October 3......

October 3 is the 276th day of the year (277th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 89 days remaining in the year.

EVENTS

● 2333 BC - Establishment of the Kingdom of Korea (in the name of Joseon).

● 42 BC - First Battle of Philippi: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight an indecisive battle with Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius.

● 1283 - Dafydd ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales, becomes the first person executed by drawing and quartering.

● 1574 - The Siege of Leiden is lifted by the Watergeuzen.

● 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 end of the Russian-Turkish War, 1736-1739.

● 1778 - British Captain James Cook anchors in Alaska.

● 1789 - George Washington proclaims the first Thanksgiving Day.

● 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.

● 1863 - Thanksgiving Day declared as the fourth (last – NYT) Thursday in November by President Abraham Lincoln.

● 1873 - Captain Jack and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War

● 1918 - King Boris III of Bulgaria takes the throne

● 1922 - Rebecca L. Felton, Democrat of Georgia, became the first woman to be seated in the U.S. Senate. She was appointed to serve out the remaining term of Sen. Thomas E. Watson.

● 1929 - The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Kingdom of Yugoslavia, "Land of the South Slavs".

● 1932 - Iraq gains independence from Britain.

● 1935 - Italy invades Ethiopia under General de Bono (replaced November 11 by Pietro Badoglio).

● 1941 - Adolf Hitler declared in a speech in Berlin that Russia had been ''broken'' and would ''never rise again.''

● 1942 - First successful launch of A4-rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany: the first man-made object to reach space.

● 1944 - Poles surrender after Warsaw uprising; The Polish Prime Minister announces the uprising in the Polish capital has ended after 63 days of intense fighting.

● 1949 - German Unity Day, the German Democratic Republic is declared in East Germany.

● 1951 - New York Giants beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 5-4, winning the National League pennant, with New York Giants third baseman Bobby Thomson's "The Shot Heard 'Round the World," a three-run home run in the bottom of the ninth inning to win the deciding game of a three-game playoff series, sending the Giants into the World Series.

● 1952 - United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon.

● 1952 - Tea rationing to end; Britons will soon be able to enjoy unlimited "cuppas" for the first time in 12 years following an announcement from the Ministry of Food.

● 1955 - ''Captain Kangaroo'' premiered on CBS and ''The Mickey Mouse Club'' premiered on ABC.

● 1960 - Niger gains independence from France.

● 1962 - At Cape Canaveral the Mercury 8 blasts off with Astronaut Wally Schirra aboard for a nine-hour flight.

● 1974 - Frank Robinson was named major league baseball's first black manager as he was put in charge of the Cleveland Indians.

● 1975 - London's Spaghetti House siege ends; Three gunmen give themselves up to police after releasing six hostages from an Italian restaurant.

● 1979 - Anti-racists tackle South African rugby tourists; Seven people are arrested in a South African Barbarian match pitch invasion.

● 1981 - The Hunger Strike by Irish Republican Army prisoners at the Maze jail in Belfast ends after seven months and 10 deaths.

● 1981 - The Communist Party of Namibia is founded at a conference in Angola.

● 1985 - Space Shuttle Atlantis flys its maiden voyage. (STS-51-J)

● 1990 - Re-unification of Germany after 45 years of postwar division. East Germany ceases to exist, and East German citizens become part of the European Community, which later became the European Union. Day of German Union.

● 1991 - Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton entered the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.

● 1993 - Battle of Mogadishu: In an attempt to capture officials of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid's organization in Mogadishu, Somalia, 18 US Army Rangers and about 1000 Somalis are killed in heavy fighting.

● 1994 - Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy announced his resignation because of questions about gifts he had received. He would later receive a Presidential pardon on Bill Clinton’s last day in office.

● 1995 - O. J. Simpson is found not guilty of murder in the 1994 slayings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman. Proving it is money (no matter the color of your skin) that can let you get away with murder.

● 1997 - Attorney General Janet Reno said she had found no evidence that President Bill Clinton broke the law with White House coffees and overnight stays for big contributors.

● 2001 - The Senate approved an agreement normalizing trade between the United States and Vietnam.

● 2002 - Five people were killed in random shootings in the Washington, D.C., area within a 14-hour period. Authorities began to search for the ''Beltway Sniper.''

● 2003 - A tiger attacked magician Roy Horn of the duo "Siegfried & Roy" during a performance in Las Vegas, leaving him partially paralyzed.

● 2005 - President George W. Bush nominated White House counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court. (She withdrew three weeks later after criticism over her lack of judicial experience and Republican concerns about her conservatism).

