What happened on 3 October?
A day of reunions and new beginnings (Germany’s unification), high-profile courtroom drama, major sporting openings and local cultural festivals — a mix of politics, culture and public life that reads well years from now.
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India Events
2010 — Commonwealth Games opening ceremony (New Delhi)
India hosted the 19th Commonwealth Games with an opening ceremony on 3 October 2010 in New Delhi — a major moment for Indian sport and international events in the country.🌍
International Events
1990 — German reunification (the Federal Republic of Germany formally enlarged)
3 October 1990 is observed as German Unity Day — the official date when the German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany, completing the process of reunification after the fall of the Berlin Wall. It is now Germany’s national day.1952 — United Kingdom’s first atomic test
On 3 October 1952 the United Kingdom conducted its first successful atomic bomb test (“Hurricane”) at the Monte Bello Islands, marking Britain’s entry into the nuclear powers club.1995 — O. J. Simpson verdict (acquittal)
On 3 October 1995 a verdict in the high-profile U.S. murder trial acquitted O. J. Simpson of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman — one of the most widely followed judicial events of the 1990s.🎂
Birthdays
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Indian Personalities
Dipak Misra (1953)
— Former Chief Justice of India (45th CJI). 📎 Source: Wikipedia / legal
biographies.
Sathyaraj (1954) — Actor and public figure from Tamil cinema. 📎 Source: BornGlorious /
film databases.
Anita Dongre (1963) — Fashion designer and entrepreneur. 📎 Source: BornGlorious.
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International Personalities
Gwen Stefani (1969)
— American singer-songwriter and fashion entrepreneur.
Zlatan Ibrahimović (1981) — Swedish footballer, one of the game’s most
iconic strikers.
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Did You Know?
- Germany
celebrates Unity Day on 3 October because that is when the legal
and administrative process of reunification was completed in 1990 — not
the fall of the Berlin Wall (which happened on 9 November 1989). The 3
October date is the formal, constitutional milestone.
- The
UK’s 1952 atomic test at Monte Bello (3 Oct) signalled Britain’s entry
into independent strategic nuclear capability during the early Cold War.
That test shaped defence and foreign policy for decades.
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Final Thoughts
3 October links global history: nation-building
(German Unity), military-strategic milestones (British atomic test) and
headline courtroom drama (O. J. Simpson).
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