October 3
1866 Italy and Austria sign a peace treaty. Austria surrenders Venice and the surrounding region to Italy.
1899 Settlement of British Guiana-Venezuela boundary dispute.
1922 Rebecca L. Felton, a Democrat from Georgia, is the first woman elected to the US Senate.
1929 Name of Serbo-Croat-Slovene Kingdom is changed to Yugoslavia.
1932 Iraq joins League of Nations as British mandate ends.
1952 Britain conducts its first atomic bomb test off the coast of Australia.
1954 Foreign ministers of seven West European nations, US and Canada agree to allow West Germany to join the NATO.
1963 The Honduran armed forces oust Ramon Villeda Morales as president in a violent coup d’etat.
1968 Leftist military coup in Peru ousts President Fernando Balaunde Terry.
1973 Willi Stoph becomes the leader of East Germany.
1981 Ali Khamenei wins Iran’s presidential elections by a landslide.
1988 Indian hostage Mithileshwar Singh is freed in Beirut after 20 months and 10 days’ captivity.
1988 The space shuttle Discovery landed safely putting the seal on America’s return to manned space flight.
1990 East and West Germany merge to become Germany.
1993 At least 12 US Army soldiers are killed in Mogadishu, Somalia, in a 15-hour battle with supporters of Somali warlord General Mohammed Farah Aidid.
1994 Jordan and Israel sign peace agreement.
1995 Former US football star O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the 1994 slayings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
1996 US, Britain, China, France and Russia sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.
1998 10,000 Turkish soldiers cross into northern Iraq to attack Kurdish rebels.
2003 Pakistan test-fires nuclear capable Hatf-III missile.
2005 India, Pakistan sign pact on missile tests.
2006 Europe’s first lunar mission crash lands on moon.
2007 About 3,000 miners are trapped underground when a water pipe bursts, probably causing a shaft to collapse in a South African gold mine.
2008 OJ Simpson is found guilty of armed robbery and kidnapping.
2013 Former Bihar chief minister Lalu Prasad Yadav sentence to spend five years in jail in the fodder scam case.
2014 Nine United Nations peacekeepers from Niger are killed in northeastern Mali.
1990 - Tragedy strikes Monaco royal family once again
Stefano Casiraghi, the 30-year-old husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco, was killed in a speedboat accident in Monaco, plunging the Grimaldi family again into grief eight years after the death of Princess Grace in a car crash. The speedboat of Casiraghi flipped over as he was defending his world offshore championship in a race off Monte Carlo, a terse official statement issued by the palace said. His co-pilot, Patrice Innocenti, was injured as he was thrown from his seat and taken to hospital after the spectacular crash at top speed in their Italian-made catamaran Knot di Pinot. But witnesses said that Casiraghi stayed in his seat and was pinned underneath the boat when a wave overturned the 5-tonne craft travelling at 150kmp. “He certainly had no chance to realise what was happening, and at that speed, stuck underneath the boat, he must have been killed instantly,” said Michel Karsenti, a French participant in the championship. His body was fished out from the water by firemen, who rushed to the scene, and taken to the morgue.
