History Events on October 03

An American attack against a warlord in Mogadishu fails; eighteen US soldiers and over 350 Somalis die.

#Battle_of_Mogadishu_(1993)

Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey join together in the Turkic Council.

#Turkic_Council

Forty-two are killed and 33 go missing in the Kunduz hospital airstrike.

#Kunduz_hospital_airstrike

Project Mercury: Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched from Cape Canaveral for a six-orbit flight.

#Mercury-Atlas_8

Slave rebel leader Tula is executed in Curaçao.

#Tula_(Curaçao)

The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world's third nuclear power.

#Operation_Hurricane

A German V-2 rocket reaches a record 85 km (46 nm) in altitude.

#V-2_rocket

George Washington proclaims a Thanksgiving Day for that year.

#Thanksgiving_(United_States)

The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor.

#Rob_Roy_MacGregor

The German Democratic Republic is abolished and becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany.

#German_reunification

King Boris III of Bulgaria accedes to the throne.

#Boris_III_of_Bulgaria

The last Thursday in November is declared as Thanksgiving Day by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.

#Thanksgiving_(United_States)

The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight.

#STS-51-J

A Finnish Air Force DC-3 crashes, killing all 15 people on board.

#1978_Finnish_Air_Force_DC-3_crash

Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom.

#Iraq

Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending the siege and battle of Alesia.

#Vercingetorix

Nadine Gordimer is announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

#Nadine_Gordimer

U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.

#Battle_of_Coyotepe_Hill

The California State Superior Court rules that the book Howl and Other Poems is not obscene.

#Howl

The Siege of Leiden is lifted by the Watergeuzen.

#Siege_of_Leiden

Roman Emperor Theodosius I concludes a peace treaty with the Goths and settles them in the Balkans.

#Theodosius_I

The hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland ends after seven months and ten deaths.

#1981_Irish_hunger_strike

Dafydd ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales, is the first nobleman to be executed by hanging, drawing and quartering.

#Dafydd_ap_Gruffydd

Chief Kintpuash and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War of northern California.

#Kintpuash

At least 360 migrants are killed when their boat sinks near the Italian island of Lampedusa.

The 19th Commonwealth Games commence in Delhi.

The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the U.S. financial system is signed by President George W. Bush.

The O. J. Simpson murder case ended with a verdict of not guilty.

A coup in Panama City is suppressed and 11 participants are executed.

TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories in Canada, is officially opened.

A violent coup in Honduras begins two decades of military rule.

Korean War: The First Battle of Maryang San pits Commonwealth troops against communist Chinese troops.

WERD, the first black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta.

World War II: German forces murder 92 civilians in Lyngiades, Greece.

Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia.

The German Socialist Labour Party in Poland - Left is founded.

The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Yugoslavia by King Alexander I.

Cincinnati Reds pitcher Adolfo Luque becomes the first Latin player to appear in a World Series.

The Treaty of Niš is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the end of the Russian-Turkish War.

Qing dynasty naval commander Shi Lang receives the surrender of the Tungning kingdom on Taiwan after the Battle of Penghu.

Muhammed VII becomes the twelfth sultan of the Emirate of Granada.

Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight a decisive battle with Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius.

Gaecheonjeol, Hwanung (??) purportedly descended from heaven. South Korea's National Foundation Day.