Events on October 3 41
Year 382
Roman Emperor Theodosius I concludes a peace treaty with the Goths and settles them in the Balkans in exchange for military service.
Year 1283
Dafydd ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales, is the first nobleman to be executed by hanging, drawing and quartering.
Year 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.
Year 1739
The Treaty of Niš is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the end of the Russian-Turkish War, 1736-39.
Year 1789
George Washington makes the first Thanksgiving Day designated by the national government of the US
Year 1849
American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death.
Year 1863
The last Thursday in November is declared as Thanksgiving Day by United States President Abraham Lincoln as are Thursdays, November 30, 1865 and November 29, 1866.
Year 1872
The Bloomingdale brothers open their first store at 938 Third Avenue, New York City.
Year 1912
U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels under the command of Benjamín Zeledón at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.
Year 1919
Cincinnati Reds pitcher Adolfo Luque becomes the first Latin player to appear in a World Series.
Year 1929
The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Kingdom of Yugoslavia, "Land of the South Slavs".
Year 1930
The German Socialist Labour Party in Poland - Left is founded following a split in DSAP in Łódź.
Year 1942
Spaceflight: The first successful launch of a V-2 /A4-rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany. It is the first man-made object to reach space.
Year 1949
WERD, the first black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta.
Year 1950
Korean War: The First Battle of Maryang San, primarily pitting Australian and British forces against communist China, begins.
Year 1952
The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world's third nuclear power.
Year 1957
The California State Superior Court rules that Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems is not obscene.
Year 1962
Project Mercury: Sigma 7 is launched from Cape Canaveral, with astronaut Wally Schirra aboard, for a six-orbit, nine-hour flight.
Year 1963
A violent coup in Honduras pre-empts the October 13 election, ends a period of reform, and begins two decades of military rule.
Year 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.
Year 1986
TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories, is officially opened.
Year 1990
German reunification: The German Democratic Republic ceases to exist and its territory becomes 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.
Year 1993
Battle of Mogadishu: A firefight occurs during a failed attempt to capture key officials of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid's organisation in Mogadishu, Somalia, costing the lives of 18 American soldiers, and over 350 Somalis.
Year 1995
O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
Year 2008
The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the U.S. financial system is signed by President George W. Bush.
Year 2009
The presidents of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey sign the Nakhchivan Agreement on the Establishment of Turkic Council.
Year 2013
At least 134 migrants are killed when their boat sinks near the Italian island of Lampedusa.
Year 2015
Forty-two killed and 33 missing in Kunduz hospital airstrike operated by Médecins Sans Frontières.
Year ?
Gaecheonjeol, the date when Hwanung (환웅) descended from heaven to live with mankind, celebrated as South Korea's National Foundation Day.
Year ?
Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending the siege and Battle of Alesia.
Year ?
First Battle of Philippi: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight a decisive battle with Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius.