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| October 3 is the 277th day of the year. There are 89 days remaining until the end of the year. |
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| 1873 Captain Jack and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War. Of course, Captain Jack cannot die. |
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| 1899 J. S. Thurman patents motor-driven vacuum cleaner. Fun and games ensue. |
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| 1934 Jockey introduces tighty-whities. |
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| 1954 "Father Knows Best" premieres |
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| 1955 "Captain Kangaroo" premieres on CBS-TV. Good Morning, Captain! |
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| 1955 "Mickey Mouse Club" premieres |
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| 1957 Allen Ginsberg's “Howl and Other Poems” is ruled not obscene. |
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| 1964 First Buffalo Wings are made at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York. |
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| 1982 Scott Weiland runs Detroit marathon backwards in less than 5 hours. It sounded more interesting in print... |
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| 1995 O. J. Simpson is found not guilty in murder of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman |
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| 2003 Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy is attacked by one of the shows tigers, canceling the show for good until 2009, when they rejoined the tiger that mauled Roy just six years earlier. |
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| 2008 The $700 billion bailout bill for the US financial system is signed by President George W. Bush–not presidential candidate Barack Obama. Let’s keep the record |
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| 1896 Julien Duvivier, gay French director |
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| 1911 Sir Michael Hordern, English actor |
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| 1925 Gore Vidal, bisexual US author, essayist, screenwriter, activist |
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| 1944 Roy Horn, gay German-born US tiger tamer/ Sigfried & Roy |
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| 1946 [James] Biff Henderson, maybe gay US stage manager for The Late Show |
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| 1949 Lindsey Buckingham, US musician/Fleetwood Mac |
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| 1952 Steve Tracy, gay US actor/Little House on the Prairie/AIDS victim |
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| 1956 Hart Bochner, maybe gay Canadian actor |
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| 1956 Peter Frechette, gay US actor |
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| 1961 Mario Joyner, maybe gay US comedian |
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| 1962 Tommy Lee [Bass], US musician/penis flaunter |
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| 1964 Clive Owen, English actor |
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| 1976 Seann William Scott, maybe gay US actor |
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| 1978 Jake Shears [Jason F. Sellards], gay US singer/Scissor Sisters |
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| 1979 Garrett Lowney, US Olympic wrestler |
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| 1981 Seth Gabel [Cosentino], US actor/Ron Howard’s son-in-law |
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| 1982 Erik von Detten, maybe gay US actor/model |
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| 1982 Willy Monfret, French hurdler/super model |
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| 1983 Rick Bauer, gay Hungarian pornographic actor |
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| 1283 Dafydd ap Gruffyd, last monarch of Gwynnedd (North-Wales), becomes the first person in the village to be executed by being hanged, drawn and quartered. |
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| 1998 Roddy McDowell, gay English actor/photographer, Planet of the Apes, gains the keys to the kingdom |
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| BONUS TRIVIA QUESTION: In what year was Gandhi awarded the Nobel Peace Prize? BONUS TRIVIA ANSWER: Gandhi was never awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. |
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