… On 3rd October 1283: Dafydd ap Gruffydd, the brother of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, become the first prominent person in recorded history to be hanged drawn and quartered. He was also the first person known to have been tried and executed for high treason against the King. Dafydd was dragged through Shrewsbury, attached to a horse's tail then hanged alive, revived, then disembowelled and his entrails burned before him for "his sacrilege in committing his crimes in the week of Christ's passion", and then his body cut into four quarters "for plotting the king's death". …
1691 The Treaty of Limerick was signed, ending the Irish Rebellion against English rule.
1778 Captain James Cook anchors at Alaska.
… In October 1848, the building of the North Wales Hospital in Denbigh was completed.
The North Wales Hospital (locally known as Denbigh Mental or Denbigh Asylum) is a Grade II listed building and was built in response to the Lunacy Act 1845 as a hospital for housing 200 people with psychiatric illnesses. The act was an important landmark in the treatment of the mentally ill and changed the status of the mentally ill to those who could be treated and cured, an attitude that had been highlighted by the mental disorder of ruling monarch George III.
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1849 American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death.
1888 New Zealand Natives, a privately organized and mainly Māori rugby team, play their first game in the UK and beat Surrey 4-1; they are the first national rugby team to wear all black and perform the haka.
1929 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes changes name to Yugoslavia.
Today is German Unity Day, the day commemorating the unification of West and East Germany in 1990( technically 1991) [media=https://youtu.be/dIh1eOw0zV8]
3 Oct 1968 Working at Trident Studios in London, The Beatles recorded the new George Harrison song ‘Savoy Truffle’. George, Paul, and Ringo recorded just one take of the basic track (drums, bass, and lead guitar). The song was inspired by Eric Clapton's love of chocolates, particularly Mackintosh's Good News.
