Editing October 3 (section)

===1901–present===
*[[1912]] &ndash; U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the [[Battle of Coyotepe Hill]].
*[[1918]] &ndash; Tsar [[Boris III of Bulgaria]] accedes to the throne.
*[[1919]] &ndash; [[Cincinnati Reds]] pitcher [[Adolfo Luque]] becomes the first Latin American player to appear in a [[World Series]].
*[[1929]] &ndash; The [[Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes]] is renamed to Yugoslavia by King [[Alexander I of Yugoslavia|Alexander I]].
*[[1932]] &ndash; The [[Kingdom of Iraq]] gains independence from the United Kingdom.
*[[1935]] &ndash; [[Second Italo-Ethiopian War|Second Italo-Abyssinian War]]: Italy [[De Bono's invasion of Abyssinia|invades Ethiopia]].
*[[1942]] &ndash; A German [[V-2 rocket]] reaches a record 85&nbsp;km (46&nbsp;nm) in altitude.
*[[1943]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: German forces murder 92 civilians in [[Lingiades massacre|Lingiades]], Greece.
*[[1946]] &ndash; An [[American Overseas Airlines]] [[Douglas DC-4]] [[1946 American Overseas Airlines Douglas DC-4 crash|crashes]] near [[Ernest Harmon Air Force Base]] in [[Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador]], Canada, killing 39.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=ASN Aircraft accident Douglas C-54E-5-DO (DC-4) NC90904 Stephenville-Harmon AAB, NL (YJT) |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19461003-0 |access-date=2022-10-02 |website=aviation-safety.net}}</ref>
*[[1949]] &ndash; [[WERD (Atlanta)|WERD]], the first black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta.
*[[1951]] &ndash; Korean War: The [[First Battle of Maryang San]] pits Commonwealth troops against communist Chinese troops.
*[[1952]] &ndash; The United Kingdom [[Operation Hurricane|successfully tests]] a nuclear weapon in the [[Montebello Islands]], [[Western Australia]], to become the world's third nuclear power.
*[[1957]] &ndash; The [[State Superior Court of California|California State Superior Court]] rules that the book ''[[Howl (poem)|Howl and Other Poems]]'' is not obscene.
*[[1962]] &ndash; [[Project Mercury]]: US astronaut [[Wally Schirra]], in [[Mercury-Atlas 8|Sigma 7]], is launched from [[Cape Canaveral Space Force Station|Cape Canaveral]] for a six-orbit flight.
*[[1963]] &ndash; [[1963 Honduran coup d'état|A violent coup in Honduras]] begins two decades of military rule.
*[[1981]] &ndash; The [[1981 Irish hunger strike|hunger strike]] at the [[HM Prison Maze|Maze Prison]] in [[Northern Ireland]] ends after seven months and ten deaths.
*[[1985]] &ndash; The [[Space Shuttle Atlantis|Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'']] makes its maiden flight, carrying two [[Defense Satellite Communications System|DSCS-III Satellites]] on [[STS-51-J]].
*[[1986]] &ndash; [[TASCC]], a superconducting cyclotron at the [[Chalk River Laboratories]] in [[Canada]], is officially opened.
*[[1989]] &ndash; A [[1989 Panamanian coup d'état attempt|coup]] in [[Panama City]] is suppressed and 11 participants are executed.
*[[1990]] &ndash; The [[East Germany|German Democratic Republic]] [[German reunification|is abolished]] and becomes part of the [[Germany|Federal Republic of Germany]]; the event is afterwards celebrated as [[German Unity Day]].<ref>{{cite journal |author=Gordon |first=Joseph S. |title=German Reunification and the Bundeswehr |journal=Military Review |publisher=Command and General Staff School |page=21}}</ref>
*[[1991]] &ndash; [[Nadine Gordimer]] is announced as the winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1991 - Press Release|publisher=Nobel Media AB|date=2014|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1991/press.html|access-date=7 January 2018}}</ref>
*[[1993]] &ndash; An American attack against a warlord in Mogadishu [[Battle of Mogadishu (1993)|fails]]; eighteen US soldiers and over 350 Somalis die.
*[[1995]] &ndash; [[Murder trial of O. J. Simpson|O. J. Simpson murder case]]: [[O. J. Simpson]] is [[Acquittal|acquitted]] of the murders of [[Nicole Brown Simpson]] and [[Ronald Goldman]].
*[[2008]] &ndash; The [[Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008]] for the U.S. financial system is signed by President George W. Bush.
*[[2009]] &ndash; [[Azerbaijan]], [[Kazakhstan]], [[Kyrgyzstan]], and [[Turkey]] join in the [[Organization of Turkic States|Turkic Council]].
*[[2013]] &ndash; At least 360 migrants are killed when their boat [[2013 Lampedusa migrant shipwreck|sinks]] near the Italian island of [[Lampedusa]].
*[[2015]] &ndash; Forty-two people are killed and 33 go missing in the [[Kunduz hospital airstrike]] in [[Afghanistan]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/story-of-how-a-kunduz-hospital-was-shelled-by-us-gunship-in-question/2015/10/10/1c8affe2-6ebc-11e5-b31c-d80d62b53e28_story.html |title=By evening, a hospital. By morning, a war zone |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=10 October 2015 |access-date=18 October 2015}}</ref>
*[[2021]] &ndash; Eight people are killed [[2021 Milan airplane crash|in an airplane crash]] near [[Milan]], Italy.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wert |first1=Jakob |title=Pilatus PC-12 aircraft crashes in Milan, hits building |url=https://www.ifn.news/posts/pilatus-pc-12-crashes-in-milan-hits-building/ |access-date=3 October 2021 |work=International Flight Network |date=3 October 2021}}</ref>
*[[2022]] &ndash; [[Svante Pääbo]] is [[2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|awarded]] the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Bryson Taylor |first=Derrick |title=2022 Nobel Prizes: The Full List |url=https://www.nytimes.com/article/nobel-prizes-2022.html |access-date=2 November 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=10 October 2022}}</ref>
*[[2024]] &ndash; [[Bengali language|Bengali]], [[Assamese language|Assamese]], [[Marathi language|Marathi]], [[Pali]] and [[Prakrit]] are accorded the [[Classical languages of India|Classical language]] status by the Government of India<ref>{{Cite web |last=Government of India |first=Press Information Bureau |date=4 October 2024 |title=Status of Classical Language: An Explainer |url=https://pib.gov.in/PressNoteDetails.aspx?NoteId=153239&ModuleId=3&reg=3&lang=1}}</ref>