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October 3rd


- Christian Feast Day:
- German Unity Day (Germany)
- National Day, celebrates the independence of Iraq from the United Kingdom in 1932.
- National Foundation Day or Gaecheonjeol (South Korea)
- Siege of Leiden (Leiden)

October 3rd


- 2008 - The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the US financial system is signed by President Bush.
- 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.
- 1995 - O J Simpson acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
- 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.
- 1990 - Re-unification of Germany. The German Democratic Republic ceases to exist and its territory becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany. East German citizens became part of the European Community, which later became the European Union. Now celebrated as German Unity Day.
- 1986 - TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories, is officially opened.
- 1985 - The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight. (Mission STS-51-J)
- 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.
- 1964 - First Buffalo Wings are made at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York.
- 1962 - Project Mercury: Sigma 7 is launched from Cape Canaveral, with Astronaut Wally Schirra aboard, for a six-orbit, nine-hour flight.
- 1957 - Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems is ruled not obscene.
- 1955 - The Mickey Mouse Club debuts on ABC.
- 1952 - The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon.
- 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.
- 1950 - Korean War: The First Battle of Maryang San, primarily pitting Australian and British forces against communist China, begins.
- 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.
- 1935 - Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia under General de Bono.
- 1932 - Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1929 - The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Kingdom of Yugoslavia, "Land of the South Slavs".
- 1918 - King Boris III of Bulgaria accedes to the throne.
- 1908 - The Pravda newspaper is founded by Leon Trotsky, Adolph Joffe, Matvey Skobelev and other Russian exiles in Vienna.
- 1873 - Captain Jack and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1835 - The Staedtler Company is founded in Nuremberg, Germany.
- 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.
- 1778 - British Captain James Cook anchors in Alaska.
- 1739 - The Treaty of Nissa is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the finish of the Russian-Turkish War, 1736–1739.
- 1712 - The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor.
- 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.
- 1574 - The Siege of Leiden is lifted by the Watergeuzen.
- 1283 - Dafydd ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales, becomes the first person executed by being hanged, drawn and quartered.
- -42 - First Battle of Philippi: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight a decisive battle with Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius.
- -52 - Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending the siege and Battle of Alesia.

