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October 3

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

Events:

2333 BC - Legendary date of the establishment of the Kingdom of Chosun[?] (Korea)
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
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 Yugoslavia (Slovenia,Croatia and Serbia), "Land of the South Slavs," was formed. It included the regions of Serbia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, and Vardar Macedonia
1932 - Iraq gains its independence
1935 - Italy invades Ethiopia under General de Bono[?] (replaced November 11 by Pietro Badaglio[?])
1942 - Germany tests the first V-2 rocket
1952 - United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon
1962 - At Cape Canaveral the Sigma Seven[?] blasted off with Astronaut Wally Schirra[?] aboard for a nine-hour flight
1974 - Watergate trial opens
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 - In an attempt to capture officials of warlord 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.

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See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

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