3 October
Notable Births
Noah Schnapp
b. 2004
American actor (born 2004)
Anton Lundell
b. 2001
Finnish ice hockey player (born 2001)
C. J. Stroud
b. 2001
American football player (born 2001)
CJ Abrams
b. 2000
American baseball player (born 2000)
Jin Boyang
b. 1997
Chinese figure skater (born 1997)
Jonathan Isaac
b. 1997
American basketball player (born 1997)
Bang Chan
b. 1997
Australian singer and rapper (born 1997)
Ayo Edebiri
b. 1995
American actress, comedian and writer (born 1995)
Mike Gesicki
b. 1995
American football player (born 1995)
Artem Zub
b. 1995
Russian ice hockey player (born 1995)
Seth Jones
b. 1994
American ice hockey player (born 1994)
Aki Takajō
b. 1991
Japanese singer and actress
Johan Le Bon
b. 1990
French cyclist
Nate Montana
b. 1989
American football player (born 1989)
Two Door Cinema Club
b. 1989
Irish rock band
Dustin Gazley
b. 1988
Italian-American ice hockey player
ASAP Rocky
b. 1988
American rapper and actor (born 1988)
Alicia Vikander
b. 1988
Swedish actress (born 1988)
Starley (singer)
b. 1987
Australian singer and songwriter (born 1987)
Lewis Brown (rugby league)
b. 1986
New Zealand international rugby league footballer
Notable Deaths
Patricia Routledge
d. 2025
English actress and singer (1929–2025)
Michel Blanc
d. 2024
French actor, writer and director (1952–2024)
Pierre Christin
d. 2024
French comics creator and writer (1938–2024)
Cid Moreira
d. 2024
Brazilian journalist and television anchor (1927–2024)
Mary O'Rourke
d. 2024
Irish politician (1937–2024)
Todd Akin
d. 2021
American politician (1947–2021)
Denis Healey
d. 2015
British politician (1917–2015)
Javed Iqbal (judge, born 1924)
d. 2015
Pakistani judge (1924–2015)
Benedict Groeschel
d. 2014
American Franciscan friar and author
Jean-Jacques Marcel
d. 2014
French footballer (1931–2014)
Ward Ruyslinck
d. 2014
Belgian writer
Sergei Belov
d. 2013
Soviet professional basketball player (1944–2013)
Robert F. Christy
d. 2012
Canadian-American physicist (1916–2012)
Ben Mondor
d. 2010
Canadian-born American business executive and baseball executive
John Crank
d. 2006
English mathematical physicist
Peter Norman
d. 2006
Australian sprinter (1942–2006)
Alberto Ramento
d. 2006
Filipino bishop, martyr and saint (1936–2006)
Ronnie Barker
d. 2005
English actor, comedian and writer (1929–2005)
Janet Leigh
d. 2004
American actress and author (1927–2004)
Florence Stanley
d. 2003
American actress (1924–2003)
On This Day in History
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2024
Bengali, Assamese, Marathi, Pali and Prakrit are accorded the Classical language status by the Government of India
Bengali language
2023
Wab Kinew is elected to be the first First Nations Premier of a Canadian province in the 2023 Manitoba general election
Wab Kinew
2022
Svante Pääbo is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
Svante Pääbo
2021
Eight people are killed in an airplane crash near Milan, Italy.
2021 Milan Pilatus PC-12 crash
2015
Forty-two people are killed and 33 go missing in the Kunduz hospital airstrike in Afghanistan.
Kunduz hospital airstrike
2013
At least 360 migrants are killed when their boat sinks near the Italian island of Lampedusa.
2013 Lampedusa migrant shipwreck
2009
Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey join in the Turkic Council.
Azerbaijan
2008
The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the U.S. financial system is signed by President George W. Bush.
Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008
1995
O. J. Simpson murder case: O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
Murder trial of O. J. Simpson
1993
An American attack against a warlord in Mogadishu fails; eighteen US soldiers and over 350 Somalis die.
Battle of Mogadishu (1993)
1991
Nadine Gordimer is announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Nadine Gordimer
1990
The German Democratic Republic is abolished and becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany; the event is afterwards celebrated as German Unity Day.
East Germany
1989
A coup in Panama City is suppressed and 11 participants are executed.
1989 Panamanian coup attempt
1986
TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories in Canada, is officially opened.
Tandem Accelerator Superconducting Cyclotron
1985
The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight, carrying two DSCS-III Satellites on STS-51-J.
Space Shuttle Atlantis
1981
The hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland ends after seven months and ten deaths.
1981 Irish hunger strike
1963
A violent coup in Honduras begins two decades of military rule.
1963 Honduran coup d'état
1962
Project Mercury: US astronaut Wally Schirra, in Sigma 7, is launched from Cape Canaveral for a six-orbit flight.
Project Mercury
1957
The California State Superior Court rules that the book Howl and Other Poems is not obscene.
Superior Courts of California
1952
The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon in the Montebello Islands, Western Australia, to become the world's third nuclear power.
Operation Hurricane