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The launch of a V-2 rocket
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German flag
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Wally Schirra
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Ferdinand I of Bulgaria
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Boris III of Bulgaria
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Boris III of Bulgaria
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Allen Ginsberg
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Ramón Villeda Morales
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Mercury-Atlas 8 liftoff
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Nadine Gordimer
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Battle of the Narrow Seas
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A hunger strike memorial in Derry's Bogside
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Holy Rosary Cathedral
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| ; Hoshana Rabbah begins at sunset (Judaism, 2015) | refimprove |
| German Unity Day; | refimprove |
| National Day in Iraq (1932); | multiple issues |
| National Foundation Day in South Korea | refimprove section |
| 2333 BC – According to Korean legend, Dangun established Gojoseon, the first Korean kingdom. | Unref section |
| 1283 – Dafydd ap Gruffydd the Prince of Wales, the last native ruler of Wales to resist English domination, was executed by drawing and quartering. | refimprove |
| 1918 – World War I: Following his armed forces' defeat by the Allied Powers, Bulgarian Tsar [[Ferdinand I of Bulgaria|Template:Nowrap]] abdicated in favor of his son [[Boris III of Bulgaria|Template:Nowrap]]. | refimprove |
| 1929 – King [[Alexander I of Yugoslavia|Template:Nowrap]] renamed the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. | refimprove |
| 1935 – Italian forces under General Emilio De Bono invaded Abyssinia during the opening stages of the Second Italo-Abyssinian War. | refimprove section |
| 1942 – World War II: The first successful test of the German [[V-2 rocket|Template:Nowrap rocket]], the world's first ballistic missile and first man-made item to achieve sub-orbital spaceflight, occurred. | refimprove section |
| 1957 – A California Superior Court judge ruled that "Howl", a poem by Allen Ginsberg (pictured), was of "redeeming social importance" and thus not obscene. | Several unreffed paras |
| 1964 – According to a popular legend, the first Buffalo wings were first prepared at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York, US, as a fast and easy snack to present to hungry guests. | date not in article |
| 1986 – After Soviet nuclear submarine K-219 had suffered an explosion and fire, sailor Sergei Preminin manually prevented an impending nuclear meltdown by means of a reactor SCRAM. | lots of CN tags (6) |
| 1990 – East and West Germany officially joined to form the first fully sovereign united German state since the end of [[World War II|World Template:Nowrap]]. | refimprove section |
| 1993 – American armed forces attempted to capture officials of Somalian warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid's organization at the Battle of Mogadishu. | lots of CN tags (15) |
| 1995 – In a highly publicized criminal trial, actor and former American football player O. J. Simpson was acquitted for the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman. | Featured on June 17, date of arrest |
| 2015 – War in Afghanistan: A United States Air Force gunship mistakenly attacked a hospital operated by Médecins Sans Frontières, resulting in at least 42 deaths and 30 injuries. | outdated |
| Muhammad ibn Zayd |d|900 | month of death is not certain |
| Sophie Treadwell |b|1885 | page numbers needed |
| Gaius Cassius Longinus |d|42 BC| | Uncited sections |
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- 1392 – Muhammad VII became the twelfth sultan of the Emirate of Granada.
- 1602 – Anglo-Spanish War: An English fleet intercepted and attacked six Spanish ships at the Battle of the Narrow Seas (pictured).
- 1849 – American author Edgar Allan Poe was found semi-conscious and delirious in Baltimore under mysterious circumstances; it was the last time he was seen in public before his death four days later.
- 1952 – The United Kingdom successfully conducted its first nuclear test, becoming the world's third state with nuclear weapons.
- 1991 – Nadine Gordimer became the first South African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.
- 1951 – In Major League Baseball, the New York Giants' Bobby Thomson hit the "Shot Heard 'Round the World", a game-winning home run, to win the National League pennant.
- 1951 – The First Battle of Maryang-san, widely regarded as one of the Australian Army's greatest accomplishments during the Korean War, began.
- 1962 – Mercury-Atlas 8, the fifth United States crewed space mission, was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, carrying astronaut Wally Schirra (pictured).
- 1981 – A hunger strike by Irish republican prisoners at HM Prison Maze outside Belfast, Northern Ireland, ended after seven months and ten deaths.
- 1989 – Major Moisés Giroldi of the Panama Defense Forces failed in his attempt to overthrow dictator Manuel Noriega.
- 2008 – The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, establishing the Troubled Asset Relief Program, commonly referred to as a bailout of the U.S. financial system, was enacted.
- 2013 – A boat carrying migrants from Libya to Italy sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa, resulting in more than 360 deaths.
- Born/died: | Ermengarde of Hesbaye |d|818| Louise Lehzen |b|1784| George Ripley |b|1802| Pierre Bonnard |b|1867| A. Y. Jackson |b|1882| Charles Duke |b|1935| Olivia Shakespear |d|1938| Kathryn D. Sullivan |b|1951| Fakih Usman|d|1968| Gwen Stefani |b|1969| Alicia Vikander |b|1988|
Notes
- The Catch (baseball) appears on September 29, so the Shot Heard 'Round the World should not appear in the same year.
- Ferdinand I of Bulgaria appears on October 5, so Boris III should not appear in the same year.
October 3: Shemini Atzeret (Judaism, 2026) Template:Main page image/OTD
- 1792 – Spanish forces departed Valdivia to suppress the indigenous Huilliche uprising in southern Chile.
- 1953 – Vancouver's Holy Rosary Cathedral was dedicated by Archbishop William Mark Duke, fifty-three years after it first opened.
- 1963 – Oswaldo López Arellano replaced Honduran president Ramón Villeda Morales in a violent coup, initiating two decades of military rule.
- 1992 – Sinéad O'Connor tore up a photograph of Pope John Paul II on live television.
- 2003 – Roy Horn of the American entertainment duo Siegfried & Roy (both pictured) was mauled by a tiger during a performance at the Mirage on the Las Vegas Strip.