[Today] October 03 To remember 12 events

[Today] October 03 To remember 12 events


01) 52 BC – Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending the siege and Battle of Alesia.
02) 42 BC – First Battle of Philippi: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight a decisive battle with Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius.
03) 1574 – The Siege of Leiden is lifted by the Watergeuzen.
04) 1712 – The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor.
05) 1789 – George Washington makes the first Thanksgiving Day designated by the national government of the United States of America.
06) 1849 – American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death.
07) 1873 – Captain Jack and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War.
08) 1918 – King Boris III of Bulgaria accedes to the throne.
09) 1935 – Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia under General de Bono.
10) 1950 – Korean War: The First Battle of Maryang San, primarily pitting Australian and British forces against communist China, begins.
11) 1995 – O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
12) 2009 – The presidents of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey sign the Nakhchivan Agreement on the Establishment of Turkic Council.