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October 3 is the 276th day of the year (277th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 89 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 52 BC – Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending the siege and Battle of Alesia.
• 42 BC – First Battle of Philippi: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight a decisive 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 finish 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.
• 1835 – The Staedtler Company is founded in Nuremberg, Germany.
• 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 – The last Thursday in November is declared as Thanksgiving Day by President Abraham Lincoln as are Thursdays, November 30, 1865 and November 29, 1866.
• 1873 – Captain Jack and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War.
• 1908 – The Pravda newspaper is founded by Leon Trotsky, Adolph Joffe, Matvey Skobelev and other Russian exiles in Vienna.
• 1918 – King Boris III of Bulgaria accedes to 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 the United Kingdom.
• 1935 – Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia under General de Bono.
• 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.
• 1951 – The "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 – The 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 is launched from Cape Canaveral, with Astronaut Wally Schirra aboard, for a six-orbit, nine-hour flight.
• 1964 – First Buffalo Wings are 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 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight. (Mission STS-51-J)
• 1986 – TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories, is officially opened.
• 1990 – Re-unification of Germany. 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.
• 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 acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
• 2003 – Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy is attacked by one of the show's tigers, canceling the show until 2009, when they rejoined the tiger that mauled Roy just six years earlier.
• 2008 – The $700 billion bailout bill for the US financial system is signed by President Bush.

Births

• 1716 – Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist (d. 1781)
• 1720 – Johann Peter Uz, German poet (d. 1796)
• 1790 – John Ross, Chief of the Cherokee Nation (d. 1866)
• 1797 – Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1870)
• 1804 – Townsend Harris, 1st U.S. Consul to Japan (d. 1878)
• 1804 – Allan Kardec, French founder of Spiritism (d. 1869)
• 1828 – Woldemar Bargiel, German composer (d. 1897)
• 1837 – Nicolas Avellaneda, Argentine president (d. 1885)
• 1848 – Henry Lerolle, French painter (d. 1929)
• 1858 – Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (d. 1924)
• 1862 – Johnny Briggs, English cricketer (d. 1902)
• 1863 – Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov, Russian explorer (d. 1935)
• 1869 – Alfred Flatow, German Olympic champion gymnast (d. 1942)
• 1879 – Warner Oland, Swedish-born actor (d. 1938)
• 1882 – A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (d. 1974)
• 1885 – Langley Collyer, hoarder (d. 1947)
• 1886 – Alain-Fournier, French novelist (d. 1914)
• 1889 – Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1938)
• 1894 – Elmer Robinson, American politician (d. 1982)
• 1894 – Walter Warlimont, German General WWII (d. 1976)
• 1895 – Giovanni Comisso, Italian writer (d. 1969)
• 1895 – Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin, Russian lyrical poet (d. 1925)
• 1896 – Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet (d. 1987)
• 1897 – Louis Aragon, French writer (d. 1982)
• 1901 – Jean Grémillon, French film director (d. 1959)
• 1904 – Ernst Gunther Schenck, German doctor who joined the Sturmabteilung in 1933 (d. 1998)
• 1911 – Michael Hordern, English actor (d. 1995)
• 1916 – James Herriot, English veterinarian and author (d. 1995)
• 1922 – Jean Lefebvre, French actor (d. 2004)
• 1923 – Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican politician (d. 2004)
• 1924 – Arkady Vorobyov, Russian weightlifter
• 1928 – Erik Bruhn, Danish dancer and choreographer (d. 1986)
• 1931 – Glenn Hall, National Hockey League goaltender
• 1933 – Neale Fraser, Australian tennis player
• 1934 – Koo Nimo, Ghanaian musician
• 1938 – Tereza Kesovija, Croatian singer
• 1938 – Dave Obey, American politician
• 1940 – Sheila Fearn, English actress
• 1940 – Jean Ratelle, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1943 – Jeff Bingaman, Democratic U.S. Senator of New Mexico
• 1944 – Pierre Deligne, Belgian mathematician
• 1944 – Roy Horn, German-American magician
• 1945 – Tony Brown, English footballer
• 1949 – J. P. Dutta, Indian Bollywood film director
• 1954 – Al Sharpton, American baptist minister
• 1956 – Hart Bochner, Canadian film actor/director
• 1957 – Tim Westwood, Pimp My Ride UK presenter and DJ
• 1961 – Dean Lawrence (actor), English actor
• 1964 – Clive Owen, British actor
• 1965 – Jan-Ove Waldner, Swedish table tennis player
• 1966 – Darrin Fletcher, American baseball player
• 1968 – Paul Crichton, English footballer
• 1969 – Gwen Stefani, American musician & actress
• 1969 – Tetsu, Japanese bassist (L'Arc~en~Ciel)
• 1971 – Wil Cordero, baseball player
• 1972 – Kim Joo-hyuk, South Korean actor
• 1973 – Keiko Agena, Japanese-American actress
• 1973 – Neve Campbell, Canadian actress
• 1973 – Angélica Gavaldón, Mexican tennis player
• 1973 – Lena Headey, British actress
• 1974 – Marianne Timmer, Dutch speed skater
• 1975 – India Arie, American singer
• 1974 – Mike Johnson, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1978 – Gerald Asamoah, German footballer
• 1978 – Neil Clement, English footballer
• 1978 – Claudio Pizarro, Peruvian footballer
• 1978 – Jake Shears, singer (Scissor Sisters)
• 1979 – Carlo Alban, Ecuadorian actor
• 1980 – Sheldon Brookbank, Canadian hockey player
• 1981 – Danny Coid, English footballer
• 1981 – Zlatan Ibrahimović, Swedish footballer
• 1981 – Andreas Isaksson, Swedish footballer
• 1981 – Amanda Walsh, Canadian actress
• 1983 – Frederico Chaves Guedes, Brazilian footballer
• 1983 – Hiroki Suzuki, Japanese actor
• 1984 – Yoon Eun-Hye, South Korean actress
• 1984 – Ashlee Simpson-Wentz, American singer
• 1987 – Zuleyka Rivera, Puerto Rican Miss Universe
• 1990 – Rhian Ramos, Filipino actress

