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Today in History: Monday, October\u00a0 03, 2016<\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\nOn Oct. 3, 2008, the House gave final Congressional approval to a revised $700 billion bailout of the financial industry.
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1863<\/td>\nPresident Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November Thanksgiving Day.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1929<\/td>\nThe Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes changed its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1925<\/td>\nAuthor Gore Vidal was born in West Point, N.Y.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1941<\/td>\nAdolf Hitler declared in a speech in Berlin that Russia had been “broken” and would “never rise again.”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1951<\/td>\nBobby Thomson hit the “shot heard ’round the world” \u2013 a three-run home run in the bottom of the ninth inning of a playoff game at the Polo Grounds \u2013 to send the New York Giants into the World Series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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1955<\/td>\n“Captain Kangaroo” premiered on CBS and “The Mickey Mouse Club” premiered on ABC.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1960<\/td>\n“The Andy Griffith Show” premiered on CBS.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1961<\/td>\n“The Dick Van Dyke Show” premiered on CBS.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1974<\/td>\nThe Cleveland Indians hired Frank Robinson as major league baseball’s first black manager.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1981<\/td>\nIrish nationalists at the Maze Prison near Belfast, Northern Ireland, ended seven months of hunger strikes that had claimed 10 lives.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1990<\/td>\nWest Germany and East Germany ended 45 years of postwar division, declaring the creation of a new unified country.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1992<\/td>\nBarack Obama married Michelle Robinson at the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1995<\/td>\nA jury found ex-football player O.J. Simpson innocent of murder in the 1994 slayings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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2002<\/td>\nFive people were killed in random shootings in the Washington, D.C., area within a 14-hour period. Authorities began to search for the “Beltway Sniper.”<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2003<\/td>\nA tiger attacked magician Roy Horn of the duo “Siegfried & Roy” during a performance in Las Vegas, leaving him partially paralyzed.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2005<\/td>\nPresident George W. Bush nominated White House counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court. (Miers withdrew three weeks later.)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2009<\/td>\nMaine voters voted to repeal a state law that would have allowed same-sex couples to marry.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2011<\/td>\nAn Italian appeals court freed Amanda Knox of Seattle after four years in prison, tossing murder convictions against Knox and an ex-boyfriend in the stabbing of their British roommate.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Today’s Birthdays:<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Rock singer Gwen Stefani (No Doubt) turns 47 years old today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Marques Haynes<\/td>\nBasketball Hall of Famer<\/td>\n90<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Roy<\/td>\nMagician (Siegfried & Roy)<\/td>\n72<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lindsey Buckingham<\/td>\nRock musician (Fleetwood Mac)<\/td>\n67<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Keb’ Mo’<\/td>\nBlues singer<\/td>\n65<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dave Winfield<\/td>\nBaseball Hall of Famer<\/td>\n65<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Dennis Eckersley<\/td>\nBaseball Hall of Famer<\/td>\n62<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Al Sharpton<\/td>\nCivil rights activist<\/td>\n62<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Jack Wagner<\/td>\nActor<\/td>\n57<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tommy Lee<\/td>\nRock musician (Motley Crue)<\/td>\n54<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Clive Owen<\/td>\nActor<\/td>\n52<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Janel Moloney<\/td>\nActress (“The West Wing”)<\/td>\n47<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Neve Campbell<\/td>\nActress<\/td>\n43<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
India.Arie<\/td>\nR&B singer<\/td>\n41<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Seann William Scott<\/td>\nActor<\/td>\n40<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ashlee Simpson<\/td>\nSinger, actress<\/td>\n32<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Rock singer Chubby Checker turns 75 years old today.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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