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Events on the 3rd of October in history

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03 Oct 2042 First Battle of Philippi: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight a decisive battle with Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius.
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03 Oct 2052 Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending the siege and Battle of Alesia.
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03 Oct 0382 Roman Emperor Theodosius I concludes a peace treaty with the Goths and settles them in the Balkans in exchange for military service.
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03 Oct 1143 Cardinal Guido elected Pope Coelestinus II
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03 Oct 1247 Willem II of Holland elected Roman Catholic German Emperor
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03 Oct 1264 Comet said to predict death of Pope Urban IV is last seen
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03 Oct 1283 Dafydd ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales, is the first nobleman to be executed by hanging, drawing and quartering.
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03 Oct 1430 Jews are expelled from Eger Bohemia
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03 Oct 1569 Battle of Montcontour: Duke of Anjou beats Huguenots
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03 Oct 1574 Fleet under Admiral Boisot seize Spanish
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03 Oct 1574 The Siege of Leiden is lifted by the Watergeuzen.
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03 Oct 1605 Chinese uprising on Philippines, Tondo / Quiapo massacre
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03 Oct 1657 French troops occupy Mardyke
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03 Oct 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.
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03 Oct 1691 English and Dutch army occupies Limerick Ireland
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03 Oct 1712 The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor.
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03 Oct 1735 France and Emperor Karel VI sign peace accord
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03 Oct 1739 The Treaty of Niš is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the end of the Russian–Turkish War, 1736–39.
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03 Oct 1778 Captain Cook anchors at Alaska
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03 Oct 1778 Captain James Cook anchors in Alaska.
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03 Oct 1789 Washington proclaims 1st national Thanksgiving Day on November 26
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03 Oct 1789 George Washington makes the first Thanksgiving Day designated by the national government of the United States of America.
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03 Oct 1833 Composer Hector Berlioz marries actress Harriet Smithson
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03 Oct 1835 The Staedtler company is founded in Nuremberg, Germany.
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03 Oct 1849 American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death.
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03 Oct 1862 Skirmish at Bardstown, Kentucky
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03 Oct 1863 Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day
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03 Oct 1863 The last Thursday in November is declared as Thanksgiving Day by United States President Abraham Lincoln as are Thursdays, November 30, 1865 and November 29, 1866.
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03 Oct 1872 The Bloomingdale brothers open their first store at 938 Third Avenue, New York City.
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03 Oct 1873 Captain Jack and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War.
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03 Oct 1890 Captain Guillaume of Kerckhoven marches into Boma Congo
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03 Oct 1899 J S Thurman patents motor-driven vacuum cleaner
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03 Oct 1900 Edward Elgar / Cardinal Newmans oratorium premieres in Birmingham
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03 Oct 1904 France and Spain sign treaty for Morocco Independence
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03 Oct 1904 Giants Christy Mathewson strikes out then record 16 Cards
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03 Oct 1904 Mary McLeod Bethune opens Daytona Normal and Industrial School
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03 Oct 1906 SOS adopted as warning signal by 1st conference on wireless telegraphy
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03 Oct 1906 US regime names Charles Magoon, Governor of Cuba
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03 Oct 1912 U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels under the command of Benjamín Zeledón at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.
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03 Oct 1913 Federal Income Tax signed into law (at 1%)
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03 Oct 1915 7.8 earthquake shakes Pleasant Valley, Nevada
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03 Oct 1918 Boris becomes King of Bulgaria
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03 Oct 1918 Czar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria does distance of throne
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03 Oct 1918 Selwyn Theater opens at 229 W 42nd St, New York City
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03 Oct 1918 King Boris III of Bulgaria accedes to the throne.
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03 Oct 1919 Reds Adolfo Luque is 1st Latin player to appear in a World Series
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03 Oct 1919 Serbian, Croatian and Slavic parliment accord for 8 hour work day
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03 Oct 1919 Cincinnati Reds pitcher Adolfo Luque becomes the first Latin player to appear in a World Series.
