October 3
1226 - St. Francis of Assisi, the founder of the Franciscan order, died.
1863 - President Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.
1922 - Rebecca L. Fulton became the first female U.S. Senator whens he was appointed to serve out the remainder of 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 - The children's programs "Captain Kangaroo" and "The Mickey Mouse Club" both premiered on television.
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 re-unified to become Germany, 45 years after being split into the two countries at the end of World War II.
1995 - The jury in the O.J. Simpson murder trial in Los Angeles found the former football star not guilty of the 1994 slayings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman. (Simpson was later found liable for damages in a civil trial).
2001 - The Senate approved an agreement normalizing trade between the United States and Vietnam.
2003 - A tiger attacked magician Roy Horn of duo “Siegfried & Roy” during a performance in Las Vegas, leaving the superstar illusionist in critical condition on his 59th birthday.
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.)
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, Meredith Kercher.
2012 - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton promised a full and transparent probe of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans.
2017 - The United States expelled 15 of Cuba’s diplomats to protest Cuba’s failure to protect Americans from unexplained attacks in Havana.
2017 - Yahoo announced that the largest data breach in history had affected all 3 billion accounts on its service, not the 1 billion it had revealed earlier.
2021 - A report from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists found that hundreds of world leaders, politicians, billionaires, religious leaders and drug dealers had been hiding investments in mansions, beachfront property, yachts and other assets for decades, using shell companies and offshore accounts to keep trillions of dollars out of government treasuries; those identified as beneficiaries of the secret accounts included Jordan’s King Abdullah II and former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair.
2021 - An EgyptAir jet landed in Tel Aviv, making the first official direct flight by the Egyptian national carrier since the two countries signed a 1979 peace treaty.
Birthdays
27 - Carmella Rose (model)
34 - Alicia Vikander (actress)
34 - A$AP Rocky (rapper)
34 - Alicia Vikander (actress)
38 - Jessica Parker Kennedy (actress)
38 - Ashlee Simpson (actress/singer)
38 - Christopher Marquette (actor)
38 - Meagan Holder (actress)
39 - Drake White (singer)
39 - Tessa Thompson (actress)
40 - Erik Von Detten (actor)
41 - Seth Gabel (actor)
43 - John Morrison (professional wrestler)
44 - Shannyn Sossamon (actress)
46 - Seann William Scott (actor)
47 - Alanna Ubach (actress)
49 - Lena Headey (actress)
49 - Neve Campbell (actress)
49 - Keiko Agena (actress)
51 - Kevin Richardson (singer)
53 - Gwen Stefani (singer)
53 - Janel Moloney (actress)
58 - Clive Owen (actor)
60 - Tommy Lee (musician)
63 - Jack Wagner (actor)
63 - Fred Couples (golfer)
66 - Peter Frechette (actor)
68 - Al Sharpton (civil rights activist)
68 - Dennis Eckersley (baseball player)
71 - Dave Winfield (baseball player)
73 - Lindsey Buckingham (singer)
80 - Alan Rachins (actor)
81 - Chubby Checker (singer)
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Today in Sports History - October 3
1903 - Nebraska defeats South Dakota 23-0.
1908 - Nebraska defeats Doane 43-0.
1914 - Nebraska opens the season with a 14-7 win over Washburn.
1920 - The American Professional Football Association (later the NFL) plays 1st full round of games; Dayton Triangles beat Columbus Panhandles, 14-0 in first official game at Triangle Park, Dayton.
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 - The New York Giants captured the National League pennant by a score of 5-4 as Bobby Thomson hit a three-run homer off Ralph Branca of the Brooklyn Dodgers in the “shot heard ’round the world.”
1953 - Kansas State defeats Nebraska 27-0.
1959 - Nebraska defeats Oregon State 7-6.
1962 - The San Francisco Giants (103-62) defeat rival Los Angeles Dodgers (102-63) 6-4 in the final game of the regular season to decide the National League pennant.
