10-02-2010, 07:36 PM
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October 3rd
1873 ~ Birthday of Emily Post, etiquette advisor.
1900 ~ Birthday of Thomas Wolfe, American novelist.
1916 ~ Birthday of James Herriot, veterinarian, author.
1922 ~ Rebecca L. Felton, D-Ga., became the first woman to be seated in the U.S. Senate. She was appointed to serve out the remaining term of Sen. Thomas E. Watson.
1925 ~ Birthday of Gore Vidal, author.
1967 ~ Death of Woody Guthrie, folk musician.
1973 ~ Frank Robinson was named major league baseball's first black manager when he was put in charge of the Cleveland Indians.
1990 ~ The re-unification of Germany. East Germany ceased to exist.
1995 ~ A jury found O.J. Simpson not guilty of murder in the 1994 slayings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman.
1997 ~ Attorney General Janet Reno said she had found no evidence that President Bill Clinton broke the law with White House coffees and overnight stays for big contributors.
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