On this day: October 3

October 3

Oswaldo López Arellano

• 2333 BC – According to Korean legend, Dangun, the "grandson of heaven", established Gojoseon, the first Korean kingdom.
• 1952 – The United Kingdom successfully completed a nuclear test to become the world's third nuclear power.
• 1963 – Oswaldo López Arellano (pictured) replaced Honduran President Ramón Villeda Morales in a violent coup and initiated two decades of military rule.
• 1981 – The hunger strike by Irish Republican Army prisoners at HM Prison Maze in Belfast ended after seven months and ten deaths.
• 2008 – The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, establishing the Troubled Asset Relief Program, commonly referred to as a bailout of the U.S. financial system, was enacted.

Muhammad ibn Zayd (d. 900) · Pierre Bonnard (b. 1867) · Olivia Shakespear (d. 1938)

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