About October 3
October 3, 2024 is the 277th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 89 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 118 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.
- 1574 –The Siege of Leiden is lifted by the Watergeuzen.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1995 –O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
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