Notable Historical Events on October 3rd
October 3rd Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
2333 |
The state of Gojoseon (Modern-day Korea) founded by Dangun Wanggeom during the reign of the Chinese Emperor Yao. |
52 |
Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending the siege and battle of Alesia. |
42 |
First Battle of Philippi: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight an indecisive battle with Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius. |
BC AD | |
1143 |
Cardinal Guido elected Pope Coelestinus II |
1247 |
Willem II of Holland elected Roman Catholic German emperor |
1264 |
Comet said to predict death of Pope Urban IV is last seen |
1283 |
Dafydd ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales, becomes the first person executed by being hanged, drawn and quartered. |
1430 |
Jews are expelled from Eger Bohemia |
1569 |
Battle of Montcontour: Duke of Anjou beats Huguenots |
1574 |
The Siege of Leiden is lifted by the Watergeuzen and the forces of Admiral Boisot |
1605 |
Chinese uprising on Philippines, Tondo/Quiapo massacre |
1657 |
French troops occupy Mardyke |
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. |
1691 |
English & Dutch army occupies Limerick Ireland |
1712 |
The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor. |
1735 |
France & Emperor Karel VI sign peace accord |
1739 |
The Treaty of Nissa is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the end of the Russian-Turkish War, 1736-1739. |
1778 |
Captain Cook anchors at Alaska |
1789 |
Washington proclaims 1st national Thanksgiving Day on Nov 26 |
1835 |
Staedtler Company was founded by J.S. Staedtler in Nuremburg, 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. |
1862 |
-10] Battle of Corinth, Mississippi |
1862 |
Skirmish at Bardstown, Kentucky |
1863 |
Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day |
1872 |
Bloomingdale's department store in NY opens |
1873 |
Captain Jack and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War. |
1888 |
New Zealand Natives, a privately organised and mainly Māori rugby team, plays first game in UK; the first national rugby team to wear the silver fern |
1890 |
Capt Guillaume of Kerckhoven marches into Boma Congo |
1899 |
J S Thurman patents motor-driven vacuum cleaner |
1900 |
Edward Elgar/Cardinal Newmans oratorium premieres in Birmingham |
1904 |
France & Spain sign treaty for Morocco Independence |
1904 |
Giants Christy Mathewson strikes out then record 16 Cards |
1904 |
Mary McLeod Bethune opens Daytona Normal & Industrial School |
1906 |
SOS adopted as warning signal by 1st conference on wireless telegraphy |
1906 |
US regime names Charles Magoon, governor of Cuba |
1906 |
William Vaughan Moody's "Great Divide" premieres in NYC |
1908 |
The Pravda newspaper founded by Leon Trotsky, Adolph Joffe, Matvey Skobelev and other Russian exiles in Vienna. |
1913 |
Federal Income Tax signed into law (at 1%) |
1915 |
7.8 earthquake shakes Pleasant Valley, Nevada |
1918 |
Boris becomes king of Bulgaria |
1918 |
Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria abdicates the throne in favour of his eldest son Tsar Boris III |
1918 |
Selwyn Theater opens at 229 W 42nd St NYC |
1919 |
Reds Adolfo Luque is 1st Latin player to appear in a World Series |
1919 |
Serbian, Croatian & Slavic parliment accord for 8 hr work day |
1920 |
Browns 1st baseman George Sisler gets his record 257th hit of season |
1920 |
NFL (then American Pro Football Association) plays 1st games |
1922 |
1st facsimile photo send over city telephone lines, Washington, DC |
1922 |
Rebecca Felton of Georgia becomes 1st woman in Senate |
1923 |
Germany's Stresemann resigns |
1924 |
King Hussein of Hedzjaz abdicts throne |
1926 |
1st congress of Pan European Movement (Pan-Europese Beweging) opens in Vienna |
1926 |
Violet Percy runs female record marathon (3:40:22) |