BIRTHS

● 1690 - Robert Barclay, Scottish writer

● 1716 - Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist (d. 1781)

● 1720 - Johann Peter Uz, German poet (d. 1796)

● 1790 - John Ross (Cherokee chief), Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation (d. 1866)

● 1797 - Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1870)

● 1800 - George Bancroft, American historian (d. 1891)

● 1804 - Townsend Harris, first U.S. Consul to Japan (d. 1878)

● 1804 - Allan Kardec, French founder of Spiritism (d. 1869)

● 1806 - Oliver Cowdery, American religious leader (d. 1850)

● 1828 - Woldemar Bargiel, German composer (d. 1897)

● 1844 - Sir Patrick Manson, Scottish physician (d. 1922)

● 1854 - William Crawford Gorgas, American physician (d. 1920)

● 1858 - Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (d. 1924)

● 1862 - Johnny Briggs, English cricketer (d. 1902)

● 1863 - Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov, Russian explorer (d. 1935)

● 1867 - Pierre Bonnard, French painter (d. 1947)

● 1873 - Emily Post, THE American authority on proper etiquette (d. 1960)

● 1880 - Warner Oland, Swedish-born actor (d. 1938)

● 1882 - A. Y. Jackson, Canadian Painter (d. 1974)

● 1885 - Langley Collyer, of the Collyer brothers, hoarder (d. 1947)

● 1885 - Sophie Treadwell, American playwright and journalist (d. 1970)

● 1889 - Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1938)

● 1894 - Elmer Robinson, American politician (d. 1982)

● 1895 - Giovanni Comisso, Italian writer (d. 1969)

● 1896 - Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet (d. 1987)

● 1897 - Louis Aragon, French writer (d. 1982)

● 1898 - Leo McCarey, American film director (d. 1969)

● 1899 - Gertrude Berg, American actress (d. 1966)

● 1900 - Thomas Clayton Wolfe, American novelist (d. 1938)

● 1901 - Jean Grémillon, French film director (d. 1959)

● 1904 - Charles J. Pedersen, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)

● 1916 - Shelby Storck, American television producer (d. 1969)

● 1916 - James Herriot, English veterinarian and author (d. 1995)

● 1919 - James M. Buchanan, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate

● 1922 - Jean Lefebvre, French actor (d. 2004)

● 1923 - Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican politician (d. 2004)

● 1924 - Arkady Vorobyov, Russian weightlifter

● 1925 - Gore Vidal, American author, pundit and sometime politician

● 1926 - Marques Haynes, Basketball Hall of Fame member

● 1928 - Erik Bruhn, Danish dancer and choreographer (d. 1986)

● 1931 - Glenn Hall, National Hockey League goaltender

● 1933 - Neale Fraser, Australian tennis player

● 1935 - Charles Duke, American astronaut

● 1936 - Steve Reich, American composer

● 1938 - Eddie Cochran, American singer (d. 1960)

● 1938 - Tereza Kesovija, Croatian singer

● 1940 - Jean Ratelle, Canadian ice hockey player

● 1940 - Alan O'Day, American singer and songwriter

● 1941 - Chubby Checker, American Rock musician

● 1942 - Alan Rachins, Actor

● 1943 - Jeff Bingaman, U.S. senator, D-NM

● 1944 - Pierre Deligne, Belgian mathematician

● 1944 - Roy, Magician (Siegfried & Roy)

● 1944 - Bob Riley, Governor of Alabama

● 1945 - Kay Baxter, American bodybuilder (d. 1988)

● 1946 - Biff Henderson, American television personality

● 1947 - John Perry Barlow, American musician

● 1948 - Michael Medved, American film critic

● 1949 - Lindsey Buckingham, American Rock musician (Fleetwood Mac)

● 1950 - Pamela Hensley, American actress

● 1950 - Ronnie Laws, Jazz saxophonist

● 1951 - Keb' Mo', American singer

● 1951 - Dave Winfield, American baseball player and Hall of Fame member

● 1951 - Keb' Mo, Blues singer

● 1954 - Dennis Eckersley, American baseball player and Hall of Fame member

● 1954 - Al Sharpton, American minister and civil rights activist

● 1954 - Stevie Ray Vaughan, American musician (d. 1990)

● 1956 - Peter Frechette, Actor

● 1956 - Hart Bochner, Actor

● 1957 - Tim Westwood, Pimp My Ride UK presenter and DJ

● 1959 - Fred Couples, American golfer

● 1959 - Jack Wagner, American actor

● 1959 - Greg Proops, American actor and comedian

● 1962 - Tommy Lee, American musician (Mötley Crüe)

● 1964 - Clive Owen, British Actor

● 1965 - Jan-Ove Waldner, Swedish table tennis player

● 1966 - Darrin Fletcher, Major League Baseball player

● 1967 - Rob Liefeld, American comic book writer and artist

● 1968 - Paul Crichton, English footballer

● 1969 - Janel Moloney, Actress (''The West Wing'')

