This Day in History for 3rd October

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 204

2333 BC - The state of Gojoseon (Modern-day Korea) founded by Dangun Wanggeom during the reign of the Chinese Emperor Yao.
52 BC - Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending the siege and battle of Alesia.
42 BC - First Battle of Philippi: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight an indecisive battle with Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius.
1143 - Cardinal Guido elected Pope Coelestinus II
1247 - Willem II of Holland elected Roman Catholic German emperor
1264 - Comet said to predict 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
1569 - Battle of Montcontour: Duke of Anjou beats Huguenots
1574 - The Siege of Leiden is lifted by the Watergeuzen and the forces of Admiral Boisot
1605 - Chinese uprising on Philippines, Tondo/Quiapo massacre
1657 - French troops occupy Mardyke
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.
1691 - English & Dutch army occupies Limerick Ireland
1712 - The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor.
1735 - France & Emperor Karel VI sign peace accord
1739 - The Treaty of Nissa is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the end of the Russian-Turkish War, 1736-1739.
1778 - Capt Cook anchors at Alaska
1789 - Washington proclaims 1st national Thanksgiving Day on Nov 26
Roman Emperor Augustus Caesar 1835 - Staedtler Company was founded by J.S. Staedtler in Nuremburg, Germany.
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 - -10] Battle of Corinth, Mississippi
1862 - Skirmish at Bardstown, Kentucky
1863 - Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day
1872 - Bloomingdale's department store in NY opens
1873 - Captain Jack and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War.
1890 - Capt Guillaume of Kerckhoven marches into Boma Congo
1899 - J S Thurman patents motor-driven vacuum cleaner
1900 - Edward Elgar/Cardinal Newmans oratorium premieres in Birmingham
1904 - France & Spain sign treaty for Morocco Independence
1904 - Giants Christy Mathewson strikes out then record 16 Cards
1904 - Mary McLeod Bethune opens Daytona Normal & Industrial School
1906 - SOS adopted as warning signal by 1st conference on wireless telegraphy
1906 - US regime names Charles Magoon, governor of Cuba
Author Edgar Allan Poe 1906 - William Vaughan Moody's "Great Divide," premieres in NYC
1908 - The Pravda newspaper founded by Leon Trotsky, Adolph Joffe, Matvey Skobelev and other Russian exiles in Vienna.
1913 - Federal Income Tax signed into law (at 1%)
1915 - 7.8 earthquake shakes Pleasant Valley Nevada
1918 - Boris becomes king of Bulgaria
1918 - Czar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria does distance of throne
1918 - Selwyn Theater opens at 229 W 42nd St NYC
1919 - Reds Adolfo Luque is 1st Latin player to appear in a World Series
1919 - Serbian, Croatian & Slavic parliment accord for 8 hr work day
1920 - Browns 1st baseman George Sisler gets his record 257th hit of season
1920 - NFL (then American Pro Football Association) plays 1st games
1922 - 1st facsimile photo send over city telephone lines, Washington, DC
1922 - Rebecca Felton of Georgia becomes 1st woman in Senate
1923 - Germany's Stresemann resigns
1924 - King Hussein of Hedzjaz abdicts throne
Russian Revolutionary Leon Trotsky 1926 - 1st congress of Paneuropabeweging opens in Vienna
1926 - Violet Percy runs female record marathon (3:40:22)
1928 - French sun "Ondine" sinks returning to Toulon, drowning 42
1929 - British Labour government recovers diplomatic relations with USSR
1929 - Julius Curtius succeeds Stresemann as German foreign minister
1929 - Kingdom of Serbs, Croats & Slovenes changes name to Yugoslavia
1932 - Iraq gains full independence from Britain, joins League of Nations
1933 - Gustave "Staf" de Clerq forms Flemish National Covenant
1935 - Italy invades Ethiopia
1936 - Yanks set new attendance record of 64,842 in 3rd game of World Series
1939 - Lemmer-Urk Dike closes
1940 - France Vichy government proclaims end to Jewish status
1940 - Reds beat Tigers ending NL's 10-game World Series losing streak
1940 - US forms parachute troops
1941 - Adolf Hitler says Russia is "broken" & 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 - FDR forms Office of Economic Stabilization
1942 - Launch of 1st A-4/V-2 rocket to altitude of 53 miles (85 km)
1942 - NY Yanks Frank Crosetti shoves ump Bill Summers in World Series, he is fined $200 & suspended for 1st 30 days of 1943 season
1943 - British 8th army lands at Termoli, East Italy
1943 - Operations begin at PETA Java, defending (Japanese) fatherland
1944 - 1st broadcast of Radio Herrijzend Netherland
1944 - RAF bombs West Kapelse
Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley 1945 - Elvis Presley's 1st public appearance, he is 10
1945 - Tigers & Cubs meet in World Series for 4th time
1945 - World Federation of Trade Unions forms; CIO a member
1946 - Cards beat Dodgers 8-4 at Ebbets Field to win NL playoffs 2-0
1947 - "Under the Counter" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 27 performances
1947 - 1st telescope lens 200" (508 cm) in diameter completed
1947 - WMAL (now WJLA) TV channel 7 in Washington, DC (ABC) begins
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 & he lost game
1948 - Columbia U reports discovery of uranium in Belgian Congo
1948 - NFL becomes 1st sport televised as sport of week
1949 - WERD, 1st black-owned radio station, opens in Atlanta
1950 - 1st black lead (Ethel Waters) on TV (Beulah)
1950 - Indonesian army opens assault on Ambon, South Moluccas
1950 - Baseball rules Phils lefty Curt Simmons cannot play in World Series despite his being on furlough from Army
1951 - Bobby Thomson HR-Giants win pennant defeating Dodgers
1952 - 1st British nuclear test at Monte Bello Is Australia
1952 - 1st video recording on magnetic tape, LA, Ca
1952 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Monte Bello Is Australia
1953 - 10th Ryder Cup: US wins 6½-5½ at Wentworth, England
1953 - 7th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 3-1 at Montreal
1953 - KGGM TV channel 13 in Albuquerque, NM (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 - "Father Knows Best" premieres
1954 - KFVS TV channel 12 in Cape Girardeau, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 - "Captain Kangaroo" premieres on CBS-TV, Good Morning, Captain!
1955 - "Mickey Mouse Club" premieres
1955 - Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira becomes pres of Brazil
1955 - Soviet battleship "Novorossiisk" strikes WW II mine in Baltic Sea

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 212

1573 - Entonius Walaeus, Dutch calvinist theologist
1605 - Li Tzu-ch'eng, Chinese revolutionary, dethroned last Ming emperor
1631 - Sebastian Anton Scherer, composer
1647 - Johannes Voet, Dutch lawyer
1647 - John Foot, lawyer
1713 - Antoine Dauvergne, composer
1716 - Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist (d. 1781)
1720 - Johann P Uz, German poet (Lyrische Poem)
1728 - Charles G Chevalier d'Eon de Beaumont, French spy/transvestite
1733 - Francois Krafft, composer
1761 - Dirk earl van Hogendorp, general/Dutch minister of War [OS]
1789 - Francis Hoyt Gregory, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1866
1790 - John Ross, Chief of the Cherokee Nation (d. 1866)
1792 - Cipriani Potter, composer
1792 - Francisco Morazán, Central American statesman
1797 - Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1870)
