October 3<\/p>\n
42 BC \u2013 The Army of Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian defeats the forces of 2 of Caesar’s assassins, Brutus and Cassius, at Phillipi, Macedonia<\/p>\n
382 \u2013 Roman Emperor Theodosius I concludes a peace treaty with the Goths, previous converts to Christianity, and settles them in the Balkans.<\/p>\n
1789 \u2013 President Washington issues a proclamation creating “….Thursday the 26th day of November next<\/em>…” as the first officially designated Thanksgiving Day<\/p>\n 1863 \u2013 The last Thursday in November is declared as Thanksgiving Day by President Lincoln.<\/p>\n 1873 \u2013 Chief Kintpuash (Captain Jack), Black Jim, John Schonchin, and Boston Charley are hanged for murdering General Edward Canby and Reverend Eleazar Thomas during a peace commission hearing which began the Modoc War in California and ended with the perpetrator’s executions.<\/p>\n 1919 \u2013 Cincinnati Reds pitcher Adolfo Luque becomes the first Latin American player to appear in a World Series, playing in 2 games as relief.<\/p>\n 1929 \u2013 The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed Yugoslavia<\/em> by King Alexander I.<\/p>\n 1932 \u2013 The Kingdom of Iraq under King Faisal I – of Lawrence of Arabia fame – gains independence from the United Kingdom’s Mandatory Mesopotamia.<\/p>\n 1942 \u2013 A German V-2 rocket reaches a record 46 nautical miles in altitude.<\/p>\n 1946 \u2013 American Overseas Airlines Flagship New England, <\/em>a Douglas C-54\/DC-4 crashes near Ernest Harmon Air Force Base in Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, killing 39 passengers and crew aboard.<\/p>\n 1962 \u2013 Wally Schirra in NASA’s Project Mercury Sigma 7<\/em> spacecraft, launches from Cape Canaveral for a 6 orbit flight.<\/p>\n 1985 \u2013\u00a0 USAF Colonel Karol J. Bobko, and a crew of 4, pilot Space Shuttle Atlantis <\/em>on its maiden flight.<\/p>\n 1989 \u2013 A coup attempt by Panamanian Army officers against dictator Manuel Noriega fails in Panama City, 11 participants are later executed.<\/p>\n 1990 \u2013 Tag der Deutschen Einheit. <\/em>The German Democratic Republic is abolished and becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany<\/p>\n 1993 \u2013 An American attempt to capture a warlord in Mogadishu fails, resulting in 18 US soldiers being killed, and 1 taken prisoner.<\/p>\n 1995 \u2013 The O. J. Simpson murder trial ends with a verdict of not guilty.<\/p>\n 2008 \u2013 The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the U.S. financial system is finally passed by Congress and signed by President Bush.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" October 3 42 BC \u2013 The Army of Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian defeats the forces of 2 of Caesar’s assassins, Brutus and Cassius, at Phillipi, Macedonia 382 \u2013 Roman Emperor Theodosius I concludes a peace treaty with the Goths, previous converts to Christianity, and settles them in the Balkans. 1789 \u2013 President Washington issues … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60276"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96431,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60276\/revisions\/96431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}