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Saturday, 03 October 2026

2008

The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the US financial system is signed by President Bush.

2003

Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy is attacked by one of the show's tigers, canceling the show until 2009, when they rejoined the tiger that mauled Roy just six years earlier.

1995

O J Simpson acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.

1993

Battle of Mogadishu: In an attempt to capture officials of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid's organisation in Mogadishu, Somalia, 18 US Soldiers and about 1,000 Somalis are killed in heavy fighting.

1990

Re-unification of Germany. 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.

1986

TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories, is officially opened.

1985

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

1981

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.

1964

First Buffalo Wings are made at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York.

1962

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

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