Today in History
3 October
John Gorrie
Elenora Duse
Emily
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| 2333 -BC- Tangun establishes kingdom of Chosun (Korea) (legendary) |
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| 1143 Cardinal Guido elected Pope Coelestinus II | ||
| 1226 St. Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan order, died. | ||
| 1247 Willem II of Holland elected Roman Catholic German emperor | ||
| 1264 Comet said to predict death of Pope Urban IV is last seen | ||
| 1430 Jews are expelled from Eger Bohemia | ||
| 1569 Battle of Montcontour: Duke of Anjou beats Huguenots | ||
| 1573 Entonius Walaeus, Dutch calvinist theologist was born | ||
| 1574 Fleet under admiral Boisot seize Spanish | ||
| 1605 Li Tzu-ch'eng, Chinese revolutionary, dethroned last Ming emperor was born | ||
| 1605 Chinese uprising on Philippines, Tondo/Quiapo massacre | ||
| 1657 French troops occupy Mardyke | ||
| 1691 English & Dutch army occupies Limerick Ireland | ||
| 1735 France & Emperor Karel VI sign peace accord | ||
| 1778 Capitan Cook anchors at Alaska. | John Gorrie |
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| 1789 Washington proclaims 1st national Thanksgiving Day on Nov 26 | ||
| 1803 John Gorrie, inventor (cold-air process of refrigeration) was born | ||
| 1859 Elenora Duse, Italy, actress (Hedda Gabler) was born | ||
| 1863 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November Thanksgiving Day | ||
| 1872 Bloomingdale's department store in NY opens | ||
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| 1890 Capitan Guillaume of Kerckhoven marches into Boma Congo. | ||
| 1899 J S Thurman patents motor-driven vacuum cleaner | ||
| 1904 France & Spain sign treaty for Morocco Independence | ||
| 1906 SOS adopted as warning signal by 1st conference on wireless telegraphy | ||
| 1906 US regime names Charles Magoon, governor of Cuba | ||
| 1915 7.8 earthquake shakes Pleasant Valley Nevada |
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| 1918 Boris becomes king of Bulgaria | ||
| 1918 Czar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria does distance of throne | ||
| 1919 Serbian, Croatian & Slavic parliment accord for 8 hr work day | ||
| 1922 Rebecca L. Felton, D-Ga., became the first woman to be seated in the U.S. Senate. She was appointed to serve out the remaining term of Sen. Thomas E. Watson | ||
| 1924 King Hussein of Hedzjaz abdicts throne | ||
| 1925 W Howard Baker, English publisher was born | ||
| 1926 1st congress of Paneuropabeweging opens in Vienna | ||
| 1929 British Labour govt recovers diplomatic relations with USSR | ||
| 1929 The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenianss formally changed its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia | ||
| 1932 Iraq gains full independence from Britain, joins League of Nations | ||
| 1935 Italy invades Ethiopia | ||
| 1940 US forms parachute troops | Elenora Duse |
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| 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 | ||
| 1942 U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt established the Office of Economic Stabilization and authorized controls on farm prices, rents, wages and salaries. | ||
| 1943 British 8th army lands at Termoli, East Italy | ||
| 1943 Operations begin at PETA Java, defending (Japanese) fatherland | ||
| 1944 U.S. troops cracked the Siegfried Line north of Aachen, Germany, during World War II | ||
| 1944 1st broadcast of Radio Herrijzend Netherland | ||
| 1944 RAF bombs West Kapelse | ||
| 1945 Elvis Presley's 1st public appearance, he is 10 | ||
| 1950 Indonesian army opens assault on Ambon, South Moluccas despite his being on furlough from Army | ||
| 1952 1st British nuclear test at Monte Bello Is Australia | ||
| 1955 Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira becomes pres of Brazil | ||
| 1955 Soviet battleship "Novorossiisk" strikes WW II mine in Baltic Sea |
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| 1957 Willy Brandt elected mayor of West Berlin | ||
| 1962 Astronaut Wally Schirra blasted off from Cape Canaveral aboard the "Sigma Seven" on a nine-hour flight. | ||
| 1963 Hurricane hits Haiti; about 5,000 die & 100,000 injured | ||
| 1966 Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva elected president | ||
| 1968 Military coup overthrows Pres Fernando BelaŁnde Terry in Peru | ||
| 1968 The play "The Great White Hope," by Howard Sackler, opened on Broadway. | ||
| 1974 Pele retires as soccer player | ||
| 1974 Watergate trial begins | Emily |
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| 1975 Ireland AKZO director Tiede Herrema kidnap | ||
| 1977 Indira Gandhi arrested | ||
| 1980 4 dies in attack on synagogue in Paris | ||
| 1981 Irish Nationalist at Maze Prison near Belfast end 7-mo hunger strike | ||
| 1985 Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) adopts constitution | ||
| 1985 Pope John Paul II declares Titus Brandsma divine | ||
| 1985 South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands adopts constitution | ||
| 1988 26th Space Shuttle Mission, Discovery 7 returns to Earth after 4-days | ||
| 1990 West Germany and East Germany ended 45 years of postwar division, declaring the creation of a new unified country. | ||
| 1993 Boris Yeltsin declares state of emergency in Moscow | ||
| 1993 Somali General Aidids arm forces kill 18 US Rangers | ||
| 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 | ||
| 1997 Attorney General Janet Reno said she had found no evidence that President Clinton broke the law with White House coffees and overnight stays for big contributors |
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