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Today in History ~ October 3
Events1430 - Jews are expelled from Eger Bohemia
1569 - Battle of Montcontour: Duke of Anjou beats Huguenots
1605 - Chinese uprising in Philippines, Tondo/Quiapo massacre
1650 - The English parliament declares its rule over the fledgling American colonies
1678 - Taj Mahal was completed
1691 - English & Dutch armies occupy Limerick, Ireland
1776 - In need of money to fuel the American Revolution, Congress gave its seal of approval to the nation's very first loan
1778 - Capt Cook anchors at Alaska
1789 - Washington proclaims 1st national Thanksgiving Day to be Nov 26
1799 - Live-in housekeeper Sarah Lloyd allows her boyfriend to enter her employer's home outside London so that he can burglarize the house.
1862 - -10] Battle of Corinth, Mississippi
1863 - Abraham Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day (he must have been thinking about a long holiday weekend back then)
1872 - Bloomingdale's department store in NY opens
1873 - The United States military hangs four Indians found guilty of murdering the Civil War hero, General Edward Canby, during the Modoc War in Oregon. [H]
1899 - J S Thurman patents motor-driven vacuum cleaner
1900 - Edward Elgar/Cardinal John Henry Newman's oratorium premieres in Birmingham
1906 - SOS adopted as warning signal by 1st conference on wireless telegraphy
1912 - The first professional racing victory for a car fitted with a Duesenberg engine
1913 - Federal Income Tax signed into law (at 1%)
1913 - President Woodrow Wilson Fights for Lower Tariff
1919 - Serbian, Croatian & Slavic parliment agree on 8 hr work day
1922 - 1st facsimile photo send over city telephone lines, Washington, DC
1922 - Rebecca L. Felton (Georgia Democrat), becomes the first female senator in US history
1928 - French sub "Ondine" sinks returning to Toulon, drowning 42
1929 - Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes formally changed its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
1932 - Iraq becomes independent after a hundred years of direct foreign rule. Britain seized Iraq from Turkey during WWI.
1940 - France Vichy government proclaims end to Jewish status
1940 - US forms parachute troops
1941 - Adolf Hitler declared in a speech in Berlin that Russia had been "broken" and would "never rise again."
1941 - All elderly Jewish men of Kerenchug Ukraine, are killed by SS
1941 - Nazi's blow up 6 synagoges in Paris
1941 - The movie "The Maltese Falcon" _ the version starring Humphrey Bogart and directed by John Huston opened in New York.
1942 - Launch of 1st A-4/V-2 rocket to altitude of 53 miles (85 km) by Germans
1942 - President Franklin Roosevelt established the Office of Economic Stabilization.
1947 - 1st telescope lens 200" (508 cm) in diameter completed
1951 - The New York Giants won the National League pennant, 5-4, as third baseman Bobby Thomson hit a three-run homer off Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca at the Polo Grounds in the "shot heard 'round the world."
1952 - 1st video recording on magnetic tape, LA, Ca
1952 - British successfully tests its first atomic bomb off Trimouille Island, near Monte Bello Island off of the northwest coast of Australia.
1955 - "Mickey Mouse Club" premieres
1955 - "Captain Kangaroo" with Bob Keeshan in the title role was broadcast for the first time.
1957 - Willy Brandt elected mayor of West Berlin
1960 - "The Andy Griffith Show" premiered on CBS-TV
1960 - SF's White House dept store 1st to accept Bank Americard
1961 - "Mr Ed" premieres
1961 - The United Auto Workers (UAW) called the first company-wide strike against Ford Motor Company since the Ford's first union contract was signed in 1941
1961, "The Dick Van Dyke Show," also starring Mary Tyler Moore, made its debut on CBS.
1962 - "Stop the World" opens at Shubert NYC for 886 performances
1962 - Astronaut Wally Schirra blasted off from Cape Canaveral aboard the Sigma Seven on a nine-hour flight.
