Famous Events For October 3 – Today In History

What Happened on October 3 in World History?

Early Centuries – October 3 Historic Events – Before 1700

1. 2333 BC – Discovery of the state of Gojoseon (modern Korea) by Dangun Wanggeon during the rule of Chinese King Yao
2. 52 BC – The Roman army under the command of Julius Caesar, defeats Vercingetorix, chief of Gauls terminating the war of Alesia and its blockade
3. 42 BC – the war between Triumvirs Mark Anthony and Octavian with Brutus and Cassius, both killers of Caesar, was inconclusive
4. October 3, 1143 – Cardinal Guido voted to power as Pope Celestine II
5. October 3, 1247 – installation of Willem II of Holland as Roman Catholic German King
6. October 3, 1264 – The heavenly body supposed to foretell the decease of Pope Urban IV was seen
7. October 3, 1283 – The first prince to be hanged and cut into pieces was the Dafydd ap Gruffydd, Prince of Gwynedd, Wales

8. October 3, 1430 – Jews were evacuated forcibly out of Eger Bohemia
9. October 3, 1569 – Duke of Anjou defeats Huguenots at the war of Montcontour
10. October 3, 1574 – The capture of the city of Leiden failed and was relieved by Wateregeuzen and the army under the control of Admiral Boisot
11. October 3, 1605 – Chinese revolt on the Philippines
12. October 3, 1657 – seizure of Mardyke by French army
13. October 3, 1683 – Zheng Keshuang and Liu Guoxuan were defeated in the war of Penghu and their official submission was accepted by the Qing Dynasty naval chief Shi Lang at Taiwan
14. October 3, 1691 – Seizure of Limerick Ireland by the combined armies of English and Dutch

18th Century – What Happened on October 3 – The 1700s

15. October 3, 1712 – The Duke of Montrose authorizes the detention of Rob Roy Mac Gregor
16. October 3, 1735 – a peace agreement between France and King Karel VI established
17. October 3, 1739 – The Russian-Turkish battle was fought between 1736 and 1739, and as a conclusion a peace agreement of Nissa was agreed by the Ottoman king and Russia
18. October 3, 1778 – Captain James Cook makes a stop at Alaska
19. October 3, 1789 – Washington declares the 1st Thanksgiving Day on Nov.26

19th Century – October 4 This Day That Year – The 1800s

20. October 3, 1835 – establishment of the Staedtler Company by J.S. Staedtler in Nuremberg, Germany
21. October 3, 1849 – The American writer Edgar Allan Poe was lying in a drain in Baltimore, Maryland under strange conditions and that was his last in public view before his demise
22. October 3, 1862 – war of Corinth, Mississippi
23. October 3, 1862 – scuffle at Bardstown, Kentucky
24. October 3, 1863 – Lincoln announces that the last Thursday in November be assigned as Thanksgiving Day
25. October 3, 1872 – inauguration of Bloomingdale’s mall in New York
26. October 3, 1873 – execution of Captain Jack and his associates for their alleged participation in the Modoc battle
27. October 3, 1884 – Jack Simpson achieves a 160 at Prestwick Golf Club at the 24th British Golf Open
28. October 3, 1885 – Bob Martin achieves a 171 at St Andrews at the 25th British Golf Open
29. October 3, 1888 – The Rugby group – New Zealand Natives – first play in the UK and was the first rugby group to sport the silver fern as their symbol

30. October 3, 1888 – negotiation of Greenland interior by Explorer Fridtjof Nansen and his crew to land in Godthaab
31. October 3, 1890 – Capt Guillaume of Kerckhoven seizes Boma Congo
32. October 3, 1899 – Copy right given to J S Thurman for his invention of power-driven vacuum cleaner

20th Century – Important Events On This Day October 3 – The 1900s

33. October 3, 1900 – the first musical performance by Edward Elgar in Birmingham
34. October 3, 1904 – Morocco granted freedom by France and Spain by an agreement
35. October 3, 1904 – inauguration of Daytona Normal and Industrial School by Mary McLeod Bethune
36. October 3, 1906 – US appointment of Charles Magoon as governor of Cuba
37. October 3, 1906 – debut performance of “Great Divide” by William Vaughan Moody in NYC
38. October 3, 1908 – Leon Trotsky, Adolph Joffe, Matvey Skobelev, and other refugees in Vienna established the Pravda daily
39. October 3, 1913 – President Woodrow Wilson approves a law on Income tax
40. October 3, 1915 – earthquake of magnitude 7.8 strikes Pleasant Valley, Nevada
41. October 3, 1918 – installation of Boris as Emperor of Bulgaria