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03 Oct 1920 Browns 1st baseman George Sisler gets his record 257th hit of season
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03 Oct 1920 NFL (then American Pro Football Association) plays 1st games
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03 Oct 1922 1st facsimile photo send over city telephone lines, Washington, DC
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03 Oct 1922 Rebecca Felton of Georgia becomes 1st woman in Senate
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03 Oct 1924 King Hussein of Hedzjaz abdicts throne
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03 Oct 1926 1st Congress of Paneuropabeweging opens in Vienna
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03 Oct 1926 Violet Percy runs female record marathon (3:40:22)
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03 Oct 1928 French sun "Ondine" sinks returning to Toulon, drowning 42
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03 Oct 1929 British Labour government recovers diplomatic relations with USSR
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03 Oct 1929 Julius Curtius succeeds Stresemann as German foreign minister
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03 Oct 1929 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes changes name to Yugoslavia
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03 Oct 1929 The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Kingdom of Yugoslavia, "Land of the South Slavs".
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03 Oct 1930 The German Socialist Labour Party in Poland – Left is founded following a split in DSAP in Łódź.
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03 Oct 1932 Iraq gains full independence from Britain, joins League of Nations
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03 Oct 1932 Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom.
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03 Oct 1933 Gustave "Staf" de Clerq forms Flemish National Covenant
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03 Oct 1935 Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia under General de Bono.
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03 Oct 1936 Yanks set new attendance record of 64,842 in 3rd game of World Series
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03 Oct 1939 Lemmer-Urk Dike closes
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03 Oct 1940 France Vichy government proclaims end to Jewish status
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03 Oct 1940 US forms parachute troops
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03 Oct 1941 Adolf Hitler says Russia is "broken" andwould "never rise again"
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03 Oct 1941 All elderly Jewish men of Kerenchug Ukraine, are killed by SS
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03 Oct 1942 FDR forms Office of Economic Stabilization
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03 Oct 1942 Launch of 1st A-4 / V-2 rocket to altitude of 53 miles (85 km)
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03 Oct 1942 New York Yanks Frank Crosetti shoves ump Bill Summers in World Series, he is fined $200 and suspended for 1st 30 days of 1943 season
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03 Oct 1942 Spaceflight: The first successful launch of a V-2 /A4-rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany. It is the first man-made object to reach space.
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03 Oct 1943 British 8th army lands at Termoli, East Italy
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03 Oct 1943 Operations begin at PETA Java, defending (Japanese) fatherland
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03 Oct 1944 1st broadcast of Radio Herrijzend Netherland
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03 Oct 1944 RAF bombs West Kapelse
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03 Oct 1945 Tigers and Cubs meet in World Series for 4th time
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03 Oct 1945 World Federation of Trade Unions forms; CIO a member
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03 Oct 1946 Cards beat Dodgers 8-4 at Ebbets Field to win NL playoffs 2-0
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03 Oct 1947 "Under the Counter" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 27 performances
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03 Oct 1947 With only 1 out to go, Yank Floyd Beven gives up a double breaking his World Series no-hit bid, it scored 2 runs and he lost game
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03 Oct 1947 WMAL (now WJLA) TV channel 7 in Washington, DC (ABC) begins
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03 Oct 1948 Columbia University reports discovery of uranium in Belgian Congo
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03 Oct 1948 NFL becomes 1st sport televised as sport of week
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03 Oct 1949 WERD, 1st black-owned radio station, opens in Atlanta
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03 Oct 1949 WERD, the first black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta.
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03 Oct 1950 1st black lead (Ethel Waters) on TV (Beulah)
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03 Oct 1950 Baseball rules Phils lefty Curt Simmons cannot play in World Series despite his being on furlough from Army
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03 Oct 1950 Indonesian army opens assault on Ambon, South Moluccas
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03 Oct 1950 Korean War: The First Battle of Maryang San, primarily pitting Australian and British forces against communist China, begins.
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03 Oct 1951 Bobby Thomson HR-Giants win pennant defeating Dodgers
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03 Oct 1952 1st British nuclear test at Monte Bello Is Australia
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03 Oct 1952 1st video recording on magnetic tape, Los Angeles, California
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03 Oct 1952 The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world's third nuclear power.
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03 Oct 1953 7th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 3-1 at Montreal
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03 Oct 1953 KGGM TV channel 13 in Albuquerque, NM (CBS) begins broadcasting
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03 Oct 1954 "Father Knows Best" premieres
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03 Oct 1954 KFVS TV channel 12 in Cape Girardeau, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting
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03 Oct 1955 "Captain Kangaroo" premieres on CBS-TV, Good Morning, Captain!
