1. The first West Virginia University football game was played on October 3, 1891, against Washington and Jefferson College. The game ended in a tie with a score of 0-0.

2. On October 3, 1862, Confederate General Robert E. Lee led his troops into the state and fought against Union forces in the Battle of Shepherdstown, which resulted in a Confederate victory but also allowed the Union to escape across the Potomac River.

3. October 3, 1918, marked the peak of the deadliest wave of the Spanish Flu pandemic in West Virginia, with over 1,200 deaths in a single week statewide.

4. The Blennerhassett Hotel, a historic hotel in Parkersburg, West Virginia, officially opened on October 3, 1889. The hotel was named after Harman Blennerhassett, a wealthy Irishman who built a mansion on an island in the Ohio River in the early 1800s.

5. On October 3, 1921, the first radio station in West Virginia, WCAW, began broadcasting in Charleston. The station was owned by the Charleston Radio Corporation and broadcasted on a frequency of 1,200 kHz.