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This day in history: 3 October

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387 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 3 October.
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2024: Bengali, Assamese, Marathi, Pali and Prakrit are accorded the Classical language status by the Government of India

Holidays and observances

3 October Festival (Leiden, Netherlands)

Christian feast day: Abd-al-Masih

Christian feast day: Adalgott

Christian feast day: Blessed Szilárd Bogdánffy

Christian feast day: Dionysius the Areopagite

Christian feast day: Ewald the Black and Ewald the Fair

Christian feast day: Francis Borgia

Christian feast day: Gerard of Brogne

Christian feast day: Hesychius of Sinai

Christian feast day: John Raleigh Mott (Episcopal Church)

Christian feast day: Maximian of Bagai

Christian feast day: October 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Events

2024Bengali, Assamese, Marathi, Pali and Prakrit are accorded the Classical language status by the Government of India

2023Wab Kinew is elected to be the first First Nations Premier of a Canadian province in the 2023 Manitoba general election

2022Svante Pääbo is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

2021Eight people are killed in an airplane crash near Milan, Italy.

2015Forty-two people are killed and 33 go missing in the Kunduz hospital airstrike in Afghanistan.

2013At least 360 migrants are killed when their boat sinks near the Italian island of Lampedusa.

2009Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey join in the Turkic Council.

2008The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the U.S. financial system is signed by President George W. Bush.

1995O. J. Simpson murder case: O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.

1993An American attack against a warlord in Mogadishu fails; eighteen US soldiers and over 350 Somalis die.

1991Nadine Gordimer is announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

1990The German Democratic Republic is abolished and becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany; the event is afterwards celebrated as German Unity Day.

1989A coup in Panama City is suppressed and 11 participants are executed.

1986TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories in Canada, is officially opened.

1985The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight, carrying two DSCS-III Satellites on STS-51-J.

1981The hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland ends after seven months and ten deaths.

1963A violent coup in Honduras begins two decades of military rule.

1962Project Mercury: US astronaut Wally Schirra, in Sigma 7, is launched from Cape Canaveral for a six-orbit flight.

1957The California State Superior Court rules that the book Howl and Other Poems is not obscene.

1952The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon in the Montebello Islands, Western Australia, to become the world's third nuclear power.

1951Korean War: The First Battle of Maryang San pits Commonwealth troops against communist Chinese troops.

1949WERD, the first black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta.

1946An American Overseas Airlines Douglas DC-4 crashes near Ernest Harmon Air Force Base in Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, killing 39.

1943World War II: German forces murder 92 civilians in Lingiades, Greece.

1942A German V-2 rocket reaches a record 85 km (46 nm) in altitude.

1935Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia.

1932The Kingdom of Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom.

1929The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Yugoslavia by King Alexander I.

1919Cincinnati Reds pitcher Adolfo Luque becomes the first Latin American player to appear in a World Series.

1918Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria accedes to the throne.

1912U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.

1873Chief Kintpuash and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War of northern California.

1863The last Thursday in November is declared as Thanksgiving Day by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.

1862American Civil War: The two-day Second Battle of Corinth begins as Confederate forces under General Earl Van Dorn attack Union defenses led by General William Rosecrans around Corinth, Mississippi.

1792A militia departs from the Spanish stronghold of Valdivia to quell a Huilliche uprising in southern Chile.

1789George Washington proclaims Thursday November 26, 1789 as Thanksgiving Day.

1739The Treaty of Niš is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia ending the Russian–Turkish War.

1712The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor.

1683Qing dynasty naval commander Shi Lang receives the surrender of the Tungning kingdom on Taiwan after the Battle of Penghu.

1574The Siege of Leiden is lifted by the Watergeuzen.

Born on this day

2004Noah Schnapp, American actor

2001Anton Lundell, Finnish ice hockey player

2001C. J. Stroud, American football player

2001Max Plath, Australian rugby league player

2000CJ Abrams, American baseball player

1997Bang Chan, Australian singer and record producer based in South Korea

1997Jin Boyang, Chinese figure skater

1997Jonathan Isaac, American basketball player

1995Artem Zub, Russian ice hockey player

1995Ayo Edebiri, American actress

1995Mike Gesicki, American football player

1994Seth Jones, American ice hockey player

1994Victoria Bosio, Argentinian tennis player

1993Raffaele Di Gennaro, Italian footballer

1991Aki Takajo, Japanese singer

1991Jenny McLoughlin, English sprinter

1990Johan Le Bon, French cyclist

1989Alex Trimble, Irish singer

1989Nate Montana, American football player

1988Alicia Vikander, Swedish actress

1988ASAP Rocky, American rapper and songwriter

1988Dustin Gazley, American ice hockey player

1987Starley, Australian pop singer

1986Jackson Martínez, Colombian footballer

1986Lewis Brown, New Zealand rugby league player

1985Courtney Lee, American basketball player

1984Anthony Le Tallec, French footballer

1984Ashlee Simpson, American singer-songwriter and actress

1984Bruno Gervais, Canadian ice hockey player

1984Chris Marquette, American actor

1984Gary Neal, American basketball player and coach

1984Jessica Parker Kennedy, Canadian actress

1984Yoon Eun-hye, South Korean singer and actress

1983Andreas Papathanasiou, Cypriot footballer

1983Fred, Brazilian footballer

1983Mark Giordano, Canadian ice hockey player

1983Tessa Thompson, American actress

1983Thiago Alves, Brazilian mixed martial artist

1981Andreas Isaksson, Swedish footballer

1981Danny Coid, English footballer

Died on this day

2025Patricia Routledge, English actress and singer (born 1929)

2024Cid Moreira, Brazilian journalist and television anchor (born 1927)

2024Mary O'Rourke, Irish politician (born 1937)

2024Michel Blanc, French actor, writer and director (born 1952)

2024Pierre Christin, French comics creator and writer (born 1938)

2023Thomas Gambino, American mobster, Gambino crime family (born 1929)

2021Dan Petrescu, Romanian businessman and billionaire (born 1953)

2021Todd Akin, American politician (born 1947)

2015Denis Healey, English soldier and politician, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1917)

2015Javed Iqbal, Pakistani philosopher and judge (born 1925)

2015Muhammad Nawaz Khan, Pakistani historian and author (born 1943)

2014Benedict Groeschel, American priest, psychologist, and talk show host (born 1933)

2014Ewen Gilmour, New Zealand comedian and television host (born 1963)

2014Jean-Jacques Marcel, French footballer (born 1931)

2014Kevin Metheny, American businessman (born 1954)

2014Ward Ruyslinck, Belgian author (born 1929)

2013Joan Thirsk, English cryptologist, historian, and academic (born 1922)

2013Sari Abacha, Nigerian footballer (born 1978)

2013Sergei Belov, Russian basketball player and coach (born 1944)

2012Abdul Haq Ansari, Indian theologian and scholar (born 1931)

2012Albie Roles, English footballer (born 1921)

2012Robert F. Christy, American physicist and astrophysicist (born 1916)

2010Abraham Sarmiento, Filipino lawyer and jurist (born 1921)

2010Ben Mondor, Canadian-American businessman (born 1925)

2009Vladimir Beekman, Estonian poet and translator (born 1929)

2007M. N. Vijayan, Indian journalist, author, and academic (born 1930)

2006Alberto Ramento, Filipino bishop (born 1937)

2006John Crank, English mathematician and physicist (born 1916)

2006Lucilla Andrews, Egyptian-Scottish nurse and author (born 1919)

2006Peter Norman, Australian runner (born 1942)

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“We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.”

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