Historical Events on October 3

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• 2333 BC State of Gojoseon (Modern-day Korea) founded by Dangun Wanggeom during the reign of the Chinese Emperor Yao

• 382 Roman Emperor Theodosius makes a treaty with the Visigoths, granting them lands between the Lower Danube and the Balkans in return for military service
• 1143 Cardinal Guido elected Pope Coelestinus II
• 1247 William II of Holland elected Roman Catholic anti-king of Germany
• 1264 Comet said to predict death of Pope Urban IV is last seen
• 1272 Beauvais cathedral in France is completed (choir and transept), designed to be the largest French Gothic cathedral ever built
• 1283 Dafydd ap Gruffydd, Prince of Gwynedd, 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

• 1735 France and Holy Roman Emperor Charles 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.

• 1789 Washington proclaims 1st national Thanksgiving Day on Nov 26

• 1835 Staedtler Company founded by J.S. Staedtler in Nuremberg, Germany
• 1839 Maya explorers John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood depart New York on their first expedition to the Yucatan

• 1862 -10] Battle of Corinth, Mississippi
• 1862 Skirmish at Bardstown, Kentucky

• 1872 Bloomingdale's department store in NY opens
• 1873 Modoc tribe Chief Kintpuash (also known as Captain Jack), the only Native American leader ever charged with war crimes, hanged by US Army at Fort Klamath, Oregon

• 1888 New Zealand Natives, a privately organised and mainly Māori rugby team, plays first game in UK; beats Surry 4-1; first national rugby team to wear all-black & perform the 'haka'
• 1890 Capt Guillaume of Kerckhoven marches into Boma Congo
• 1899 J S Thurman patents motor-driven vacuum cleaner

• 1904 France & Spain sign treaty for Morocco Independence
• 1904 Mary McLeod Bethune opens Daytona Normal & Industrial School
• 1904 New York Giants pitcher Christy Mathewson strikes out 16 Cardinals in a 3-1 Giants victory over St. Louis; new MLB record; finishes the game in 1 hour, 15 minutes
• 1906 US regime names Charles Magoon, governor of Cuba
• 1906 William Vaughan Moody's "Great Divide" premieres in NYC

• 1915 7.8 earthquake shakes Pleasant Valley, Nevada
• 1918 Boris becomes king of Bulgaria
• 1918 Brothers Edgar and Archibald Selwyn open Selwyn Theater at 229 W 42nd St, Times Square, NYC: now known as American Airlines Theatre

• 1919 Serbian, Croatian and Slavic Parliament passes an accord for an 8 hr work day
• 1920 American Pro Football Association (later the NFL) plays 1st full round of games; Dayton Triangles beat Columbus Panhandles, 14-0 in first official game at Triangle Park, Dayton
• 1920 St Browns 1st baseman George Sisler collects his 257th hit of the season to set MLB record that lasts until the 21st century.; Browns beat White Sox, 16 - 7
• 1922 1st facsimile photo sent over city telephone lines, Washington, D.C.
• 1922 Governor of Georgia names Progressive writer Rebecca Felton (87) to fill unexpired term in US Senate; she becomes 1st woman in Congess, oldest person (at the time), and shortest termed as she served only 24 hours in Novemberrgia Governor Hardwickbecomes 1st woman in Senate [1]
• 1924 King Hussein of Hedzjaz abdicts throne
• 1926 1st congress of Pan European Movement (Pan-Europese Beweging) opens in Vienna
• 1926 English long distance runner Violet Piercy sets first recognised female marathon record in 3:40:22 on the Polytechnic Marathon course between Windsor and London
• 1928 French submarine "Ondine" sinks returning to Toulon, drowning 42
• 1929 British Labour government recovers diplomatic relations with USSR

• 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, starting the Second Italo-Ethiopian War
• 1939 Lemmer-Urk Dike closes
• 1940 France Vichy government proclaims end to Jewish status
• 1940 US forms parachute troops

• 1941 All elderly Jewish men of Kerenchug Ukraine, are killed by SS
• 1941 Nazis blow up 6 synagoges in Paris

• 1942 Launch of 1st A-4/V-2 rocket to altitude of 53 miles (85 km)
• 1942 Triple Crown winner Whirlaway, ridden by George Woolf wins the Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park to become the first thoroughbred to amass more than $500,000 in lifetime earnings
• 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

