Today in History

October 3

1929 - Name of Serbo-Croat-Slovene kingdom is changed to Yugoslavia. 1932 - Iraq joins League of Nations as British mandate ends.

1981 - Ali Khamenei wins Iran’s presidential elections by a landslide.

1990 - East and West Germany merge to become Germany.

1993 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin declares a state of emergency. 1994 - Jordan and Israel sign peace agreement.

1996 - US, Britain, China, France and Russia sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty.

2005 - India, Pakistan sign pact on missile tests.

2006 - Europe’s first lunar mission crash lands on moon.

2017 - Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani dies.