1928 |
French submarine "Ondine" sinks returning to Toulon, drowning 42 |
1929 |
British Labour government recovers diplomatic relations with USSR |
1929 |
Julius Curtius succeeds Stresemann as German foreign minister |
1929 |
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats & Slovenes changes name to Yugoslavia |
1932 |
Iraq gains full independence from Britain, joins League of Nations |
1933 |
Gustave "Staf" de Clerq forms Flemish National Covenant |
1935 |
Italy invades Ethiopia |
1936 |
Yanks set new attendance record of 64,842 in 3rd game of World Series |
1939 |
Lemmer-Urk Dike closes |
1940 |
France Vichy government proclaims end to Jewish status |
1940 |
Reds beat Tigers ending NL's 10-game World Series losing streak |
1940 |
US forms parachute troops |
1941 |
Adolf Hitler says Russia is "broken" & would "never rise again" |
1941 |
All elderly Jewish men of Kerenchug Ukraine, are killed by SS |
1941 |
Nazis blow up 6 synagoges in Paris |
1942 |
FDR forms Office of Economic Stabilization |
1942 |
Launch of 1st A-4/V-2 rocket to altitude of 53 miles (85 km) |
1942 |
NY Yanks Frank Crosetti shoves ump Bill Summers in World Series, he is fined $200 & suspended for 1st 30 days of 1943 season |
1943 |
British 8th army lands at Termoli, East Italy |
1943 |
Operations begin at PETA Java, defending (Japanese) fatherland |
1944 |
1st broadcast of Radio Herrijzend Netherland |
1944 |
RAF bombs West Kapelse |
1945 |
Elvis Presley's 1st public appearance at the age of 10 |
1945 |
Tigers & Cubs meet in World Series for 4th time |
1945 |
World Federation of Trade Unions forms; CIO a member |
1946 |
Cards beat Dodgers 8-4 at Ebbets Field to win NL playoffs 2-0 |
1947 |
"Under the Counter" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 27 performances |
1947 |
1st telescope lens 200" (508 cm) in diameter completed |
1947 |
WMAL (now WJLA) TV channel 7 in Washington, DC (ABC) begins |
1947 |
With only 1 out to go, Yank Floyd Beven gives up a double breaking his World Series no-hit bid, it scored 2 runs & he lost game |
1948 |
Columbia University reports discovery of uranium in Belgian Congo |
1948 |
NFL becomes 1st sport televised as sport of week |
1949 |
WERD, 1st black-owned radio station, opens in Atlanta |
1950 |
1st black lead (Ethel Waters) on TV (Beulah) |
1950 |
Indonesian army opens assault on Ambon, South Moluccas |
1950 |
Baseball rules Phils lefty Curt Simmons cannot play in World Series despite his being on furlough from Army |
1951 |
Bobby Thomson HR-Giants win pennant defeating Dodgers |
1952 |
1st British nuclear test at Monte Bello Island in Australia |
1952 |
1st video recording on magnetic tape, LA, Ca |
1953 |
10th Ryder Cup: US wins 6½-5½ at Wentworth, England |
1953 |
7th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 3-1 at Montreal |
1953 |
KGGM TV channel 13 in Albuquerque, NM (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
"Father Knows Best" premieres |
1954 |
KFVS TV channel 12 in Cape Girardeau, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1955 |
"Captain Kangaroo" premieres on CBS-TV, Good Morning, Captain! |
1955 |
"Mickey Mouse Club" premieres |
1955 |
Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira becomes pres of Brazil |
1955 |
Soviet battleship "Novorossiisk" strikes WW II mine in Baltic Sea |
1955 |
WDBJ TV channel 7 in Roanoke, VA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1955 |
WTVS TV channel 56 in Detroit, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1956 |
Sal Maglie & Dodgers defeat Yanks 6-3 in opening game of World Series |
1957 |
Willy Brandt elected mayor of West Berlin |
1957 |
Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems is ruled not obscene. |
1959 |
13th NHL All-Star Game: Montreal beat All-Stars 6-1 at Montreal |
1960 |
"Flair" (CBS' answer to Monitor) premieres on radio with Dick Van Dyke |
1960 |
