What happend on 3rd October

02.10
04.10
1962

At Cape Canaveral the Mercury 8 blasts off with Astronaut Wally Schirra aboard for a nine-hour flight.

1960

Niger gains its independence from France

1960

The Andy Griffith Show debuts.

1952

United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon.

1951

New York Giants beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 5-4, winning the National League pennant, with Bobby Thomson's "The Shot Heard 'Round the World".

1942

First successful launch of A4-rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany: the first man-made object to reach space.

1935

Italy invades Ethiopia under General de Bono (replaced November 11 by Pietro Badoglio).

1932

Iraq gains its independence.

1929

The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Kingdom of Yugoslavia, "Land of the South Slavs".

1918

King Boris III of Bulgaria takes the throne