Following are some of the major events to have occurred on October 3:
1932 – Iraq became independent after the British mandate ended, and joined the League of Nations.
1995 – The former American football star O.J. Simpson was acquitted of murdering his wife and a male friend. In 1997 he was found guilty in a civil suit.
2002 – China’s Liu Xia sets new weightlifting world record in clean and jerk event.
2005 – The British comedian Ronnie Barker, the big half of the famous TV duo “The Two Ronnies” and the indomitable Fletcher in the prison sitcom “Porridge,” died aged 76.
2007 – Tony Ryan, the Irish entrepreneur who founded Europe’s biggest low-cost airline, Ryanair, died aged 71.
2007 – Poland’s ambassador to Iraq Edward Pietrzyk evacuated during bomb attack in Baghdad.
2008 – United States President George W. Bush signs the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act.
2009 – Turkic-speaking countries agree formation of council of cooperation, sign agreement in Azerbaijan.
2013 – U.S. Capitol in lockdown after shooting.
2013 – Dozens of African migrants die at sea in attempt to reach Italian shores.
2015 – U.S. military strike on a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan run by Doctors Without Borders.
(Reuters/Photo: Francesco Zizola—NOOR)