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
1804 - Allan Kardec, French founder of Spiritism (d. 1869)
1806 - Oliver Cowdery, American religious leader (d. 1850)
1807 - Heinrich Panofka, composer
1814 - Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov, Russian poet/writer (Demon & other poems)
1828 - Woldemar Bargiel, composer
1834 - Vilem Blodek, composer
1844 - Patrick Manson, "Father of tropical medicine"
1848 - Henry Lerolle, French painter (d. 1929)
1854 - William Crawford Gorgas, US, Surgeon-Gen, help cure yellow fever
1859 - Elenora Duse, Italy, actress (Hedda Gabler)
1860 - Annie EF Horniman, England, theater owner (Abbey Theatre, Dublin)
1862 - John Briggs, cricketer (mighty England all-rounder late 19th century)
1863 - Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov, Russian explorer (d. 1935)
1865 - Johannes IJWJ Eilerts de Haan, Dutch sea officer (Lucie R, Suriname)
1866 - Learmont Drysdale, composer
1867 - Pierre Bonnard, French painter/illustrator
1869 - Alfred Flatow, German Olympic champion gymnast (d. 1942)
1871 - Stijn Streuvels, [Frank Lateur], Flemish writer (De Valschaard)
1872 - Edward Faber Schneider, composer
1880 - Warner Oland, Umea Sweden, actor (Jazz Singer, Charlie Chan)
1881 - Ludomir Michal Rogowski, composer
1882 - Gunther von Kluge, German fieldmarshal
1882 - A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter (d. 1974)
1885 - Langley Collyer, hoarder (d. 1947)
1885 - Sophie Treadwell, American playwright and journalist (d. 1970)
1886 - Henri Alain-Fournier, French novelist (Great Adventure)
1888 - Claud Allister, London England, actor (Bulldog Drummond)
1888 - Roy Webb, composer
1889 - Carl von Ossietzky, Germany, journalist/pacifist (Nobel 1935)
1890 - Henry Hull, Louisville KY, actor (Tobacco Rd, Boys Town, High Sierra)
1893 - Frantisek Picha, composer
1894 - Elmer Robinson, American politician (d. 1982)
1894 - Walter Warlimont, German General WWII (d. 1976)
1895 - Kurt Schumacher, co-founder/president West German SDP [OS]
1896 - Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet (d. 1987)
1897 - Josephine "Mama Jo" Riley Matthews, midwife (SC)
1897 - Louis Aragon, French writer (d. 1982)
1898 - Leo McCarey, American film director (d. 1969)
1899 - Gertrude Berg, Harlem NYC, actress (Molly Goldberg-Goldbergs)
1900 - Jay Irving, NYC, cartoonist (Draw Me a Laugh)
1900 - Thomas Wolfe, American novelist (Look Homeward Angel)
1901 - Masao Oki, composer
1901 - Jean Grémillon, French film director (d. 1959)
1902 - Arturo da Costa e Silva, marshal/pres of Brazil (1967-69)
1904 - Charles Pedersen, UK, biochemist (Nobel 1987)
1911 - Michael Hordern, Hertfordshire England, actor (Friar Domingo-Shogun)
1912 - Gabriel Julian, original pianist of Bobby Byrne Orchestra, arranger for Glenn Miller and founder Alabama Cavaliers Jazz Ens
1914 - Nel Rose, Dutch dance teacher
1915 - Ray Stark, American film producer (d. 2004)
1916 - Angeles Alvarino Deleira, biologist/oceanographer/writer
Novelist James Herriot (1916) 1916 - James Herriot [Alfred Wight], Sunderland, County Durham, veterinarian/novelist (All Creatures Great and Small), (d. 1995)
1916 - Shelby Storck, American television producer (d. 1969)
1919 - Boyd Bradfield Upchurch, [John Boyd], US, sci-fi author (IQ Merchant)
1919 - Walter Gieseler, composer
1919 - James M. Buchanan, Murfreesboro, Tennessee,economist (Nobel Memorial 1986), (d. 2013)
1921 - Ray Lindwall, cricketer (Australian fast bowler & St George full-back)
1922 - Marcel van Thienen, composer
1922 - Jean Lefebvre, French actor (d. 2004)
1923 - Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican politician (d. 2004)
1924 - Arkady Vorobyov, Russian weightlifter, (d. 2012)
1924 - Harvey Kurtzman, U.S. cartoonist and founding editor of Mad magazine (d. 1993)
