3rd
October, on this day
2333 BC - The state
of Gojoseon
(Modern-day Korea) founded by Dangun
Wanggeom during the reign of the Chinese Emperor
Yao.
42 BC - First Battle
of Philippi: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight an indecisive
battle with Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius.
1226 Death of St
Francis of Assisi - founder of the Franciscan Order of monks
1264 Comet said to predict the death of Pope Urban IV is last seen
1283 Dafydd
ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales, becomes the first person
executed by being hanged,
drawn and quartered.
1430 Jews are expelled from Eger, Bohemia
1574 The Siege of Leiden
is lifted by the Watergeuzen.
1683 The Qing Dynasty naval commander Shi
Lang reaches Taiwan (under the Kingdom of Tungning) to receive
the formal surrender of Zheng
Keshuang and Liu Guoxuan after the
Battle of Penghu.
1712 The Duke
of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob
Roy MacGregor.
1739 The Treaty
of Nissa is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the end
of the Russian-Turkish
War, 1736-39
1778 British Captain James
Cook anchors in Alaska.
1789 Washington proclaims the 1st national Thanksgiving
Day on Nov 26
1795 General Napoleon
Bonaparte first rises to national prominence being named to defend
the French
National Convention against armed counter-revolutionary rioters
threatening the three year old revolutionary government.
1811 In England, the first recorded women's county cricket match between
Hampshire and Surrey at Newington
1849 American author Edgar
Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland
under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in
public before his death.
1862 Battle
of Corinth 2, Miss
1863 Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as
Thanksgiving Day
1873 Captain Jack
and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War.
1888 First performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's 'The Yeoman of the
Guard' at the Savoy Theatre in London
1906 SOS,
popularly refered to as 'Save Our Souls', is established as the international
distress signal, replacing the call sign CDQ - popularly interpreted
as 'Come Damn Quick
1908 The Pravda newspaper
founded by Leon Trotsky, Adolph Joffe, Matvey Skobelev and other Russian
exiles in Vienna.
1913 US Federal Income Tax signed into law (at 1%)
1918 Boris
becomes king of Bulgaria
1922 1st facsimile photo send over city telephone lines, Washington,
DC
1928 French sub "Ondine" sinks returning to Toulon, drowning
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1929 The individual kingdoms of Serbia, Croatia and Slovenia are brought
together to become Yugoslavia
1929 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes changes name to Yugoslavia
1932 Iraq gains independence from Britain.
1935 Italy invades Ethiopia under General
de Bono.
1940 Former British Prime Minister Neville
Chamberlain resigns from Winston Churchill's coalition Government
1941 The aerosol
is patented by L.D Goodhue and W.N Sullivan
1941 In New York, the premiere of the film 'The
Maltese Falcon' starring Humphrey Bogart and directed by John
Huston
1942 Launch of the 1st A-4/V-2
rocket to altitude of 53 miles (85 km) - the first man-made object
to reach space
1945 World
Federation of Trade Unions formed; CIO a member
1947 1st telescope lens 200" (508 cm) in diameter completed
1949 WERD, 1st black-owned radio station, opens in Atlanta
1950 1st black lead (Ethel
Waters) on TV (Beulah)
1952 Britain detonates its first atomic bomb on the Monte Bello Islands
off the coast of Western Australia
1952 1st video recording on magnetic tape, LA, Ca
1955 "Mickey
Mouse Club" premieres
1956 The first appearance of the Russian Bolshoi
Ballet at Covent Garden in London
1957 Allen
Ginsberg's Howl
and Other Poems is ruled not obscene.
1961 "Dick
Van Dyke Show" premieres on CBS-TV
1962 Project
Mercury: Sigma
7 launched from Cape Canaveral, with Astronaut Wally
Schirra aboard for a six-orbit, nine-hour flight.
1964 First Buffalo
Wings were made at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York.
1967 William
Knight sets X-15 speed rec of 7,297 KPH/4,534 MPH/Mach 6.72
1968 Military coup overthrows President Fernando
Belaúnde Terry in Peru
1971 Billie
Jean King became 1st female athlete to win $100,000
1972 Spaceflight 71-2 launched; 1st flexible substrate photovoltaic
flown
1974 Bundy victim (?) Nancy Wilcox disappears in Salt Lake City, Utah
1974 Watergate
trial begins
1981 Republican
hunger-strikers at the
H-block internment prison in Northern Ireland finally give up
their protest after 8 months. During that time 10 of their fellow
protesters died of starvation
1982 Record 11,763 start a 186 mile cross-country race near Stockholm
1985
Space Shuttle Atlantis flies its maiden voyage. (STS-51-J)
1986 TASCC,
a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories, was
officially opened.
1986 Soviet Yankee-class sub sinks off NC, 3 die
1988 Lebanese kidnappers release Mithileshwar Singh (held for 30 months)
1989 Panamanian Defense Force attempted coup of Manuel Noriega fails
1990 Re-unification
of Germany. The German Democratic Republic ceased to exist and
its territory became part of the Federal Republic of Germany. East
German citizens became part of the European Community, which later
became the European Union. Now celebrated as German
Unity Day.
