At A Glance
3 October 2017 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 3 October 2017 was a Tuesday.
- UK Number One
- The UK Number One single was “Too Good at Goodbyes” by Sam Smith.
- Top Film of 2017
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2017 was Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 3 October is Libra.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 3 October 2017 fell in the Year of the Rooster.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for October is Opal.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 3 October 2017 was Waxing Gibbous.
On this day: 3 October
- 2009 Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey join in the Turkic Council.
- 2022 Svante Pääbo is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- 2023 Wab Kinew is elected to be the first First Nations Premier of a Canadian province in the 2023 Manitoba general election
- 2024 Bengali, Assamese, Marathi, Pali and Prakrit are accorded the Classical language status by the Government of India
- 2024 "Thick of It", a single by British Internet personality and rapper KSI featuring Trippie Redd, is released.
Famous people born on 3 October
- Alicia Vikander, Swedish actress (born 1988)
- Zlatan Ibrahimović, Swedish footballer (born 1981)
- Lena Headey, British actress (born 1973)
- ASAP Rocky, American rapper and songwriter (born 1988)
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Events of 2017 in the United Kingdom
A selection from Wikipedia's '2017 in the United Kingdom'. Not a complete list.
- 6 February – The Queen commemorates her Sapphire Jubilee.
- 2 March – New elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly are held. The Democratic Unionist Party loses ten seats, while Sinn Féin loses one seat.
- 29 March – The United Kingdom invokes Article 50 of the Treaty on European Union, beginning the formal EU withdrawal process.
Life in 2017
Prime Minister
Theresa May
Monarch
Elizabeth II
Pint of Beer
£3.55
Loaf of Bread
£1.48
Average House
£226,441
Weekly Wage
£810.00
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