October 3rd:
- 1795 - General Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence being named to defend the French National Convention against armed counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the three year old revolutionary government.
- 1849 - American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death.
- 1863 - Thanksgiving Day declared as the fourth Thursday in November by President Abraham Lincoln.
- 1932 - Iraq gains independence from Britain.
- 1942 - Spaceflight: First successful launch of a V-2 /A4-rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany: the first man-made object to reach space.
- 1952 - United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon.
- 1955 - Captain Kangaroo debuts on CBS.
- 1990 - Re-unification of Germany. The German Democratic Republic ceased to exist and its territory became 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: In an attempt to capture officials of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid's organization in Mogadishu, Somalia, 18 US Soldiers and about 1,000 Somalis are killed in heavy fighting. (18 U.S. deaths compared to 1,000 for the other side. And we lost?)
- 1995 - O.J. Simpson found not guilty of the murders of his ex-wife Nicole and her friend Ronald Goldman. (I remember watching the O.J. verdict in the EIU union and all the black people cheered and the whites just left in silence.)
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