Deaths

• 1226 – Saint Francis of Assisi (b. 1181)
• 1283 – David ap Gruffydd, Welsh prince of Gwynedd (executed) (b. 1238)
• 1369 – Margarete Maultasch, Countess of Tyrol (b. 1318)
• 1568 – Elizabeth of Valois, wife of Philip II of Spain (b. 1545)
• 1596 – Florent Chrestien, French writer (b. 1541)
• 1611 – Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, French military leader (b. 1554)
• 1629 – Giorgi Saakadze, Georgian military leader (b. 1570)
• 1649 – Giovanni Diodati, Swiss Protestant clergyman (b. 1576)
• 1653 – Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Dutch scholar (b. 1612)
• 1656 – Myles Standish, English-born soldier
• 1690 – Robert Barclay, Scottish writer (b. 1648)
• 1701 – Joseph Williamson, English politician (b. 1633)
• 1801 – Philippe Henri, marquis de Ségur, Marshal of France (b. 1724)
• 1833 – François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat, French general (b. 1754)
• 1838 – Black Hawk (chief), Leader of the Sauk Native American tribe (b. 1767)
• 1867 – Elias Howe, American sewing machine pioneer (b. 1819)
• 1873 – Captain Jack, Modoc tribal leader
• 1877 – James Roosevelt Bayley, first Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, and the eighth Archbishop of Baltimore (b. 1814)
• 1881 – Orson Pratt, American religious leader (b. 1811)
• 1890 – Joseph Hergenröther, German historian (b. 1824)
• 1891 – Edouard Lucas, French mathematician (b. 1842)
• 1896 – William Morris, English writer & poet (b. 1834)
• 1929 – Jeanne Eagels, American actress (b. 1894)
• 1929 – Gustav Stresemann, Chancellor of Germany, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1878)
• 1931 – Carl Nielsen, Danish composer (b. 1865)
• 1936 – John Heisman, American football coach (b. 1869)
• 1953 – Arnold Bax, English composer (b. 1883)
• 1965 – Zachary Scott, American actor (b. 1914)
• 1967 – Woody Guthrie, American musician (b. 1912)
• 1967 – Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (b. 1895)
• 1969 – Skip James, American blues musician (b. 1902)
• 1986 – Vince DiMaggio, American Baseball Player (b. 1912)
• 1987 – Jean Anouilh, French writer (b. 1910)
• 1987 – Kalervo Palsa, Finnish artist (b. 1947)
• 1988 – Franz Josef Strauß, Bavarian politician (b. 1915)
• 1990 – Stefano Casiraghi, husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco (b. 1960)
• 1993 – Sgt. First Class Randy Shughart, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1958)
• 1993 – Master Sgt. Gary Gordon, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1960)
• 1994 – Dub Taylor, American actor (b. 1907)
• 1998 – Roddy McDowall, English actor (b. 1928)
• 1999 – Akio Morita, Japanese businessman (b. 1921)
• 2000 – Benjamin Orr, American bassist and singer (The Cars) (b. 1947)
• 2000 – John Grant, British politician (b. 1932)
• 2001 – Costas Hajihristos, Greek actor (b. 1921)
• 2002 – Bruce Paltrow, American television and film producer (b. 1943)
• 2002 – Robert Krausz, Stock market advisor and investor (b. 1936)
• 2003 – Florence Stanley, American actress (b. 1924)
• 2003 – William Steig, American cartoonist and children's author (b. 1907)
• 2004 – John Cerutti, baseball player and announcer (b. 1960)
• 2004 – Janet Leigh, American actress (b. 1927)
• 2005 – Ronnie Barker, English comic actor (b. 1929)
• 2006 – Alberto Ramento, Filipino bishop (b. 1937)
• 2006 – John Crank, British mathematician (b. 1913)
• 2006 – Peter Norman, Australian track star (b. 1942)
• 2007 – M. N. Vijayan, Indian writer, orator, and academic (b. 1930)
• 2008 – Karam ud Din, Pakistani Navy officer (b. 1941)
• 2008 – Johnny J, American record producer and songwriter (b. 1969)
• 2009 – Queen Fatima, former Libyan queen (b. 1918)

