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Events on October 3

• 1157 Albrecht the Bear first refers to himself as Margrave of Brandenburg in a charter.
• 1906 At the International Radiotelegraph Conference in Berlin, SOS is declared the international distress signal in place of the previous CQD.
• 1918 Prince Max of Baden becomes Imperial Chancellor. This marks a step towards direct accountability of the government to the Reichstag, rather than only to the Emperor.
• 1940 In the German Reich, the evacuation of children to the countryside begins, with children and adolescents from cities affected by the air war being evacuated to rural areas.
• 1942 With the first successful launch of the A4/V2 rocket in Peenemünde, reaching an apogee of 84.5 kilometres and a range of 190 kilometres, it is considered the first man-made device to have ventured into space.
• 1957 Willy Brandt is elected Governing Mayor of Berlin as the successor to the late Otto Suhr.
• 1969 With its Leipziger Volkszeitung decision, the German Federal Constitutional Court hands down a landmark ruling on recipient freedom.
• 1976 In the elections to the German Bundestag, the SPD under Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt loses its position as the largest faction in the Bundestag, but can nevertheless defend its governing majority together with the FDP. The CDU/CSU under Helmut Kohl remains in opposition.
• 1985 The US science fiction film Back to the Future opens in German cinemas.
• 2003 The illusionist Roy Horn is attacked by the white tiger Montecore during a show in Las Vegas and seriously injured.
• 2010 The final instalment of German reparations after the First World War is paid.
• 2023 Following a motion to vacate by Representative Matt Gaetz, the House of Representatives of the United States elects Kevin McCarthy as Speaker for the first time in the history of the United States.

Born on October 3

• 1872 Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe, German scientist and inventor of the gyrocompass
• 1874 Ludwig Anton Adlon, German hotelier
• 1890 Hermann Thimig, Austrian actor
• 1900 Thomas Wolfe, American author
• 1941 Chubby Checker, American singer
• 1951 Hans Bongartz, German footballer and coach
• 1951 Keb’ Mo’, American blues singer, guitarist and songwriter
• 1962 Tommy Lee, American musician
• 1971 Kevin Richardson, American singer
• 1981 Zlatan Ibrahimović, Swedish footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „3. Oktober“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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