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03 Oct 1955 "Mickey Mouse Club" premieres
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03 Oct 1955 Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira becomes President of Brazil
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03 Oct 1955 Soviet battleship "Novorossiisk" strikes WWII mine in Baltic Sea
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03 Oct 1955 WDBJ TV channel 7 in Roanoke, VA (CBS) begins broadcasting
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03 Oct 1955 WTVS TV channel 56 in Detroit, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting
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03 Oct 1956 Sal Maglie and Dodgers defeat Yanks 6-3 in opening game of World Series
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03 Oct 1957 Willy Brandt elected Mayor of West Berlin
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03 Oct 1957 The California State Superior Court rules that Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems is not obscene.
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03 Oct 1959 13th NHL All-Star Game: Montreal beat All-Stars 6-1 at Montreal
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03 Oct 1960 Janio Quadros elected President of Brazil
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03 Oct 1960 Yanks win 8-7, ending season on a 15 game win streak, and record 193 HRs
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03 Oct 1961 "Dick Van Dyke Show" premieres on CBS-TV
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03 Oct 1961 "Mr Ed" premieres
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03 Oct 1961 "Sail Away" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 167 performances
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03 Oct 1961 KMED (now KTVL) TV channel 10 in Medford, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting
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03 Oct 1962 "Stop the World, I Want to Get Off" opens at Shubert NYC for 886 performances
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03 Oct 1962 Dodgers set major league-record season attendance of 2,755,184
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03 Oct 1962 Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched into Earth orbit
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03 Oct 1962 Project Mercury: Sigma 7 is launched from Cape Canaveral, with astronaut Wally Schirra aboard, for a six-orbit, nine-hour flight.
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03 Oct 1963 Hurricane hits Haiti; about 5,000 die and 100,000 injured
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03 Oct 1963 A violent coup in Honduras pre-empts the October 13 election, ends a period of reform, and begins two decades of military rule.
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03 Oct 1965 Cubs tie major league record of 3 triple plays in a season
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03 Oct 1965 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational
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03 Oct 1965 Whitey Ford notches #232 to become Yankees winningest pitcher
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03 Oct 1966 Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva elected President
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03 Oct 1967 KGSC (now KICU) TV channel 36 in San Jose, CA (IND) begins
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03 Oct 1967 William Knight sets X-15 speed rec of 7,297 km/h / 4,534 mph / Mach 6.72
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03 Oct 1968 Howard Sacklers "Great White Hope, " premieres in New York City
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03 Oct 1970 "Coco" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 333 performances
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03 Oct 1970 Baseball umpires call their 1st strike
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03 Oct 1970 WAPT TV channel 16 in Jackson, MS (ABC) begins broadcasting
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03 Oct 1971 Billie Jean King became 1st female athlete to win $100,000
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03 Oct 1972 Baltimore Roric Harrison is last AL pitcher to homer until interleague play 25 years later
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03 Oct 1972 Indians set a team record for lowest team batting average .234
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03 Oct 1972 Spaceflight 71-2 launched; 1st flexible substrate photovoltaic flown
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03 Oct 1973 Willi Stoph succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader
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03 Oct 1974 Pele retires as soccer player
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03 Oct 1974 Watergate trial begins
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03 Oct 1975 George Harrison releases "Extra Texture" album in the UK
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03 Oct 1975 Ireland AKZO director Tiede Herrema kidnap
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03 Oct 1976 Hank Aaron singles in his last at bat and drives in his 2,297th run
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03 Oct 1977 "Comedy with Music (Victor Borge)" opens at Imperial NYC for 66 performances
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03 Oct 1977 Indira Gandhi arrested
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03 Oct 1978 Gold hits record $223.50 an ounce in London
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03 Oct 1980 4 dies in attack on synagogue in Paris
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03 Oct 1981 Brewers (since 1970) and Expos (1969) clinch their 1st-ever postseason
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03 Oct 1981 Irish Nationalist at Maze Prison near Belfast end 7-mo hunger strike
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03 Oct 1981 Mike Weaver beats Quick Tillis in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
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03 Oct 1981 The hunger strike by Provisional Irish Republican Army and Irish National Liberation Army prisoners at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland ends after seven months and ten deaths.