October 3rd


- 1990 - Rhian Ramos, Filipino actress
- 1989 - Nate Montana, American football player
- 1987 - Zuleyka Rivera, Puerto Rican Miss Universe
- 1984 - Bruno Gervais, French hockey defenceman
- 1984 - Chris Marquette, American film and television actor
- 1984 - Ashlee Simpson-Wentz, American singer
- 1984 - Anthony Le Tallec, French footballer
- 1984 - Yoon Eun-Hye, South Korean actress
- 1983 - Thiago Alves, Brazilian mixed martial artist
- 1983 - Frederico Chaves Guedes, Brazilian footballer
- 1983 - Hiroki Suzuki, Japanese actor
- 1982 - Erik von Detten, American actor
- 1981 - Danny Coid, English footballer
- 1981 - Zlatan Ibrahimovi?, Swedish footballer
- 1981 - Andreas Isaksson, Swedish footballer
- 1981 - Amanda Walsh, Canadian actress
- 1980 - Danny O'Donoghue, Irish singer (The Script)
- 1980 - Anquan Boldin, American football player (Baltimore Ravens)
- 1980 - Sheldon Brookbank, Canadian hockey player
- 1979 - Carlo Alban, Ecuadorian actor
- 1979 - John Morrison, American pro wrestler, WWE
- 1978 - Gerald Asamoah, German footballer
- 1978 - Neil Clement, English footballer
- 1978 - Claudio Pizarro, Peruvian footballer
- 1978 - Jake Shears, singer (Scissor Sisters)
- 1978 - Shannyn Sossamon, American actress, dancer and musician
- 1976 - Seann William Scott, American actor
- 1975 - India Arie, American singer
- 1975 - Talib Kweli, Rap Artist
- 1974 - Marianne Timmer, Dutch speed skater
- 1974 - Mike Johnson, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1973 - Keiko Agena, Japanese-American actress
- 1973 - Neve Campbell, Canadian actress
- 1973 - Angélica Gavaldón, Mexican tennis player
- 1973 - Lena Headey, British actress
- 1972 - Kim Joo-hyuk, South Korean actor
- 1971 - Wil Cordero, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1971 - Kevin Richardson, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
- 1969 - Gwen Stefani, American musician & actress
- 1969 - Tetsu, Japanese bassist (L'Arc~en~Ciel)
- 1968 - Paul Crichton, English footballer
- 1968 - Greg Foster, American basketball player
- 1966 - Darrin Fletcher, American baseball player
- 1965 - Jan-Ove Waldner, Swedish table tennis player
- 1964 - Clive Owen, British actor
- 1962 - Tommy Lee, American Drummer
- 1961 - Dean Lawrence (actor), English actor
- 1961 - Rebecca Stephens, first British woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest
- 1959 - Fred Couples, American golfer
- 1959 - Jack Wagner, American actor and singer
- 1958 - Louise Lecavalier, Canadian dancer (La La La Human Steps)
- 1957 - Tim Westwood, Pimp My Ride UK presenter and DJ
- 1956 - Hart Bochner, Canadian film actor/director
- 1954 - Dennis Eckersley, American baseball player
- 1954 - Al Sharpton, American Baptist minister
- 1954 - Stevie Ray Vaughan, American blues musician (d. 1990)
- 1951 - Dave Winfield, American baseball player
- 1950 - Pamela Hensley, American actress
- 1949 - Lindsey Buckingham, American guitarist and singer (Fleetwood Mac)
- 1949 - J. P. Dutta, Indian Bollywood film director
- 1945 - Tony Brown, English footballer
- 1944 - Pierre Deligne, Belgian mathematician
- 1944 - Roy Horn, German-American magician
- 1943 - Jeff Bingaman, Democratic U.S. Senator of New Mexico
- 1941 - Chubby Checker, American singer-songwriter
- 1941 - Andrea de Adamich, Italian Formula One driver and TV commentator
- 1940 - Sheila Fearn, English actress
- 1940 - Jean Ratelle, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1938 - Eddie Cochran, American singer and guitarist (d. 1960)
- 1938 - Tereza Kesovija, Croatian singer
- 1938 - David Obey, American politician
- 1935 - Charles Duke, American astronaut
- 1934 - Koo Nimo, Ghanaian musician
- 1933 - Neale Fraser, Australian tennis player
- 1933 - 1904 – Ernst Gunther Schenck, German doctor who joined the Sturmabteilung in (d. 1998)
- 1931 - Glenn Hall, National Hockey League goaltender
- 1928 - Erik Bruhn, Danish dancer and choreographer (d. 1986)
- 1925 - Gore Vidal, American author
- 1924 - Arkady Vorobyov, Russian weightlifter
- 1923 - Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican politician (d. 2004)
- 1919 - Jean Lefebvre, French actor (d. 2004)
- 1919 - James M. Buchanan, American Nobel Prize-winning economist
- 1916 - James Herriot, English veterinarian and author (d. 1995)
- 1911 - Michael Hordern, English actor (d. 1995)
- 1901 - Jean Grémillon, French film director (d. 1959)
- 1900 - Thomas Clayton Wolfe, American writer (d. 1938)
- 1898 - Leo McCarey, American film director and screenwriter (d. 1969)
- 1897 - Louis Aragon, French writer (d. 1982)
- 1896 - Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet (d. 1987)
- 1895 - Giovanni Comisso, Italian writer (d. 1969)
- 1895 - Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin, Russian lyrical poet (d. 1925)
- 1894 - Elmer Robinson, American politician (d. 1982)
- 1894 - Walter Warlimont, German General WWII (d. 1976)
- 1889 - Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1938)
- 1886 - Alain-Fournier, French novelist (d. 1914)
- 1885 - Langley Collyer, hoarder (d. 1947)
- 1882 - A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (d. 1974)
- 1879 - Warner Oland, Swedish-born actor (d. 1938)
- 1869 - Alfred Flatow, German Olympic champion gymnast (d. 1942)
- 1863 - Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov, Russian explorer (d. 1935)
- 1862 - Johnny Briggs, English cricketer (d. 1902)
- 1858 - Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (d. 1924)
- 1848 - Henry Lerolle, French painter (d. 1929)
- 1837 - Nicolas Avellaneda, Argentine president (d. 1885)
- 1828 - Woldemar Bargiel, German composer (d. 1897)
- 1804 - Townsend Harris, the 1st U.S. Consul to Japan (d. 1878)
- 1804 - Allan Kardec, French founder of Spiritism (d. 1869)
- 1800 - George Bancroft, American historian and 17th Secretary of the Navy (d. 1891)
- 1797 - Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1870)
- 1790 - John Ross, Chief of the Cherokee Nation (d. 1866)
- 1720 - Johann Peter Uz, German poet (d. 1796)
- 1716 - Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist (d. 1781)
- 1610 - Gabriel Lallemant, French-born Jesuit missionary (North American Martyrs) (d. 1649)