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On this day, October the 3rd we cherish: Christian feast day: -Abd-al-Masih -Adalgott -Blessed Szilárd Bogdánffy -Dionysius the Areopagite -Émilie de Villeneuve -Ewald the Black and Ewald the Fair -Francis Borgia -George Bell and John Raleigh Mott (Episcopal Church) -Hesychius of Sinai -Théodore Guérin -October 3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) German Unity Day (Germany) Morazán Day (Honduras) National Day, celebrates the independence of Iraq from the United Kingdom in 1932. National Foundation Day or Gaecheonjeol (South Korea)
This day in history: 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 a decisive battle with Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius. 382 – Roman Emperor Theodosius I concludes a peace treaty with the Goths and settles them in the Balkans in exchange for military service. 1283 – Dafydd ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales, is the first nobleman to be executed by hanging, drawing and quartering. 1392 – Muhammed VII becomes the twelfth sultan of the Emirate of Granada. 1574 – The Siege of Leiden is lifted by the Watergeuzen. 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. 1712 – The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor. 1739 – The Treaty of Niš is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the end of the Russian–Turkish War, 1736–39. 1789 – George Washington makes the first Thanksgiving Day designated by the national government of the US 1795 – Slave rebel leader Tula executed in Curaçao 1835 – The Staedtler company is founded in Nuremberg, Germany. 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. 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. 1872 – The Bloomingdale brothers open their first store at 938 Third Avenue, New York City. 1873 – Captain Jack and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War. 1912 – U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels under the command of Benjamín Zeledón at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill. 1918 – King Boris III of Bulgaria accedes to the throne. 1919 – Cincinnati Reds pitcher Adolfo Luque becomes the first Latin player to appear in a World Series. 1929 – The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Kingdom of Yugoslavia, "Land of the South Slavs". 1930 – The German Socialist Labour Party in Poland – Left is founded following a split in DSAP in Łódź. 1932 – Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom. 1935 – Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy invades Ethiopia under General de Bono. 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. 1949 – WERD, the first black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta. 1950 – Korean War: The First Battle of Maryang San, primarily pitting Australian and British forces against communist China, begins. 1952 – The United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world's third nuclear power. 1957 – The California State Superior Court rules that Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems is not obscene. 1962 – Project Mercury: Sigma 7 is launched from Cape Canaveral, with astronaut Wally Schirra aboard, for a six-orbit, nine-hour flight. 1963 – A violent coup in Honduras pre-empts the October 13 election, ends a period of reform, and begins two decades of military rule. 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. 1985 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight. (Mission STS-51-J). 1986 – TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories, is officially opened. 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. 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. 1995 – O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. 2008 – The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the U.S. financial system is signed by President George W. Bush. 2009 – The presidents of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey sign the Nakhchivan Agreement on the Establishment of Turkic Council. 2013 – At least 134 migrants are killed when their boat sinks near the Italian island of Lampedusa. 2015 – 42 killed and 33 missing in Kunduz hospital airstrike operated by Médecins Sans Frontières.
Famous birthdays: 1554 – Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, English poet (d. 1628) 1610 – Gabriel Lalemant, French-Canadian missionary and saint (d. 1649) 1631 – Sebastian Anton Scherer, German organist and composer (d. 1712) 1713 – Antoine Dauvergne, French violinist and composer (d. 1797) 1716 – Giovanni Battista Beccaria, Italian physicist and academic (d. 1781) 1720 – Johann Uz, German poet and judge (d. 1796) 1790 – John Ross, American tribal chief (d. 1866) 1797 – Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1870) 1800 – George Bancroft, American historian and politician, 17th United States Secretary of the Navy (d. 1891) 1804 – Townsend Harris, American merchant, politician, and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Japan (d. 1878) 1804 – Allan Kardec, French author, translator, and educator (d. 1869) 1828 – Woldemar Bargiel, German composer and educator (d. 1897) 1837 – Nicolás Avellaneda, Argentinian journalist and politician, 8th President of Argentina (d. 1885) 1846 – James Jackson Putnam, American neurologist and academic (d. 1918) 1848 – Henry Lerolle, French painter and art collector (d. 1929) 1858 – Eleonora Duse, Italian-American actress (d. 1924) 1862 – Johnny Briggs, English cricketer and rugby player (d. 1902) 1863 – Pyotr Kozlov, Russian archaeologist and explorer (d. 1935) 1865 – Gustave Loiseau, French painter (d. 1935) 1867 – Pierre Bonnard, French painter (d. 1947) 1869 – Alfred Flatow, German gymnast (d. 1942) 1879 – Warner Oland, Swedish-American actor and singer (d. 1938) 1882 – A. Y. Jackson, Canadian painter and academic (d. 1974) 1885 – Sophie Treadwell, American playwright and journalist (d. 1970) 1886 – Alain-Fournier, French