📜 This Day in History
October 3
- 1392Muhammad VII became the twelfth sultan of the Emirate of Granada.
- 1849American author Edgar Allan Poe was found semi-conscious and delirious in Baltimore under mysterious circumstances; it was the last time he was seen in public before his death four days later.
1952The United Kingdom successfully conducted its first nuclear test, becoming the world's third state with nuclear weapons.- 1963Oswaldo López Arellano replaced Honduran president Ramón Villeda Morales in a violent coup, initiating two decades of military rule.
- 1992Sinéad O'Connor tore up a photograph of Pope John Paul II on live television.
- 2013A boat carrying migrants from Libya to Italy sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa, resulting in more than 360 deaths.
