Tukuk-OS📅 October 3
18 events · 12 births · 12 deaths
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What happened on October 3? Below are the notable events chosen by Wikipedia’s editors for this date, followed by celebrated births, deaths and the observances recognised around the world.
Events
- 2013 — A boat carrying migrants from Libya to Italy sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa, resulting in more than 360 deaths.
- 2008 — The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, establishing the Troubled Asset Relief Program, commonly referred to as a bailout of the U.S. financial system, was enacted.
Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008Troubled Asset Relief ProgramBailout
- 2003 — Roy Horn of the American entertainment duo Siegfried & Roy (both pictured) was mauled by a tiger during a performance at the Mirage on the Las Vegas Strip.
- 1992 — Sinéad O'Connor tore up a photograph of Pope John Paul II on live television.
- 1991 — Nadine Gordimer became the first South African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- 1989 — Major Moisés Giroldi of the Panama Defense Forces failed in his attempt to overthrow dictator Manuel Noriega.
- 1981 — A hunger strike by Irish republican prisoners at HM Prison Maze outside Belfast, Northern Ireland, ended after seven months and ten deaths.
- 1963 — Oswaldo López Arellano replaced Honduran president Ramón Villeda Morales in a violent coup, initiating two decades of military rule.
Oswaldo López ArellanoRamón Villeda Morales1963 Honduran coup d'état
- 1962 — Mercury-Atlas 8, the fifth United States crewed space mission, was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, carrying astronaut Wally Schirra (pictured).
Mercury-Atlas 8Human spaceflightCape Canaveral Space Force Station
- 1953 — Vancouver's Holy Rosary Cathedral was dedicated by Archbishop William Mark Duke, fifty-three years after it first opened.
Holy Rosary Cathedral (Vancouver)Dedication of churchesWilliam Mark Duke
- 1952 — The United Kingdom successfully conducted its first nuclear test, becoming the world's third state with nuclear weapons.
- 1951 — In Major League Baseball, the New York Giants' Bobby Thomson hit the "Shot Heard 'Round the World", a game-winning home run, to win the National League pennant.
- 1951 — The First Battle of Maryang-san, widely regarded as one of the Australian Army's greatest accomplishments during the Korean War, began.
- 1935 — Italian forces under General Emilio De Bono invaded Abyssinia during the opening stages of the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.
Emilio De BonoDe Bono's invasion of EthiopiaSecond Italo-Ethiopian War
- 1849 — American author Edgar Allan Poe was found semi-conscious and delirious in Baltimore under mysterious circumstances; it was the last time he was seen in public before his death four days later.
- 1792 — Spanish forces departed Valdivia to suppress the indigenous Huilliche uprising in southern Chile.
- 1602 — Anglo-Spanish War: An English fleet intercepted and attacked six Spanish ships at the Battle of the Narrow Seas (pictured).
- 1392 — Muhammad VII became the twelfth sultan of the Emirate of Granada.
Births
- 2004 — Noah Schnapp, American actor
- 2001 — Anton Lundell, Finnish ice hockey player
- 2001 — Max Plath, Australian rugby league player
- 2001 — C. J. Stroud, American football player
- 2000 — CJ Abrams, American baseball player
- 1997 — Jin Boyang, Chinese figure skater
- 1997 — Jonathan Isaac, American basketball player
- 1997 — Bang Chan, Australian singer and record producer based in South Korea
- 1995 — Ayo Edebiri, American actress
- 1995 — Mike Gesicki, American football player
- 1995 — Artem Zub, Russian ice hockey player
- 1994 — Victoria Bosio, Argentinian tennis player
Deaths
- 2025 — Patricia Routledge, English actress and singer (born 1929)
- 2024 — Michel Blanc, French actor, writer and director (born 1952)
- 2024 — Pierre Christin, French comics creator and writer (born 1938)
- 2024 — Cid Moreira, Brazilian journalist and television anchor (born 1927)
- 2024 — Mary O'Rourke, Irish politician (born 1937)
- 2023 — Thomas Gambino, American mobster, Gambino crime family (born 1929)
- 2021 — Todd Akin, American politician (born 1947)
- 2021 — Dan Petrescu, Romanian businessman and billionaire (born 1953)
- 2015 — Denis Healey, English soldier and politician, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1917)
- 2015 — Muhammad Nawaz Khan, Pakistani historian and author (born 1943)
- 2015 — Javed Iqbal, Pakistani philosopher and judge (born 1925)
- 2014 — Ewen Gilmour, New Zealand comedian and television host (born 1963)
Observances & holidays
- Christian feast day: Abd-al-Masih
- Christian feast day: Adalgott
- Christian feast day: Ambrósio Francisco Ferro
- Christian feast day: Blessed Szilárd Bogdánffy
- Christian feast day: Dionysius the Areopagite
- Christian feast day: Ewald the Black and Ewald the Fair
- Christian feast day: John Raleigh Mott (Episcopal Church)
- Christian feast day: Gerard of Brogne
- Christian feast day: Hesychius of Sinai
- Christian feast day: Théodore Guérin
- Christian feast day: Maximian of Bagai
- Christian feast day: October 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- 3 October Festival (Leiden, Netherlands)
- German Unity Day (Germany)
- Mean Girls Day
- Morazán Day (Honduras)
- National Day, celebrates the independence of Iraq from the United Kingdom in 1932.
- National Foundation Day or Gaecheonjeol (South Korea)
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