42. October 3, 1918 – King Ferdinand I of Bulgaria renounces the position to make his first son Boris III king
43. October 3, 1918 – inauguration of Selwyn Theatre at 229 W 42nd St, NYC
44. October 3, 1919 – Reds Adolfo Luque plays his first game in the World Series
45. October 3, 1919 – an eight-hour work per day rule approved by Serbian, Croatian and Slavic legislature
46. October 3, 1920 – George Sisler of Browns achieves his 257th hit of the term
47. October 3, 1920 – first play by NFL
48. October 3, 1922 – first photo replica communicated over telephone wires, Washington, DC
49. October 3, 1922 – the first woman to join the Senate was Rebecca Felton of Georgia
50. October 3, 1923 – Stresemann of Germany steps down
51. October 3, 1926 – inauguration of the Pan-European Movement in Vienna
52. October 3, 1926 – lengthy run for women achieved by Violet Percy (3:40:22)
53. October 3, 1928 – the underwater ship “Ondine” belonging to France drowns killing 42
54. October 3, 1929 – The ambassadorial level between the Labour administration in Britain and Russia improved
55. October 3, 1929 – Julius Curtius takes charge as Foreign minister from Stresemann in Germany
56. October 3, 1929 – domains of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes combine to form Yugoslavia
57. October 3, 1932 – Iraq was admitted into the League of Nations after it gained freedom from Britain
58. October 3, 1935 – commencement of Italo-Ethiopian battle with Italy assaulting Ethiopia
59. October 3, 1936 – nearly 64,842 fans witnessed the Yanks play the 3rd game of the World Series

60. October 3, 1939 – Lemmer-Urk dam shut
61. October 3, 1940 – France Vichy administration announces the termination of the Jewish position
62. October 3, 1940 – Reds defeat Tigers of the World Series Game
63. October 3, 1940 – US Air Force establishes freefall using an umbrella-like device to jump from aircraft (parachute) groups
64. October 3, 1941 – Adolf Hitler announces on the radio to Germans that Russia is fragmented and will never prosper again
65. October 3, 1941 – Aged Jewish civilians of Kerenhug Ukraine are killed by Schutzataffel (ss)
66. October 3, 1941 – Nazis destroy the 6 Jews place of worship in Paris
67. October 3, 1941 – Debut show of the film “The Maltese Falcon” based on the 1929 story of the same title by Dashiell Hammett guided by John Huston, featuring Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor in NYC
68. October 3, 1942 – Franklin D. Roosevelt establishes the Economic Stabilization Group
69. October 3, 1942 – take off of spacecraft to a height of 53 miles (85 km)
70. October 3, 1942 – Frank Crosetti of NY Yanks pushes the umpire Bill Summers in the World Series fined $200, and suspended for 30 days of the 1943 session
71. October 3, 1943 – seizure of Termoli, Italy by the 8th British Army division
72. October 3, 1944 – inauguration of the airing of Radio Herrijzend Netherland
73. October 3, 1944 – RAF drops bombs on West Kapelse
74. October 3, 1945 – At the age of 10, Elvis Presley, a singer, makes his debut presence
75. October 3, 1945 – Tigers and Cubs clash for the 4th time in World Series
76. October 3, 1945 – The World Federation of Trade Union was established in 1945 at the World Conference of Labour with the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) as a member
77. October 3, 1946 – Cards vanquish Dodgers 8-4 at Ebbets Field and achieve the NL final 2-0
78. October 3, 1947 – premiere show of “Under the Counter” at Shubert Theatre NYC and gives 27 presentations
79. October 3, 1947 – work on the construction of a 200”(508 cm) telescope finished
80. October 3, 1947 – broadcasting of TV transmission channel 7 in Washington, DC commences
81. October 3, 1948 – Uranium found in Belgian Congo reports the Columbia University
82. October 3, 1948 – Television broadcast of NFL as the sport of the week
83. October 3, 1949 – the inauguration of the first radio station owned by black, WERD in Atlanta
84. October 3, 1950 – Ethel Waters was the first black to participate in the TV series Beulah
85. October 3, 1950 – Indonesian defence invade Ambon, South Mouccas
86. October 3, 1950 – Curt Simmons was not permitted to play in the World Series though he was on leave of absence from the Army

