Unix Timestamp: 1222992000
Friday, October 3. 2008, 12:00:00 AM UTC

Symantec acquired PC Tools for $262,000,000.ref name=http

U.S. President George W. Bush signs the US$ 700,000,000,000 bailout bill after it is passed by the House. //www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95336601ft=1f=1003 (NPR News)

Global financial crisis: Russia agrees to provide Iceland with a four-billion-euro loan.

Global financial crisis: U.S. PresidentGeorge W. Bush signs the revised Emergency Economic Stabilization Act into law, creating a 700 billion dollar Treasury fund to purchase failing bank assets.ref name = Associated Press-Raum-2008-10-03Raum, Tom (October 3, 2008) //ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hT-MwpK6QSoOPF74bGFqnUl_HVuwD93J6ND00 Bush signs $700 billion bailout bill "Associated Press" . Retrieved October 3, 2008.

The meteoroid 2008 TCsub3/sub impacts Earth, becoming the first such object to be discovered prior to impact.

NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes its second of three flybys of Mercury, decreasing the velocity for orbital insertion on March 18, 2011.

Russia's foreign minister calls for international action to halt piracy in Somalia. //news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7651329.stm (BBC News)

An earthquake measuring 6.6 magnitude kills at least 65 in Kyrgyzstan.

Both of Russia's main stock exchanges, the MICEX and RTS, suspend trading of stocks for technical reasons as the markets rally after a 1-1/2 day trading halt that ended earlier in the morning. //www.ft.com/cms/s/0/505ab76a-8f51-11dd-946c-0000779fd18c.html ("Financial Times")