2024: Bengali, Assamese, Marathi, Pali and Prakrit are accorded the Classical language status by the Government of India
2023: Wab Kinew is elected to be the first First Nations Premier of a Canadian province in the 2023 Manitoba general election
2022: Svante Pääbo is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
2021: Eight people are killed in an airplane crash near Milan, Italy.
2015: Forty-two people are killed and 33 go missing in the Kunduz hospital airstrike in Afghanistan.
2013: At least 360 migrants are killed when their boat sinks near the Italian island of Lampedusa.
2009: Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey join in the Turkic Council.
2008: The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the U.S. financial system is signed by President George W. Bush.
1995: O. J. Simpson murder case: O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
1993: An American attack against a warlord in Mogadishu fails; eighteen US soldiers and over 350 Somalis die.
1991: Nadine Gordimer is announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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.
1989: A coup in Panama City is suppressed and 11 participants are executed.
1986: TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories in Canada, is officially opened.
1985: The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight, carrying two DSCS-III Satellites on STS-51-J.
Famous Births 👶
2004: Noah Schnapp, American actor
2001: Anton Lundell, Finnish ice hockey player
2001: Max Plath, Australian rugby league player
2001: C. J. Stroud, American football player
2000: CJ Abrams, American baseball player
1997: Jin Boyang, Chinese figure skater
1997: Jonathan Isaac, American basketball player
1997: Bang Chan, Australian singer and record producer based in South Korea
1995: Ayo Edebiri, American actress
1995: Mike Gesicki, American football player
1995: Artem Zub, Russian ice hockey player
1994: Victoria Bosio, Argentinian tennis player
1994: Seth Jones, American ice hockey player
1993: Raffaele Di Gennaro, Italian footballer
1991: Jenny McLoughlin, English sprinter
Notable Deaths 🕊️
2025: Patricia Routledge, English actress and singer (born 1929)
2024: Michel Blanc, French actor, writer and director (born 1952)
2024: Pierre Christin, French comics creator and writer (born 1938)
2024: Cid Moreira, Brazilian journalist and television anchor (born 1927)
2024: Mary O’Rourke, Irish politician (born 1937)
2023: Thomas Gambino, American mobster, Gambino crime family (born 1929)
2021: Todd Akin, American politician (born 1947)
2021: Dan Petrescu, Romanian businessman and billionaire (born 1953)
2015: Denis Healey, English soldier and politician, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer (born 1917)
2015: Muhammad Nawaz Khan, Pakistani historian and author (born 1943)
2015: Javed Iqbal, Pakistani philosopher and judge (born 1925)
2014: Ewen Gilmour, New Zealand comedian and television host (born 1963)
2014: Benedict Groeschel, American priest, psychologist, and talk show host (born 1933)
2014: Jean-Jacques Marcel, French footballer (born 1931)
2014: Kevin Metheny, American businessman (born 1954)
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
Christian feast day:
Hesychius of Sinai
Christian feast day:
Théodore Guérin
Christian feast day:
Maximian of Bagai
Christian feast day:
October 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