Holidays and observances

• Germany – Day of German Unity
• Leiden – Siege of Leiden
• South Korea – National Foundation Day (Gaecheonjeol 개천절)
• French Republican Calendar – Immortelle (Strawflower) Day, twelfth day in the Month of Vendémiaire
• Abd-al-Masih, saint and martyr
• Ewald, martyr
• China – Mid-Autumn Festival
• World Habitat Day

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

From Wikiquote

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2003

We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
~ The Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot ~

• selected by Nanobug

2004

Given the choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier. ~ "Blore's Razor" (Author unknown)

• selected by Kalki

2005

Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age. ~ John Perry Barlow (born 3 October 1947)

• proposed by Kalki

2006

The average "educated" American has been made to believe that, somehow, the United States must lead the world even though hardly anyone has any information at all about those countries we are meant to lead. Worse, we have very little information about our own country and its past. ~ Gore Vidal (born 3 October 1925)

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2007

I'm an optimist. In order to be libertarian, you have to be an optimist. You have to have a benign view of human nature, to believe that human beings left to their own devices are basically good. But I'm not so sure about human institutions, and I think the real point of argument here is whether or not large corporations are human institutions or some other entity we need to be thinking about curtailing. Most libertarians are worried about government but not worried about business. I think we need to be worrying about business in exactly the same way we are worrying about government. ~ John Perry Barlow (born 3 October 1947)

• proposed by Kalki

2008

As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. ~ Gore Vidal

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2009

We are forming our own Social Contract. This governance will arise according to the conditions of our world, not yours. Our world is different.
Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications. Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live.
We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth.
We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity. ~ John Perry Barlow

• proposed by Kalki

2010 

Rank or add further suggestions…

Ranking system:

4 : Excellent - should definitely be used.

3 : Very Good - strong desire to see it used.

2 : Good - some desire to see it used.

1 : Acceptable - but with no particular desire to see it used.

0 : Not acceptable - not appropriate for use as a quote of the day.

