October 3
1226 - St. Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan order, died.
1863 - President Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.
1922 - Rebecca L. Felton became the first female U.S. Senator when she was appointed to serve out the term of Sen. Thomas E. Watson.
1929 - The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes formally changed its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
1941 - Adolf Hitler declared in a speech in Berlin that Russia had been "broken" and would "never rise again."
1955 - Captain Kangaroo premiered on CBS and The Mickey Mouse Club premiered on ABC.
1970 - The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) was established under the Department of Commerce.
1981 - Irish nationalists at the Maze Prison near Belfast, Northern Ireland, ended seven months of hunger strikes that had claimed 10 lives.
1990 - East Germany and West Germany were unified to become Germany, 45 years after being split into two countries at the end of World War II.
1992 - Barack Obama married Michelle Robinson at the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.
1995 - A jury found ex-football star O.J. Simpson innocent of murder in the 1994 slayings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ronald Goldman. (Simpson, however, was later held liable for damages in a civil trial.)
2001 - The U.S. Senate approved an agreement normalizing trade between the United States and Vietnam.
2002 - Five 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."
2003 - A tiger attacked magician Roy Horn of the duo "Siegfried & Roy" during a performance in Las Vegas, leaving him partially paralyzed.
2005 - President George W. Bush nominated White House counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court. (Miers would withdraw her nomination three weeks later.)
2008 - The House gave final Congressional approval to a revised $700 billion bailout of the financial industry.
2008 - O.J. Simpson was found guilty of robbing two sports-memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a Las Vegas hotel room. (Simpson was later sentenced to nine to 33 years in prison; he was granted parole in July 2017 and released from prison in October of that year.)
2009 - Voters in Maine voted to repeal a state law that would have allowed same-sex couples to marry.
2011 - An 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.
2015 - Vice President Joe Biden, addressing the Human Rights Campaign dinner in Washington, threw his unequivocal support behind letting transgender people serve openly in the U.S. military; the Obama administration would lift a longstanding ban in June 2016. (In 2019, the Supreme Court upheld a Trump administration policy under which people who have undergone gender transition are barred from enlisting.)
2017 - President Donald Trump, visiting Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, congratulated the U.S. island territory for escaping the higher death toll of what he called “a real catastrophe like Katrina;” at a church used to distribute supplies, Trump handed out flashlights and tossed rolls of paper towels into the friendly crowd.
2018 - The Federal Emergency Management Agency conducted its first-ever national wireless emergency alert test, causing electronic devices across the country to sound, with a message that carried the subject, “Presidential Alert.” (Some people got as many as four alerts on their phones, while others didn’t get any.)
2019 - The former special U.S. envoy to Ukraine, Kurt Volker, testified before House members for nearly 10 hours about what he said was turmoil within the State Department over President Donald Trump’s push to investigate Joe Biden and his family; he said he was never pressured by Trump or others to have Ukraine conduct the investigation.
2019 - Attorneys announced that MGM Resorts International had agreed to pay up to $800 million to families of the 58 people who died and to the hundreds who were injured when a shooter rained gunfire on country music fans from a high-rise Las Vegas Strip hotel in 2017.
Birthdays
25 - Carmella Rose (model)
32 - Alicia Vikander (actress)
32 - A$AP Rocky (rapper)
36 - Ashlee Simpson (actress/singer)
36 - Christopher Marquette (actor)
36 - Meagan Holder (actress)
36 - Jessica Parker-Kennedy (actress)
37 - Drake White (country singer)
37 - Tessa Thompson (actress)
38 - Erik Von Detten (actor)
39 - Seth Gabel (actor)
41 - John Morrison (professional wrestler)
42 - Shannyn Sossamon (actress)
44 - Seann William Scott (actor)
45 - Alanna Ubach (actress)
45 - India Arie (singer)
47 - Lena Headey (actress)
47 - Neve Campbell (actress)
47 - Keiko Agena (actress)
49 - Kevin Richardson (actor)
51 - Gwen Stefani (singer)
51 - Janel Moloney (actress)
56 - Clive Owen (actor)
59 - Marcus Giamatti (actor)
61 - Jack Wagner (actor)
61 - Greg Proops (actor/comedian)
61 - Fred Couples (golfer)
64 - Peter Frechette (actor)
64 - Hart Bochner (actor)
66 - Dennis Eckersley (baseball player)
69 - Dave Winfield (baseball player)
78 - Alan Rachins (actor)
79 - Chubby Checker (singer)
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Today in Sports History - October 3
1891 - Nebraska opens the season with a 28-4 win over Doane College.
1896 - Nebraska defeats Nebraska Wesleyan 18-8.
1897 - Nebraska defeats Missouri 41-0.
1903 - Nebraska defeats South Dakota 25-0.
1908 - Nebraska defeats Doane College 43-0.
1914 - Nebraska opens the season with a 14-7 win over Washburn.
