About October 3

October 3, 2025 is the 276th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 89 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

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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 137 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

What Happened On October 3

  • 52 BC –
    Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending the siege and Battle of Alesia.
  • 42 BC –
    First Battle of Philippi: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight a decisive battle with Caesar’s assassins Brutus and Cassius.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1908 –
    The Pravda newspaper is founded by Leon Trotsky, Adolph Joffe, Matvey Skobelev and other Russian exiles in Vienna.
  • 1918 –
    King Boris III of Bulgaria accedes to the throne.
  • 1929 –
    The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Kingdom of Yugoslavia, “Land of the South Slavs”.
  • 1935 –
    Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia under General de Bono.
  • 1950 –
    Korean War: The First Battle of Maryang San, primarily pitting Australian and British forces against communist China, begins.
  • 1952 –
    The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world’s third nuclear power.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 1990 –
    Re-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.
  • 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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