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October 3

75 years on from First Battle of Maryang-san, October 3 is a date with an anniversary worth pausing on. Most of the weight falls in the 20th century, where politics and nation-building recur.

♎ZodiacLibra ◈BirthstoneOpal ❀Birth flowerMarigold

Libra is the sign for October 3 — read more on the Libra page, or see October's birthstone & birth flower.

Compiled & reviewed by · Last reviewed September 6, 2026

What happened on October 3?

October 3 is the 276th day of the year. It marks 10 notable events in history, dated between 1392 and 2013. Famous people born on October 3 include Louis Aragon, Eddie Cochran and Warner Oland.

Released on October 3

Movies, games, albums & shows

2025

  • Game Digimon Story: Time Stranger

2024

  • Game Parcel Corps

2022

  • TV Harem Camp!
  • TV Diepe Waters

Release data from TMDB & IGDB.

Events

10 notable moments
  1. 1392

    Muhammad VII of Granada

  2. 1789

    George Washington

  3. 1943

    World War II

  4. 1951

    First Battle of Maryang-san

  5. 1952

    Operation Hurricane

  6. 1981

    1981 Irish hunger strike

  7. 1991

    Nadine Gordimer

  8. 2008

    Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008

  9. 2009

    Azerbaijan

  10. 2013

    2013 Lampedusa migrant shipwreck

Famous birthday twins

Born on October 3

Louis Aragon

b. 1897

Eddie Cochran

b. 1938

Warner Oland

b. 1879

Pierre Bonnard

b. 1867

Sergei Yesenin

b. 1895

Herman Li

b. 1976

Zlatan Ibrahimović

b. 1981

Giovanni Comisso

b. 1895

Deaths

  • 1988Franz Josef Strauss
  • 1967Woody Guthrie
  • 1965Zachary Scott
  • 1953Arnold Bax
  • 1929Gustav Stresemann
  • 1890Joseph Hergenröther

Holidays & observances

  • —Christian feast day: Abd-al-Masih
  • —Christian feast day: Adalgott
  • —Christian feast day: Blessed Szilárd Bogdánffy
  • —Christian feast day: Dionysius the Areopagite
  • —Christian feast day: Ewald the Black and Ewald the Fair
  • —Christian feast day: Francis Borgia
  • —Christian feast day: John Raleigh Mott (Episcopal Church)
  • —Christian feast day: Gerard of Brogne

The factual record above — event titles, dates, names, and observances — is drawn from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license. DateLore adds curation, structure, and original editorial commentary. DateLore is not affiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation.

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