Suggestions

TV in America created the most coherent reality distortion field that I’ve ever seen. Therein is the problem: People who vote watch TV, and they are hallucinating like a sonofabitch. Basically, what we have in this country is government by hallucinating mob. ~ John Perry Barlow (date of birth)

• 3 Kalki 23:09, 30 September 2005 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
• 3 InvisibleSun 07:30, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
• 2 UDScott 20:51, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 03:48, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Think of the earth as a living organism that is being attacked by billions of bacteria whose numbers double every forty years. Either the host dies, or the virus dies, or both die. ~ Gore Vidal (born 3 October 1925)

• 3 InvisibleSun 07:30, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 23:49, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
• 2 UDScott 20:51, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 03:48, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Happily for the busy lunatics who rule over us, we are permanently the United States of Amnesia. We learn nothing because we remember nothing. ~ Gore Vidal

• 4 InvisibleSun 07:30, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
• 1 Kalki 08:29, 2 October 2009 (UTC) * 2 Kalki 23:49, 2 October 2006 (UTC) I can't agree with quite this level of pessimism, though it is very true that people in general have often forgotten much that is important, to the disadvantage of everyone.
• 2 UDScott 20:51, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 03:48, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

I used to be able to summon up scenes at will, but now aging memory is so busy weeding its own garden that, promiscuously, it pulls up roses as well as crabgrass. ~ Gore Vidal

• 3 InvisibleSun 07:30, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 23:49, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
• 2 UDScott 20:51, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 03:48, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

When I look back on it now, I am so glad that the one thing that I had in my life was my belief that everything in life is a learning experience, whether it be positive or negative. If you can see it as a learning experience, you can turn any negative into a positive. ~ Neve Campbell

• 2 Zarbon 03:28, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 19:07, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 20:18, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, or publicity. ~ Thomas Wolfe

• 2 Zarbon 03:28, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 19:07, 2 October 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
• 3 InvisibleSun 20:18, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know. ~ Thomas Wolfe

• 2 Zarbon 03:46, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 19:07, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 20:18, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

I don't know yet what I am capable of doing, but, by God, I have genius — I know it too well to blush behind it. ~ Thomas Wolfe

• 2 Zarbon 03:46, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 19:07, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 20:18, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

The notion that the public accepts or rejects anything in modern art is merely romantic fiction. The game is completed and the trophies distributed long before the public knows what has happened. ~ Thomas Wolfe

• 2 Zarbon 03:46, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 19:07, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 20:18, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

And out of mind as soon as out of sight. ~ Fulke Greville

• 2 Zarbon 03:46, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 19:07, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 20:18, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

Hard-hearted minds relent and rigor's tears abound,
And envy strangely rues his end, in whom no fault was found.
Knowledge her light hath lost, valor hath slain her knight,
Sidney is dead, dead is my friend, dead is the world's delight. ~ Fulke Greville

• 2 Zarbon 03:46, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 19:07, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 20:18, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

We that are bound by vows and by promotion,
With pomp of holy sacrifice and rites,
To teach belief in good and still devotion,
To preach of heaven's wonders and delights—
Yet, when each of us in his own heart looks,
He finds the God there far unlike his books. ~ Fulke Greville

• 3 Zarbon 03:46, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 21:42, 2 October 2009 (UTC) * 3 Kalki 19:07, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 20:18, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

It is only requisite for me to add that the doctrines which I commenced to preach some seven years since are as firmly believed by me as ever; and through persecutions have attended, and the rage and malice of men been heaped upon me, I feel equally as firm in the great and glorious cause as when first I received my mission from the holy messenger. ~ Oliver Cowdery

• 2 Zarbon 03:46, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 19:07, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
• 1 InvisibleSun 20:18, 2 October 2008 (UTC)

My father had a deep and lifelong contempt for politicians in general ("They tell lies," he used to say with wonder, "even when they don't have to"). ~ Gore Vidal

• 3 Kalki 08:29, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 13:08, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

I am at heart a propagandist, a tremendous hater, a tiresome nag, complacently positive that there is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise. ~ Gore Vidal

• 3 Kalki 08:29, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 13:08, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all. ~ Gore Vidal

• 3 Kalki 08:29, 2 October 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4, but would probably now prefer it trimmed to:

There is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all. ~ Gore Vidal

• 3 Zarbon 13:08, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Don't ever make the mistake with people like me thinking we are looking for heroes. There aren't any and if there were, they would be killed immediately. I'm never surprised by bad behaviour. I expect it. ~ Gore Vidal

