What happened on October 3? There are more than 227 events that were made this day in history. Here are the important historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
Interesting Facts & Myths About October 3
October 3 is the 277th day of the year 2024. There are 89 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday. This day falls under the 40th week of the year 2024.
On this day in New Orleans, Louisiana 70114 sunrise will occur at 06:53 AM and sunset will occur at 06:43 PM (local time).
The zodiac sign of a person born on this day is Libra. The modern birthstone for this month is Opal while the mystical birthstone is Jasper.
According to the Chinese calendar, there are 118 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year (January 29, 2025).
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Historical Events For October 3
- 42 BCFirst Battle of Philippi: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight a decisive battle with Caesar’s assassins Brutus and Cassius.
- 52 BCVercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending the siege and Battle of Alesia.
- 382Emperor Theodosius I concludes a peace treaty with the Goths and settles them in the Balkans in exchange for military service.
- 1283Dafydd ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales, becomes the first nobleman executed by being hanged, drawn and quartered.
- 1574The Siege of Leiden is lifted by the Watergeuzen.
- 1683The 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.
- 1712The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor.
- 1739The Treaty of Nissa is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the finish of the Russian-Turkish War, 1736–1739.
- 1778British Captain James Cook anchors in Alaska.
- 1789George Washington made the first Thanksgiving Day designated by the national government of the United States of America.
- 1795General 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.
- 1835The Staedtler Company is founded in Nuremberg, Germany.
- 1849American 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.
- 1863The last Thursday in November is declared as Thanksgiving Day by President Abraham Lincoln as are Thursdays, November 30, 1865 and November 29, 1866.
- 1872Bloomingdale brothers opened their first store at 938 Third Avenue, New York City.
- 1873Captain Jack and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War.
- 1908The Pravda newspaper is founded by Leon Trotsky, Adolph Joffe, Matvey Skobelev and other Russian exiles in Vienna.
- 1918King Boris III of Bulgaria accedes to the throne.
- 1919Cincinnati Reds pitcher Adolfo Luque becomes the 1st Latin player to appear in a World Series.
- 1929The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Kingdom of Yugoslavia, “Land of the South Slavs”.
- 1932Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1935Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia under General de Bono.
- 1942Spaceflight: 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.
- 1949WERD, the 1st black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta, Georgia.
- 1950Korean War: The First Battle of Maryang San, primarily pitting Australian and British forces against communist China, begins.
- 1951The “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.
- 1952The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world’s third nuclear power.
- 1955The Mickey Mouse Club debuts on ABC.
- 1957Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems is ruled not obscene.
- 1961The Dick Van Dyke Show premieres on CBS-TV in the United States.
- 1962Project Mercury: Sigma 7 is launched from Cape Canaveral, with Astronaut Wally Schirra aboard, for a six-orbit, nine-hour flight.
- 1964First Buffalo Wings are made at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York.
- 1981The 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.
- 1985The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight. (Mission STS-51-J)
- 1986TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories, is officially opened.
- 1990Re-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.
- 1993Battle 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.
- 1995O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
- 2003Roy 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.
- 2008The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the US financial system is signed by President Bush.
Who Were Born On October 3?
- 1610Gabriel Lallemant, French-born Jesuit missionary (North American Martyrs) (d. 1649)
- 1716Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist (d. 1781)
- 1720Johann Peter Uz, German poet (d. 1796)
- 1790John Ross, Chief of the Cherokee Nation (d. 1866)
- 1797Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1870)
- 1800George Bancroft, American historian and 17th Secretary of the Navy (d. 1891)
- 1804Allan Kardec, French founder of Spiritism (d. 1869)
- 1804Townsend Harris, the 1st U.S. Consul to Japan (d. 1878)
- 1828Woldemar Bargiel, German composer (d. 1897)
- 1837Nicolás Avellaneda, Argentine president (d. 1885)
- 1848Henry Lerolle, French painter (d. 1929)
- 1858Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (d. 1924)
- 1862Johnny Briggs, English cricketer (d. 1902)
- 1863Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov, Russian explorer (d. 1935)
- 1869Alfred Flatow, German gymnast (d. 1942)
- 1874Charles B. Middleton, American actor (d. 1949)
- 1879Warner Oland, Swedish-born actor (d. 1938)