1925 - Gore Vidal, West Point NY, author (Myra Breckinridge, Lincoln), (d. 2012)
1925 - W Howard Baker, English publisher
1926 - Marques Haynes, NBA player (World's Greatest Dribbler, Globetrotters)
1927 - Kenojuak Asheva, Ikirasaq, Canada, Inuit artist, (d. 2013)
1928 - Christian d'Oriola, France, foils (Olympic-gold-1952, 56)
1928 - Erik Bruhn, Copenhagen Denmark, dancer (Natl Ballet of Canada)
1928 - Shridath Surendranath "Sonny" Ramphal, Guyanese sec-gen (1975- )
1929 - Bert Stern, American photographer
1930 - David Mayer Epstein, composer
1931 - Glenn Hall, National Hockey League goaltender
1933 - Neale A Fraser, tennis champ (US Open-1959)
1934 - Benjamin Boretz, composer
1934 - Harold Ralph Henning, Johannesburg South Africa, PGA golfer (1966 Texas Open)
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 - Boldizsar Csiky, composer
1937 - Eli Jacobs, baseball owner (Baltimore Orioles)
1937 - Ton de Kruyf, composer

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 6 of 6

1833 - Composer Hector Berlioz marries actress Harriet Smithson
1988 - "Princess of Rock and Roll" Lisa Marie Presley (20) weds musician Danny Keough (23) at the Church of Scientology
1992 - LeVar Burton weds Stephanie Cozart
1993 - Evangelist Tammy Faye Bakker (52) weds Roe Messner (58)
1998 - Dutch-born model Annette Roque (33) weds The Today show cohost Matt Lauer (41) at Presbyterian Church in Bridgehampton, New York
2008 - Radio personality Howard Stern (54) weds actress Beth Ostrosky (36) in Manhattan, New York

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 116

42 BC - Gaius Cassius Longinus
695 - "Black Ewald", helper of Willibrord, murdered
695 - "White Ewald", helper of Willibrord, murdered
1226 - Saint Francis of Assisi (b. 1181)
1283 - Dafydd ap Gruffyd, last monarch of Gwynnedd (North-Wales), dies
1369 - Margarete Maultasch, Countess of Tyrol (b. 1318)
1564 - Christophorus Fabritius, [Christoffel Smit], calvinist vicar, burned
1568 - Elisabeth van Valois, French queen of Spain, dies at 23
1596 - Florent Chrestien, French writer (b. 1541)
1611 - Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, French military leader (b. 1554)
1629 - Giorgi Saakadze, Georgian military leader (b. 1570)
1646 - Virgilio Mazzocchi, composer, dies at 49
1649 - Giovanni Diodati, Swiss Protestant clergyman (b. 1576)
1653 - Mark Zuesius Boxhorn, historian, dies at 41
1656 - Myles Standish, Plymouth Colony leader, dies (birth date unknown)
1685 - Fidel Molitor, composer, dies at 58
1690 - Robert Barclay, Scottish writer (b. 1648)
1701 - Joseph Williamson, English politician (b. 1633)
1703 - Pieter van Wooden, Amersfoorts rebel leader, beheaded
1703 - Richard Saab, Amersfoorts rebel leader, beheaded
1750 - Georg Matthias Monn, composer, dies at 33
1795 - Tula, leader Curacaose slave uprising, executed
1801 - Philippe Henri, marquis de Ségur, Marshal of France (b. 1724)
1820 - Ludwig Wenzel Lachnith, composer, dies at 74
1826 - Jens I Baggesen, Danish writer/linguist (Labyrinth), dies
1828 - Josephus Andreas Fodor, composer, dies at 77
1838 - Black Hawk (chief), Leader of the Sauk Native American tribe (b. 1767)
1853 - Andre Georges Louis Onslow, composer, dies at 69
1862 - Pleasant Adam Hackleman, Union brig-general, dies in battle at 47
1867 - Elias Howe, American sewing machine pioneer (b. 1819)
1873 - Kintpuash, [Captain Jack], fought Modoc indians, Oregon, dies
1877 - James Roosevelt Bayley, first Bishop of Newark, New Jersey, and the eighth Archbishop of Baltimore (b. 1814)
1881 - Orson Pratt, American religious leader (b. 1811)
1884 - Hans Makart, Austrian painter (Geur), dies at 44
1889 - Karel Miry, composer, dies at 66
1890 - Andries Andre, actor (Trumpeter-Major), dies at 36