• 2 Kalki 21:42, 2 October 2009 (UTC) * 3 Kalki 08:29, 2 October 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4. am obviously inclined to rank this higher, eventually, but making a tactical rank shift for this year.
• 4 - Zarbon 13:08, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western World. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity — much less dissent. ~ Gore Vidal

• 3 Kalki 09:09, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 13:08, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

I have always felt that no matter how inscrutable its ways and means, the universe is working perfectly and working according to a greater plan than we can know. ~ John Perry Barlow

• 3 Kalki 09:09, 2 October 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
• 3 Zarbon 13:08, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

We have no elected government, nor are we likely to have one, so I address you with no greater authority than that with which liberty itself always speaks. I declare the global social space we are building to be naturally independent of the tyrannies you seek to impose on us. You have no moral right to rule us nor do you possess any methods of enforcement we have true reason to fear.
Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed. You have neither solicited nor received ours. We did not invite you. You do not know us, nor do you know our world. Cyberspace does not lie within your borders. ~ John Perry Barlow

• 3 Kalki 08:29, 2 October 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
• 2 Zarbon 13:08, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

From StrategyWiki, the free strategy guide and walkthrough wiki

Games released on October 3.

From Familypedia

October 3 is the 276th day of the year (277th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 89 days remaining until the end of the year.

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.
• 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 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 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.
• 1952 - United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon.
• 1953 - Petrobras is founded by the Brazilian government.
• 1955 - Captain Kangaroo debuts on CBS.
• 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.
• 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)
• 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, 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.