- 1882A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (d. 1974)
- 1886Alain-Fournier, French novelist (d. 1914)
- 1888Wade Boteler, American actor d. 1943
- 1889Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1938)
- 1894Elmer Robinson, American politician (d. 1982)
- 1894Walter Warlimont, German General WWII (d. 1976)
- 1895Giovanni Comisso, Italian writer (d. 1969)
- 1895Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin, Russian lyrical poet (d. 1925)
- 1896Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet (d. 1987)
- 1897Louis Aragon, French writer (d. 1982)
- 1898Leo McCarey, American film director and screenwriter (d. 1969)
- 1900Thomas Wolfe, American writer (d. 1938)
- 1901Jean Grémillon, French film director (d. 1959)
- 1904Ernst-Günther Schenck, Nazi German physician (d. 1998)
- 1908Johnny Burke, American lyricist (d. 1964)
- 1916James Herriot, English veterinarian and author (d. 1995)
- 1919James M. Buchanan, American economist
- 1919Jean Lefebvre, French actor (d. 2004)
- 1923Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican politician (d. 2004)
- 1924Arkady Vorobyov, Russian weightlifter
- 1924Harvey Kurtzman, American cartoonist and founding editor of Mad magazine (d. 1993)
- 1925Gore Vidal, American author
- 1928Erik Bruhn, Danish dancer and choreographer (d. 1986)
- 1931Glenn Hall, National Hockey League goaltender
- 1933Neale Fraser, Australian tennis player
- 1934Koo Nimo, Ghanaian musician
- 1934Simon Nicholson, British sculptor; son of Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth (d. 1990)
- 1935Charles Duke, American astronaut
- 1938David Obey, American politician
- 1938Eddie Cochran, American singer and guitarist (d. 1960)
- 1938Jack Hodgins, Canadian author
- 1938Tereza Kesovija, Croatian singer
- 1940Jean Ratelle, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1940Sheila Fearn, English actress
- 1941Andrea de Adamich, Italian Formula One driver and TV commentator
- 1941Chubby Checker, American singer-songwriter
- 1943Jeff Bingaman, American politician
- 1944Pierre Deligne, Belgian mathematician
- 1944Roy Horn, German-American magician
- 1945Tony Brown, English footballer
- 1949J. P. Dutta, Indian Bollywood film director
- 1949Lindsey Buckingham, American guitarist and singer (Fleetwood Mac)
- 1950Pamela Hensley, American actress
- 1951Dave Winfield, American baseball player
- 1954Al Sharpton, American Baptist minister
- 1954Dennis Eckersley, American baseball player
- 1954Stevie Ray Vaughan, American blues musician (d. 1990)
- 1956Hart Bochner, Canadian film actor/director
- 1957Tim Westwood, English DJ and radio/TV presenter
- 1958Louise Lecavalier, Canadian dancer (La La La Human Steps)
- 1959Fred Couples, American golfer
- 1959Jack Wagner, American actor and singer
- 1961Dean Lawrence, English actor
- 1961Rebecca Stephens, British mountaineer
- 1962Tommy Lee, American Drummer
- 1964Clive Owen, British actor
- 1965Jan-Ove Waldner, Swedish table tennis player
- 1966Darrin Fletcher, American baseball player
- 1967Rob Liefeld, American comic book illustrator
- 1968Greg Foster, American basketball player
- 1968Paul Crichton, English footballer
- 1969Gwen Stefani, American musician and actress
- 1969Tetsu, Japanese bassist (L'Arc-en-Ciel)
- 1971Kevin Richardson, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
- 1971Wil Cordero, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1972Kim Joo-hyuk, South Korean actor
- 1973Angélica Gavaldón, American/Mexican tennis player
- 1973Keiko Agena, Japanese/American actress
- 1973Lena Headey, British actress
- 1973Neve Campbell, Canadian actress
- 1974Marianne Timmer, Dutch speed skater
- 1974Mike Johnson, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1975India.Arie, American singer
- 1975Talib Kweli, American musician
- 1976Herman Li, British musician (DragonForce)
- 1976Seann William Scott, American actor
- 1977Eric Munson, American baseball player
- 1977Luca Tognozzi, Italian footballer
- 1978Claudio Pizarro, Peruvian footballer
- 1978Gerald Asamoah, German footballer
- 1978Jake Shears, American singer (Scissor Sisters)
- 1978Neil Clement, English footballer
- 1978Shannyn Sossamon, American actress, dancer and musician
- 1978Vienna Teng, American pianist and singer-songwriter
- 1979Carlo Alban, Ecuadorian actor
- 1979John Morrison, American pro wrestler
- 1979Josh Klinghoffer, American musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
- 1980Anquan Boldin, American football player
- 1980Danny O'Donoghue, Irish singer (The Script)
- 1980Sheldon Brookbank, Canadian hockey player
- 1981Amanda Walsh, Canadian actress
- 1981Andreas Isaksson, Swedish footballer
- 1981Danny Coid, English footballer
- 1981Seth Gabel, American actor
- 1981Zlatan Ibrahimović, Swedish footballer
- 1982Erik von Detten, American actor
- 1983Andreas Papathanasiou, Greek-Cypriot footballer
- 1983Frederico Chaves Guedes, Brazilian footballer
- 1983Hiroki Suzuki, Japanese actor
- 1983Thiago Alves, Brazilian mixed martial artist
- 1984Anthony Le Tallec, French footballer
- 1984Ashlee Simpson, American singer
- 1984Bruno Gervais, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1984Chris Marquette, American film and television actor
- 1984Yoon Eun-Hye, South Korean actress
- 1985Courtney Lee, American basketball player
- 1987Zuleyka Rivera, Puerto Rican beauty pageant contestant
- 1989Nate Montana, American football player
- 1990Rhian Ramos, Filipina actress
- 1995Hailey McCann, American actress
- 1996Adair Tishler, American actress
Who Died On October 3?
- 1226Saint Francis of Assisi (b. 1181)
- 1283David ap Gruffydd, Welsh prince of Gwynedd (b. 1238)
- 1369Margarete Maultasch, Countess of Tyrol (b. 1318)
- 1568Elisabeth of Valois, wife of Philip II of Spain (b. 1545)
- 1596Florent Chrestien, French writer (b. 1541)
- 1611Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, French military leader (b. 1554)
- 1629Giorgi Saakadze, Georgian military leader (b. 1570)
- 1649Giovanni Diodati, Swiss Protestant clergyman (b. 1576)
- 1653Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Dutch scholar (b. 1612)
- 1656Myles Standish, English-born soldier
- 1690Robert Barclay, Scottish writer (b. 1648)
- 1701Joseph Williamson, English politician (b. 1633)
- 1801Philippe Henri, marquis de Ségur, Marshal of France (b. 1724)
- 1833François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat, French general (b. 1754)
- 1838Black Hawk, Sauk-American tribal leader (b. 1767)
- 1860Rembrandt Peale, American portrait artist, renowned for portraits of Washington and Jefferson (b. 1778)
- 1867Elias Howe, American inventor (b. 1819)
- 1873Captain Jack, Modoc tribal leader
- 1877James Roosevelt Bayley, American religious leader (b. 1814)
- 1881Orson Pratt, American religious leader (b. 1811)
- 1890Joseph Hergenröther, German historian (b. 1824)
- 1891Edouard Lucas, French mathematician (b. 1842)
- 1896William Morris, English writer & poet (b. 1834)
- 1929Gustav Stresemann, Chancellor of Germany, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1878)
- 1929Jeanne Eagels, American actress (b. 1894)
- 1931Carl Nielsen, Danish composer (b. 1865)
- 1936John Heisman, American football coach (b. 1869)
- 1953Arnold Bax, English composer (b. 1883)
- 1959Tochigiyama Moriya, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 27th Yokozuna (b. 1892)
- 1965Zachary Scott, American actor (b. 1914)
- 1967Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (b. 1895)
- 1967Woody Guthrie, American musician (b. 1912)
- 1969Skip James, American blues musician (b. 1902)
- 1986Vince DiMaggio, American baseball player (b. 1912)
- 1987Jean Anouilh, French writer (b. 1910)
- 1987Kalervo Palsa, Finnish artist (b. 1947)
- 1988Franz Josef Strauß, Bavarian politician (b. 1915)
- 1990Stefano Casiraghi, Italian businessman and husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco (b. 1960)
- 1993Gary Gordon, American Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1960)
- 1993Katerina Gogou, Greek actress, poet and author (b. 1940)
- 1993Randall “Randy” Shughart, American Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1958)
- 1998Roddy McDowall, English actor (b. 1928)
- 1999Akio Morita, Japanese businessman (b. 1921)
- 2000Benjamin Orr, American bassist and singer (The Cars) (b. 1947)
- 2000John Grant, British politician (b. 1932)
- 2001Costas Hajihristos, Greek actor (b. 1921)
- 2002Bruce Paltrow, American television and film producer (b. 1943)
- 2002Robert Krausz, American stock market advisor and investor (b. 1936)
- 2003Florence Stanley, American actress (b. 1924)
- 2003William Steig, American cartoonist and children’s author (b. 1907)
- 2004Janet Leigh, American actress (b. 1927)
- 2004John Cerutti, baseball player and announcer (b. 1960)
- 2005Ronnie Barker, English comic actor (b. 1929)
- 2006Alberto Ramento, Filipino bishop (b. 1937)
- 2006John Crank, British mathematician (b. 1916)
- 2006Peter Norman, Australian track star (b. 1942)
- 2007M. N. Vijayan, Indian writer, orator, and academic (b. 1930)
- 2008Johnny J, American record producer and songwriter (b. 1969)
- 2008Karam ud Din, Pakistani Navy officer (b. 1941)
- 2009Queen Fatima of Libya (b. 1911)
- 2010Ben Mondor, Canadian-born American baseball executive (b. 1925)
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