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03 Oct 1982 Cox 4 rowing record set at 12:52 for 99 miles (Geneva, Switzerland)
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03 Oct 1982 Milwaukee whips Baltimore 10-2 to win AL East championship
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03 Oct 1982 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic
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03 Oct 1982 Record 11,763 start a 186 mile cross-country race near Stockholm
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03 Oct 1982 Scott Weiland runs Detroit marathon backwards in less than 5 hours
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03 Oct 1983 Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson release "Say, Say, Say" in the UK
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03 Oct 1985 21st Shuttle Mission (51J) - Atlantis 1-all-military flight launched
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03 Oct 1985 Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) adopts constitution
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03 Oct 1985 Pope John Paul II declares Titus Brandsma divine
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03 Oct 1985 South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands adopts constitution
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03 Oct 1985 The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight. (Mission STS-51-J).
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03 Oct 1986 Baltimore loses assuring Orioles of their 1st last-place finish
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03 Oct 1986 Soviet Yankee-class sub sinks off NC, 3 die
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03 Oct 1986 TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories, is officially opened.
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03 Oct 1987 Benito Santiago ends longest catcher / rookie hitting streak at 34
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03 Oct 1987 Michael Pruffer of France skis 135.26 mph at Portillo, Chile
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03 Oct 1988 26th Space Shuttle Mission, Discovery 7 returns to Earth after 4-days
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03 Oct 1988 Criterion Center Theater opens at Broadway bet 44th and 45th Sts, New York City
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03 Oct 1988 Lebanese kidnappers release Mithileshwar Singh (held for 30 months)
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03 Oct 1988 WBMW-FM, Washington DC changes calls to WJFK and begins airing Howard Stern
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03 Oct 1989 Panamanian Defense Force attempted coup of Manuel Noriega fails
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03 Oct 1990 East Germany and West Germany merge to become Germany
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03 Oct 1990 Florida record store owner Charles Freeman is found guilty of obsenity, for selling 2 Live Crew rap records
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03 Oct 1990 George Brett becomes 1st to lead league in batting in 3 decades
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03 Oct 1990 Tiger Cecil Fielder becomes 11th, to hit 50 HRs
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03 Oct 1990 German reunification: The German Democratic Republic ceases to exist and its territory becomes 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.
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03 Oct 1991 25th Country Music Association Award
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03 Oct 1992 Atlanta Braves win franchise record 98th game (old record 95 in 1957)
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03 Oct 1992 LeVar Burton weds Stephanie Cozart
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03 Oct 1992 Madonna premieres her "Erotica" video on MTV
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03 Oct 1992 Toronto Blue Jays win AL East title
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03 Oct 1993 "White Liars / Black Comedy" closes at Criterion NYC after 38 performances
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03 Oct 1993 Battle at TV station Ostankino / Moscow townhall, about 25 killed
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03 Oct 1993 Boris Yeltsin declares state of emergency in Moscow
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03 Oct 1993 Evangelist Tammy Faye Bakker (52) weds Roe Messner (58)
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03 Oct 1993 Giants need to beat Dodgers to force a playoff game with Braves for NL West title, but Dodgers destroy Giants 12-1, Giants end year 103-59
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03 Oct 1993 Harry Belafonte performs in Tivoli Copenhagen
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03 Oct 1993 Indians play their last game at Cleveland Stadium, Chicago wins 4-0
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03 Oct 1993 Somali General Aidids arm forces kill 18 US Rangers
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03 Oct 1993 Battle of Mogadishu: A firefight occurs during a failed attempt to capture key officials of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid's organisation in Mogadishu, Somalia, costing the lives of 18 American soldiers, and over 350 Somalis.
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03 Oct 1994 Fernando Henrique Cardoso elected President of Brazil
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03 Oct 1994 Gary Larson, announces he is retiring from doing "Far Side" cartoon
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03 Oct 1995 1st 1st-class match at Hurstville Oval, Sydney (New South Wales vs. W Prov)
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03 Oct 1995 OJ Simpson found not guilty in murder of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman
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03 Oct 1995 O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
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03 Oct 1996 Thunderdome in Tampa Bay renamed Tropicana Field
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03 Oct 1997 Carolina Hurricanes 1st home game vs. Pittsburgh Penguins
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03 Oct 1997 Vancouver Canucks beats Mighty Ducks, 3-2 in Japan
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03 Oct 2008 The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the U.S. financial system is signed by President George W. Bush.
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03 Oct 2009 The presidents of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey sign the Nakhchivan Agreement on the Establishment of Turkic Council.
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03 Oct 2013 At least 134 migrants are killed when their boat sinks near the Italian island of Lampedusa.
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03 Oct 2013 The Gambia withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
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