1964 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 14-7.
1970 - #6 Nebraska defeats Minnesota 35-10.
1974 - Frank Robinson became the first African-American manager in Major League Baseball and he was named to the position for the Cleveland Indians.
1974 - Jerry West retires from the NBA after a 14-year career with 25,192 career points and a playoff scoring average of 29.1 ppg in 153 games.
1976 - Hank Aaron singles in his final major league at-bat and drives in his 2,297th career run as the Milwaukee Brewers lose 5-2 to the Detroit Tigers.
1981 - The Milwaukee Brewers and Montreal Expos each clinch their first-ever postseason appearances.
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 - Cecil Fielder of the Detroit Tigers becomes the 11th player in MLB history to hit 50 home runs in a season (51).
1998 - #2 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma State 24-17 at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City.
1999 - Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals hits his 65th home run of the season to win his second straight home run title over Sammy Sosa (Chicago Cubs), who had hit 63 on the year.
2001 - Rickey Henderson of the San Diego Padres ties Ty Cobb's MLB record of 2,245 career runs scored.
2001 - Barry Bonds (San Francisco Giants) broke Babe Ruth's major league single-season record for walks at 171.
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.
2004 - The New England Patriots win their 18th consecutive game (dating back to the prior season) after 31-17 win over the Buffalo Bills.
2004 - Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners ends the season with a MLB single-season record 262 hits.
2012 - Miguel Cabrera of the Detroit Tigers achieved baseball's first Triple Crown since 1967 (Carl Yastrzemski), after finishing atop the American League in batting average (.330), home runs (44) and RBIs (139).
2015 - Illinois defeats Nebraska 14-13.
2021 - The Cleveland Indians defeat the Texas Rangers 6-0 in the final game for the franchise under the "Indians" nickname. (They became the Guardians for the 2022 season.)
2021 - Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady becomes the NFL's all-time leader in career passing yards, breaking Drew Brees' record of 80,358.
1226 - St. Francis of Assisi, the founder of the Franciscan order, died.
1863 - President Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.
1922 - Rebecca L. Fulton became the first female U.S. Senator whens he was appointed to serve out the remainder of 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 - The children's programs "Captain Kangaroo" and "The Mickey Mouse Club" both premiered on television.
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 re-unified to become Germany, 45 years after being split into the two countries at the end of World War II.
1995 - The jury in the O.J. Simpson murder trial in Los Angeles found the former football star not guilty of the 1994 slayings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman. (Simpson was later found liable for damages in a civil trial).
2001 - The Senate approved an agreement normalizing trade between the United States and Vietnam.
2003 - A tiger attacked magician Roy Horn of duo “Siegfried & Roy” during a performance in Las Vegas, leaving the superstar illusionist in critical condition on his 59th birthday.
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.)
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, Meredith Kercher.
2012 - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton promised a full and transparent probe of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans.
2017 - The United States expelled 15 of Cuba’s diplomats to protest Cuba’s failure to protect Americans from unexplained attacks in Havana.
2017 - Yahoo announced that the largest data breach in history had affected all 3 billion accounts on its service, not the 1 billion it had revealed earlier.
2021 - A report from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists found that hundreds of world leaders, politicians, billionaires, religious leaders and drug dealers had been hiding investments in mansions, beachfront property, yachts and other assets for decades, using shell companies and offshore accounts to keep trillions of dollars out of government treasuries; those identified as beneficiaries of the secret accounts included Jordan’s King Abdullah II and former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair.
2021 - An EgyptAir jet landed in Tel Aviv, making the first official direct flight by the Egyptian national carrier since the two countries signed a 1979 peace treaty.
