october 3

3rd October Organization is also the name of a Marxist terrorist group .

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October 3 is the 276th day of the year (277th in Leap years). There are 89 days remaining in the year.

2333 BC - Legendary date of the establishment of the Kingdom of Chosun (Korea)
42 BC - First Battle of Philippi: The Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight an indecisive battle with Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius. Although Brutus defeats Octavian, Antony defeats Cassius.
1283 - Dafydd ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales, becomes the first person executed by drawing and quartering
1574 - Siege of Leiden lifted by the Watergeuzen - foundation of the first Dutch university
1712 - 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 end of the Russian-Turkish War, 1736-1739.
1789 - George Washington proclaims the first Thanksgiving Day
1863 - Thanksgiving Day declared as the last Thursday in November by President Abraham Lincoln.

1918 - King Boris III of Bulgaria takes the throne
1929 - The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Kingdom of Yugoslavia, "Land of the South Slavs".
1932 - Iraq gains its independence
1935 - Italy invades Ethiopia under General de Bono (replaced November 11 by Pietro Badoglio)
1942 - First successful launch of A4-rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemnde, Germany. The rocket flew 147 kilometres wide and reached a height of 84.5 kilometres and was therefore the first man-made object reaching space.
1951 - New York Giants beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 5-4, winning the National League pennant, with Bobby Thomson's three-run homer called "The Shot Heard 'Round the World"
1952 - United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon
1960 - The Andy Griffith Show debuted
1962 - At Cape Canaveral the Mercury 8 blasted off with Astronaut Wally Schirra aboard for a nine-hour flight
1964 - Underdog debuts on CBS.
1981 - The Hunger Strike by Irish Republican Army prisoners at the Maze jail in Belfast ends after seven months and 10 deaths.
1990 - The re-unification of Germany. East Germany ceases to exist.
1993 - Battle of Mogadishu: In an attempt to capture officials of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid's organization in Mogadishu, Somalia, 18 US Army Rangers and about 2000 Somalis are killed. US forces withdraw from Somalia shortly thereafter.
1995 - O. J. Simpson found not guilty of murder.

1797 - Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1870)
1804 - Allan Kardec, French founder of a doctrine/religion known as Spiritism or Kardecism (d. 1869)
1862 - Johnny Briggs, Lancashire left arm slow bowler and useful batsman (d. 1902)
1873 - Emily Post, American etiquette advisor (d. 1960)
1880 - Warner Oland, Swedish-American actor (d. 1938)
1894 - Elmer Robinson, American politician (d. 1982)
1897 - Louis Aragon, French writer (d. 1982)
1898 - Leo McCarey, American movie director (d. 1969)
1899 - Gertrude Berg, American actress (d. 1966)

2000 - Benjamin Orr, bassist and part-time lead singer for The Cars (b. 1947)
2002 - Bruce Paltrow, television and film producer
2003 - William Steig, American cartoonist and children's author; creator of Shrek
2004 - Janet Leigh, actress (b. 1927)

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