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The 3t o October is the 276t day o the year (277t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 89 days bidin.
Events
2457 BC - Legendary date for the foondin o the Kinrick o Chosun (Korea ).
52 BC - Vercingetorix , leader o the Gauls , surrenders tae the Romans unner Julius Caesar , endin the Siege an Battle o Alesia.
1712 - The Duke o Montrose issues an arrest warrant for Rab Roy MacGregor .
1762 - Catherine the Great is crouned Empress o Roushie .
1778 - Captain James Cook anchors in Alaska .
1863 - US Preses Abraham Lincoln determines that the last Thursday in November will be Thanksgiving Day.
1884 - In Denmark , Christiansborg Palace is destoyed bi fire .
1929 - The Kinrick o Serbs, Croats an Slovenes renames issel the Kinrick o Yugoslavie .
1932 - Iraq gains unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick .
1952 - The Unitit Kinrick tests its first atomic bomb, in the Montebello Islands, Australie .
1963 - Willy Brandt is electit Mayor o Wast Berlin .
1969 - The Berlin Telly Touer opens.
1985 - The Space Shuttle Atlantis maks its first flicht.
1990 - Wast Germany an East Germany unite intae ane kintra.
1993 - The Somali Ceevil War descends intae the "Battle o Mogadishu " involvin US Airmy Rangers an Unitit Naitions Troops on ane side an Somali militants on the ither.
1994 - Fernando Henrique Cardoso wins Brazil 's Preses election.
1995 - American fitbaa player O. J. Simpson is foond "Not Guilty" o the murthers o Nicole Brown an Ron Goldman.
1997 - The first cloned rodent , a moose named Cumulina, is born in Honolulu , Hawaii .
2010 - The Commonweel Gemmes in Delhi stairt.
2011 - Helle Thorning-Schmidt becomes the first female Prime meenister o Denmark .
2013 - A boat carryin refugees sinks aff Sicily , killin ower 500 fowk.
2013 - The Gambie withdraws frae the Commonweel o Nations .
2015 - 42 fowk are kilt bi a US airstrike on a hospital in Kunduz , Afghanistan .
2017 - Barry Barish , Kip Thorne an Rainer Weiss win the Nobel Prize in Pheesics for the discovery o Gravitational Waves.
2019 - A coort in Belfast concludes that Northren Ireland 's ban on abortion is agin human richts.
2019 - The Scots Pairlament votes tae ban the smackin o bairns in Scotland , makkin it the first kintra in the Unitit Kinrick (an 58t in the warld) tae dae this.
Births
85 BC - Gaius Cassius Longinus , Roman senator (d. 42 BC )
1797 - Leopold II, Grand Duke o Tuscany (d. 1870 )
1844 - Patrick Manson , Scots medicinar (d. 1922 )
1858 - Eleonora Duse , Italian actress (d. 1924 )
1889 - Carl von Ossietzky , German writer, jurnalist an activist (d. 1938 )
1895 - Sergei Yesenin , Roushie poet (d. 1925 )
1897 - Louis Aragon , French poet (d. 1982 )
1908 - James Macdonald , Scots ornithologist (d. 2002 )
1919 - James M. Buchanan , American economist (d. 2013 )
1925 - Gore Vidal , American writer (d. 2012 )
1932 - Tommy Preston , Scots fitbawer (d. 2015 )
1938 - Eddie Cochran , American muisicker (d. 1960 )
1938 - Pedro Pablo Kuczynski , umwhile Preses o Peru
1941 - Chubby Checker , American sangster
1944 - Harry Hood , Scots fitbawer (d. 2019 )
1949 - Lindsey Buckingham , American sangster, sangwriter an muisicker
1954 - Stevie Ray Vaughan , American guitarist, sangster an componer (d. 1990 )
1964 - Clive Owen , Inglis actor
1969 - Gwen Stefani , American sangster
1973 - Neve Campbell , Canadian actress
1973 - Lena Headey , Inglis actress
1976 - Seann William Scott , American actor, comedian an producer
1978 - Claudio Pizarro , Peruvian fitbawer
1981 - Zlatan Ibrahimovic , Swadish fitbawer
1982 - Graeme Smith , Scots fitbawer
1983 - Fred , Brazilian fitbawer
1984 - Ashlee Simpson , American sangster an actress
1988 - Alicia Vikander , Swadish actress
1993 - Michael Devlin , Scots fitbawer
Daiths
42 BC - Gaius Cassius Longinus , Roman senator (b. 85 BC )
1226 - Francis o Assisi , Italian saunt (b. 1181 )
1283 - Dafydd ap Gruffydd , Prince o Gwynedd
1690 - Robert Barclay , Scots Quaiker (b. 1648 )
1929 - Gustav Stresemann , German politeecian (b. 1878 )
1976 - Scott Duncan , Scots fitbawer (b. 1888 )
1987 - Jean Anouilh , French dramatist (b. 1910 )
2004 - Janet Leigh , American actress (b. 1927 )
2015 - Denis Healey , Inglis politeecian (b. 1917 )
2017 - Jalal Talabani , Preses o Iraq (b. 1933 )
2018 - Leon Lederman , American pheesicist (b. 1922 )
Halidays
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