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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_3" title="October 3">October 3</a></b>
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1392" title="1392">1392</a><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_VII_of_Granada" title="Muhammad VII of Granada">Muhammad VII of Granada</a></b> became the twelfth sultan of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emirate_of_Granada" title="Emirate of Granada">Emirate of Granada</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1602" title="1602">1602</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Spanish_War_(1585%E2%80%931604)" title="Anglo-Spanish War (1585–1604)">Anglo-Spanish War (15851604)</a>: An English fleet intercepted and attacked six Spanish ships in the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Narrow_Seas" title="Battle of the Narrow Seas">Battle of the Narrow Seas</a></b> <i>(depicted)</i>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1849" title="1849">1849</a> – American author <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe" title="Edgar Allan Poe">Edgar Allan Poe</a></b> was found semiconscious and delirious in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore" title="Baltimore">Baltimore, Maryland</a>, under mysterious circumstances; it was the last time he was seen in public before <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Edgar_Allan_Poe" title="Death of Edgar Allan Poe">his death</a> four days later.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952" title="1952">1952</a> – The United Kingdom <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Hurricane" title="Operation Hurricane">successfully completed a nuclear test</a></b>, becoming the world's third <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_with_nuclear_weapons" title="List of states with nuclear weapons">nuclear power</a>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991" title="1991">1991</a><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadine_Gordimer" title="Nadine Gordimer">Nadine Gordimer</a></b> became the first South African to win the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize_in_Literature" title="Nobel Prize in Literature">Nobel Prize in Literature</a>.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ermengarde_of_Hesbaye" title="Ermengarde of Hesbaye">Ermengarde of Hesbaye</a></b>  (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 818); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Lehzen" title="Louise Lehzen">Louise Lehzen</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1784); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Ripley_(transcendentalist)" title="George Ripley (transcendentalist)">George Ripley</a></b>  (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1802); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fakih_Usman" title="Fakih Usman">Fakih Usman</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1968)</p>