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3 October 2023 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 3 October 2023 was a Tuesday.
- Billboard Hot 100 No. 1
- The Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 was “Slime You Out” by Drake featuring SZA.
- 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 October 3
- 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 the United States
A selection from Wikipedia's '2023 in the United States'. Not a complete list.
- March 12 – The 95th Academy Awards, hosted by Jimmy Kimmel, are held at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert's Everything Everywhere All at Once lead the nominations with eleven. The film wins seven of those awards, including Best Picture.
- April 20 – Elon Musk's SpaceX launches its first test flight of Starship. The device explodes shortly after launch.
- July 5 – Meta Platforms launches Threads as a direct competitor to Twitter.
Life in the US in 2023
President
Joe Biden
Gas (per gallon)
$3.53
Loaf of Bread
$2.96
Average House
$412,300
Weekly Wage
$1,108
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