• 1945 World Federation of Trade Unions forms; CIO a member
• 1947 1st telescope lens 200" (508 cm) in diameter completed
• 1947 WMAL (now WJLA) TV channel 7 in Washington, D.C. (ABC) begins
• 1948 Columbia University reports discovery of uranium in Belgian Congo
• 1949 WERD, 1st black-owned radio station, opens in Atlanta
• 1950 Ethel Waters becomes 1st Black lead actress on TV sit-com (Beulah)
• 1950 Indonesian army opens assault on Ambon, South Moluccas
• 1951 CBS-TV airs the first coast-to-coast telecast of a prize fight; Australian light-heavyweight Dave Sands outpoints American Carl 'Bobo' Olson in 10 rounds at Chicago Stadium
• 1951 Shot Heard 'Round the World': Bobby Thomson hits 3-run homer off Ralph Branca of the Brooklyn Dodgers, bottom 9th inning, 1 out, to give New York Giants dramatic 5-4 playoff win and NL pennant at the Polo Grounds
• 1952 1st British nuclear test during Operation Hurricane at Monte Bello Island, Australia, UK becomes the world's third nuclear nation
• 1952 1st video recording on magnetic tape in Los Angeles, California
• 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 "Mickey Mouse Club" premieres
• 1955 Children's morning program "Captain Kangaroo" starring Bob Keeshan debuts on CBS-TV, beginiing a 29 year run - Good Morning, Captain!
• 1955 Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira becomes President of Brazil
• 1955 Soviet battleship "Novorossiisk" strikes WW II mine in Baltic Sea
• 1955 WDBJ TV channel 7 in Roanoke, VA (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 1955 WTVS TV channel 56 in Detroit, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting

• 1960 Janio Quadros elected president of Brazil
• 1960 New York Yankees beat rival Boston Red Sox, 8-7 at Yankee Stadium, ending season on 15 game winning streak & MLB record 193 HRs
• 1960 San Francisco's White House department store is the 1st to accept BankAmericard
• 1960 US sitcom "The Andy Griffith Show" premieres in CBS (runs till 1968)

• 1961 KMED (now KTVL) TV channel 10 in Medford, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 1961 TV sitcom "Mr Ed" premieres on CBS
• 1962 SF Giants (103-62) beat rivals LA Dodgers (102-63), 6-4 in season ending NL pennant decider; Dodgers set MLB record season attendance 2,755,184
• 1962 Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched into Earth orbit
• 1963 Hurricane Flora hits Haiti; about 5,000 die & 100,000 injured
• 1964 NY Yankees beat Cleveland Indians, 8-3 to clinch Bronx Bombers 5th consecutive AL pennant, and 29th in club's history

• 1965 Dual Melbourne Cup winning Australian jockey Pat Glennon rides French colt Sea Bird to victory in the Prix de l'Arc De Triomphe to claim an impressive double after the thoroughbred's English Derby win

• 1966 Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva elected president
• 1967 Belgian King Boudouin inaugurates world's biggest floodgate in Antwerp
• 1967 KGSC (now KICU) TV channel 36 in San Jose, CA (IND) begins
• 1967 William J. "Pete" Knight sets highest speed ever recorded by a crewed, powered aircraft flying USAF/NASA's X-15 at 7,297 KPH/4,534 MPH/Mach 6.72
• 1968 Howard Sacklers "Great White Hope" premieres in NYC
• 1968 Military coup overthrows President Fernando Belaúnde Terry in Peru
• 1968 The proposed civil rights march in Derry, Northern Ireland, is banned from the area of the city centre and the Waterside area; the banning order is issued under the Public Order Act by William Craig, then Home Affairs Minister
• 1968 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1970 First umpires strike in MLB history lasts one day during League Championship Series; AL and NL presidents recognise newly-formed MLB Umpires Association; negotiate labor contract
• 1970 WAPT TV channel 16 in Jackson, MS (ABC) begins broadcasting

• 1972 Roric Harrison homers as Baltimore beats Cleveland, 4-3; last AL pitcher to homer until MLB inter-league play 25 years later
• 1972 Spaceflight 71-2 launched; 1st flexible substrate photovoltaic flown
• 1972 USSR performs nuclear test

• 1974 Watergate criminal trial begins for five advisors and aides of President Nixon

