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.
- 382 –Emperor Theodosius I concludes a peace treaty with the Goths and settles them in the Balkans in exchange for military service.
- 1283 –Dafydd ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales, becomes the first nobleman executed by being hanged, drawn and quartered.
- 1712 –The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor.
- 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.
- 1835 –The Staedtler Company is founded in Nuremberg, Germany.
- 1872 –Bloomingdale brothers opened their first store at 938 Third Avenue, New York City.
- 1873 –Captain Jack and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War.
- 1919 –Cincinnati Reds pitcher Adolfo Luque becomes the 1st Latin player to appear in a World Series.
- 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.
- 1964 –First Buffalo Wings are made at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York.
- 1981 –The Hunger Strike by Provisional Irish Republican Army and Irish National Liberation Army prisoners at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland ends after seven months and ten deaths.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2008 –The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the US financial system is signed by President Bush.
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