On this day in History - Oct. 03

2333 BC - Establishment of the Kingdom of Korea (in the name of Joseon).
42 BC - First Battle of Philippi: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight an indecisive battle with Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius.
42 BC - Gaius Cassius Longinus dies
1143 - Celestino II is elected ( 166th) Pope
1283 - David ap Gruffydd dies executed. Welsh prince of Gwynedd
1283 - Dafydd ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales, becomes the first person executed by drawing and quartering.
1369 - Margarete Maultasch dies (b. 1318). Countess of Tyrol
1568 - Elizabeth of Valois dies (b. 1545). Queen of Philip II of Spain.
1574 - Siege of Leiden lifted by the Watergeuzen; foundation of the first Dutch university
1596 - Florent Chrestien dies (b. 1541). French writer.
1611 - Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne dies (b. 1554). French military leader
1629 - Giorgi Saakadze dies (b. 1570). Georgian military leader.
1649 - Giovanni Diodati dies (b. 1576). Swiss protestant clergyman.
1653 - Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn dies (b. 1612). Dutch scholar.
1656 - Myles Standish dies. English-born soldier
1690 - Robert Barclay was born. Scottish writer
1701 - Joseph Williamson dies (b. 1633). English politician.
1712 - The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor

1722 - Johann Heinrich Tischbein was born. German painter.

1733 - Nasce em Lisboa, o intendente Pina Manique, fundador da Casa Pia de Lisboa.
1739 - The Treaty of Nissa is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the end of the Russian-Turkish War, 1736-1739.
1778 - British Captain James Cook anchors in Alaska.
1789 - George Washington proclaims the first Thanksgiving Day to be Nov 26.

1792 - Francisco Morazán Quesada was born. President of Costa Rica (1842)
1797 - Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany was born (d. 1870)

1800 - George Bancroft wa sborn. Historian known as the "Father of American History" for his 10-volume A History of the United States.
1804 - Allan Kardec was born ( † 1869) . French founder of Spiritism.
1804 - Townsend Harris was born. First U.S. Consul to Japa
1806 - Oliver Cowdery was born (d. 1850). American religious leader.

1837 - Nicolás Avellaneda was born. President of Argentine (1874-1880)
1858 - Eleonora Duse was born (d. 1924). Italian actress.
1862 - Johnny Briggs was born (d. 1902). English cricketer.
1863 - Pyotr Kuzmich Kozlov was born (d. 1935). Russian explorer.
1863 - Thanksgiving Day declared as the last Thursday in November by President Abraham Lincoln.

1867 - Pierre Bonnard was born. French painter.
1873 - Emily Post was born (d. 1960). American etiquette advisor.
1873 - Captain Jack dies. Modoc tribal leader
1880 - Warner Oland was born (d. 1938). Swedish-American actor.
1881 - Orson Pratt dies (b. 1811). American religious leader.
1885 - Sophie Treadwell was born (d. 1970). American playwright and journalist.
1889 - Carl von Ossietzky was born (d. 1938). German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1935.
1890 - Joseph Hergenröther dies (b. 1824). German historian.

1890 - Emilio Portes Gil was born. President of México (1928-1930)
1894 - Elmer Robinson was born (d. 1982). American politician.

1895 - Serguei Yessenin was born. Russian poet.

1896 - William Morris dies (b. 1834). English poet.
1897 - Louis Aragon was born († 1982). French writer and poet
1898 - Leo McCarey was born (d. 1969). American movie director.

1899 - Louis Hjelmslev was born († 1965). Danish lexicographer.

1899 - J. S. Thurman patented a motor-driven vacuum cleaner.
1899 - Gertrude Berg was born (d. 1966). American actress.
1900 - Thomas Wolfe was born (d. 1938). American author (Look Homeward Angel)

1902 - Costa e Silva was born (d. 1969). President of Brazil.

1902 - Portugal : Em Belém, Lisboa, é inaugurada a estátua de Afonso de Albuquerque.

1910 - Morre assassinado Miguel Bombarda (n. 1851). Médico, escritor e político português

1915 - Orlando Silva was born († 1978) . Brazilian singer

1916 - James Herriot was born (d. 1995). English veterinarian and author.
1918 - King Boris III of Bulgaria takes the throne.

1919 - José Hermano Saraiva was born. Portuguese historian
1919 - James M. Buchanan was born. American economist
1923 - Edward Oliver LeBlanc was born (d. 2004). Dominican politician.
1925 - Gore Vidal was born in West Point, NY. American author (Myra Breckinridge, Lincoln, DC, Burr)
1928 - Erik Bruhn was born (d. 1986). Danish ballet dancer, choreographer.
1929 - The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Kingdom of Yugoslavia, "Land of the South Slavs".
1929 - Jeanne Eagels dies (b. 1929). American actress.

1931 - Carl Nielsen dies (b. 1865). Danish composer.
1932 - Iraq gains its independence.
1935 - Italy invades Ethiopia under General de Bono (replaced November 11 by Pietro Badoglio).
1936 - Steve Reich was born. American composer
1936 - John Heisman dies (b. 1869). American football coach.

