October
3
Independence
Day
Iraq : October 3 1932
Day of German Unity : October 3, 1990
Events
October 3
52 BC –
Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans
under Julius Caesar, ending the siege and Battle of Alesia.
42 BC – First Battle of Philippi: Triumvirs Mark Antony and
Octavian fight a decisive battle with Caesar's assassins Brutus
and Cassius.
382 – Emperor Theodosius I concludes a peace treaty with the
Goths and settles them in the Balkans in exchange for military
service.
1283 – Dafydd ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales, becomes
the first nobleman executed by being hanged, drawn and quartered.
1574 – The Siege of Leiden is lifted by the Watergeuzen.
1683 – The Qing Dynasty naval commander Shi Lang reaches Taiwan
(under the Kingdom of Tungning) to receive the formal surrender
of Zheng Keshuang and Liu Guoxuan after the Battle of Penghu.
1712 – The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest
of Rob Roy MacGregor.
1739 – The Treaty of Nissa is signed by the Ottoman Empire and
Russia at the finish of the Russian-Turkish War, 1736–1739.
1778 – British Captain James Cook anchors in Alaska.
1789 – George Washington made the first Thanksgiving Day designated
by the national government of the United States of America.
1795 – General Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence
being named to defend the French National Convention against
armed counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the three year
old revolutionary government.
1835 – The Staedtler Company is founded in Nuremberg, Germany.
1849 – American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in
a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland under mysterious circumstances;
it is the last time he is seen in public before his death.
1863 – The last Thursday in November is declared as Thanksgiving
Day by President Abraham Lincoln as are Thursdays, November
30, 1865 and November 29, 1866.
1872 – Bloomingdale brothers opened their first store at 938
Third Avenue, New York City.
1873 – Captain Jack and companions are hanged for their part
in the Modoc War.
1908 – The Pravda newspaper is founded by Leon Trotsky, Adolph
Joffe, Matvey Skobelev and other Russian exiles in Vienna.
1918 – King Boris III of Bulgaria accedes to the throne.
1919 – Cincinnati Reds pitcher Adolfo Luque becomes the 1st
Latin player to appear in a World Series.
1929 – The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed
to Kingdom of Yugoslavia, "Land of the South Slavs".
1932 – Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1935 – Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia under
General de Bono.
1942 – Spaceflight: The first successful launch of a V-2 /A4-rocket
from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany. It is the first
man-made object to reach space.
1949 – WERD, the 1st black-owned radio station in the United
States, opens in Atlanta, Georgia.
1950 – Korean War: The First Battle of Maryang San, primarily
pitting Australian and British forces against communist China,
begins.
1951 – The "Shot Heard 'Round the World", one of the
greatest moments in Major League Baseball history, occurs when
the New York Giants' Bobby Thomson hits a game winning home
run in the bottom of the ninth inning off of the Brooklyn Dodgers
pitcher Ralph Branca, to win the National League pennant after
being down 14 games.
1952 – The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon
to become the world's third nuclear power.
1955 – The Mickey Mouse Club debuts on ABC.
1957 – Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems is ruled not obscene.
1961 – The Dick Van Dyke Show premieres on CBS-TV in the United
States.
1962 – Project Mercury: Sigma 7 is launched from Cape Canaveral,
with Astronaut Wally Schirra aboard, for a six-orbit, nine-hour
flight.
1964 – First Buffalo Wings are made at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo,
New York.
1981 – The Hunger Strike by Provisional Irish Republican Army
and Irish National Liberation Army prisoners at the Maze Prison
in Northern Ireland ends after seven months and ten deaths.
1985 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight. (Mission
STS-51-J)
1986 – TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River
Laboratories, is officially opened.
1990 – Re-unification of Germany. The German Democratic Republic
ceases to exist and its territory becomes part of the Federal
Republic of Germany. East German citizens became part of the
European Community, which later became the European Union. Now
celebrated as German Unity Day.
1993 – Battle of Mogadishu: In an attempt to capture officials
of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid's organisation in Mogadishu,
Somalia, 18 US soldiers and about 1,000 Somalis are killed in
heavy fighting.
1995 – O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown
Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
2003 – Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy is attacked by one of
the show's tigers, canceling the show until 2009, when they
rejoined the tiger that mauled Roy just six years earlier.
2008 – The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for
the US financial system is signed by President Bush.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Abd-al-Masih (martyr)
Ewald the Black and Ewald the Fair
Théodore Guérin
October 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
German Unity Day (Germany)
National Day, celebrates the independence of Iraq from the United
Kingdom in 1932.
National Foundation Day or Gaecheonjeol (South Korea)
Siege of Leiden (Leiden)
Soldiers' Day or Morazán Day (Honduras)
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