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On this day — October 3

A hand-curated thread of what happened on this date, across centuries.

2024

Milestone

Bengali, Assamese

Marathi, Pali and Prakrit are accorded the Classical language status by the Government of India

2023

Politics

Wab Kinew is elected to be the first First Nations Premier of a Canadian province in the 2023 Manitoba general election

2022

Politics

Svante Pääbo is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

2021

Milestone

Eight people are killed in an airplane crash near Milan

Italy.

2015

Milestone

Forty-two people are killed and 33 go missing in the Kunduz hospital airstrike in Afghanistan.

2013

Milestone

At least 360 migrants are killed when their boat sinks near the Italian island of Lampedusa.

2009

Milestone

Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan

Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey join in the Turkic Council.

2008

Politics

The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the U.S

financial system is signed by President George W. Bush.

1995

Milestone

O. J. Simpson murder case: O

J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.

1993

Politics

An American attack against a warlord in Mogadishu fails

eighteen US soldiers and over 350 Somalis die.

1991

Milestone

Nadine Gordimer is announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

1990

Politics

The German Democratic Republic is abolished and becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany

the event is afterwards celebrated as German Unity Day.

1989

Milestone

A coup in Panama City is suppressed and 11 participants are executed.

1986

Milestone

TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories in Canada

is officially opened.

1985

Milestone

The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight

carrying two DSCS-III Satellites on STS-51-J.