1937 - E. W. Howe dies (b. 1853). American novelist.
1938 - Eddie Cochran was born (d. 1960). American singer.
1938 - Dia em que, a partir de então, sempre às sextas-feiras, a beata Alexandrina Maria da Costa alegava viver os sofrimentos da Paixão de Cristo
1941 - Chubby Checker was born. American musician
1942 - First successful launch of A4-rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany: the first man-made object to reach space.
1947 - John Perry Barlow was born. American musician
1949 - Lindsey Buckingham was born. American musician.

1949 - José Mayer was born., Brazilian actor.

1949 - Zé Ramalho was born. Brazilian singer.
1950 - Pamela Hensley was born. American actress
1951 - Keb' Mo' was born. American singer
1951 - Dave Winfield was born. Baseball player
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".
1952 - United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon.
1953 - Arnold Bax dies (b. 1883). English composer
1954 - Dennis Eckersley was born. Baseball player
1954 - Al Sharpton was born. American minister and politician
1954 - Stevie Ray Vaughan was born (d. 1990). American guitarist
1959 - Fred Couples was born. American golfer
1960 - The Andy Griffith Show debuts.
1960 - Ocorre a eleição que nomeará Jânio Quadros presidente do Brasil
1962 - At Cape Canaveral the Mercury 8 blasts off with Astronaut Wally Schirra aboard for a
nine-hour flight.
1962 - Tommy Lee was born. American musician
1964 - Underdog debuts on CBS.
1965 - Jan-Ove Waldner was born. Swedish table tennis player
1965 - Zachary Scott dies (b. 1914). American actor.

1965 - Adriana Calcanhoto was born. brazilian singer.
1967 - Woody Guthrie dies (b. 1912). American musician.
1967 - Malcolm Sargent dies (b. 1895). English conductor.
1968 - Brasil: O estudante José Guimarães morre no conflito que ficou conhecido como Batalha da Maria Antônia entre estudantes da Faculdade de Filosofia da USP e os da Universidade Mackenzie (v. anos de chumbo)

1968 - Perú: Golpe de estado leva o general Juan Velasco Alvarado ao poder.

1969 - Gwen Stefani was born. American singer (No Doubt)
1973 - Neve Campbell was born. Canadian actress .

1975 - Morre Zélio Fernandino de Morais (n. 1891).Brasileiro considerado o fundador da umbanda tradicional

1976 - Seann William Scott was born. American actor.

1977 - Natália Correia, poetisa portuguesa, é distinguida com o prémio literário francês La Fleur de Laure, atribuído pelo Centre International de Poésie Néo-Latine e pelo Comité des Prix Petrarque de Poésie Néo-Latine.
1981 - Zlatan Ibrahimovic was born. Swedish footballer
1981 - Andreas Isaksson was born. Swedish footballer
1981 - The Hunger Strike by Irish Republican Army prisoners at the Maze jail in Belfast ends after seven months and 10 deaths.
1984 - Ashlee Simpson was born. American singer.
1986 - Inicia-se a construção do estádio SkyDome
1987 - Jean Anouilh dies (b. 1910). French writer.
1987 - Kalervo Palsa dies (b. 1947). Finnish artist.

1987 - Miguel Rovisco dies. Portuguese writer.
1988 - Franz Josef Strauß dies (b. 1915). Bavarian politician.
1990 - General Curtis LeMay dies (b. 1906). United States Air Force officer, candidate for Vice President.
1990 - Re-unification of Germany. West Germany and East Germany ended 45 years of postwar division, declaring the creation of a new unified country.

1991 - South African author Nadine Gordimer was named winner of the Nobel Prize in literature.
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.

1994 - Fernando Henrique Cardoso é eleito presidente do Brasil.
1995 - O. J. Simpson found not guilty of murder.

1995 - Em Portugal, são detidos mais seis skinheads suspeitos do ataque ocorrido no Bairro Alto a 10 de Junho.

1996 - Wislawa Szymborska, Polish poet, won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Her work included the transl. collection: “View With a Grain of Sand,” her debut collection “That’s Why We Are Alive” (1952), Salt (1962), “The People on the Bridge” (1986), and “The End and the Beginning” (1993).
1998 - Roddy McDowall dies (b. 1928). English actor.
1999 - Akio Morita dies (b. 1921). Japanese businessman.
2000 - Benjamin Orr dies (b. 1947). American bassist and singer (The Cars)

2000 - Wojciech Has dies (b. 1925). Polish film director.
2002 - Bruce Paltrow dies (b. 1943). American television and film producer.
2003 - William Steig dies (b. 1907). American cartoonist and children's author.
2004 - John Cerutti dies (b. 1960). Baseball player and announcer.
2004 - Janet Leigh dies (b. 1927). American actress (Psycho).
2004 - The Montreal Expos play their last major league baseball game before the franchise is moved to Washington, D.C.

2004 - Two of Spain's most wanted alleged terrorists and at least 16 other suspected members of the armed Basque separatist group ETA were captured in a vast French-Spanish police operation.

2004 - Estréia na ABC a série Desperate Housewives

2004 - A tenista russa Maria Sharapova vence a polaca Marta Domachowska e conquista o Torneio de Seul
2005 - Annular solar_eclipse
Germany - Day of German Unity
South Korea - National Foundation Day (Gaecheonjeol 개천절)
Rosh Hashanah, 5766 begins at sunset (2005)