the link above.
Date | Name |
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1860 | Rembrandt Peale, American painter and curator (b. 1778) |
1931 | Carl Nielsen, Danish violinist, composer, and conductor (b. 1865) |
723 | Elias I of Antioch, Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch. |
1801 | Philippe Henri, marquis de Ségur, French general and politician, French Minister of Defence (b. 1724) |
1963 | Refet Bele, Turkish general (b. 1877) |
1656 | Myles Standish, English captain (b. 1584) |
1891 | Édouard Lucas, French mathematician and theorist (b. 1842) |
818 | Ermengarde, queen of the Franks |
1568 | Elisabeth of Valois (b. 1545) |
2014 | Ewen Gilmour, New Zealand comedian and television host (b. 1963) |