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October 3rd Calendar By Years in History

  • Calendar Day of Week for October 3rd. It's the 276th day of the year (277th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 89 days left to the end of the year.

Historical Events for October 3rd

  • Year 1431 Calendar » Joan of Arc is defeated by Roman Catholic Diocese of Beauvais e.g Bishop Pierre Cauchon.
  • Year 1521 Calendar » Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther in the papal bull 'Decet Romanum Pontificem'.
  • Year 1653 Calendar » By the Coonan Cross Oath, the Eastern Christianity named Eastern Church in India cuts itself off from colonial Portugal called Portuguese tutelage.
  • Year 1749 Calendar » Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
  • Year 1777 Calendar » United States American General (United States) General George Washington defeats Kingdom of Great Britain British General (United Kingdom) General Charles Cornwallis, 1st Marquess Cornwallis Lord Cornwallis at the Battle of Princeton.
  • Year 1815 Calendar » Austria, the United Kingdom, and France form a secret defensive alliance against Prussia and Russia.
  • Year 1823 Calendar » Stephen F. Austin receives a grant of land in Texas from the government of Mexico.
  • Year 1848 Calendar » Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first President of Liberia e.g president of the independent African Liberia.
  • Year 1861 Calendar » American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United States.
  • Year 1868 Calendar » Meiji Restoration in Japan: The Tokugawa shogunate is abolished; agents of Satsuma and Chōshū seize power.
  • Year 1870 Calendar » Construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins.
  • Year 1885 Calendar » Sino-French War: Beginning of the Battle of Núi Bop
  • Year 1888 Calendar » The refracting telescope at the Lick Observatory, measuring 91 cm in diameter, is used for the first time. It was the largest telescope in the world at the time.
  • Year 1911 Calendar » A 1911 Kebin earthquake called magnitude 7.7 earthquake destroys the city of Almaty in Russian Turkestan.
  • Year 1919 Calendar » At the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 Paris Peace Conference, Emir Faisal I of Iraq signs Faisal–Weizmann Agreement an agreement with Zionism Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann on the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and an Arab nation in a large pa
  • Year 1925 Calendar » Benito Mussolini announces he is taking dictatorial powers over Italy.
  • Year 1932 Calendar » Martial law is declared in Honduras to stop a revolt by banana workers fired by the United Fruit Company.
  • Year 1933 Calendar » Minnie D. Craig becomes the first female elected as List of Speakers of the North Dakota House of Representatives called Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first female to hold a Speaker (politics) or Speaker position anywhere in th
  • Year 1938 Calendar » The March of Dimes is established by President of the United States known as President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • Year 1944 Calendar » World War II: Top Ace Major Pappy Boyington or Greg "Pappy" Boyington is shot down in his Vought F4U Corsair by Captain List of World War II aces from Japan known as Masajiro Kawato flying a Mitsubishi A6M Zero.
  • Year 1945 Calendar » World War II: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz is placed in command of all United States Navy known as U.S. Naval forces in preparation for planned assaults against Iwo Jima and Okinawa Prefecture or Okinawa in Japan.
  • Year 1946 Calendar » Popular Canadian American jockey George Woolf dies in a freak accident during a race; the annual George Woolf Memorial Jockey Award is created to honor him.
  • Year 1947 Calendar » Proceedings of the United States Congress called U.S. Congress are televised for the first time.
  • Year 1949 Calendar » The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, the central bank of the Philippines, is established.
  • Year 1953 Calendar » Frances P. Bolton and her son, Oliver P. Bolton named Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.
  • Year 1956 Calendar » A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower.
  • Year 1957 Calendar » The Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch.
  • Year 1958 Calendar » The West Indies Federation is formed.
  • Year 1959 Calendar » Separatists in the Maldives declare the establishment of the United Suvadive Republic.
  • Year 1959 » Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state.
  • Year 1961 Calendar » A core explosion and meltdown at the SL-1, a government-run reactor near Idaho Falls, Idaho, kills three workers.
  • Year 1962 Calendar » Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro.
  • Year 1976 Calendar » The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights comes into effect.
  • Year 1977 Calendar » Apple Inc. named Apple Computer is incorporated.
  • Year 1990 Calendar » Former leader of Panama Manuel Noriega surrenders to American forces.
  • Year 1993 Calendar » In Moscow, Russia, George H. W. Bush e.g George Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second START II or Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START).
  • Year 1994 Calendar » More than seven million people from the former Apartheid in South Africa known as Apartheid Bantustan known as Homelands, receive South African citizenship.
  • Year 1996 Calendar » The Motorola StarTAC, the first Flip (form) e.g flip phone and one of the first mobile phones to gain widespread consumer adoption, goes on sale.
  • Year 1997 Calendar » China announces it will spend United States dollar called US$27.7 billion to fight erosion and pollution in the Yangtze River known as Yangtze and Yellow River valleys.
  • Year 1999 Calendar » Israel detains, and later expels, 14 members of Concerned Christians.
  • Year 1999 » The 'Mars Polar Lander' is launched.
  • Year 2000 Calendar » The last original weekday 'Peanuts' comic strip is published.
  • Year 2002 Calendar » Israeli forces seize the Palestinian freighter 'Karine A Affair or Karine A' in the Red Sea, finding 50 tons of weapons.
  • Year 2004 Calendar » Flash Airlines Flight 604 crashes into the Red Sea, resulting in 148 deaths, making it the deadliest aviation accident in Egyptian history.
  • Year 2009 Calendar » The first block of the blockchain of the decentralized payment system Bitcoin, called the 'Genesis block', was established by the creator of the system, Satoshi Nakamoto.

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