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03 October, 1995
O.J. Simpson found not guilty of the murders of his ex-wife Nicole and her friend Ronald Goldman.
03 October, 1993
Battle of Mogadishu: In an attempt to capture officials of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidids organisation in Mogadishu, Somalia, 18 US Soldiers and about 1,000 Somalis are killed in heavy fighting.
03 October, 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.
03 October, 1985
Space Shuttle Atlantis flies its maiden voyage. (STS-51-J)
03 October, 1981
The Hunger Strike by Irish Republican Army prisoners at the Maze jail in Belfast ends after seven months and 10 deaths.
03 October, 1981
The Communist Party of Namibia is founded at a conference in Angola.
03 October, 1962
Project Mercury: Sigma 7 launched from Cape Canaveral, with Astronaut Wally Schirra aboard for a six-orbit, nine-hour flight.
03 October, 1955
Captain Kangaroo debuts on CBS.
03 October, 1955
The Mickey Mouse Club debuts on ABC.
03 October, 1953
Petrobras is founded by the Brazilian government.
03 October, 1952
United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon.
03 October, 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.
03 October, 1935
Italy invades Ethiopia under General de Bono.
03 October, 1932
Iraq gains independence from Britain.
03 October, 1929
The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Kingdom of Yugoslavia, "Land of the South Slavs".
03 October, 1918
King Boris III of Bulgaria takes the throne.
03 October, 1908
The Pravda newspaper founded by Leon Trotsky, Adolph Joffe, Matvey Skobelev and other Russian exiles in Vienna.
03 October, 1873
Captain Jack and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War.
03 October, 1863
Thanksgiving Day declared as the fourth Thursday in November by President Abraham Lincoln.
03 October, 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.
03 October, 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.
03 October, 1778
British Captain James Cook anchors in Alaska.
03 October, 1739
The Treaty of Nissa is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the end of the Russian-Turkish War, 1736-1739.
03 October, 1712
The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor.
03 October, 1574
The Siege of Leiden is lifted by the Watergeuzen.
03 October, 1283
Dafydd ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales, becomes the first person executed by being hanged, drawn and quartered.

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