Janio Quadros elected president of Brazil |
1960 |
SF's White House dept store 1st to accept BankAmericard |
1960 |
Yanks win 8-7, ending season on a 15 game win streak, & record 193 HRs |
1961 |
"Dick Van Dyke Show" premieres on CBS-TV |
1961 |
"Mr Ed" premieres |
1961 |
"Sail Away" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 167 performances |
1961 |
KMED (now KTVL) TV channel 10 in Medford, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1962 |
"Stop the World, I Want to Get Off" opens at Shubert NYC for 886 perfs |
1962 |
Dodgers set major league-record season attendance of 2,755,184 |
1962 |
Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched into Earth orbit |
1963 |
"Here's Love" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 338 performances |
1963 |
Hurricane hits Haiti; about 5,000 die & 100,000 injured |
1964 |
Yankees clinch their 5th straight pennant, & 29th in club's history |
1965 |
Cubs tie major league record of 3 triple plays in a season |
1965 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational |
1965 |
Whitey Ford notches #232 to become Yankees winningest pitcher |
1966 |
Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva elected president |
1967 |
KGSC (now KICU) TV channel 36 in San Jose, CA (IND) begins |
1967 |
King Boudouin inaugurates world's biggest floodgate (Antwerp) |
1967 |
William Knight sets X-15 speed rec of 7,297 KPH/4,534 MPH/Mach 6.72 |
1968 |
Howard Sacklers "Great White Hope" premieres in NYC |
1968 |
Military coup overthrows President Fernando Belaúnde Terry in Peru |
1968 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1968 |
The proposed civil rights march in Derry, Northern Ireland, is banned from the area of the city centre and the Waterside area; the banning order is issued under the Public Order Act by William Craig, then Home Affairs Minister |
1970 |
"Coco" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 333 performances |
1970 |
Baseball umpires call their 1st strike |
1970 |
WAPT TV channel 16 in Jackson, MS (ABC) begins broadcasting |
1971 |
Billie Jean King became 1st female athlete to win $100,000 |
1972 |
Indians set a team record for lowest team batting avg .234 |
1972 |
Spaceflight 71-2 launched; 1st flexible substrate photovoltaic flown |
1972 |
Steve Carlton wins 27th game for Phillies (almost ½ of their 59 wins) |
1972 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
1972 |
Balt Roric Harrison is last AL pitcher to homer until interleague play 25 years later |
1973 |
Willi Stoph succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader |
1974 |
Ted Bundy victim Nancy Wilcox disappears in Salt Lake City, Utah |
1974 |
Pele retires as soccer player |
1974 |
Watergate trial begins |
1975 |
George Harrison releases "Extra Texture" album in UK |
1975 |
Ireland AKZO director Tiede Herrema kidnap |
1976 |
Hank Aaron singles in his last at bat & drives in his 2,297th run |
1976 |
Helmuth Kohl's CDU wins German parliament election |
1977 |
"Comedy with Music (Victor Borge)" opens at Imperial NYC for 66 perfs |
1977 |
Indira Gandhi arrested |
1978 |
Gold hits record $223.50 an ounce in London |
1980 |
4 dies in attack on synagogue in Paris |
1981 |
Brewers (since 1970) & Expos (1969) clinch their 1st-ever postseason |
1981 |
Irish Nationalist at Maze Prison near Belfast end 7-mo hunger strike |
1981 |
Mike Weaver beats Quick Tillis in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
1982 |
Cox 4 rowing record set at 12:52 for 99 miles (Geneva, Switzerland) |
1982 |
Milwaukee whips Baltimore 10-2 to win AL East championship |
1982 |
Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic |
1982 |
Record 11,763 start a 186 mile cross-country race near Stockholm |
1982 |
Scott Weiland runs Detroit marathon backwards in less than 5 hours |
1983 |
Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson release "Say, Say, Say" in UK |