87. October 3, 1951 – Giants achieve the banner vanquishing Dodgers
88. October 3, 1952 – Atomic test by the British at Monte Bello Island in Australia
89. October 3, 1952 – video logging on magnetic tape for the first time in LA, Ca
90. October 3, 1953 – US achieves 6 ½ -5 ½ at Wentworth England at the 10th Ryder Cup
91. October 3, 1953 – All-Stars defeat Montreal, 3-1 at Montreal at the 7th NHL All-Star Play
92. October 3, 1953 – the airing of TV transmission channel 13 in Albuquerque, NM commences
93. October 3, 1954 – debut performance of “Father Knows Best”
94. October 3, 1954 – Commencement of airing of TV transmission channel 12 in Cape Girardeau, MO on CBS
95. October 3, 1955 – first performance of “Captain Kangaroo” on CBS TV Good Morning Captain
96. October 3, 1955 – debut show of “Mickey Mouse Club”
97. October 3, 1955 – Juscelino Kubitschekn de Oliveria assumes charge as President of Brazil
98. October 3, 1955 – Soviet Warship “Novorossiik” raids WW II pit in Baltic Sea
99. October 3, 1955 – TV transmission channel 7 commences airing in Roanoke, VA on CBS
100. October 3, 1955 – TV transmission channel 56 starts functioning in Detroit, MI on PBS
101. October 3, 1956 – Sal Maglie and Dodgers vanquish the Yanks 6-3 at the beginning of the World Series
102. October 3, 1957 – Willy Brandt assumes charge as Mayor of West Berlin
103. October 3, 1957 – Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg declared not indecent
104. October 3, 1959 – Montreal triumphs over All-Stars, 6-1 at Montreal at the 13th NHL All-Star Game
105. October 3, 1960 – debut performance of “Flair” on radio with Dick Van Dyke
106. October 3, 1960 – Installation of Janio Quadros as president of Brazil
107. October 3, 1960 – recognition of Bank Americard by White House mall in SF
108. October 3, 1960 – Yanks triumphs 8-7 and the 15-successive play scoring 193HRs
109. October 3, 1960 – a US situation comedy, “The Andy Griffith Show” debuts on CBS and runs till 1968

110. October 3, 1961 – debut show of “Dick Van Dyke Show” on Television
111. October 3, 1961 – a situation comedy “Mr. Ed” debuts on CBS
112. October 3, 1961 – premiere show of “Sail Away” at Broadhurst Theatre NYC and gives 167 presentations
113. October 3, 1961 – commencement of airing of TV Transmission channel 10 in Medford, OR on CBS
114. October 3, 1962 – 886 presentations by “Stop the World, I Want to Get Off” after its debut show at Shubert NYC
115. October 3, 1962 – a best of 2,755,184 fans witnessed the play of Dodgers play in major league
116. October 3, 1962 – Spacecraft Sigma 7 propelled into space
117. October 3, 1963 – premiere show of “Here’s Love” at Shubert Theatre NYC and gives 338 presentations
118. October 3, 1963 – cyclone strikes Haiti leaving 5000 dead and 100000 wounded
119. October 3, 1964 – Yankees achieve their 5th banner and 29th of the series
120. October 3, 1965 – LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational achieved by Kathy Whitworth
121. October 3, 1966 – Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva becomes the President of Brazil
122. October 3, 1967 – TV transmission channel 36 starts functioning in San Jose, CA
123. October 3, 1967 – Emperor Boudouin launches the biggest ever sluice-gate in Antwerp
124. October 3, 1967 – William Knight operates X-15, a rocket-powered aircraft at a speed of 7297 KPH /Mach 6.72
125. October 3, 1968 – the first show of “Great White Hope” by Howard Sacklers in NYC
126. October 3, 1968 – A military rebellion in Peru necessitates President Fernando Belaunde Terry to step down
127. October 3, 1968 – Atomic test by the US at Nevada
128. October 3, 1968 – The Home Affairs Minister, William Craig, prohibits the contemplated demonstration in Derry, Northern Ireland in central city and beaches based on the Public Order Act.
129. October 3, 1970 – valedictory of “Coco” at Mark Hellinger Theatre, NYC after presenting 333 presentations
130. October 3, 1970 – Baseball referees struck work

