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.
  • 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.
  • 1835 –
    The Staedtler Company is founded in Nuremberg, Germany.
  • 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”.
  • 1932 –
    Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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)
  • 1986 –
    TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories, is officially opened.
  • 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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