On This Day October 3rd

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October 3 is the 276th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 89 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

1712 – The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor.

1789 – George Washington proclaimed Thanksgiving Day on Thursday, November 26, 1789.

1863 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.

1919 – Cincinnati Reds pitcher Adolfo Luque becomes the first Latin American player to appear in a World Series.

1929 – The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Yugoslavia by King Alexander I.

1942 – A German V-2 rocket reaches a record 85 km (46 nm) altitude.

1957 – The California State Superior Court rules that the book Howl and Other Poems is not obscene.

1962 – Project Mercury: U.S. astronaut Wally Schirra, in Sigma 7, is launched from Cape Canaveral for a six-orbit flight.

1985 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight, carrying two DSCS-III Satellites on STS-51-J.

1990 – The German Democratic Republic is abolished and becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany; the event is afterward celebrated as German Unity Day.

1995 – O. J. Simpson murder case: O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.

 

Birthdays

1790 – John Ross, American tribal chief (d. 1866)

1866 – Josephine Sabel, American singer and comedian (d. 1945)

1885 – Sophie Treadwell, American playwright and journalist (d. 1970)

1898 – Adolf Reichwein, German economist and educator (d. 1944)

1925 – Gore Vidal, American novelist, screenwriter, and critic (d. 2012)

1938 – Eddie Cochran, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (d. 1960)

1941 – Chubby Checker, American singer-songwriter

1951 – Dave Winfield, American baseball player and sportscaster

1954 – Stevie Ray Vaughan, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 1990)

1997 – Jonathan Isaac, American basketball player

Holidays and Observances

Germany Unity Day

 German Unity Day (Tag der Deutschen Einheit) is the national day of Germany, celebrated on October 3. It commemorates the anniversary of German reunification in 1990, when the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) were unified so that for the first time since 1945, Germany was once again a single nation.

 The process that led to unification was set in motion primarily by the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989. This was a direct consequence of the civil unrest in East Germany and the political reforms happening across Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

 The day's significance is to celebrate the peaceful unification of a country divided for decades by the Cold War and the Iron Curtain. Today, German Unity Day is a public holiday in Germany marked by various events, including concerts, fireworks, and official state ceremonies.

 It's worth noting that the decision to set the national holiday date on October 3, rather than the day the Berlin Wall fell, was intentional. This was done to avoid November 9, which marks other significant but less celebratory events in German history, such as the 1938 Kristallnacht pogroms.

 

Others Include

Butterfly and Hummingbird Day

Boquerón Battle Victory Day (Paraguay)

Buy British Day

Global Smoothie Day

Look at the Leaves Day!

National Caramel Custard Day

National Family TV Show Day

National Fruit at Workday

Techie's Day

World Temperance Day

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