131. October 3, 1970 – TV transmission channel 16 starts airing in Jackson, MS on ABC
132. October 3, 1971 – $100,000 won by the female athlete, Billie Jean King, for the first time
133. October 3, 1971 – Jackie Stewart triumphs by 29 points in the 22nd Formula One WDC
134. October 3, 1972 – Indians achieved a rocki bottom batting average of o.234
135. October 3, 1972 -spacecraft 71-2 sent to space
136. October 3, 1972 – Steve Carlton achieves the 27th game for the Phillies
137. October 3, 1972 – Atomic test by USSR
138. October 3, 1973 – Walter Ulbricht steps down as East German leader of the party to make way for Willi Stoph
139. October 3, 1974 – serial killer Ted Bundy victim Nancy Wilcox vanishes in Salk Lake City, Utah
140. October 3, 1974 – stepping down of Pele as a football player
141. October 3, 1974 – hearing of the Watergate offender commences
142. October 3, 1975 – publication of the musical “Extra Texture” by George Harrison in the UK
143. October 3, 1975 – Director of AKZO Factory, Tiede Herrema was abducted in Ireland
144. October 3, 1976 – Germans vote Helmuth Kohl’s party CDU to power
145. October 3, 1977 – premiere show of “Comedy with Music (Victor Borge” at Imperial NYC and gives 66 presentations
146. October 3, 1977 – detention of Indira Gandhi
147. October 3, 1978 – the price of gold reaches a high of $223.50 an ounce in London
148. October 3, 1980 – assault on Jews’s place of worship in Paris leaves 4 dead
149. October 3, 1981 – Both Brewers and Expos achieve to play after the regular session
150. October 3, 1981n – the culmination of the 7-month-old work stoppage by prisoners at Maze Prison by Irish Nationalists
151. October 3, 1981 – Mike Weaver KO Quick Tills in 15 for heavyweight boxing championship
152. October 3, 1982 – Cox4 achieves a boat peddling at 12:52 for 99 miles (Geneva, Switzerland)
153. October 3, 1982 – Milwaukee defeats Baltimore, 10-2 to achieve AL East Championship
154. October 3, 1982 – LPGA Enmore Golf Classic achieved by Patty Sheehan
155. October 3, 1982 – 11763 competitions commence the 186 miles across the country contest near Stockholm
156. October 3, 1982 – a rearward Detroit lengthy run, cleared by Scott Weiland in less than 5 hours
157. October 3, 1983 – the issue of a musical, “Say, Say, Say” by Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson in the UK
158. October 3, 1984 – shutdown of the US Government because the legislation could not pass the bills into law
159. October 3, 1985 – a military mission spacecraft Atlantis sent into space
160. October 3, 1985 – the constitution of the Falkland Islands approved
161. October 3, 1985 – Titus Brandsma was canonized by Pope John Paul II
162. October 3, 1985 – the constitution of South Georgia and South Sandwich approved
163. October 3, 1985 – Walter Polovchak, of Ukraine, after attaining majority at 18, is free to make his own decisions
164. October 3, 1986 – and underwater ship of the Soviet Union sinks near NC leaving 3 dead
165. October 3, 1986 – TASCC, a radio oscillator to disintegrate atoms inaugurated at the Chalk River Laboratories
166. October 3, 1987 – Atomic Test by USSR below the earth
167. October 3, 1987 – a king best of 135.26 mph was created by Michel Pruffer of France at Portillo, Chile
168. October 3, 1988 – return of 26th spacecraft, Discovery 7, to Earth after completing 4 days in space

