11 Things That Happened This Day In History - 3rd October

1. 1863 - President Lincoln declares the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day

2. 1926 - Violet Percy becomes the first British woman to officially complete a marathon

3. 1952 - Great Britain tests its first atomic bomb - on the Monte Bello Islands, off the Northwest coast of Australia

4. 1952 - British tea rationing ends

5. 1981 - The IRA Maze hunger strikes come to an end

6. 1990 - Germany is reunited as a single country, ending 45 years of division following World War II and Cold War

7. 1992 - Sinead O'Connor tore up a picture of the Pope during her appearance on Saturday Night Live

8. 1995 - Former football player and actor O.J. Simpson is found 'not guilty' for the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown, and her friend, Ronald Goldman

9. 2002 - Five more people are killed in random shootings in the Washington, D.C., area and authorities began to search for the 'Beltway Sniper'

10. 2003 - A white tiger, used in the illusion act, attacks Roy Horn of the duo Siegfried & Roy during a performance in Las Vegas, leaving him partially paralyzed

11. 2008 - The $700bn US bailout / rescue package bill ( Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 ) is signed into law by President G.W Bush

Source: BBC, Wikipedia, historyorb.com, infoplease.com, history.co.uk, brainyhistory.com, on-this-day.com, thepeopleshistory