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.
- 1935 – Italian forces under General Emilio De Bono invaded Abyssinia during the opening stages of the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.
- 1942 – World War II: The first successful test of the German V-2 rocket (example pictured), the world's first ballistic missile and first human artifact to achieve sub-orbital spaceflight, occurred.
- 1951 – Korean War: The First Battle of Maryang San, primarily pitting Australian and British forces against communist China, began.
- 1981 – The Hunger Strike by Irish Republican Army prisoners at the Maze jail in Belfast ended after seven months and 10 deaths.
- 1990 – The German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany officially joined to form the first fully sovereign united German state since the end of World War II.