Events
October 3
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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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