Today In History. What Happened This Day In History
A Timeline Of Events That Occurred On This Day In History
A chronological timetable of historical events that occurred on this day in history. Historical facts of the day in the areas of military, politics, science, music, sports, arts, entertainment and more. Discover what happened today in history.
Today in History
October 3
| 1739 | Russia signs a treaty with the Turks, ending a three-year conflict between the two countries. | |
| 1776 | Congress borrows five million dollars to halt the rapid depreciation of paper money in the colonies. | |
| 1862 | At the Battle of Corinth, in Mississippi, a Union army defeats the Confederates. | |
| 1873 | Captain Jack and three other Modoc Indians are hanged in Oregon for the murder of General Edward Canby. | |
| 1876 | John L. Routt, the Colorado Territory governor, is elected the first state governor of Colorado in the Centennial year of the U.S. | |
| 1906 | The first conference on wireless telegraphy in Berlin adopts SOS as warning signal. | |
| 1929 | The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes officially changes its name to Yugoslavia. | |
| 1931 | The comic strip Dick Tracy first appears in the New York News. | |
| 1940 | U.S. Army adopts airborne, or parachute, soldiers. Airborne troops were later used in World War II for landing troops in combat and infiltrating agents into enemy territory. | |
| 1941 | The Maltese Falson, starring Humphrey Bogart as detective Sam Spade, opens. | |
| 1942 | Germany conducts the first successful test flight of a V-2 missile, which flies perfectly over a 118-mile course. | |
| 1944 | German troops evacuate Athens, Greece. | |
| 1951 | A "shot is heard around the world" when New York Giants outfielder Bobby Thomson hits a home run in the bottom of the ninth inning, beating the Brooklyn Dodgers to win the National League pennant. | |
| 1955 | The children's television program Captain Kangaroo debuts. | |
| 1989 | Art Shell becomes the first African American to coach a professional football team, the Los Angeles Raiders. | |
| 1990 | After 40 years of division, East and West Germany are reunited as one nation. | |
| Born on October 3 | ||
| 1800 | George Bancroft, historian, known as the "Father of American History" for his 10-volume A History of the United States. | |
| 1900 | Thomas Wolfe, American novelist (Look Homeward Angel) not to be confused with American novelist Tom Wolfe (The Right Stuff). | |
| 1916 | James Herriot, Yorkshire veterinarian and author of All Creatures Great and Small. | |
| 1925 | Gore Vidal, writer. | |
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