soldier, author, and critic (d. 1914) 1888 – Wade Boteler, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1943) 1889 – Carl von Ossietzky, German journalist and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1938) 1894 – Elmer Robinson, American lawyer and politician, 33rd Mayor of San Francisco (d. 1982) 1894 – Walter Warlimont, German general (d. 1976) 1895 – Giovanni Comisso, Italian author and poet (d. 1969) 1895 – Sergei Yesenin, Russian poet (d. 1925) 1896 – Auvergne Doherty, Australian businesswoman (d. 1961) 1896 – Gerardo Diego, Spanish poet and critic (d. 1987) 1897 – Louis Aragon, French author and poet (d. 1982) 1898 – Leo McCarey, American director and screenwriter (d. 1969) 1898 – Adolf Reichwein, German economist and educator (d. 1944) 1899 – Gertrude Berg, American actress, screenwriter and producer (d. 1966) 1900 – Thomas Wolfe, American novelist (d. 1938) 1901 – Jean Grémillon, French director, composer, and screenwriter (d. 1959) 1904 – Ernst-Günther Schenck, German colonel and physician (d. 1998) 1905 – Tekin Arıburun, Turkish soldier and politician, President of Turkey (d. 1993) 1906 – Natalie Savage Carlson, American author (d. 1997) 1908 – Johnny Burke, American songwriter (d. 1964) 1911 – Michael Hordern, English actor (d. 1995) 1915 – Ray Stark, American film producer (d. 2004) 1916 – James Herriot, English veterinarian and author (d. 1995) 1919 – James M. Buchanan, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013) 1921 – Ray Lindwall, Australian cricketer and soldier (d. 1996) 1923 – Edward Oliver LeBlanc, Dominican lawyer and politician, 1st Premier of Dominica (d. 2004) 1924 – Harvey Kurtzman, American cartoonist (d. 1993) 1924 – Arkady Vorobyov, Russian weightlifter and coach (d. 2012) 1925 – Gore Vidal, American novelist, screenwriter, and critic (d. 2012) 1925 – George Wein, American pianist and producer, co-founded the Newport Folk Festival 1928 – Erik Bruhn, Danish dancer and choreographer (d. 1986) 1928 – Edward L. Moyers, American businessman (d. 2006) 1928 – Shridath Ramphal, Guyanese academic and politician, 2nd Commonwealth Secretary-General 1931 – Glenn Hall, Canadian ice hockey player and coach 1932 – Terence English, South African-English surgeon and academic 1933 – Neale Fraser, Australian tennis player 1934 – Benjamin Boretz, American composer and theorist 1934 – Miguel-Ángel Cárdenas, Colombian-Dutch painter and illustrator (d. 2015) 1934 – Harold Henning, South African golfer (d. 2004) 1934 – Simon Nicholson, English sculptor and painter (d. 1990) 1935 – Charles Duke, American general, pilot, and astronaut 1936 – Steve Reich, American composer 1938 – Eddie Cochran, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (d. 1960) 1938 – David Hart Dyke, English captain 1938 – Jack Hodgins, Canadian author and academic 1938 – Dave Obey, American lawyer and politician 1939 – Bob Armstrong, American wrestler and trainer 1940 – Alan O'Day, American singer-songwriter (d. 2013) 1940 – Jean Ratelle, Canadian ice hockey player and coach 1940 – Mike Troy, American swimmer 1941 – Chubby Checker, American singer-songwriter 1941 – Andrea de Adamich, Italian race car driver and sportscaster 1941 – John Elliott, Australian businessman 1943 – Jeff Bingaman, American soldier and politician, 25th Attorney General of New Mexico 1943 – Baki İlkin, Turkish civil servant and diplomat 1944 – Pierre Deligne, Belgian mathematician and academic 1944 – Roy Horn, German-American magician and actor 1945 – Tony Brown, English footballer and sportscaster 1945 – Christopher Bruce, English dancer and choreographer 1945 – Jo Ritzen, Dutch economist and politician, Dutch Minister of Education 1946 – P. P. Arnold, American soul singer 1947 – John Perry Barlow, American poet, songwriter, blogger, and activist 1947 – Ben Cauley, American trumpet player and songwriter (d. 2015) 1947 – Fred DeLuca, American businessman, co-founded Subway (d. 2015) 1947 – Anne Dorte of Rosenborg (d. 2014) 1947 – Takis Michalos, Greek water polo player and coach (d. 2010) 1949 – Lindsey Buckingham, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer 1949 – J. P. Dutta, Indian director, producer, and screenwriter 1949 – Aleksandr Rogozhkin, Russian director and screenwriter 1949 – Laurie Simmons, American photographer and director 1950 – Ronnie Laws, American jazz, R&B, and funk saxophone player 1951 – Keb' Mo', American blues musician and songwriter 1951 – Kathryn D. Sullivan, American geologist and astronaut 1951 – Dave Winfield, American baseball player and sportscaster 1952 – Bruce Arians, American football coach 1952 – Gary Troup, New Zealand cricketer 1954 – Eddie DeGarmo, American singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer 1954 – Dennis Eckersley, American baseball player and sportscaster 1954 – Al Sharpton, American minister, talk show host, and political activist 1954 – Stevie Ray Vaughan, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 1990) 1955 – John S. Lesmeister, American educator and politician, 30th North Dakota State Treasurer (d. 2006) 1955 – Allen Woody, American bass player and songwriter (d. 2000) 1955 – Buket Uzuner, Turkish author 1956 – Hart Bochner, Canadian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter 1957 – Roberto Azevêdo, Brazilian engineer and diplomat, 6th Director-General of the World Trade Organization 1957 – Tim Westwood, English radio and television host 1958 – Chen Yanyin, Chinese sculptor 1958 – Louise Lecavalier, Canadian dancer and choreographer 1959 – Craig Bellamy, Australian rugby league player and coach 1959 – Fred Couples, American golfer 1959 – Greg Proops, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter 1959 – Jack Wagner, American actor and singer 1961 – Rebecca Stephens, English journalist and mountaineer 1961 – Ludger Stühlmeyer, German cantor, composer, and musicologist
Quote of the day: Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
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