1990 Florida record store owner Charles Freeman is found guilty of
obscenity, for selling 2 Live Crew rap records
1993 The launch of Britain's first home shopping channel on television
1993
Battle of Mogadishu: In an attempt to capture officials of warlord
Mohamed
Farrah Aidid's organisation in Mogadishu, Somalia, 18 US Soldiers
and about 1,000 Somalis are killed in heavy fighting.
1995 O.J.
Simpson found not guilty of the murders of his ex-wife Nicole
and her friend Ronald Goldman.
2003 Roy Horn of Siegfried
& Roy is attacked by one of the shows tigers, cancelling the
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Birthdates
which occurred on 3rd October:
1605 Li Tzu-ch'eng
Chinese revolutionary, dethroned last Ming emperor
1728 Christian d'Oriola France, foils (Olympic-gold-1952, 56)
1800 George Bancroft historian (Hall of Fame)
1803 John Gorrie inventor (cold-air process of refrigeration)
1804 Townsend Harris 1st Western consul to reside in Japan
1814 Mikhail (Yurevich) Lermontov Russia, romantic poet/novelist (Demon)
1844 Sir Patrick Manson "Father of tropical medicine"
1854 William Crawford Gorgas US, Surgeon-Gen, help cure yellow fever
1859 Elenora Duse Italy, actress (Hedda Gabler)
1886 Henri Alain-Fournier French novelist (Le Grand Meaulnes)
1888 Carl von Ossietzky Germany, journalist, pacifist (Nobel 1935)
1899 Gertrude Berg Harlem NYC, actress (Molly Goldberg-The Goldbergs)
19-- Frank Hannon rock guitarist (Tesla-Psychotic Supper)
1900 Jay Irving NYC, cartoonist (Draw Me a Laugh)
1900 Thomas Wolfe American novelist (Look Homeward Angel)
1904 Charles Pedersen UK, biochemist (Nobel 1987)
1911 Michael Hordern England, actor (Friar Domingo-Shogun)
1923 Stanislaw Skrowaczewski Lwow Poland, conductor (Die Zauberfl”te)
1925 Gore Vidal writer/playwright (Myra Breckinridge, Lincoln)
1928 Erik Bruhn Copenhagen Denmark, dancer (Natl Ballet of Canada)
1934 Madlyn Rhue Wash DC, actress (Bracken's World, Executive Suite)
1935 Abdon Pamich Italy, 50K walker (Olympic-gold-1964)
1935 Charles M Duke Jr Charlotte NC, Brig Gen USAF/astronaut (Apol
16)
1936 Steve Reich NYC, composer (My Name is)
1937 Eli Jacobs baseball owner (Baltimore Orioles)
1938 Eddie Cochran Okla City, rocker (C'Mon Everybody)
1939 James Darren Phila, actor/singer (Gidget, Diamond Head)
1940 Jean Ratelle NHL center (NY Rangers, Boston Bruins)
1941 Chubby Checker singer (The Twist)
1945 Viktor Saneyev USSR, triple jumper (Olympic-3 gold/1 silv-1968-80)
1946 Bob Dotson St Louis Mo, newscaster (Primetime Sunday)
1947 Lindsey Buckingham rocker (Fleetwood Mac-Rumours, Tusk)
1950 Pamela Hensley Glendale Calif, actress (Buck Rogers in 25th Century)
1951 Dave Winfield baseball outfielder (NY Yankee)
1951 Kathryn D Sullivan Paterson NJ, PhD/astro (STS 41-G, 28, 31,
45)
1956 Hart Bochner actor (Supergirl, Die Hard)
1959 Jack Wagner rocker/actor (General Hospital, Santa Barbara)
1962 Tommy Lee Greece, rock drummer (Motley Cre), wed Heather
Locklear
1963 Patrick Flatley Ontario, right winger (NY Islanders, Oly-4 gold-1988)
1969 Shane Butterworth actor (Timmy-Bad News Bears)
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Deaths which occurred
on October 3rd:
1656 Myles Standish Plymouth Colony leader, dies (birth date unknown)
1959 William Bishop actor (Steve-It's a Great Life), dies at 42
1965 Zachary Scott actor (Spotlight Playhouse), dies at 51
1979 Charles White artist, dies at 61 in Los Angeles
1979 Claudia Jennings playmate (Nov, 1969)/actress, dies at 29
1983 John K.M. McCaffery TV host (One Minute Please), dies at 69
1985 Charles Collingwood newscaster (Chronicles), dies at 68
1985 Maurice Copeland actor (Ralph-Those Young Charmings), dies at
74
1988 Franz Josef Strauss German FR min of defense (1956-62), dies
at 73
1988 Generoso Pope Jr National Enquirer owner, dies at 61
1990 Stefano Casiraghi Princess Caroline of Monaco husband, dies at
30
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