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Events from History on October 03

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
1430 : Jews are expelled from Eger Bohemia
1569 : Battle of Montcontour: Duke of Anjou beats Huguenots
1574 : Fleet under admiral Boisot seize Spanish
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 : Capt Cook anchors at Alaska
1789 : Washington proclaims 1st national Thanksgiving Day on Nov 26
1833 : Composer Hector Berlioz marries actress Harriet Smithson
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
1886 : J Palisa discovers asteroid #260 Huberta
1890 : A Charlois discovers asteroid #300 Geraldina
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
1904 : P Gotz discovers asteroid #545 Messalina
1906 : SOS adopted as warning signal by 1st conference on wireless telegraphy
1906 : US regime names Charles Magoon, governor of Cuba
1906 : William Vaughan Moody's "Great Divide," premieres in NYC
1910 : J Palisa discovers asteroid #703 Noemi
1911 : J Palisa discovers asteroid #719 Albert
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
1926 : 1st congress of Paneuropabeweging opens in Vienna
1926 : Violet Percy runs female record marathon (3:40:22)
1927 : Max Wolf discovers asteroid #4775 Hansen
1928 : French sun "Ondine" sinks returning to Toulon, drowning 42
1929 : British Labour govt recovers diplomatic relations with USSR
1929 : G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1135 Colchis
1929 : Julius Curtius succeeds Stresemann as German foreign minister
1929 : Kingdom of Serbs, Croats & Slovenes changes name to Yugoslavia
1930 : S Arend discovers asteroid #1171 Rusthawelia
1932 : Iraq gains full independence from Britain, joins League of Nations
1933 : Gustave "Staf" de Clerq forms Flemish National Covenant
1934 : E Delporte discovers asteroid #1350 Rosselia
1934 : G Neujmin discovers asteroid #1671 Chaika
1935 : Italy invades Ethiopia
1935 : Shajn disc asteroid #1390 Abastumani, #2445 Blazhko & #3080 Moisseiev
1936 : Yanks set new attendance record of 64,842 in 3rd game of World Series
1939 : Lemmer-Urk Dike closes
1940 : France Vichy govt 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 : L Oterma discovers asteroid #2774 Tenojoki
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
1942 : 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
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
1947 : 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 : Baseball rules Phils lefty Curt Simmons cannot play in World Series
1950 : Indonesian army opens assault on Ambon, South Moluccas
1950 : 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 6«-5« at Wentworth, England
1953 : 7th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 3-1 at Montreal
1953 : Goethe Link Observatory discovers asteroid #1721 Wells
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
1955 : WDBJ TV channel 7 in Roanoke, VA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 : WTVS TV channel 56 in Detroit, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting
1956 : Sal Maglie & Dodgers defeat Yanks 6-3 in opening game of World Series
1957 : Willy Brandt elected mayor of West Berlin
1959 : 13th NHL All-Star Game: Montreal beat All-Stars 6-1 at Montreal
1960 : "Flair" (CBS' answer to Monitor) premieres on radio with Dick Van Dyke
1960 : Janio Quadros elected president of Brazil
1960 : SF's White House dept store 1st to accept BankAmericard
1960 : Yanks win 8-7, ending season on a 15 game win streak, & record 193 HRs
1961 : "Dick Van Dyke Show" premieres on CBS-TV
1961 : "Mr Ed" premieres
1961 : "Sail Away" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 167 performances
1961 : KMED (now KTVL) TV channel 10 in Medford, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting
1962 : "Stop the World, I Want to Get Off" opens at Shubert NYC for 886 perfs
1962 : Dodgers set major league-record season attendance of 2,755,184
1962 : Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched into Earth orbit
1963 : "Here's Love" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 338 performances
1963 : Hurricane hits Haiti; about 5,000 die & 100,000 injured
1964 : Yankees clinch their 5th straight pennant, & 29th in club's history
1965 : Cubs tie major league record of 3 triple plays in a season
1965 : Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational
1965 : Whitey Ford notches #232 to become Yankees winningest pitcher
1966 : Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva elected president
1967 : KGSC (now KICU) TV channel 36 in San Jose, CA (IND) begins
1967 : King Boudouin inaugurates world's biggest floodgate (Antwerp)
1967 : William Knight sets X-15 speed rec of 7,297 KPH/4,534 MPH/Mach 6.72
1968 : Howard Sacklers "Great White Hope," premieres in NYC
1968 : Military coup overthrows Pres Fernando Bela£nde Terry in Peru
1968 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1970 : "Coco" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 333 performances
1970 : Baseball umpires call their 1st strike
1970 : WAPT TV channel 16 in Jackson, MS (ABC) begins broadcasting
1971 : Billie Jean King became 1st female athlete to win $100,000
1972 : Balt Roric Harrison is last AL pitcher to homer until interleague
1972 : Indians set a team record for lowest team batting avg .234
1972 : L V Zhuravleva discovers asteroid #7268
1972 : Spaceflight 71-2 launched; 1st flexible substrate photovoltaic flown
