October 3
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[edit] Births
- 1797 - Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1870)
- 1804 - Allan Kardec, French founder of Spiritism or Kardecism (d. 1869)
- 1806 - Oliver Cowdery, American religious leader (d. 1850)
- 1862 - Johnny Briggs, English cricketer (d. 1902)
- 1873 - Emily Post, American etiquette advisor (d. 1960)
- 1880 - Warner Oland, Swedish-American actor (d. 1938)
- 1885 - Sophie Treadwell, American playwright and journalist (d. 1970)
- 1894 - Elmer Robinson, American politician (d. 1982)
- 1897 - Louis Aragon, French writer (d. 1982)
- 1898 - Leo McCarey, American movie director (d. 1969)
- 1899 - Gertrude Berg, American actress (d. 1966)
- 1900 - Thomas Wolfe, author (d. 1938)
- 1916 - James Herriot, veterinarian, author (d. 1995)
- 1919 - James M. Buchanan, American economist
- 1925 - Gore Vidal, American author
- 1936 - Steve Reich, American composer
- 1938 - Eddie Cochran, singer (d. 1960)
- 1941 - Chubby Checker, American popular musician
- 1947 - John Perry Barlow, American musician
- 1949 - Lindsey Buckingham, musician
- 1950 - Pamela Hensley, actress
- 1951 - Keb' Mo', blues singer
- 1951 - Dave Winfield, Baseball Hall of Famer
- 1954 - Dennis Eckersley, Baseball Hall of Famer
- 1954 - Al Sharpton, minister, politician
- 1954 - Stevie Ray Vaughan, guitarist (d. 1990)
- 1959 - Fred Couples, American golfer
- 1962 - Tommy Lee, American rock musician
- 1965 - Jan-Ove Waldner, Swedish table tennis player
- 1969 - Gwen Stefani, singer, No Doubt frontwoman
- 1973 - Neve Campbell, Canadian actress
- 1976 - Seann William Scott, actor
- 1981 - Zlatan Ibrahimovic, soccer player
- 1981 - Andreas Isaksson, soccer player
[edit] Deaths
- 42 BC - Gaius Cassius Longinus
- 1226 - Saint Francis of Assisi (b. c. 1182)
- 1283 - David ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales, executed
- 1369 - Margarete Maultasch, Countess of Tyrol (b. 1318)
- 1568 - Elizabeth of Valois, Queen of Philip II of Spain (b. 1545)
- 1873 - Captain Jack, Modoc tribal leader
- 1881 - Orson Pratt, American religious leader (b. 1811)
- 1890 - Joseph Hergenröther German church historian (b. 1824)
- 1897 - Saint Therese of Liseaux (b. 1873)
- 1931 - Carl Nielsen, Danish composer (b. 1865)
- 1936 - John Heisman, American football coach (b. 1869)
- 1939 - Fay Templeton, actress & singer in musical comedy (b. 1865)
- 1953 - Arnold Bax, composer (b. 1883)
- 1965 - Zachary Scott, actor
- 1967 - Woody Guthrie, American folk musician (b. 1912)
- 1967 - Malcolm Sargent, English conductor (b. 1895)
- 1987 - Jean Anouilh, French writer (b. 1910)
- 1987 - Kalervo Palsa, Finnish artist (b. 1947)
- 1988 - Franz Josef Strauß, Bavarian politician
- 1990 - General Curtis LeMay, United States Air Force officer, candidate for Vice President of the United States (b. 1906)
- 1998 - Roddy McDowall, actor (b. 1928)
- 1999 - Akio Morita, co-founder of Sony (b. 1921)
- 2000 - Benjamin Orr, bassist and part-time lead singer for The Cars (b. 1947)
- 2002 - Bruce Paltrow, television and film producer
- 2003 - William Steig, American cartoonist and children's author; creator of Shrek
- 2004 - Janet Leigh, actress (b. 1927)
[edit] Events
- 2333 BC - Famous date of the establishment of the Kingdom of Chosun (Korea)
- 42 BC - First Battle of Philippi: The Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight a battle with Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius. Even though Brutus defeats Octavian, Antony defeats Cassius
- 1283 - Dafydd ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales, becomes the first person executed by drawing and quartering
- 1574 - Siege of Leiden lifted by the Watergeuzen - foundation of the first Dutch university
- 1712 - Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor
- 1739 - The Treaty of Nissa is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the end of the Russian-Turkish War, 1736-1739.
- 1789 - George Washington names the first Thanksgiving Day
- 1863 - Thanksgiving Day declared as the last Thursday in November by President Abraham Lincoln.
- 1918 - King Boris III of Bulgaria becomes king
- 1929 - The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Kingdom of Yugoslavia, "Land of the South Slavs".
- 1932 - Iraq gets its independence
- 1935 - Italy invades Ethiopia under General de Bono (replaced November 11 by Pietro Badoglio)
- 1942 - First successful launch of A4-rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany. The rocket flew 147 kilometres wide and got to a height of 84.5 kilometres and was the first man-made object reaching space.
- 1951 - New York Giants beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 5-4, winning the National League pennant, with Bobby Thomson's three-run homer called "The Shot Heard 'Round the World"
- 1952 - United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon
- 1960 - The Andy Griffith Show starts
- 1962 - At Cape Canaveral the Mercury 8 takes off with Astronaut Wally Schirra on it for a nine-hour flight
- 1964 - Underdog debuts on CBS
- 1981 - The Hunger Strike by Irish Republican Army prisoners at the Maze jail in Belfast ends after seven months and 10 deaths
- 1990 - The re-unification of Germany. East Germany ends.
- 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 2000 Somalis are killed. US forces withdraw from Somalia soon after.
- 1995 - O. J. Simpson found not guilty of murder.
- 2004 - The Montreal Expos play their last major league baseball game before the franchise is moved to Washington, D.C.
