October 3rd, 1953

Born on October 3rd, 1953

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What happened on October 3rd, 1953?

October 3rd, 1953

Vancouver's Holy Rosary Cathedral was dedicated by Archbishop William Mark Duke, fifty-three years after it first opened.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Rosary_Cathedral_(Vancouver)

What else happened on October 3rd?

October 3rd, 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.

October 3rd, 1991

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

October 3rd, 1981

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

October 3rd, 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).

October 3rd, 1952

The United Kingdom successfully completed a nuclear test, becoming the world's third state with nuclear weapons.

October 3rd, 1951

The First Battle of Maryang-san, widely regarded as one of the Australian Army's greatest accomplishments during the Korean War, began.

October 3rd, 1849

American author Edgar Allan Poe was found semi-conscious and delirious in Baltimore, Maryland, under mysterious circumstances; it was the last time he was seen in public before his death four days later.

October 3rd, 1792

Spanish forces departed Valdivia to suppress the indigenous Huilliche uprising in southern Chile.

October 3rd, 1602

Anglo-Spanish War: An English fleet intercepted and attacked six Spanish ships at the Battle of the Narrow Seas (depicted).

October 3rd, 2022

Svante Pääbo is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

October 3rd, 2021

Eight people are killed in an airplane crash near Milan, Italy.

October 3rd, 2015

Forty-two people are killed and 33 go missing in the Kunduz hospital airstrike in Afghanistan.

October 3rd, 2009

Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey join in the Turkic Council.

October 3rd, 1993

An American attack against a warlord in Mogadishu fails; eighteen US soldiers and over 350 Somalis die.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on October 3rd

Born on October 3rd, 1953

70

Yelena Koreneva

Soviet and Russian actress of theater and cinema, writer

*October 3rd, 1953, Moscow

Same Day
Who's birthday is on October 3rd?

42

Zlatan Ibrahimović

Swedish association football player

*October 3rd, 1981, Västra Skrävlinge församling

73

John Patrick Shanley

American writer

*October 3rd, 1950, The Bronx

59

Clive Owen

British actor

*October 3rd, 1964, Coventry

71

Bruce Arians

American football player and coach

*October 3rd, 1952, Paterson

35

Stevie Ray Vaughan

American blues guitarist (1954–1990)

*October 3rd, 1954, Dallas †August 27th, 1990, East Troy

65

Louise Lecavalier

Canadian dancer

*October 3rd, 1958, Laval

70

John Perry Barlow

American poet and essayist

*October 3rd, 1947, Cora †February 7th, 2018, San Francisco

64

Carmen Russo

Reality television personality, singer, actress, dancer

*October 3rd, 1959, Genoa

73

Pamela Hensley

American actress and author

*October 3rd, 1950, Glendale

21

Eddie Cochran

American rock and roll pioneer

*October 3rd, 1938, Albert Lea †April 17th, 1960, Bath

74

Joey Arias

American singer

*October 3rd, 1949, Fayetteville

74

Zé Ramalho

Brazilian composer and performer (born 1949)

*October 3rd, 1949, Brejo do Cruz

63

Cinzia De Ponti

Italian actress

*October 3rd, 1960, Pescara

61

Tommy Lee

American drummer (born 1962)

*October 3rd, 1962, Athens

40

Tessa Thompson

American actress

*October 3rd, 1983, Los Angeles

74

José Mayer

Brazilian actor

*October 3rd, 1949, Jaguaraçu

52

Zoe Lyons

Comedian

*October 3rd, 1971, Haverfordwest

54

Gwen Stefani

American singer-songwriter

*October 3rd, 1969, Fullerton

36

Starley

Australian singer

*October 3rd, 1987, Sydney

58

Jan-Ove Waldner

Swedish table tennis player

*October 3rd, 1965, Stockholm

Same year
Born in 1953

70

Lene Køppen

Badminton player

*May 5th, 1953, Copenhagen

70

Jeb Bush

43rd governor of Florida

*February 11th, 1953, Midland

70

Isabelle Huppert

French actress

*March 16th, 1953, Paris

69

John Malkovich

American actor

*December 9th, 1953, Christopher

70

Ewald Lienen

German association football player and manager

*November 28th, 1953, Schloß Holte-Stukenbrock

69

Jürgen Röber

German association football player and manager

*December 25th, 1953, Gernrode

70

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

Haitian politician who became Haiti's first democratically elected president

*July 15th, 1953, Port-Salut

70

Hans Krankl

Austrian footballer

*February 14th, 1953, Vienna

70

Reinhard Bütikofer

German politician

*January 26th, 1953, Mannheim

70

Felix Magath

German association football player and manager

*July 26th, 1953, Aschaffenburg

64

Malcolm Young

Australian guitarist (1953–2017)

*January 6th, 1953, Glasgow †November 18th, 2017, Elizabeth Bay

70

Pierre Franckh

German actor

*May 1st, 1953, Heilbronn

70

Peter Stormare

Swedish actor

*August 27th, 1953, Kumla

70

Eve Ensler

American playwright, performer, feminist, activist and artist

*May 25th, 1953, New York City

70

Xi Jinping

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party since 2012

*June 15th, 1953, Beijing

69

Matthias Platzeck

German politician (SPD)

*December 29th, 1953, Potsdam

70

Emilio Estefan

American musician

*March 4th, 1953, Havana

70

Tony Blair

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007

*May 6th, 1953, Edinburgh

70

Peter-Michael Kolbe

West German rower

*August 2nd, 1953, Hamburg

70

Tonnus Oosterhoff

Dutch poet and writer

*March 18th, 1953, Leiden

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No: With 365 days 1953 is a normal year and no leap year.

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