169. October 3, 1988 – inauguration of Criterion Centre Theatre at NYC
170. October 3, 1988 – Mithileshwar Singh freed by the Lebanese hijackers
171. October 3, 1989 – a failed military rebellion by Manuel Noriega in Panama
172. October 3, 1990 – The West German Flag was hoisted at 0 hr above the gate of Brandenburg after East and West Germany united
173. October 3, 1990 – for nearly 30 years, George Brett was at the forefront of batting in the league
174. October 3, 1990 – Tiger Cecil scores his 50 HRs and he was the 11th to achieve this distinction
175. October 3, 1990 – Charles Freeman of Florida store proprietor was convicted for selling obscene records of 2 Live Crew
176. October 3, 1991 – Garth Brooks, Tanya Tucker, and Vince Gill achieve the 25th Country Music Association Award
177. October 3, 1992 – Atlanta Braves get their license for the 98th play
178. October 3, 1992 – debut video performance of “Erotica” by Madonna
179. October 3, 1992 – Sinead O’Connor tore the photo of Pope John Paul II while on a live on “Saturday Night Live”
180. October 3, 1992 – Toronto Blue Jays achieve AL East championship
181. October 3, 1993 – valedictory of “White Liars/Black Comedy” at Criterion NYC after 38 presentations
182. October 3, 1993 – Clash at a TV transmission studio in Moscow leaves 25 dead
183. October 3, 1993 – A political crisis announced in Moscow by Boris Yeltsin
184. October 3, 1993 – Singer Harry Belafonte gives his musical at Tivoli Copenhagen
185. October 3, 1993 – Culminating play of Indians at Cleve Arena against Chicago. Chicago achieves a 4-0 win
186. October 3, 1993 – Somali defense murders 18 US defense staff
187. October 3, 1993 – in an attempt to reach the finals, the Giants had to vanquish the Dodgers to achieve the NL West championship but the Dodgers triumphed 12-1.
188. October 3, 1993 – in a bid to seize Mogadishu, Somalia and the ensuing fighting, 18 American armies and 1000 Somalis lost their life
189. October 3, 1994 – installation of Fernando Henrique Cardoso as president of Brazil
190. October 3, 1994 – Cartoonist Gary Larson desires to step down from working on “Far Side”
191. October 3, 1995 – the inauguration of the first class 1 competition at Hurstville Oval, Sydney (NSW Vs W Prov)
192. October 3, 1995 – The murder accused, OJ. Simpson murdering Nicole Simson and Ron Goldman in Los Angeles, California was set free by the Court
193. October 3, 1996 –the name Thunderdome in Tampa Bay was changed to Tropicana Field
194. October 3, 1997 – Carolina Hurricanes play against Pits Penguins on their home pitch
195. October 3, 1997- Gordie Howie at 69 participates with IHL’s Detroit Vipers
196. October 3, 1997 – A bullet train in Japan attains a best high speed at 280.3 mph
197. October 3, 1997 – Vancouver Canucks defeat Mighty Ducks, 3-2 in Japan

21st Century – October 3 This Day In History – The 2000s

198. October 3, 2003 – The show tigers pounce on Roy Horn of Siegfried and Roy thus abandoning the show
199. October 3, 2008 – President George W. Bush approves $700 billion to meet the financial crisis in the US

200. October 3, 2008 – O. J. Simpson was convicted of hijacking and burglary
201. October 3, 2010 – inauguration of the 19th Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India
202. October 3, 2012 – in indiscriminate shelling in Aleppo, Syria 34 persons were murdered
203. October 3, 2013 – inferno in an asylum-seeking ship causes 325 to lose their life, on the shores of Lampedusa, Italy
204. October 3, 2013 – in an accident involving a commercial aircraft in Lagos, Nigeria, 13 travelers lost their lives
205. October 3, 2014 – Financial accounts in J.P.Morgan and other nine monetary organizations, nearly 83 million accounts were tampered with by cyber-attack
206. October 3, 2015 – US air assault on Hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan leaves 19 dead
207. October 3, 2015 – instant inundation on French Riviera leaves 19 dead
208. October 3, 2015 – Australia defeated the host England, 33-23, and England was forced to come out of the Rugby World Cup group phase
209. October 3, 2016 – Nobel Prize awarded to Yoshinori Ohsumi of Japan for his investigation in Medicine
210. October 3, 2017 – King Felipe declares that the plebiscite in Catalan is against the law
211. October 3, 2017 – US President Trump arrives in Puerto Rico which has been destroyed by Cyclone Maria
212. October 3, 2017 – Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish, and Kip S. Thorne were awarded the Nobel Prize for their investigation into Physics

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