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, 29,324,160 minutes 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

• 42 BC –
  First Battle of Philippi: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight a decisive battle with Caesar’s assassins Brutus and Cassius.
• 1712 –
  The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor.
• 1789 –
  George Washington made the first Thanksgiving Day designated by the national government of the United States of America.
• 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 –
  The last Thursday in November is declared as Thanksgiving Day by President Abraham Lincoln as are Thursdays, November 30, 1865 and November 29, 1866.
• 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.
• 1952 –
  The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world’s third nuclear power.
• 1961 –
  The Dick Van Dyke Show premieres on CBS-TV in the United States.

Who were born on October 3?

• 1797 –
  Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1870)
• 1888 –
  Wade Boteler, American actor d. 1943
• 1895 –
  Giovanni Comisso, Italian writer (d. 1969)
• 1941 –
  Chubby Checker, American singer-songwriter
• 1950 –
  Pamela Hensley, American actress
• 1978 –
  Jake Shears, American singer (Scissor Sisters)
• 1978 –
  Vienna Teng, American pianist and singer-songwriter
• 1979 –
  Carlo Alban, Ecuadorian actor
• 1980 –
  Anquan Boldin, American football player
• 1984 –
  Bruno Gervais, Canadian ice hockey player

Who died on October 3?

• 1226 –
  Saint Francis of Assisi (b. 1181)
• 1611 –
  Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, French military leader (b. 1554)
• 1833 –
  François, marquis de Chasseloup-Laubat, French general (b. 1754)
• 1896 –
  William Morris, English writer & poet (b. 1834)
• 1929 –
  Gustav Stresemann, Chancellor of Germany, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1878)
• 1953 –
  Arnold Bax, English composer (b. 1883)
• 1965 –
  Zachary Scott, American actor (b. 1914)
• 1967 –
  Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (b. 1895)
• 1986 –
  Vince DiMaggio, American baseball player (b. 1912)
• 2005 –
  Ronnie Barker, English comic actor (b. 1929)