1985 |
21st Shuttle Mission (51J)-Atlantis 1-all-military flight launched |
1985 |
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) adopts constitution |
1985 |
Pope John Paul II declares Titus Brandsma divine |
1985 |
South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands adopts constitution |
1986 |
Baltimore loses assuring Orioles of their 1st last-place finish |
1986 |
Soviet Yankee-class sub sinks off NC, 3 die |
1986 |
TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories, was officially opened. |
1987 |
Benito Santiago ends longest catcher/rookie hitting streak at 34 |
1987 |
Michael Pruffer of France skis 135.26 MPH at Portillo, Chile |
1987 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1988 |
26th Space Shuttle Mission, Discovery 7 returns to Earth after 4-days |
1988 |
Criterion Center Theater opens at Broadway bet 44th & 45th Sts NYC |
1988 |
Lebanese kidnappers release Mithileshwar Singh (held for 30 months) |
1988 |
WBMW-FM, Wash DC changes calls to WJFK & begins airing Howard Stern |
1989 |
Panamanian Defense Force attempted coup of Manuel Noriega fails |
1990 |
Reunification of East & West Germany. West German flag raised above Brandenburg Gate on the stroke of midnight |
1990 |
George Brett becomes 1st to lead league in batting in 3 decades |
1990 |
Tiger Cecil Fielder becomes 11th, to hit 50 HRs (& 51st) |
1990 |
Florida record store owner Charles Freeman is found guilty of obsenity, for selling 2 Live Crew rap records |
1991 |
25th Country Music Association Award: Garth Brooks, Tanya Tucker & Vince Gill wins |
1992 |
Atlanta Braves win franchise record 98th game (old record 95 in 1957) |
1992 |
Madonna premieres her "Erotica" video on MTV |
1992 |
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1992 |
Toronto Blue Jays win AL East title |
1993 |
"White Liars/Black Comedy" closes at Criterion NYC after 38 perfs |
1993 |
Battle at TV station Ostankino/Moscow townhall, about 25 killed |
1993 |
Boris Yeltsin declares state of emergency in Moscow |
1993 |
Harry Belafonte performs in Tivoli Copenhagen |
1993 |
Indians play their last game at Cleve Stadium, Chicago wins 4-0 |
1993 |
Somali General Aidids arm forces kill 18 US Rangers |
1993 |
Giants need to beat Dodgers to force a playoff game with Braves for NL West title, but Dodgers destroy Giants 12-1, Giants end year 103-59 |
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. |
1994 |
Fernando Henrique Cardoso elected president of Brazil |
1994 |
Gary Larson, announces he is retiring from doing "Far Side" cartoon |
1995 |
1st 1st-class match at Hurstville Oval, Sydney (NSW v W Prov) |
1995 |
OJ Simpson found not guilty in murder of Nicole Simpson & Ron Goldman in Los Angeles, California |
1996 |
Thunderdome in Tampa Bay renamed Tropicana Field |
1997 |
Carolina Hurricanes 1st home game vs Pitts Penguins |
1997 |
Gordie Howie, 69, plays in 7th decade, with IHL'S Detroit Vipers |
1997 |
Japan's maglev train breaks world speed record at 280.3 mph |
1997 |
Vancouver Canucks beats Mighty Ducks, 3-2 in Japan |
2003 |
Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy is attacked by one of the shows tigers, canceling the show for good. |
2008 |
The $700 billion bailout bill for the US financial system is signed by President George W. Bush |
2008 |
OJ Simpson found guilty of charges of kidnapping and armed robbery |
2012 |
34 people are killed by a series of bombings in Aleppo, Syria |
2013 |
325 people are killed after a migrant ship catches fire and shipwrecks of the coast of Lampedusa, Italy |
2013 |
13 people are killed after a passenger plane crashes in Lagos, Nigeria |
2014 |
83 million accounts are compromised after a cyber attack on JP Morgan Chase & 9 other financial institutions |
2016 |
Kim Kardashian Held at Gunpoint in Paris Hotel, Spokeswoman Says |
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