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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1872 –Bloomingdale brothers opened their first store at 938 Third Avenue, New York City.
- 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”.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2008 –The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the US financial system is signed by President Bush.
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