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.
- 1283 –Dafydd ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales, becomes the first nobleman executed by being hanged, drawn and quartered.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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”.
- 1949 –WERD, the 1st black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta, Georgia.
- 1952 –The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world’s third nuclear power.
- 1957 –Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems is ruled not obscene.
- 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.
- 1985 –The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight. (Mission STS-51-J)
- 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.
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