About October 3
October 3, 2023 is the 276th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 89 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 130 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.
- 1574 –The Siege of Leiden is lifted by the Watergeuzen.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1863 –The last Thursday in November is declared as Thanksgiving Day by President Abraham Lincoln as are Thursdays, November 30, 1865 and November 29, 1866.
- 1908 –The Pravda newspaper is founded by Leon Trotsky, Adolph Joffe, Matvey Skobelev and other Russian exiles in Vienna.
- 1935 –Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia under General de Bono.
- 1949 –WERD, the 1st black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta, Georgia.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1957 –Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems is ruled not obscene.
- 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)
- 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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