On This Day October 3rd
OTD
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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