1914 | Japan declared war on Germany in the World War I. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
1933 | Mahatma Gandhi was released from jail following another hunger strike. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
1953 | Italian Ferrari driver Alberto Ascari won his second Formula 1 World Drivers Championship. (Image: Formula 1)
1966 | The first ever photograph of the Earth was taken from the orbit of the moon by NASA’s Lunar Orbiter-1. (Image: NASA)
1990 | In a historic move, East and West Germany announced that they would unite on October 3. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
1996 | Al Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden issued a message titled "A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places." (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
2005 | Hurricane Katrina formed over the Bahamas. It later turned into a category 5 hurricane. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
2011 | Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces took control of the state during the 2011 Libyan Civil War. (Image: Wikimedia Commons)
2021 | Video evidence of a Seychelles giant tortoise hunting and eating a bird surfaced. For the first time, it was revealed that tortoises could hunt. They were previously thought to be herbivores. (Image: Shutterstock)