3 October 1664

Roy Horn of the American entertainment duo Siegfried & Roy (both pictured) was mauled by a tiger during a performance at the Mirage on the Las Vegas Strip.

Sinéad O'Connor tore up a photograph of Pope John Paul II on live television.

Nadine Gordimer became the first South African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.

A hunger strike by Irish republican prisoners at HM Prison Maze outside Belfast, Northern Ireland, ended after seven months and ten deaths.

Oswaldo López Arellano replaced Honduran president Ramón Villeda Morales in a violent coup, initiating two decades of military rule.

Mercury-Atlas 8, the fifth United States crewed space mission, was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, carrying astronaut Wally Schirra (pictured).

Vancouver's Holy Rosary Cathedral was dedicated by Archbishop William Mark Duke, fifty-three years after it first opened.

The United Kingdom successfully conducted its first nuclear test, becoming the world's third state with nuclear weapons.

In Major League Baseball, the New York Giants' Bobby Thomson hit the "Shot Heard 'Round the World", a game-winning home run, to win the National League pennant.

The First Battle of Maryang-san, widely regarded as one of the Australian Army's greatest accomplishments during the Korean War, began.

Italian forces under General Emilio De Bono invaded Abyssinia during the opening stages of the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.

American author Edgar Allan Poe was found semi-conscious and delirious in Baltimore under mysterious circumstances; it was the last time he was seen in public before his death four days later.

Spanish forces departed Valdivia to suppress the indigenous Huilliche uprising in southern Chile.

Anglo-Spanish War: An English fleet intercepted and attacked six Spanish ships at the Battle of the Narrow Seas (pictured).

Bengali, Assamese, Marathi, Pali and Prakrit are accorded the Classical language status by the Government of India

Wab Kinew is elected to be the first First Nations Premier of a Canadian province in the 2023 Manitoba general election

Svante Pääbo is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Eight people are killed in an airplane crash near Milan, Italy.

Forty-two people are killed and 33 go missing in the Kunduz hospital airstrike in Afghanistan.

Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey join in the Turkic Council.

O. J. Simpson murder case: O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.

An American attack against a warlord in Mogadishu fails; eighteen US soldiers and over 350 Somalis die.

Nadine Gordimer is announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The German Democratic Republic is abolished and becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany; the event is afterwards celebrated as German Unity Day.