Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 3
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October 3: German Unity Day; National Foundation Day in South Korea
- 1283 – Dafydd ap Gruffydd the Prince of Wales, the last native ruler of Wales to resist English domination, was executed by drawing and quartering.
- 1908 – The original incarnation of the Pravda newspaper was founded by Leon Trotsky, Adolph Joffe, Matvey Skobelev and other Russian exiles in Vienna.
- 1918 – World War I: Following his armed forces' defeat to the Allied Powers, Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria abdicated in favor of his son Boris III.
- 1981 – The Hunger Strike by Irish Republican Army prisoners at the Maze jail in Belfast ended after seven months and 10 deaths (memorial in Derry's Bogside pictured).
- 1993 – American armed forces attempted to capture officials of Somalian warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid's organisation at the Battle of Mogadishu.