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3 October 2023 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 3 October 2023 was a Tuesday.
- Irish Chart Song in 2023
- The Irish chart song for 2023 was “Flowers” by Miley Cyrus.
- Top Film of 2023
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2023 was Barbie.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 3 October is Libra.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 3 October 2023 fell in the Year of the Rabbit.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for October is Opal.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 3 October 2023 was Waning 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 2023 in Ireland
A selection from Wikipedia's '2023 in Ireland'. Not a complete list.
- 9 February – An Coimisiún Toghcháin (the Irish electoral commission) was established under the Electoral Reform Act 2022 to oversee elections in Ireland.
- 23 April – An incorporeal Cabinet meeting agreed to send an Emergency Consular Assistance Team to Sudan, via Djibouti – some of them leaving on the night – on a mission to evacuate 150 Irish people and their families from the armed conflict there.
- 6 May – Michael D. Higgins and Leo Varadkar, respectively, became the first Irish president and taoiseach in history to attend the coronation of a British monarch, at Westminster Abbey in London.
Life in Ireland in 2023
Taoiseach
Leo Varadkar
Petrol (per litre)
€1.75/L
Loaf of Bread
€1.98
Average House
€410,000
Weekly Wage
€665
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