1967 - Elements of the 1st Cavalry Division launch Operation Wallowa in South Vietnam's northernmost provinces.
1968 - Howard Sackler's "Great White Hope," premieres in NYC
1970 - "Coco" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 333 performances
1970 - Baseball umpires call their 1st strike
1972 - President Nixon and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko signed strategic arms limitation agreements, putting the first restrictions on the two countries' nuclear weapons.
1974 - Bundy victim (#?) Nancy Wilcox disappears in Salt Lake City, Utah
1974 - Watergate trial begins
1977 - Indira Gandhi arrested
1978 - Gold hits record $223.50 an ounce in London
1981 - IRA prisoners at Maze Prison in Belfast, Northern Ireland, ended a seven-month hunger strike in which 10 men died. Imprisoned Irish Republic Army leader Bobby Sands initiated the protest on March 1 (the fifth anniversary of the British policy of "Criminalisation" of Irish political prisoners) Many of these prisoners did not have trials.
1986 - Soviet Yankee-class sub sinks off NC, 3 die
1989 - Troops loyal to Panamanian leader General Manuel Noriega crushed a coup attempt by rebel mid-level officers. Noriega was held briefly by coup plotters and escaped unharmed.
1990 - East Germany & West Germany merge to become Germany, ending 45 years of post-war division. Eleven months after the wall fell.
1991 - Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton entered the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
1991 - House Speaker Thomas Foley announced that the House Bank would close because members had bounced thousands of checks against their accounts.
1992 - Sinead O'Connor rips up a picture of Pope John Paul II on SNL
1992 - William Gates III, the college-dropout founder of Microsoft Corp., headed Forbes magazine list of the 400 richest Americans with a net worth of $6.3 billion.
1993 - Boris Yeltsin declares state of emergency in Moscow, as fighting erupts in the streets between pro- and anti-Yeltsin forces. 62 people died in the violence, that ended two days later when the rebel vice president and speaker of parliament surrendered.
1994 - Gary Larson, announces he is retiring from doing "Far Side" cartoon (and the cows went home)
1994 - Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy announced his resignation, effective at year's end. He was under investigation for accepting gifts from companies regulated by the USDA Espy denied violating any laws or ethics rules but admitted he'd been careless.
1994 - Fernando Enrique Cardoso was elected president of Brazil.
1995 - A bomb nearly killed the president of Macedonia, a relatively peaceful part of the former Yugoslavia.
1995 - The jury in the O.J. Simpson murder trial found the former football star innocent of the 1994 slayings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman. (Simpson was later found liable in a civil trial.) [H]
1996 - Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1997 - In response to Republican calls to appoint an independent counsel to investigate the fund-raising practices of President Clinton and Vice President Gore, Atty. Gen. Janet Reno said there was "no evidence whatsoever" that the president solicited campaign contributions in exchange for favorable treatment.
2000 - Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau (10/18/1919-09/28/2000) buried in Montreal
2000 - In their first debate of the 2000 race for the White House, Vice President Al Gore and Texas Gov. George W. Bush clashed over tax cuts, Medicare prescription drug benefits and campaign finance.
2001 - Amid rising concerns about the use of lethal sub- stances by terrorists, Tommy Thompson, the secretary of health and human services, told a Senate committee that the government was planning to stockpile 40 million doses of smallpox vaccine.
2002 - Fear escalated in the Washington area as five more people were killed apparently by a random sniper.