1972 : Steve Carlton wins 27th game for Phillies (almost « of their 59 wins)
1972 : USSR performs nuclear test
1972 : play 25 years later
1973 : Willi Stoph succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader
1974 : Bundy victim (?) Nancy Wilcox disappears in Salt Lake City, Utah
1974 : Frank Robinson becomes baseball's 1st black manager (Cleve Indians)
1974 : Pele retires as soccer player
1974 : Watergate trial begins
1975 : L I Chernykh discovers asteroids #2132 Zhukov, #2457, #2907 Nekrasov,
1975 : #2998 Berendeya, #3273 Drukar, #3321, #3523, #5385, #5612 Nevskij,
1975 : #5857 Neglinka, #6432 & #8244
1975 : George Harrison releases "Extra Texture" album in UK
1975 : Ireland AKZO director Tiede Herrema kidnap
1975 : N Chernykh discovers asteroid #2420 Ciurlionis
1976 : Hank Aaron singles in his last at bat & drives in his 2,297th run
1976 : Helmuth Kohl's CDU wins German parliament election
1977 : "Comedy with Music (Victor Borge)" opens at Imperial NYC for 66 perfs
1977 : Indira Gandhi arrested
1978 : Gold hits record $223.50 an ounce in London
1978 : N S Chernykh finds asteroid #5303 Parijskij, #5415, 5543 Sharaf & 7980
1980 : Z Vavrova discovers asteroids #2442 Corbett, #2620, #3479 Malaparte
1980 : #4781 Sladkovic, #5548 & #6077
1980 : 4 dies in attack on synagogue in Paris
1981 : Brewers (since 1970) & Expos (1969) clinch their 1st-ever postseason
1981 : Irish Nationalist at Maze Prison near Belfast end 7-mo hunger strike
1981 : Mike Weaver beats Quick Tillis in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1982 : Cox 4 rowing record set at 12:52 for 99 miles (Geneva, Switzerland)
1982 : Milwaukee whips Baltimore 10-2 to win AL East championship
1982 : Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic
1982 : Record 11,763 start a 186 mile cross-country race near Stockholm
1982 : Scott Weiland runs Detroit marathon backwards in less than 5 hours
1983 : Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson release "Say, Say, Say" in UK
1984 : Oak Ridge Obs discovers asteroid #4372 Quincy & #7461 Kachmokiam
1985 : 21st Shuttle Mission (51J)-Atlantis 1-all-military flight launched
1985 : Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) adopts constitution
1985 : Pope John Paul II declares Titus Brandsma divine
1985 : South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands adopts constitution
1986 : Baltimore loses assuring Orioles of their 1st last-place finish
1986 : L G Karachkina discovers asteroid #6592 Goya
1986 : P Jensen discovers asteroid 3782 Celle, 3858 Dorchester & 5900 Jensen
1986 : Soviet Yankee-class sub sinks off NC, 3 die
1986 : T Seki discovers asteroid #4256 Kagamigawa
1987 : Benito Santiago ends longest catcher/rookie hitting streak at 34
1987 : Michael Pruffer of France skis 135.26 MPH at Portillo, Chile
1987 : USSR performs underground nuclear test
1988 : 26th Space Shuttle Mission, Discovery 7 returns to Earth after 4-days
1988 : A Mrkos discovers asteroid #6516
1988 : Criterion Center Theater opens at Broadway bet 44th & 45th Sts NYC
1988 : Lebanese kidnappers release Mithileshwar Singh (held for 30 months)
1988 : S Ueda & H Kaneda discover asteroid #7406 & #7407
1988 : WBMW-FM, Wash DC changes calls to WJFK & begins airing Howard Stern
1989 : Panamanian Defense Force attempted coup of Manuel Noriega fails
1990 : East Germany & West Germany merge to become Germany
1990 : Florida record store owner Charles Freeman is found guilty of
1990 : George Brett becomes 1st to lead league in batting in 3 decades
1990 : Tiger Cecil Fielder becomes 11th, to hit 50 HRs (& 51st)
1990 : obsenity, for selling 2 Live Crew rap records
1991 : 25th Country Music Assn Award:
1992 : Atlanta Braves win franchise record 98th game (old record 95 in 1957)
1992 : LeVar Burton weds Stephanie Cozart
1992 : Madonna premieres her "Erotica" video on MTV
1992 : Sinead O'Connor rips up a picture of Pope John Paul II on SNL
1992 : Toronto Blue Jays win AL East title
1993 : "White Liars/Black Comedy" closes at Criterion NYC after 38 perfs
1993 : Battle at TV station Ostankino/Moscow townhall, about 25 killed
1993 : Boris Yeltsin declares state of emergency in Moscow
1993 : Evangelist Tammy Faye Bakker (52) weds Roe Messner (58)
1993 : Giants need to beat Dodgers to force a playoff game with Braves for NL
1993 : Harry Belafonte performs in Tivoli Copenhagen
1993 : Indians play their last game at Cleve Stadium, Chicago wins 4-0
1993 : Somali General Aidids arm forces kill 18 US Rangers
1993 : West title, but Dodgers destroy Giants 12-1, Giants end year 103-59
1994 : Fernando Henrique Cardoso elected president of Brazil
1994 : Gary Larson, announces he is retiring from doing "Far Side" cartoon
1995 : 1st 1st-class match at Hurstville Oval, Sydney (NSW v W Prov)
1995 : OJ Simpson found not guilty in murder of Nicole Simpson & Ron Goldman
1996 : Beijing Schmidt CCD Asteroid Program discovers asteroid #8311
1996 : Farra d'Isonzo discovers asteroid #7500 Sassi
1996 : Thunderdome in Tampa Bay renamed Tropicana Field
1996 : XXX actress Julie Rage weds XXX director Greg Steele
1997 : Carolina Hurricanes 1st home game vs Pitts Penguins
1997 : Gordie Howie, 69, plays in 7th decade, with IHL'S Detroit Vipers
1997 : Japan's maglev train breaks world speed record at 280.3 mph
1997 : Vancouver Canucks beats Mighty Ducks, 3-2 in Japan
2333 : BC Tangun establishes kingdom of Chosun (Korea) (legendary)
2001 : Alliance Air plane hijack in India a foax

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