October 03

Monday 03, 2005:

President Bush announces his nomination of Harriet Miers to replace retiring Sandra Day O'Connor as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court.

Sunday 03, 2004:

The Montreal Expos play their last major league baseball game before the franchise is moved to Washington, D.C.

Tuesday 03, 1995:

O. J. Simpson found not guilty of murder.

Sunday 03, 1993:

Battle of Mogadishu: In an attempt to capture officials of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid's organization in Mogadishu, Somalia, 18 US Army Rangers and about 2000 Somalis are killed.

Wednesday 03, 1990:

Re-unification of Germany. East Germany ceases to exist.

Saturday 03, 1981:

The Hunger Strike by Irish Republican Army prisoners at the Maze jail in Belfast ends after seven months and 10 deaths.

Saturday 03, 1964:

Underdog debuts on CBS.

Wednesday 03, 1962:

At Cape Canaveral the Mercury 8 blasts off with Astronaut Wally Schirra aboard for a nine-hour flight.

Monday 03, 1960:

The Andy Griffith Show debuts.

Friday 03, 1952:

United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon.

Wednesday 03, 1951:

New York Giants beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 5-4, winning the National League pennant, with Bobby Thomson's "The Shot Heard 'Round the World".

Saturday 03, 1942:

First successful launch of A4-rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany: the first man-made object to reach space.

Thursday 03, 1935:

Italy invades Ethiopia under General de Bono (replaced November 11 by Pietro Badoglio).

Monday 03, 1932:

Iraq gains its independence.

Thursday 03, 1929:

The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Kingdom of Yugoslavia, "Land of the South Slavs".

Thursday 03, 1918:

King Boris III of Bulgaria takes the throne

Saturday 03, 1863:

Thanksgiving Day declared as the last Thursday in November by President Abraham Lincoln.

Saturday 03, 1789:

George Washington proclaims the first Thanksgiving Day.

Saturday 03, 1778:

British Captain James Cook anchors in Alaska.

Saturday 03, 1739:

The Treaty of Nissa is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the end of the Russian-Turkish War, 1736-1739.

Monday 03, 1712:

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

Thursday 03, 1574:

Siege of Leiden lifted by the Watergeuzen; foundation of the first Dutch university

Sunday 03, 1283:

Dafydd ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales, becomes the first person executed by drawing and quartering.

Tuesday 03, -42:

First Battle of Philippi: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight an indecisive battle with Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius.

Saturday 03, -2333:

Establishment of the Kingdom of Korea (in the name of Joseon).

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