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

  • 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.
  • 1574 –
    The Siege of Leiden is lifted by the Watergeuzen.
  • 1712 –
    The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor.
  • 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.
  • 1835 –
    The Staedtler Company is founded in Nuremberg, 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.
  • 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.
  • 1919 –
    Cincinnati Reds pitcher Adolfo Luque becomes the 1st Latin player to appear in a World Series.
  • 1929 –
    The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Kingdom of Yugoslavia, “Land of the South Slavs”.
  • 1932 –
    Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom.
  • 1949 –
    WERD, the 1st black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta, Georgia.
  • 1957 –
    Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems is ruled not obscene.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 2008 –
    The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the US financial system is signed by President Bush.

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