Births

• 1716 - Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist (d. 1781)
• 1720 - Johann Peter Uz, German poet (d. 1796)
• 1790 - John Ross, Chief of the Cherokee Nation (d. 1866)
• 1792 - Francisco Morazán, Central American statesman
• 1797 - Leopold II (d. 1870)
• 1800 - George Bancroft, American historian and Secretary of the Navy (d. 1891)
• 1802 - John Gorrie, American scientist (d. 1855)
• 1804 - Townsend Harris, 1st U.S. Consul to Japan (d. 1878)
• 1804 - Allan Kardec, French founder of Spiritism (d. 1869)
• 1806 - Oliver Cowdery, American religious leader (d. 1850)
• 1828 - Woldemar Bargiel, German composer (d. 1897)
• 1858 - Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (d. 1924)
• 1862 - Johnny Briggs, English cricketer (d. 1902)
• 1863 - Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov, Russian explorer (d. 1935)
• 1869 - Alfred Flatow, German Olympic champion gymnast (d. 1942)
• 1880 - Warner Oland, Swedish-born actor (d. 1938)
• 1882 - A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (d. 1974)
• 1885 - Langley Collyer, hoarder (d. 1947)
• 1885 - Sophie Treadwell, American playwright and journalist (d. 1970)
• 1886 - Alain-Fournier, French novelist (d. 1914)
• 1889 - Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1938)
• 1894 - Elmer Robinson, American politician (d. 1982)
• 1894 - Walter Warlimont, German General WWII (d. 1976)
• 1895 - Giovanni Comisso, Italian writer (d. 1969)
• 1895 - Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin, Russian lyrical poet (d. 1925)
• 1896 - Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet (d. 1987)
• 1897 - Louis Aragon, French writer (d. 1982)
• 1898 - Leo McCarey, American film director (d. 1969)
• 1899 - Gertrude Berg, American actress (d. 1966)
• 1900 - Thomas Wolfe, American author (d. 1938)
• 1901 - Jean Grémillon, French film director (d. 1959)
• 1904 - Charles J. Pedersen, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
• 1911 - Michael Hordern, English actor (d. 1995)
• 1915 - Ray Stark, American film producer (d. 2004)
• 1916 - James Herriot, English veterinarian and author (d. 1995)
• 1916 - Shelby Storck, American television producer (d. 1969)
• 1919 - James M. Buchanan, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1922 - Jean Lefebvre, French actor (d. 2004)
• 1923 - Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican politician (d. 2004)
• 1924 - Arkady Vorobyov, Russian weightlifter
• 1924 - Harvey Kurtzman, U.S. cartoonist and founding editor of Mad magazine (d. 1993)
• 1925 - Gore Vidal, American author
• 1928 - Erik Bruhn, Danish dancer and choreographer (d. 1986)
• 1928 - Alvin Toffler, American writer and futurist
• 1929 - Bert Stern, American photographer
• 1931 - Glenn Hall, National Hockey League goaltender
• 1933 - Neale Fraser, Australian tennis player
• 1935 - Charles Duke, American astronaut
• 1936 - Steve Reich, American composer
• 1938 - Eddie Cochran, American singer (d. 1960)
• 1938 - Tereza Kesovija, Croatian singer
• 1940 - Alan O'Day, American singer and songwriter
• 1940 - Jean Ratelle, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1941 - Chubby Checker, American musician
• 1942 - Alan Rachins, American actor
• 1943 - Jeff Bingaman, Democratic U.S. Senator from New Mexico
• 1944 - Pierre Deligne, Belgian mathematician
• 1944 - Roy Horn, Magician
• 1945 - Kay Baxter, American bodybuilder (d. 1988)
• 1946 - Biff Henderson, American television personality
• 1947 - John Perry Barlow, American musician
• 1948 - Michael Medved, American film critic
• 1949 - Lindsey Buckingham, American musician (Fleetwood Mac)
• 1949 - J. P. Dutta, Indian Bollywood film director
• 1950 - Pamela Hensley, American actress
• 1951 - Bernard Cooper, American writer
• 1951 - Keb' Mo', American singer
• 1951 - Dave Winfield, American baseball player
• 1954 - Dennis Eckersley, American baseball player
• 1954 - Al Sharpton, American minister and activist
• 1954 - Stevie Ray Vaughan, American musician (d. 1990)
• 1956 - Hart Bochner, Canadian film actor/director
• 1957 - Tim Westwood, Pimp My Ride UK presenter and DJ
• 1959 - Fred Couples, American golfer
• 1959 - Greg Proops, American actor and comedian
• 1959 - Jack Wagner, American actor
• 1962 - Tommy Lee, American musician (Mötley Crüe)
• 1963 - Marion Peck, American artist and painter
• 1964 - Clive Owen, British actor
• 1965 - Jan-Ove Waldner, Swedish table tennis player
• 1966 - Darrin Fletcher, Major League Baseball player
• 1966 - Frank Hannon American guitarist Tesla
• 1967 - Rob Liefeld, American comic book writer and artist
• 1968 - Paul Crichton, English footballer
• 1968 - Greg Foster, American basketball player
• 1969 - Gwen Stefani, American singer (No Doubt)
• 1969 - Tetsu, Japanese bassist (L'Arc~en~Ciel)
• 1971 - Wil Cordero, baseball player
• 1971 - Kevin Richardson, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
• 1972 - Garrett Dutton, American musician (G. Love and Special Sauce)
• 1972 - Black Thought, American rapper (The Roots)
• 1973 - Keiko Agena, Japanese-American actress
• 1973 - Neve Campbell, Canadian actress
• 1973 - Angélica Gavaldón, Mexican tennis player
• 1973 - Lena Headey, British actress
• 1974 - Marianne Timmer, Dutch speed skater
• 1974 - Mike Johnson, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1975 - India.Arie, American singer
• 1975 - Talib Kweli, American rapper
• 1975 - Alanna Ubach,American actress
• 1976 - Seann William Scott, American actor
• 1978 - Jake Shears, singer (Scissor Sisters)
• 1978 - Gerald Asamoah, German footballer
• 1978 - Claudio Pizarro, Peruvian footballer
• 1978 - Shannyn Sossamon, American actress
• 1979 - John Hennigan, American professional wrestler
• 1979 - Daniel Hollie, American professional wrestler
• 1981 - Zlatan Ibrahimović, Swedish footballer
• 1981 - Danny Coid, English Footballer
• 1981 - Andreas Isaksson, Swedish footballer
• 1981 - Matt Murton, American baseball player
• 1981 - Amanda Walsh, Canadian actress
• 1982 - Erik von Detten, American actor
• 1983 - Fred, Brazilian footballer
• 1983 - Hiroki Suzuki, Japanese actor
• 1984 - Yoon Eun Hye, South Korean actress
• 1984 - Ashlee Simpson, American singer
• 1987 - Zuleyka Rivera, Puerto Rican Miss Universe
• 1988 - Tadhg Kelly, American actor
• 1996 - Adair Tishler, American child actress

