Hankering for History's TODAY IN HISTORY, OCTOBER 3RD

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, October 3rd!

1739	Russia signs a treaty with the Turks, ending a three-year conflict between the two countries.
1776	Congress borrows five million dollars to halt the rapid depreciation of paper money in the colonies.
1862	At the Battle of Corinth, in Mississippi, a Union army defeats the Confederates.
1863	President Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November Thanksgiving Day.
1873	Captain Jack and three other Modoc Indians are hanged in Oregon for the murder of General Edward Canby.
1876	John L. Routt, the Colorado Territory governor, is elected the first state governor of Colorado in the Centennial year of the U.S. John L. Routt
1906	The first conference on wireless telegraphy in Berlin adopts SOS as warning signal.
1925	Author Gore Vidal was born in West Point, N.Y.
1929	The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes changed its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
1931	The comic strip Dick Tracy first appears in the New York News.
1940	U.S. Army adopts airborne, or parachute, soldiers. Airborne troops were later used in World War II for landing troops in combat and infiltrating agents into enemy territory.
1941	The Maltese Falson, starring Humphrey Bogart as detective Sam Spade, opens.
1941	Adolf Hitler declared in a speech in Berlin that Russia had been “broken” and would “never rise again.”
1942	Germany conducts the first successful test flight of a V-2 missile, which flies perfectly over a 118-mile course.
1944	German troops evacuate Athens, Greece.
1951	Bobby Thomson hit the “shot heard ’round the world” – a three-run home run in the bottom of the ninth inning of a playoff game at the Polo Grounds – to send the New York Giants into the World Series.
1952	The UK successfully conducts a nuclear weapon, becoming the world’s third nuclear power
1955	Two children’s television programs and a family sitcom all destined to become classics debut: Captain Kangaroo, Mickey Mouse Club, and The Dick Van Dyke Show.
1960	“The Andy Griffith Show” premiered on CBS.
1961	“The Dick Van Dyke Show” premiered on CBS.
1963	A violent coup in Honduras ends a period of political reform and ushers in two decades of military rule.
1974	The Cleveland Indians hired Frank Robinson as major league baseball’s first black manager.
1981	Irish nationalists at the Maze Prison near Belfast, Northern Ireland, ended seven months of hunger strikes that had claimed 10 lives.
1989	Art Shell becomes the first African American to coach a professional football team, the Los Angeles Raiders.
1990	West Germany and East Germany ended 45 years of postwar division, declaring the creation of a new unified country.