October 3
2333 BC – According to Korean legend,
Dangun, the "grandson of heaven", established
Gojoseon, the first Korean kingdom.
382 – Roman Emperor
Theodosius I concludes a peace treaty with the
Goths and settles them in the Balkans in exchange for military service.
1283 –
Dafydd ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales, is the first nobleman to be executed by
hanging, drawing and quartering.
1712 – The
Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of
Rob Roy MacGregor.
1789 – George Washington makes the first
Thanksgiving Day designated by the national government of the US.
1849 – American author
Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before
his death.
1863 – The last Thursday in November is declared as Thanksgiving Day by United States President Abraham Lincoln as are Thursdays, November 30, 1865 and November 29, 1866.
1872 – The Bloomingdale brothers open
their first store at 938 Third Avenue, New York City.
1919 – Cincinnati Reds pitcher
Adolfo Luque becomes the first Latin player to appear in a World Series.
1942 – Spaceflight: The first successful launch of a
V-2 /A4-rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany. It is the first man-made object to reach space.
1945 - Elvis Presley made his first ever-public appearance in a talent contest at the Mississippi Alabama Dairy Show singing '
Old Shep', Elvis was 10 years old at the time and came in second (Wiki says he came in 5th).
1949 –
WERD, the first black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta.
1952 – The United Kingdom
successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world's third nuclear power.
1957 – The California State Superior Court rules that
Allen Ginsberg's
Howl and Other Poems is not obscene.
1967 - American singer, songwriter
Woody Guthrie died after suffering from
Huntington's Chorea disease. Guthrie was a major influence on American folk music.
1978 - The members of
Aerosmith bailed thirty fans out of jail after they were arrested for smoking pot during an Aerosmith concert at Fort Wayne Coliseum.
1985 – The
Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight. (Mission
STS-51-J).
1990 –
German reunification: The
German Democratic Republic ceases to exist and its territory becomes 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.
1991 - Texas governor
Ann Richards proclaimed October 3, (
Stevie Ray Vaughan's birthday), to be "
Stevie Ray Vaughan Day". An annual motorcycle ride and concert in Central Texas benefits the
Stevie Ray Vaughan Memorial Scholarship Fund.
1992 -
Sinead O'Connor (Irish attention whore) ripped up a photograph of
Pope John Paul II, on the US TV show '
Saturday Night Live', as a protest over sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Church. The incident happened as O'Connor ended her live performance and out of nowhere, produced a photograph of Pope John Paul II, which she ripped into pieces. There was stunned silence in the studio and the station went to a commercial. NBC was fined $2.5 million dollars by the Federal Communications Commission.
1993 –
Battle of Mogadishu: A firefight occurs during a failed attempt to capture key officials of warlord
Mohamed Farrah Aidid's organisation in Mogadishu, Somalia, costing the lives of 18 American soldiers, and over 350 Somalis.
1995 –
O. J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of
Nicole Brown Simpson and
Ronald Goldman.
2000 -
John Lennon's assassin
Mark Chapman was denied parole after serving 20 years in prison. Chapman was interviewed for 50 minutes by parole board members who concluded that releasing Chapman would 'deprecate the seriousness of the crime.'
2008 – The
Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the U.S. financial system is signed by President
George W. Bush.
2011 - According to new scientific research,
Queen's '
We Are The Champions' was found to be the catchiest song ever written. Musicologist Dr Alisun Pawley from the University of London, England, conducted research into what makes a song memorable and compiled a list of the ten "catchiest" songs of all time. During the research, they discovered that sing-along songs contained four key elements: long and detailed musical phrases, multiple pitch changes in a song's 'hook', male vocalists, and higher male voices making a noticeable vocal effort. '
Y.M.C.A.' by the
Village People,
Sum 41's '
Fat Lip', and
Europe's '
The Final Countdown' were also in the list.
Births
85 BC – Gaius Cassius Longinus; 1790 – John Ross (Cherokee Chief); 1804 – Townsend Harris; 1865 – Gustave Loiseau
; 1879 – Warner Oland (
Charlie Chan); 1900 – Thomas Wolfe; 1916 – James Herriot; 1925 – Gore Vidal; 1938 – Eddie Cochran♪ ♫; 1940 – Alan O'Day♪ ♫(wrote & sang "
Undercover Angel"); 1941 – Chubby Checker♪ ♫; 1944 – Roy Horn; 1949 – Lindsey Buckingham
(Fleetwood Mac); 1951 – Keb' Mo'
; 1954 – Al Sharpton (asshole);
1954 – Stevie Ray Vaughan; 1955 – Allen Woody
(Allman Bros., Gov't Mule); 1959 – Fred Couples; 1959 – Greg Proops; 1959 – Jack Wagner; 1962 – Tommy Lee
(Motley Crue); 1964 – Clive Owen; 1967 – Chris Collingwood♪ ♫(Fountains of Wayne); 1969 – Gwen Stefani♪ ♫(No Doubt); 1973 – Neve Campbell; 1973 – Lena Headey ('Ma Ma' in
Dredd); 1975 – India Arie♪ ♫; 1976 – Seann William Scott ('Stifler' in
American Pie movies); 1984 – Jessica Parker Kennedy
; 1984 – Ashlee Simpson
Deaths
42 BC – Gaius Cassius Longinus; 1226 – Francis of Assisi
; 1283 – Dafydd ap Gruffydd; 1656 – Myles Standish; 1838 – Black Hawk (Sauk war chief); 1867 – Elias Howe; 1965 – Zachary Scott; 1967 – Woody Guthrie♪ ♫;
1969 – Skip James♪ ♫; 1998 – Roddy McDowall; 1999 – Akio Morita (co-founded Sony); 2000 – Benjamin Orr
(The Cars); 2003 – Florence Stanley; 2004 – Janet Leigh; 2005 – Ronnie Barker (one of The Two Ronnies); 2015 – Denis Healey