● 1969 - Gwen Stefani, American singer (No Doubt)

● 1969 - Tetsu, Japanese bassist (L'Arc~en~Ciel)

● 1971 - Kevin Richardson, American singer (Backstreet Boys)

● 1971 - Wil Cordero, Baseball player

● 1972 - Garrett Dutton, American Musician (G. Love and Special Sauce)

● 1972 - Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter, American Rapper(The Roots)

● 1973 - Neve Campbell, Canadian actress

● 1973 - Keiko Agena, Japanese-American actress (''Gilmore Girls'')

● 1974 - Marianne Timmer, Dutch speed skater

● 1975 - India.Arie, American R&B singer

● 1975 - Talib Kweli, American Rapper

● 1975 - Alanna Ubach, Actress

● 1976 - Seann William Scott, American actor

● 1977 - Jake Shears, singer (Scissor Sisters)

● 1978 - Claudio Pizarro, Peruvian footballer

● 1978 - Gerald Asamoah, German footballer

● 1979(78? NYT) - Shannyn Sossamon, American actress and musician (Law & Order: SVU)

● 1979 - Johnny Nitro, American professional wrestler

● 1979 - Danny Basham, American professional wrestler

● 1981 - Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Swedish footballer

● 1981 - Andreas Isaksson, Swedish footballer

● 1981 - Matt Murton, American baseball player

● 1982 - Erik Von Detten, Actor

● 1983 - Fred, Brazilian footballer

● 1984 - Ashlee Simpson, American singer

DEATHS

● 42 BC - Gaius Cassius Longinus

● 1226 - Saint Francis of Assisi (b. 1181)

● 1283 - David ap Gruffydd, Welsh prince of Gwynedd (executed)

● 1369 - Margarete Maultasch, Countess of Tyrol (b. 1318)

● 1568 - Elizabeth of Valois, wife of Philip II of Spain (b. 1545)

● 1596 - Florent Chrestien, French writer (b. 1541)

● 1611 - Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, French military leader (b. 1554)

● 1629 - Giorgi Saakadze, Georgian military leader (b. 1570)

● 1649 - Giovanni Diodati, Swiss protestant clergyman (b. 1576)

● 1653 - Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Dutch scholar (b. 1612)

● 1656 - Myles Standish, English-born soldier

● 1701 - Joseph Williamson, English politician (b. 1633)

● 1801 - Philippe Henri, marquis de Ségur, Marshal of France (b. 1724)

● 1833 - François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat, French general (b. 1754)

● 1867 - Elias Howe, American sewing machine pioneer (b. 1819)

● 1873 - Captain Jack, Modoc tribal leader

● 1881 - Orson Pratt, American religious leader (b. 1811)

● 1890 - Joseph Hergenröther, German historian (b. 1824)

● 1891 - Edouard Lucas, French mathematician (b. 1842)

● 1929 - Jeanne Eagels, American actress (b. 1929)

● 1929 - Gustav Stresemann, Chancellor of Germany, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1878)

● 1931 - Carl Nielsen, Danish composer (b. 1865)

● 1936 - John Heisman, American football coach (b. 1869)

● 1953 - Arnold Bax, English composer (b. 1883)

● 1965 - Zachary Scott, American actor (b. 1914)

● 1967 - Woody Guthrie, American musician (b. 1912)

● 1967 - Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (b. 1895)

● 1987 - Jean Anouilh, French writer (b. 1910)

● 1987 - Kalervo Palsa, Finnish artist (b. 1947)

● 1988 - Franz Josef Strauß, Bavarian politician (b. 1915)

● 1990 - Stefano Casiraghi, husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco (b. 1960)

● 1994 - Dub Taylor, American actor (b. 1907)

● 1998 - Roddy McDowall, English actor (b. 1928)

● 1999 - Akio Morita, Japanese businessman (b. 1921)

● 2000 - Benjamin Orr, American bassist and singer (The Cars) (b. 1947)

● 2002 - Bruce Paltrow, American television and film producer (b. 1943)

● 2002 - Robert Krausz, Stock market advisor and investor (b. 1936)

● 2003 - Florence Stanley, American actress (b. 1924)

● 2003 - William Steig, American cartoonist and children's author (b. 1907)

● 2004 - John Cerutti, baseball player and announcer (b. 1960)

● 2004 - Janet Leigh, American actress (b. 1927)

● 2005 - Ronnie Barker, English comic actor (b. 1929)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Germany - Day of German Unity

● South Korea - National Foundation Day (Gaecheonjeol 개천절)

● French Republican Calendar - Immortelle (Strawflower) Day, twelfth day in the Month of Vendémiaire

OTHER

● 3rd October Organization is also the name of a Marxist terrorist group.


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Additional facts taken from:

The BBC Take on the day

On this day in the New York Times