October 3, 2005
- The third non-astronaut/cosmonaut to visit the International Space Station (ISS), US businessman and scientist Dr. Gregory Olsen, arrives at the station after being sent up together with a two-man ISS crew in a Soyuz spacecraft from Baikonur on Saturday. (BBC)
- Australians Barry J. Marshall and Robin Warren have been awarded the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discovery of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and its role in gastritis and peptic ulcer disease". (BBC)
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“The autumnal change of our woods has not yet made a deep impression on our own literature yet. October has hardly tinged our poetry.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)