Browse events, births, deaths and holidays on October 3 throughout history.
Bengali, also known by its endonym Bangla, is an Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European language family. It is primarily spoken by the Benga…
Bengali, Assamese, Marathi, Pali and Prakrit are accorded the Classical language status by the Government of India
Wabanakwut "Wab" Kinew is a Canadian politician who has served as the 25th premier of Manitoba since 2023 and the leader of the Manitoba New Democratic Party (NDP) since 2017. Kin…
Wab Kinew is elected to be the first First Nations Premier of a Canadian province in the 2023 Manitoba general election
Svante Pääbo is a Swedish geneticist and Nobel Laureate who specialises in the field of evolutionary genetics. As one of the founders of paleogenetics, he has worked extensively o…
Svante Pääbo is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
On 3 October 2021, a Romanian private plane crashed into a building in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. All eight occupants of the aircraft were killed, including the Romanian businessman …
Eight people are killed in an airplane crash near Milan, Italy.
On 3 October 2015, a United States Air Force AC-130U gunship attacked the Kunduz Trauma Centre operated by Médecins Sans Frontières in the city of Kunduz, in the eponymous provinc…
Forty-two people are killed and 33 go missing in the Kunduz hospital airstrike in Afghanistan.
On 3 October 2013, a boat carrying migrants from Libya to Italy sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa. It was reported that the boat had sailed from Misrata, Libya, but that ma…
At least 360 migrants are killed when their boat sinks near the Italian island of Lampedusa.
Azerbaijan, officially the Republic of Azerbaijan, is a landlocked country at the boundary of Western Asia and Eastern Europe. It is a part of the South Caucasus region and is bou…
Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey join in the Turkic Council.
The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, also known as the "bank bailout of 2008" or the "Wall Street bailout", was a United States federal law enacted during the Great R…
The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the U.S. financial system is signed by President George W. Bush.
The People of the State of California v. Orenthal James Simpson was a criminal trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court, in which former NFL player and actor O. J. Simpson was t…
O. J. Simpson murder case: O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
The Battle of Mogadishu, also known as the Black Hawk Down Incident, was part of Operation Gothic Serpent. It was fought on 3–4 October 1993, in Mogadishu, Somalia, between forces…
An American attack against a warlord in Mogadishu fails; eighteen US soldiers and over 350 Somalis die.
Nadine Gordimer was a South African writer and political activist. She received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991, recognised as a writer "who through her magnificent epic wri…
Nadine Gordimer is announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from its formation on 7 October 1949 until its reunification with West Germany on 3 …
The German Democratic Republic is abolished and becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany; the event is…
The 1989 Panamanian coup d'état attempt was a failed coup d'état which occurred in Panama City on 3 October. The attempt was led by Major Moisés Giroldi, supported by a group of o…
A coup in Panama City is suppressed and 11 participants are executed.
Tandem Accelerator Superconducting Cyclotron (TASCC) was a Canadian particle accelerator facility constructed at Chalk River Laboratories on October 3, 1986. TASCC was the world's…
TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories in Canada, is officially opened.
Space Shuttle Atlantis is a retired Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle which belongs to NASA, the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States. Atlantis was manufactur…
The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight, carrying two DSCS-III Satellites on STS-51-J.
A five-year protest during the Troubles by Irish republican prisoners in Northern Ireland culminated in a hunger strike in 1981. The protest began as the blanket protest in 1976 w…
The hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland ends after seven months and ten deaths.
The 1963 Honduran coup d'état was a military takeover of the Honduran government on 3 October 1963, ten days before a scheduled election. Oswaldo López Arellano replaced Ramón Vil…
A violent coup in Honduras begins two decades of military rule.
Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into …
Project Mercury: US astronaut Wally Schirra, in Sigma 7, is launched from Cape Canaveral for a six-orbit flight.
The superior courts of California are the state trial court system of the U.S. state of California. They have general jurisdiction to hear and decide any civil or criminal action …
The California State Superior Court rules that the book Howl and Other Poems is not obscene.
Operation Hurricane was the first test of a British atomic device. A plutonium implosion device was detonated on 3 October 1952 in Main Bay, Trimouille Island, in the Montebello I…
The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon in the Montebello Islands, Western Australia, to become the…