Day: October 3, 2012

Updated October 2, 2012, 2:28 pm

On Oct. 3, 1990, West Germany and East Germany ended 45 years of postwar division, declaring the creation of a new unified country.

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On Oct. 3, 1873, Emily Post, the American authority on proper etiquette, was born. Following her death on Sept. 25, 1960, her obituary appeared in The Times.

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On This Date

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1863	President Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November Thanksgiving Day.
1929	The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes changed its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
1925	Author Gore Vidal was born in West Point, N.Y.
1941	Adolf Hitler declared in a speech in Berlin that Russia had been “broken” and would “never rise again.”
1951	Bobby Thomson hit the “shot heard ’round the world” – a three-run home run in the bottom of the ninth inning of a playoff game at the Polo Grounds – to send the New York Giants into the World Series.
1955	“Captain Kangaroo” premiered on CBS and “The Mickey Mouse Club” premiered on ABC.
1960	“The Andy Griffith Show” premiered on CBS.
1961	“The Dick Van Dyke Show” premiered on CBS.
1974	The Cleveland Indians hired Frank Robinson as major league baseball’s first black manager.
1981	Irish nationalists at the Maze Prison near Belfast, Northern Ireland, ended seven months of hunger strikes that had claimed 10 lives.
1990	West Germany and East Germany ended 45 years of postwar division, declaring the creation of a new unified country.
1992	Barack Obama married Michelle Robinson at the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.
1995	A jury found ex-football player O.J. Simpson innocent of murder in the 1994 slayings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman.
2002	Five people were killed in random shootings in the Washington, D.C., area within a 14-hour period. Authorities began to search for the “Beltway Sniper.”
2003	A tiger attacked magician Roy Horn of the duo “Siegfried & Roy” during a performance in Las Vegas, leaving him partially paralyzed.
2005	President George W. Bush nominated White House counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court. (Miers withdrew three weeks later.)
2009	Maine voters voted to repeal a state law that would have allowed same-sex couples to marry.
2011	An Italian appeals court freed Amanda Knox of Seattle after four years in prison, tossing murder convictions against Knox and an ex-boyfriend in the stabbing of their British roommate.

Current Birthdays

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Rock singer Gwen Stefani (No Doubt) turns 43 years old today.

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Rock singer Chubby Checker turns 71 years old today.

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1926	Marques Haynes, Basketball Hall of Famer, turns 86
1938	David Obey, U.S. congressman, D-Wis., turns 74
1943	Jeff Bingaman, U.S. senator, D-N.M., turns 69
1944	Roy, Magician (Siegfried & Roy), turns 68
1949	Lindsey Buckingham, Rock musician (Fleetwood Mac), turns 63
1951	Keb’ Mo’, Blues singer, turns 61
1951	Dave Winfield, Baseball Hall of Famer, turns 61
1954	Dennis Eckersley, Baseball Hall of Famer, turns 58
1954	Al Sharpton, Civil rights activist, turns 58
1959	Jack Wagner, Actor, turns 53
1962	Tommy Lee, Rock musician (Motley Crue), turns 50
1964	Clive Owen, Actor, turns 48
1969	Janel Moloney, Actress (“The West Wing”), turns 43
1973	Neve Campbell, Actress, turns 39
1975	India.Arie, R&B singer, turns 37
1976	Seann William Scott, Actor, turns 36
1984	Ashlee Simpson-Wentz, Singer, actress, turns 28

 

Historic Birthdays

Emily Post 10/3/1873 – 9/25/1960 American writer.Go to obituary »

75	John Ross 10/3/1790 – 8/1/1866 American Cherokee leader
90	George Bancroft 10/3/1800 – 1/17/1891 American historian
77	Sir Patrick Manson 10/3/1844 – 4/9/1922 Scottish physician
65	William Crawford Gorgas 10/3/1854 – 7/3/1920 American physician
65	Eleonora Duse 10/3/1858 – 4/21/1924 Italian actress
79	Pierre Bonnard 10/3/1867 – 1/23/1947 French painter
37	Thomas Clayton Wolfe 10/3/1900 – 9/15/1938 American novelist