October 3
People born on this day are Libra.
- 1990
The German Democratic Republic is abolished and becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany; the event is afterwards celebrated as German Unity Day.
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Nadine Gordimer is announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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An American attack against a warlord in Mogadishu fails; eighteen US soldiers and over 350 Somalis die.
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O. J. Simpson murder case: O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
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The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the U.S. financial system is signed by President George W. Bush.
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Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey join in the Turkic Council.
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Forty-two people are killed and 33 go missing in the Kunduz hospital airstrike in Afghanistan.
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Eight people are killed in an airplane crash near Milan, Italy.
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Svante Pääbo is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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Wab Kinew is elected to be the first First Nations Premier of a Canadian province in the 2023 Manitoba general election
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Bengali, Assamese, Marathi, Pali and Prakrit are accorded the Classical language status by the Government of India
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"Thick of It", a single by British Internet personality and rapper KSI featuring Trippie Redd, is released.
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2004Noah Schnapp, American actor
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2001Anton Lundell, Finnish ice hockey player
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2001Max Plath, Australian rugby league player
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2001C. J. Stroud, American football player
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2000CJ Abrams, American baseball player
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1997Jin Boyang, Chinese figure skater
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1997Jonathan Isaac, American basketball player
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1997Bang Chan, Australian singer and record producer based in South Korea
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1995Ayo Edebiri, American actress
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1995Mike Gesicki, American football player
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1995Artem Zub, Russian ice hockey player
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1994Seth Jones, American ice hockey player
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