About October 3
October 3, 2024 is the 277th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 89 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Libra is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 118 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 3
- 42 BC –First Battle of Philippi: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight a decisive battle with Caesar’s assassins Brutus and Cassius.
- 382 –Emperor Theodosius I concludes a peace treaty with the Goths and settles them in the Balkans in exchange for military service.
- 1739 –The Treaty of Nissa is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the finish of the Russian-Turkish War, 1736–1739.
- 1778 –British Captain James Cook anchors in Alaska.
- 1789 –George Washington made the first Thanksgiving Day designated by the national government of the United States of America.
- 1872 –Bloomingdale brothers opened their first store at 938 Third Avenue, New York City.
- 1918 –King Boris III of Bulgaria accedes to the throne.
- 1932 –Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1935 –Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia under General de Bono.
- 1942 –Spaceflight: 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.
- 1950 –Korean War: The First Battle of Maryang San, primarily pitting Australian and British forces against communist China, begins.
- 1951 –The “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.
- 1955 –The Mickey Mouse Club debuts on ABC.
- 1961 –The Dick Van Dyke Show premieres on CBS-TV in the United States.
- 1962 –Project Mercury: Sigma 7 is launched from Cape Canaveral, with Astronaut Wally Schirra aboard, for a six-orbit, nine-hour flight.
- 1964 –First Buffalo Wings are made at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York.
- 1985 –The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight. (Mission STS-51-J)
- 1986 –TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories, is officially opened.
- 1995 –O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
- 2003 –Roy 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.
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