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October 3: Day of the Week
October 3, 2024 is the 277th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 89 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Thursday.
If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is jeudi.
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Here’s the October calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.
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Zodiac & Birthstone
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.
October 3 Historical Event(s)
1712
The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor.
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.
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.
1950
Korean War: The First Battle of Maryang San, primarily pitting Australian and British forces against communist China, begins.
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.
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 is 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.
Who were born on October 3?
1797
Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1870)
1858
Eleonora Duse, Italian actress (d. 1924)
1894
Elmer Robinson, American politician (d. 1982)
1923
Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican politician (d. 2004)
1938
Jack Hodgins, Canadian author
1945
Tony Brown, English footballer
1965
Jan-Ove Waldner, Swedish table tennis player
1968
Paul Crichton, English footballer
1974
Mike Johnson, Canadian ice hockey player
1980
Sheldon Brookbank, Canadian hockey player
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Holy Toledo! Did you know that coffee and word games are an excellent combination to sharpen your vocabulary? Let’s give it a quick spin. Within 30 seconds, how many words can you think of from these letters GSYAOEBIVX? Check your answers here: Make words with these letters GSYAOEBIVX. (Sponsored by WordFinder.Cafe)
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