What are the important events that happened on October 3? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

October 3: Facts & Myths About This Day

October 3 is the 276^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 89 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 20, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,759,449,600 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectaheptacontahexagon’ day.

Libra is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 137 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,669 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

October 3 Historical Events

• 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.
• 1872 –
  Bloomingdale brothers opened their first store at 938 Third Avenue, New York City.
• 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”.
• 1935 –
  Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia under General de Bono.
• 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.
• 1962 –
  Project Mercury: Sigma 7 is launched from Cape Canaveral, with Astronaut Wally Schirra aboard, for a six-orbit, nine-hour flight.
• 1986 –
  TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories, is officially opened.
• 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 Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the US financial system is signed by President Bush.

Who were born on October 3?

• 1869 –
  Alfred Flatow, German gymnast (d. 1942)
• 1889 –
  Carl von Ossietzky, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1938)
• 1923 –
  Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican politician (d. 2004)
• 1934 –
  Koo Nimo, Ghanaian musician
• 1941 –
  Andrea de Adamich, Italian Formula One driver and TV commentator
• 1944 –
  Pierre Deligne, Belgian mathematician
• 1961 –
  Rebecca Stephens, British mountaineer
• 1968 –
  Paul Crichton, English footballer
• 1969 –
  Tetsu, Japanese bassist (L'Arc-en-Ciel)
• 1980 –
  Anquan Boldin, American football player

Who died on October 3?

• 1649 –
  Giovanni Diodati, Swiss Protestant clergyman (b. 1576)
• 1656 –
  Myles Standish, English-born soldier
• 1833 –
  François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat, French general (b. 1754)
• 1891 –
  Edouard Lucas, French mathematician (b. 1842)
• 1959 –
  Tochigiyama Moriya, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 27th Yokozuna (b. 1892)
• 1998 –
  Roddy McDowall, English actor (b. 1928)
• 2000 –
  John Grant, British politician (b. 1932)
• 2001 –
  Costas Hajihristos, Greek actor (b. 1921)
• 2005 –
  Ronnie Barker, English comic actor (b. 1929)
• 2006 –
  Alberto Ramento, Filipino bishop (b. 1937)