How Many Days Until October 3?

This day in history: October 3

1. 1981

   A hunger strike by Irish republican prisoners at HM Prison Maze outside Belfast, Northern Ireland, ended after seven months and ten deaths.

2. 1989

   Major Moisés Giroldi of the Panama Defense Forces failed in his attempt to overthrow dictator Manuel Noriega.

3. 1991

   Nadine Gordimer became the first South African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

4. 1992

   Sinéad O'Connor tore up a photograph of Pope John Paul II on live television.

5. 2003

   Roy Horn of the American entertainment duo Siegfried & Roy was mauled by a tiger during a performance at the Mirage on the Las Vegas Strip.

6. 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.

7. 2013

   A boat carrying migrants from Libya to Italy sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa, resulting in more than 360 deaths.

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