The History Shack

 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...

 OTD  September 30th is the 273rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 94 days remain until the end of the year. Events 1541 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his forces enter Tula territory in present-day western Arkansas, encountering fierce resistance. 1791 – The first performance of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute occurred two months before his death. 1882 – Thomas Edison's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation. 1888 – Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes. 1907 – The McKinley National Memorial, the final resting place of assassinated U.S. President William McKinley and his family, is dedicated in Canton, Ohio. 1939 – NBC broadcasts the first televised American football game. 1947 – The 1947 World Series begins. It is the first to be televised, to include an African American player, to exceed $2 million in receipts, to see a pinch-hit hom...