3 October Events

October 3 is the 276th day of the year (277th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.

Events

2457 BC – Gaecheonjeol, Hwanung (환웅) purportedly descended from heaven. South Korea's National Foundation Day.
52 BC – Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending the siege and battle of Alesia.
42 BC – Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight a decisive battle with Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius.
382 – Roman 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, is the first nobleman to be executed by hanging, drawing and quartering.
1392 – Muhammed VII becomes the twelfth sultan of the Emirate of Granada.
1574 – The Siege of Leiden is lifted by the Watergeuzen.
1683 – Qing dynasty naval commander Shi Lang reaches Taiwan to receive the surrender of the Tungning kingdom after the Battle of Penghu.
1712 – The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor.
1739 – The Treaty of Niš is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the end of the Russian–Turkish War.
1789 – George Washington proclaims a Thanksgiving Day for that year.
1795 – Slave rebel leader Tula is executed in Curaçao.
1863 – The last Thursday in November is declared as Thanksgiving Day by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
1873 – Chief Kintpuash and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War of northern California.
1912 – U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.
1918 – King Boris III of Bulgaria accedes to the throne.
1919 – Cincinnati Reds pitcher Adolfo Luque becomes the first Latin player to appear in a World Series.
1929 – The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Yugoslavia.
1930 – The German Socialist Labour Party in Poland – Left is founded.
1932 – Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1935 – Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia.
1942 – A German V-2 rocket reaches a record 85 km (46 nm) in altitude.
1943 – World War II: German forces murder 92 civilians in Lyngiades, Greece.
1949 – WERD, the first black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta.
1951 – Korean War: The First Battle of Maryang San pits Commonwealth troops against communist Chinese troops.
1952 – The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world's third nuclear power.
1957 – The California State Superior Court rules that the book Howl and Other Poems is not obscene.
1962 – Project Mercury: Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched from Cape Canaveral for a six-orbit flight.
1963 – A violent coup in Honduras begins two decades of military rule.
1981 – The hunger strike by PIRA and INLA prisoners at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland ends after seven months and ten deaths.
1985 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight.
1986 – TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories in Canada, is officially opened.
1989 – A coup in Panama City is suppressed and 11 participants are executed.
1990 – The German Democratic Republic is abolished and becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany.
1991 – Nadine Gordimer is announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.[1]
1993 – An American force fails to capture any members of Mohamed Farrah Aidid's organisation in Somalia. 18 American soldiers and over 350 Somalis die.
2008 – The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the U.S. financial system is signed by President George W. Bush.
2009 – Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey join together in the Turkic Council.
2010 – The 19th Commonwealth Games commence in Delhi.
2013 – At least 134 migrants are killed when their boat sinks near the Italian island of Lampedusa.
2015 – Forty-two are killed and 33 go missing in the Kunduz hospital airstrike.

Source: wikipedia