WHAT HAPPENED ON 3. OCTOBER
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Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia under General de Bono. (3. October 1935)

Spaceflight: The first successful launch of a V-2 /A4-rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany. It is the first man-made object to reach space. (3. October 1942)

WERD, the 1st black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta, Georgia. (3. October 1949)

Korean War: The First Battle of Maryang San, primarily pitting Australian and British forces against communist China, begins. (3. October 1950)

The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world's third nuclear power. (3. October 1952)

The Mickey Mouse Club debuts on ABC. (3. October 1955)

Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems is ruled to be not obscene by the California State Superior Court. (3. October 1957)

The Dick Van Dyke Show premieres on CBS-TV in the United States. (3. October 1961)

Project Mercury: Sigma 7 is launched from Cape Canaveral, with Astronaut Wally Schirra aboard, for a six-orbit, nine-hour flight. (3. October 1962)

A violent coup in Honduras pre-empts the October 13 election, ends a period of reform, and begins two decades of military rule. (3. October 1963)

First Buffalo Wings are made at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York. (3. October 1964)

The hunger strike by Provisional Irish Republican Army and Irish National Liberation Army prisoners at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland ends after seven months and ten deaths. (3. October 1981)

The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight. (Mission STS-51-J). (3. October 1985)

TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories, is officially opened. (3. October 1986)

German reunification. The German Democratic Republic ceases to exist and its territory becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany. East German citizens became part of the European Community, which later became the European Union. Now celebrated as German Unity Day. (3. October 1990)

Battle of Mogadishu: In a failed attempt to capture officials of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid's organisation in Mogadishu, Somalia, 18 U.S. soldiers and about 1,000 Somalis are killed in heavy fighting. (3. October 1993)

O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. (3. October 1995)

The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the U.S. financial system is signed by President George W. Bush. (3. October 2008)

The presidents of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey sign the Nakhchivan Agreement on the Establishment of Turkic Council. (3. October 2009)

At least 134 migrants are killed when their boat sinks near the Italian island of Lampedusa. (3. October 2013)