This Day In European History

3rd October

Events
1929: Yugoslavia is created from the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.
1952: Britain detonates its first atom bomb in a test near Australia.
1990: The unification of East and West Germany.

Births
1554: Fulke Greville, English poet.
1690: Robert Barclay, British Quaker.
1716: Giovanni Beccaria, Italian physician.

Deaths
1226: St. Francis of Assisi.
1896: William Morris, British designer and pioneer of the Arts and Crafts movement.

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