1920 - George Sisler of the St. Louis Browns recorded his 257th hit of the season, a record that would stand until the 21st century.
1925 - Nebraska opens the season with a 14-0 win over Illinois.
1931 - Northwestern defeats Nebraska 19-7.
1936 - Nebraska opens the season with a 34-0 win over Cockeye State.
1942 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 26-0.
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 over the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1953 - Kansas State defeats Nebraska 27-0.
1959 - Nebraska defeats Oregon State 7-6.
1964 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 14-7.
1970 - #6 Nebraska defeats Minnesota 35-10.
1972 - Roric Harrison of the Baltimore Orioles homers in a 4-3 win over the Cleveland Indians; he was the last American League pitcher to hit a home run until inter-league play would begin 25 years later.
1974 - Frank Robinson was named the first African-American manager in major league baseball, named to the role for the Cleveland Indians.
1976 - Future Hall of Famer Hank Aaron singles in his final major league at-bat and drives in his 2,297th run as the Milwaukee Brewers lose 5-2 to the Detroit Tigers.
1981 - Nebraska defeats Auburn 17-3.
1987 - #2 Nebraska defeats South Carolina 30-21.
1989 - Art Shell became the first African-American head coach in the modern NFL when he took over the Los Angeles Raiders.
1990 - George Brett of the Kansas City Royals becomes the first player in major league history to win a league batting title in three different decades.
1990 - Cecil Fielder of the Detroit Tigers becomes the 11th player in major league history to hit 50 home runs in a season.
1998 - #2 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma State 24-17 in a game played at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City.
2001 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants broke Babe Ruth's major league single-season record for walks with 171.
2001 - Rickey Henderson of the San Diego Padres ties the major league record of 2,245 career runs scored held by Ty Cobb.
2004 - The New England Patriots defeat the Buffalo Bills 31-17 to win their 18th consecutive game (dating back to the prior season).
2004 - Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners extends his major league single-season hits record to 262 on the final day of the regular season.
2004 - Dale Earnhardt Jr. used a vulgar term during a live postrace television interview with NBC after winning a race in Talladega. On October 5, NASCAR penalized him $10,000 and 25 points in the Nextel Cup standings.
2012 - Miguel Cabrera of the Detroit Tigers achieved baseball's first triple crown since 1967. He ended the regular season leading the league in batting average (.330), home runs (44) and RBIs (139).
2015 - Illinois defeats Nebraska 14-13.
1226 - St. Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan order, died.
1863 - President Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.
1922 - Rebecca L. Felton became the first female U.S. Senator when she was appointed to serve out the term of Sen. Thomas E. Watson.
1929 - The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes formally changed its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
1941 - Adolf Hitler declared in a speech in Berlin that Russia had been "broken" and would "never rise again."
1955 - Captain Kangaroo premiered on CBS and The Mickey Mouse Club premiered on ABC.
1970 - The National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) was established under the Department of Commerce.
1981 - Irish nationalists at the Maze Prison near Belfast, Northern Ireland, ended seven months of hunger strikes that had claimed 10 lives.
1990 - East Germany and West Germany were unified to become Germany, 45 years after being split into two countries at the end of World War II.
1992 - Barack Obama married Michelle Robinson at the Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago.
1995 - A jury found ex-football star O.J. Simpson innocent of murder in the 1994 slayings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend, Ronald Goldman. (Simpson, however, was later held liable for damages in a civil trial.)
2001 - The U.S. Senate approved an agreement normalizing trade between the United States and Vietnam.
2002 - Five 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."
2003 - A tiger attacked magician Roy Horn of the duo "Siegfried & Roy" during a performance in Las Vegas, leaving him partially paralyzed.
2005 - President George W. Bush nominated White House counsel Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court. (Miers would withdraw her nomination three weeks later.)
2008 - The House gave final Congressional approval to a revised $700 billion bailout of the financial industry.
2008 - O.J. Simpson was found guilty of robbing two sports-memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a Las Vegas hotel room. (Simpson was later sentenced to nine to 33 years in prison; he was granted parole in July 2017 and released from prison in October of that year.)
2009 - Voters in Maine voted to repeal a state law that would have allowed same-sex couples to marry.
2011 - An 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.
2015 - Vice President Joe Biden, addressing the Human Rights Campaign dinner in Washington, threw his unequivocal support behind letting transgender people serve openly in the U.S. military; the Obama administration would lift a longstanding ban in June 2016. (In 2019, the Supreme Court upheld a Trump administration policy under which people who have undergone gender transition are barred from enlisting.)
2017 - President Donald Trump, visiting Puerto Rico in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, congratulated the U.S. island territory for escaping the higher death toll of what he called “a real catastrophe like Katrina;” at a church used to distribute supplies, Trump handed out flashlights and tossed rolls of paper towels into the friendly crowd.
