Historical EventsToday: 03 October

Events

• 2333 BC - The state of Gojoseon (Modern-day Korea) founded by Dangun Wanggeom during the reign of the Chinese Emperor Yao.


• 42 BC - First Battle of Philippi: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight an indecisive battle with Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius.


• 1283 - Dafydd ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales, becomes the first person executed by being hanged, drawn and quartered.


• 1574 - The Siege of Leiden is lifted by the Watergeuzen.


• 1683 - The Qing Dynasty naval commander Shi Lang reaches Taiwan (under the Kingdom of Tungning) to receive the formal surrender of Zheng Keshuang and Liu Guoxuan after the Battle of Penghu.


• 1712 - The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor.


• 1739 - The Treaty of Nissa is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the end of the Russian-Turkish War, 1736-1739.


• 1778 - British Captain James Cook anchors in Alaska.


• 1795 - General Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence being named to defend the French National Convention against armed counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the three year old revolutionary government.


• 1849 - American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death.


• 1863 - Thanksgiving Day declared as the fourth Thursday in November by President Abraham Lincoln.


• 1873 - Captain Jack and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War.


• 1908 - The Pravda newspaper founded by Leon Trotsky, Adolph Joffe, Matvey Skobelev and other Russian exiles in Vienna.


• 1918 - King Boris III of Bulgaria takes the throne.


• 1929 - The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Kingdom of Yugoslavia, "Land of the South Slavs".


• 1932 - Iraq gains independence from Britain.


• 1935 - Italy invades Ethiopia under General de Bono.


• 1942 - Spaceflight: First successful launch of a V-2 /A4-rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany: the first man-made object to reach space.


• 1951 - "Shot Heard 'Round the World" One of the greatest moments in Major League Baseball history occurs when the New York Giants' Bobby Thomson hits a game winning home run in the bottom of the ninth inning off of the Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca, to win the National League pennant after being down 14 games.


• 1952 - United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon.


• 1955 - The Mickey Mouse Club debuts on ABC.


• 1957 - Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems is ruled not obscene.


• 1962 - Project Mercury: Sigma 7 launched from Cape Canaveral, with Astronaut Wally Schirra aboard for a six-orbit, nine-hour flight.


• 1964 - First Buffalo Wings were made at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York.


• 1981 - The Hunger Strike by Provisional Irish Republican Army and Irish National Liberation Army prisoners at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland ends after seven months and ten deaths.


• 1981 - The Communist Party of Namibia is founded at a conference in Angola.


• 1985 - Space Shuttle Atlantis flies its maiden voyage. (STS-51-J)


• 1986 - TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories, was officially opened.


• 1990 - Re-unification of Germany. The German Democratic Republic ceased to exist and its territory became part of the Federal Republic of Germany. East German citizens became part of the European Community, which later became the European Union. Now celebrated as German Unity Day.


• 1993 - Battle of Mogadishu: In an attempt to capture officials of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid's organisation in Mogadishu, Somalia, 18 US Soldiers and about 1,000 Somalis are killed in heavy fighting.


• 1995 - O.J. Simpson found not guilty of the murders of his ex-wife Nicole and her friend Ronald Goldman.


• 2003 - Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy is attacked by one of the shows tigers, canceling the show for good.