Birthdays
27 - Carmella Rose (model)
34 - Alicia Vikander (actress)
34 - A$AP Rocky (rapper)
34 - Alicia Vikander (actress)
38 - Jessica Parker Kennedy (actress)
38 - Ashlee Simpson (actress/singer)
38 - Christopher Marquette (actor)
38 - Meagan Holder (actress)
39 - Drake White (singer)
39 - Tessa Thompson (actress)
40 - Erik Von Detten (actor)
41 - Seth Gabel (actor)
43 - John Morrison (professional wrestler)
44 - Shannyn Sossamon (actress)
46 - Seann William Scott (actor)
47 - Alanna Ubach (actress)
49 - Lena Headey (actress)
49 - Neve Campbell (actress)
49 - Keiko Agena (actress)
51 - Kevin Richardson (singer)
53 - Gwen Stefani (singer)
53 - Janel Moloney (actress)
58 - Clive Owen (actor)
60 - Tommy Lee (musician)
63 - Jack Wagner (actor)
63 - Fred Couples (golfer)
66 - Peter Frechette (actor)
68 - Al Sharpton (civil rights activist)
68 - Dennis Eckersley (baseball player)
71 - Dave Winfield (baseball player)
73 - Lindsey Buckingham (singer)
80 - Alan Rachins (actor)
81 - Chubby Checker (singer)
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Today in Sports History - October 3
1903 - Nebraska defeats South Dakota 23-0.
1908 - Nebraska defeats Doane 43-0.
1914 - Nebraska opens the season with a 14-7 win over Washburn.
1920 - The American Professional Football Association (later the NFL) plays 1st full round of games; Dayton Triangles beat Columbus Panhandles, 14-0 in first official game at Triangle Park, Dayton.
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 - The New York Giants captured the National League pennant by a score of 5-4 as Bobby Thomson hit a three-run homer off Ralph Branca of the Brooklyn Dodgers in the “shot heard ’round the world.”
1953 - Kansas State defeats Nebraska 27-0.
1959 - Nebraska defeats Oregon State 7-6.
1962 - The San Francisco Giants (103-62) defeat rival Los Angeles Dodgers (102-63) 6-4 in the final game of the regular season to decide the National League pennant.
1964 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 14-7.
1970 - #6 Nebraska defeats Minnesota 35-10.
1974 - Frank Robinson became the first African-American manager in Major League Baseball and he was named to the position for the Cleveland Indians.
1974 - Jerry West retires from the NBA after a 14-year career with 25,192 career points and a playoff scoring average of 29.1 ppg in 153 games.
1976 - Hank Aaron singles in his final major league at-bat and drives in his 2,297th career run as the Milwaukee Brewers lose 5-2 to the Detroit Tigers.
1981 - The Milwaukee Brewers and Montreal Expos each clinch their first-ever postseason appearances.
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 - Cecil Fielder of the Detroit Tigers becomes the 11th player in MLB history to hit 50 home runs in a season (51).
1998 - #2 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma State 24-17 at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City.
1999 - Mark McGwire of the St. Louis Cardinals hits his 65th home run of the season to win his second straight home run title over Sammy Sosa (Chicago Cubs), who had hit 63 on the year.
2001 - Rickey Henderson of the San Diego Padres ties Ty Cobb's MLB record of 2,245 career runs scored.
2001 - Barry Bonds (San Francisco Giants) broke Babe Ruth's major league single-season record for walks at 171.
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.
2004 - The New England Patriots win their 18th consecutive game (dating back to the prior season) after 31-17 win over the Buffalo Bills.
2004 - Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners ends the season with a MLB single-season record 262 hits.
2012 - Miguel Cabrera of the Detroit Tigers achieved baseball's first Triple Crown since 1967 (Carl Yastrzemski), after finishing atop the American League in batting average (.330), home runs (44) and RBIs (139).
2015 - Illinois defeats Nebraska 14-13.
2021 - The Cleveland Indians defeat the Texas Rangers 6-0 in the final game for the franchise under the "Indians" nickname. (They became the Guardians for the 2022 season.)
2021 - Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady becomes the NFL's all-time leader in career passing yards, breaking Drew Brees' record of 80,358.