2018 - The Federal Emergency Management Agency conducted its first-ever national wireless emergency alert test, causing electronic devices across the country to sound, with a message that carried the subject, “Presidential Alert.” (Some people got as many as four alerts on their phones, while others didn’t get any.)
2019 - The former special U.S. envoy to Ukraine, Kurt Volker, testified before House members for nearly 10 hours about what he said was turmoil within the State Department over President Donald Trump’s push to investigate Joe Biden and his family; he said he was never pressured by Trump or others to have Ukraine conduct the investigation.
2019 - Attorneys announced that MGM Resorts International had agreed to pay up to $800 million to families of the 58 people who died and to the hundreds who were injured when a shooter rained gunfire on country music fans from a high-rise Las Vegas Strip hotel in 2017.
Birthdays
25 - Carmella Rose (model)
32 - Alicia Vikander (actress)
32 - A$AP Rocky (rapper)
36 - Ashlee Simpson (actress/singer)
36 - Christopher Marquette (actor)
36 - Meagan Holder (actress)
36 - Jessica Parker-Kennedy (actress)
37 - Drake White (country singer)
37 - Tessa Thompson (actress)
38 - Erik Von Detten (actor)
39 - Seth Gabel (actor)
41 - John Morrison (professional wrestler)
42 - Shannyn Sossamon (actress)
44 - Seann William Scott (actor)
45 - Alanna Ubach (actress)
45 - India Arie (singer)
47 - Lena Headey (actress)
47 - Neve Campbell (actress)
47 - Keiko Agena (actress)
49 - Kevin Richardson (actor)
51 - Gwen Stefani (singer)
51 - Janel Moloney (actress)
56 - Clive Owen (actor)
59 - Marcus Giamatti (actor)
61 - Jack Wagner (actor)
61 - Greg Proops (actor/comedian)
61 - Fred Couples (golfer)
64 - Peter Frechette (actor)
64 - Hart Bochner (actor)
66 - Dennis Eckersley (baseball player)
69 - Dave Winfield (baseball player)
78 - Alan Rachins (actor)
79 - Chubby Checker (singer)
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Today in Sports History - October 3
1891 - Nebraska opens the season with a 28-4 win over Doane College.
1896 - Nebraska defeats Nebraska Wesleyan 18-8.
1897 - Nebraska defeats Missouri 41-0.
1903 - Nebraska defeats South Dakota 25-0.
1908 - Nebraska defeats Doane College 43-0.
1914 - Nebraska opens the season with a 14-7 win over Washburn.
1920 - George Sisler of the St. Louis Browns recorded his 257th hit of the season, a record that would stand until the 21st century.
1925 - Nebraska opens the season with a 14-0 win over Illinois.
1931 - Northwestern defeats Nebraska 19-7.
1936 - Nebraska opens the season with a 34-0 win over Cockeye State.
1942 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 26-0.
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 over the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1953 - Kansas State defeats Nebraska 27-0.
1959 - Nebraska defeats Oregon State 7-6.
1964 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 14-7.
1970 - #6 Nebraska defeats Minnesota 35-10.
1972 - Roric Harrison of the Baltimore Orioles homers in a 4-3 win over the Cleveland Indians; he was the last American League pitcher to hit a home run until inter-league play would begin 25 years later.
1974 - Frank Robinson was named the first African-American manager in major league baseball, named to the role for the Cleveland Indians.
1976 - Future Hall of Famer Hank Aaron singles in his final major league at-bat and drives in his 2,297th run as the Milwaukee Brewers lose 5-2 to the Detroit Tigers.
1981 - Nebraska defeats Auburn 17-3.
1987 - #2 Nebraska defeats South Carolina 30-21.
1989 - Art Shell became the first African-American head coach in the modern NFL when he took over the Los Angeles Raiders.
1990 - George Brett of the Kansas City Royals becomes the first player in major league history to win a league batting title in three different decades.
1990 - Cecil Fielder of the Detroit Tigers becomes the 11th player in major league history to hit 50 home runs in a season.
1998 - #2 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma State 24-17 in a game played at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City.
2001 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants broke Babe Ruth's major league single-season record for walks with 171.
2001 - Rickey Henderson of the San Diego Padres ties the major league record of 2,245 career runs scored held by Ty Cobb.
2004 - The New England Patriots defeat the Buffalo Bills 31-17 to win their 18th consecutive game (dating back to the prior season).
2004 - Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners extends his major league single-season hits record to 262 on the final day of the regular season.
2004 - Dale Earnhardt Jr. used a vulgar term during a live postrace television interview with NBC after winning a race in Talladega. On October 5, NASCAR penalized him $10,000 and 25 points in the Nextel Cup standings.
2012 - Miguel Cabrera of the Detroit Tigers achieved baseball's first triple crown since 1967. He ended the regular season leading the league in batting average (.330), home runs (44) and RBIs (139).
2015 - Illinois defeats Nebraska 14-13.
