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.
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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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 leader90 George Bancroft 10/3/1800 – 1/17/1891
American historian77 Sir Patrick Manson 10/3/1844 – 4/9/1922
Scottish physician65 William Crawford Gorgas 10/3/1854 – 7/3/1920
American physician65 Eleonora Duse 10/3/1858 – 4/21/1924
Italian actress79 Pierre Bonnard 10/3/1867 – 1/23/1947
French painter37 Thomas Clayton Wolfe 10/3/1900 – 9/15/1938
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