• 1975 Ireland AKZO director Tiede Herrema kidnap

• 1976 Helmuth Kohl's CDU wins German parliament election

• 1978 Gold hits record $223.50 an ounce in London
• 1980 4 die in attack on a synagogue in Paris

• 1981 Irish Nationalists at Maze Prison near Belfast end 7-month hunger strike
• 1981 Milwaukee Brewers and Montreal Expos clinch their first-ever postseason appearances; Brewers beat Detroit, 2 - 1, for AL East title; Expos defeat NY Mets, 5 - 4, for NL East second playoff spot
• 1982 Center fielder Robin Yount homers twice as Milwaukee whips Baltimore, 10-2 at Memorial Stadium to win the Brewers only AL East Championship

• 1984 US government shuts down due to lack of agreement over passage of bills
• 1985 21st Shuttle Mission (51J)-Atlantis 1-all-military flight launched
• 1985 Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) adopts constitution

• 1985 South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands adopts constitution
• 1985 Walter Polovchak becomes a "free man" upon turning 18
• 1986 Baltimore loses 6-3 to Detroit Tigers, assuring Orioles of club's first ever last-place finish in AL East standings
• 1986 Soviet Yankee-class sub sinks off NC, 3 die
• 1986 TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories, was officially opened.
• 1987 Michael Pruffer of France skis 135.26 MPH at Portillo, Chile
• 1987 San Diego catcher Benito Santiago's MLB rookie record 34-game hitting streak ends as Padres snap 9-game losing streak with a 1-0 victory v LA Dodgers
• 1987 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1988 26th NASA Space Shuttle Mission: Discovery 7 returns to Earth after 4-day excursion
• 1988 Criterion Center Theater opens at Broadway bet 44th & 45th Sts NYC
• 1988 Lebanese kidnappers release Mithileshwar Singh (held for 30 months)
• 1988 WBMW-FM, Washington, D.C. changes calls to WJFK & begins airing Howard Stern

• 1990 Detroit 1st baseman Cecil Fielder becomes 11th player in MLB history to hit 50 HRs in a season; 50th & 51st in 10-3 win v NY Yankees at Yankee Stadium
• 1990 Florida record store owner Charles Freeman is found guilty of obscenity, for selling records by the rap group "2 Live Crew"

• 1992 MLB Atlanta Braves end season with 1-0 victory over San Diego Padres at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium for franchise record 98th win (old record 95 in 1957, when they were based in Milwaukee)

• 1993 Battle of Mogadishu: In an attempt to capture officials of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid's organization in Mogadishu, Somalia, 18 US Army Rangers and about 1,000 Somalis are killed in heavy fighting.

• 1993 Cleveland Indians play their final MLB game at Cleveland Stadium; lose 4-0 to Chicago White Sox Chicago

• 1994 Fernando Henrique Cardoso elected president of Brazil

• 1995 1st first-class match at Hurstville Oval, Sydney (NSW vs Western Australia)

• 1995 In a huge 3-way hockey trade of high profile NHL forwards, Claude Lemieux is sent to Colorado Avalanche, Steve Thomas to New Jersey Devils and Wendell Clark to the New York Islanders
• 1996 Thunderdome in Tampa Bay renamed Tropicana Field
• 1997 1st NHL game outside of North America: Vancouver Canucks beat Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, 3-2 in Tokyo, Japan

• 1997 Gordie Howie (69) takes a shift with IHL'S Detroit Vipers, marking his 6th decade playing professional hockey
• 1997 Japan's maglev train breaks world speed record for a manned train at 280.3 mph/451.1 kph
• 1997 NHL Carolina Hurricanes lose in their 1st home game, 4-3 vs Pittsburgh Penguins at the Greensboro Coliseum in Greensboro, North Carolina
• 1999 Chelsea scores massive upset when they humble English Premiership champions Manchester United, 5-0 at Stamford Bridge; Gus Poyet sets the tone scoring after just 27 seconds; Nicky Butt is sent-off for United

• 2003 Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy is attacked by one of the shows tigers, canceling the show for good.
• 2004 Final game in Montreal Expos team history is played in NYC against the Mets at Shea Stadium, an 8-1 defeat; Jamey Carroll scores the final Expos run and Endy Chavez is the last Expos batter

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