Birthdays Today
1728 - Charles G Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont, French duelist/spy/transvestite
1790 - Cherokee Chief John Ross, who led opposition to the forced move of his people to what is now Oklahoma
1803 - John Gorrie, inventor (cold-air process of refrigeration)
1814 - Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov, Russian poet/writer (Demon)
1844 - Patrick Manson, "Father of tropical medicine"
1854 - William Crawford Gorgas, US, Surgeon-Gen, helps cure yellow fever
1873 - Emily Post (Price) (etiquette authority)
1882 - Gunther von Kluge, German fieldmarshal
1900 - Thomas Wolfe, American novelist (Look Homeward Angel)
1902 - Harvey Kurtzman (cartoonist; founder of "Mad" magazine)
1909 - Political cartoonist Herblock (Herbert Block)
1916 - James Alfred Wight Herriot, (veterinarian, author: All Creatures Great and Small)
1925 - Gore Vidal (writer: Myra Breckenridge, Burr; actor: Bob Roberts)
1928 - Erik Bruhn (dancer)
1929 - Andy Hebenton (hockey)
1931 - Glenn Hall (Hockey Hall of Famer: goalie: Detroit Red Wings: Calder Trophy [1955-56]; Chicago Black Hawks: Stanley Cup winner [1961], Vezina Trophy [1963]; St. Louis: Vezina Trophy: 1967, 1969])
1932 - Harold Henning (golf)
1933 - Neale Fraser (tennis champion: Wimbledon [1960], U.S. Open [1959, 1960])
1934 - Madlyn Rhue (actress: A Majority of One, Executive Suite, Days of Our Lives, Bracken's World, Houston Knights)
1938 - Eddie Cochran (Rock and Roll Hall of Famer [1987]: singer: Summertime Blues, Sittin' in the Balcony, Teenage Heaven, C'mon Everybody, Three Stars; films: The Girl Can't Help It, Untamed Youth, Go Johnny Go)
1940 - Alan O'Day (songwriter: Angie Baby, Rock and Roll Heaven; singer: Undercover Angel)
1941 - Chubby Checker (Ernest Evans) (singer: The Twist, Pony Time, Let's Twist Again, The Fly, Limbo Rock, Slow Twistin' [w/Dee Dee Sharp])
1941 - Michael David Galagher (skier)
1944 - Jack Gregory (football)
1947 - Lindsay Buckingham (musician: guitar: group: Fleetwood Mac: Big Love; LP: Rumours; solo: Trouble, Go Insane)
1950 - Pamela Hensley (actress: Double Exposure, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, Kingston: Confidential, Marcus Welby, M.D., Matt Houston, 240-Robert)
1951 - Dave Winfield (baseball: Toronto Blue Jays outfielder: World Series [1992]; Minnesota Twins; San Diego Padres; NY Yankees, California Angels)
1954 - Dennis Eckersley (baseball: Oakland A's pitcher: Baseball Writers' Award [1992], Cy Young Award [1992], World Series [1988]; Cleveland Indians, Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs)
1954 - Stevie Ray Vaughan (Grammy Award-winning blues guitarist [w/ brother Jimmie]: Family Style, D/FW [1990]; solo: LP: Couldn't Stand the Weather)
1959 - Fred Couples (golf champion: Masters [1992])
1959 - Jack Wagner (actor: General Hospital, Melrose Place, Trapped in Space, Play Murder for Me); singer: All I Need
Famous deaths
1283 - Dafydd ap Gruffyd, last monarch of Gwynnedd (North-Wales), dies
1564 - Christophorus Fabritius, [Christoffel Smit], calvinist vicar, burned at the stake
1656 - Myles Standish, Plymouth Colony leader, dies (birth date unknown)
1896 - William Morris, writer, dies at 62
1931 - Carl August Nielsen, composer, dies at 66
1953 - Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Brit composer (Coronation March), at 69
1967 - Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (Last Night of Proms), dies at 72
1967 - Woodrow Wilson "Woodie" Guthrie, US folk singer/guitarist, of Huntington's Chorea at 55
1985 - Charles Collingwood, newscaster (Chronicles), dies at 68
1987 - Jean Anouilh, French playwright (Ball of the Voleurs), dies at 77
1988 - Franz Josef Strauss, German FR min of defense (1956-62), dies at 73
1988 - Generoso Pope Jr, National Enquirer owner, dies at 61
1997 - Alfred Leslie Rowse, historian, dies at 93
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