Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 3

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 * 1792 – Spanish forces departed Valdivia to suppress the indigenous Huilliche uprising in southern Chile.
 * 1951 – In Major League Baseball, the New York Giants' Bobby Thomson hit the "Shot Heard 'Round the World", a game-winning home run, to win the National League pennant.
 * 1951 – The First Battle of Maryang-san, widely regarded as one of the Australian Army's greatest accomplishments during the Korean War, began.
 * 1953 – Vancouver's Holy Rosary Cathedral was dedicated by Archbishop William Mark Duke, fifty-three years after it first opened.
 * 1962 – Mercury-Atlas 8, the fifth United States crewed space mission, was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, carrying astronaut Wally Schirra (pictured).
 * 1963 – Oswaldo López Arellano replaced Honduran president Ramón Villeda Morales in a violent coup, initiating two decades of military rule.
 * 1981 – A hunger strike by Irish republican prisoners at HM Prison Maze outside Belfast, Northern Ireland, ended after seven months and ten deaths.
 * 1989 – Major Moisés Giroldi of the Panama Defense Forces failed in his attempt to overthrow dictator Manuel Noriega.
 * 1992 Sinéad O'Connor tore up a photograph of Pope John Paul II on live television.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 2013 – A boat carrying migrants from Libya to Italy sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa, resulting in more than 360 deaths.
 * Born/died: | Elias I of Antioch |d|723| Ermengarde of Hesbaye |d|818|Gabriel Lalemant |b|1610| Pierre Bonnard |b|1867| A. Y. Jackson |b|1882| Caroline Brady |b|1905| Carl Nielsen |d|1931| Charles Duke |b|1935| Olivia Shakespear |d|1938| Kathryn D. Sullivan |b|1951| Gwen Stefani |b|1969