What happened on 3 October?

7 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1990 Reunification of Germany East and West Germany unite less than a year after the Wall falls.
2. 1935 Italian invasion of Ethiopia Mussolini's troops conquer Ethiopia using poison gas; Selassie pleads to the League.
3. 1574 The relief of Leiden To save a starving city, the rebels cut the dykes and drown their own farmland, and the Sea Beggars' flat-bottomed barges sail across the fields into Leiden with herring and white
4. 1942 V-2: the first successful A-4 launch Von Braun's A-4 climbs to the edge of space from Peenemünde — a weapon built by slave labour that killed thousands in London and Antwerp, and the direct ancestor of every launcher
5. 1993 Battle of Mogadishu US Rangers and Delta Force attempt to capture lieutenants of Somali warlord Aidid; two Black Hawk helicopters are shot down and a 15-hour urban firefight follows. 18 American and s
6. 1691 The Treaty of Limerick ends the Irish war After the Boyne and Aughrim, the Jacobite army in Ireland surrenders on terms: the 'Wild Geese' may sail for France, and Irish Catholics are promised toleration. Parliament breaks
7. 1900 Elgar's The Dream of Gerontius Elgar's setting of Newman's poem of a soul's journey after death fails at its under-rehearsed Birmingham premiere, then triumphs in Germany, where Strauss toasts him as the first E