1890 - Joseph Hergenröther, German historian (b. 1824)
1891 - Edouard Lucas, French mathematician (b. 1842)
1896 - William Morris, artist and writer associated with Arts and Crafts movement, dies at 62 London
1903 - Benedetto Junck, composer, dies at 51
1907 - Alfred Reisenauer, composer, dies at 43
1912 - Guido Papini, composer, dies at 65
1919 - Daniel Brink Towner, composer, dies at 69
1929 - Gustav Stresemann, German chancellor (Nobel 1926), dies at 51
1929 - Jeanne Eagels, actress (The Letter), dies at 35
1930 - Charles LP "Philip" Zilcken, painter/etcher/author (Bauer), dies at 73
1931 - Carl August Nielsen, composer, dies at 66
1936 - John Heisman, American football coach (b. 1869)
1941 - Wilhelm Kienzl, Austria composer (Kuhreigen), dies at 84
1952 - Alfred Neumann, German writer, dies at 56
1953 - Arnold Bax, British composer, dies at 69
1953 - Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Brit composer (Coronation March), dies at 69
1953 - Arnold Bax, English composer (b. 1883)
1954 - Herbert Prior, actor (Pollyanna), dies at 87
1959 - William Bishop, actor (Steve-It's a Great Life), dies at 42
1965 - Zachary Scott, US actor, (Southerner, Flame of Islands), dies at 51
1967 - Woody Guthrie, rocker, dies of Huntington's Chorea at 55
1967 - Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (Last Night of Proms), dies at 72
1967 - Pinto Colvig, animation voice (Goofy, Pluto), dies at 75
1967 - Walter Muller von Kulm, composer, dies at 68
1967 - Woodrow Wilson "Woodie" Guthrie, US folk singer/guitarist, dies at 55
1969 - Skip James, American blues musician (b. 1902)
1971 - Leah Baird, writer (Jungle Bride), dies of anemia at 88
1971 - Sean O Riada, composer, dies at 40
1975 - Bauke Tuinstra, Fries notary/writer (Ealse & I), dies at 75
1975 - Guy Mollet, French premier (1956-57), dies at 69
1979 - Charles White, artist, dies at 61 in Los Angeles
1979 - Claudia Jennings, playmate (Nov, 1969), dies in car crash at 29
1981 - Walter Mehring, writer, dies at 85
1982 - Roger J J Claessen, Belgian soccer star, dies at 41
1982 - Vivien Merchant, actress (Accident, Offense), dies at 53
1983 - John K M McCaffery, TV host (One Minute Please), dies at 69
1983 - Kurt Kusenberg, writer, dies at 79
1985 - Charles Collingwood, newscaster (Chronicles), dies at 68
1985 - Maurice Copeland, actor (Ralph-Those Young Charmings), dies at 74
1986 - Vince DiMaggio, American Baseball Player (b. 1912)
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
1989 - Joseph Wybran, Belgian physician/Jews foreman, murdered
1990 - Stefano Casiraghi, Princess Caroline of Monaco husband, dies at 30
1990 - Eleanor Steber, eminent American soprano dies in Langhorne, PA
1991 - Max Cantor, journalist, dies
1993 - JH Scheps, Dutch MP (Social Democratic), dies at 93
1993 - Sgt. First Class Randy Shughart, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1958)
1993 - Master Sgt. Gary Gordon, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1960)
1994 - Dennis Wolfberg, comedian (Quantum Leap), dies from cancer at 48
1994 - Dub Taylor, actor (Poor Pretty Eddie), dies of a heart attack at 87
1994 - Harriet Nelson, actress (Ozzie & Harriet), dies at 80
1994 - V, comedian/actor, dies at 48
1994 - Virginia Dale, US actress/dancer (Holiday Inn), dies at about 77
1994 - Walter C "Dub" Taylor II, US actor (You Can't Take it All), dies at 86
1995 - Molly Harris, actress/writer (Immortal), dies at 82
1996 - Denis Frank Owen, Natural historian, dies at 65
1996 - Eustace Wenworth Roskill, law lord, dies at 85
1996 - Tom ap Rees, botanist, dies at 65
1996 - Tony Parker, oral historian, dies at 73
1997 - Alfred Leslie Rowse, historian, dies at 93
1998 - Roddy McDowall, English actor (b. 1928)
1999 - Akio Morita, Japanese businessman (b. 1921)