Deaths

• 42 BC - Gaius Cassius Longinus
• 1226 - Saint Francis of Assisi (b. 1181)
• 1283 - David ap Gruffydd, Welsh prince of Gwynedd (executed)
• 1369 - Margarete Maultasch, Countess of Tyrol (b. 1318)
• 1568 - Elizabeth of Valois, wife of Philip II of Spain (b. 1545)
• 1596 - Florent Chrestien, French writer (b. 1541)
• 1611 - Charles of Lorraine, French military leader (b. 1554)
• 1629 - Giorgi Saakadze, Georgian military leader (b. 1570)
• 1649 - Giovanni Diodati, Swiss Protestant clergyman (b. 1576)
• 1653 - Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn, Dutch scholar (b. 1612)
• 1656 - Myles Standish, English-born soldier
• 1690 - Robert Barclay, Scottish writer (b. 1648)
• 1701 - Joseph Williamson, English politician (b. 1633)
• 1801 - Philippe Henri, Marshal of France (b. 1724)
• 1833 - François, French general (b. 1754)
• 1838 - Black Hawk, Leader of the Sauk Native American tribe (b. 1767)
• 1867 - Elias Howe, American sewing machine pioneer (b. 1819)
• 1873 - Captain Jack, Modoc tribal leader
• 1877 - James Roosevelt Bayley, first Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, and the eighth Archbishop of Baltimore (b. 1814)
• 1881 - Orson Pratt, American religious leader (b. 1811)
• 1890 - Joseph Hergenröther, German historian (b. 1824)
• 1891 - Edouard Lucas, French mathematician (b. 1842)
• 1929 - Jeanne Eagels, American actress (b. 1894)
• 1929 - Gustav Stresemann, Chancellor of Germany, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1878)
• 1931 - Carl Nielsen, Danish composer (b. 1865)
• 1936 - John Heisman, American football coach (b. 1869)
• 1953 - Arnold Bax, English composer (b. 1883)
• 1965 - Zachary Scott, American actor (b. 1914)
• 1967 - Woody Guthrie, American musician (b. 1912)
• 1967 - Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (b. 1895)
• 1969 - Skip James, American blues musician (b. 1902)
• 1986 - Vince DiMaggio, American Baseball Player (b. 1912)
• 1987 - Jean Anouilh, French writer (b. 1910)
• 1987 - Kalervo Palsa, Finnish artist (b. 1947)
• 1987 - René Lévesque, Premier of Quebec (b. 1922)
• 1988 - Franz Josef Strauß, Bavarian politician (b. 1915)
• 1990 - Stefano Casiraghi, husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco (b. 1960)
• 1993 - Sgt. First Class Randy Shughart, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1958)
• 1993 - Master Sgt. Gary Gordon, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1960)
• 1994 - Dub Taylor, American actor (b. 1907)
• 1998 - Roddy McDowall, English actor (b. 1928)
• 1999 - Akio Morita, Japanese businessman (b. 1921)
• 2000 - Benjamin Orr, American bassist and singer (The Cars) (b. 1947)
• 2000 - John Grant, British politician (b. 1932)
• 2002 - Bruce Paltrow, American television and film producer (b. 1943)
• 2002 - Robert Krausz, Stock market advisor and investor (b. 1936)
• 2003 - Florence Stanley, American actress (b. 1924)
• 2003 - William Steig, American cartoonist and children's author (b. 1907)
• 2004 - John Cerutti, baseball player and announcer (b. 1960)
• 2004 - Janet Leigh, American actress (b. 1927)
• 2005 - Ronnie Barker, English comic actor (b. 1929)
• 2006 - Alberto Ramento, Filipina bishop (b. 1937)
• 2006 - John Crank, British mathematician (b. 1913)
• 2006 - Peter Norman, Australian track star (b. 1942)

Holidays and observances

• Germany - Day of German Unity
• Leiden - Siege of Leiden
• South Korea - National Foundation Day (Gaecheonjeol 개천절)
• French Republican Calendar - Immortelle (Strawflower) Day, twelfth day in the Month of Vendémiaire
• Abd-al-Masih, saint and martyr

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day

• On This Day in Canada