Today in History: Reunification of East and West Germany

The following are some of the major events to have occurred on October 3:

1932 – Iraq became independent after the British mandate ended, and joined the League of Nations.

1935 - Italy invades Ethiopia, starting the Second Italo-Ethiopian War.

1990 - Reunification of East and West Germany. West German flag is raised above the Brandenburg Gate on the stroke of midnight.

1995 – The former American football star O.J. Simpson was acquitted of murdering his wife and a male friend. In 1997 he was found guilty in a civil suit.

2002 – China’s Liu Xia sets new weightlifting world record in clean and jerk event.

2005 – The British comedian Ronnie Barker, the big half of the famous TV duo “The Two Ronnies” and the indomitable Fletcher in the prison sitcom “Porridge,” died aged 76.

2007 – Tony Ryan, the Irish entrepreneur who founded Europe’s biggest low-cost airline, Ryanair, died aged 71.

2007 – Poland’s ambassador to Iraq Edward Pietrzyk evacuated during bomb attack in Baghdad.

2008 – United States President George W. Bush signs the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act.

2009 – Turkic-speaking countries agree formation of council of cooperation, sign agreement in Azerbaijan.

2013 – U.S. Capitol in lockdown after shooting.

2013 – Dozens of African migrants die at sea in attempt to reach Italian shores.

2015 – U.S. military strike on a hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan run by Doctors Without Borders.