This day in #History

This day in #History
October 3rd

2333 BC - The state of Gojoseon ( Modern -day
Korea ) founded by Dangun Wanggeom during the
reign of the Chinese Emperor Yao.
52 BC - Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls , surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar , ending the siege and
battle of Alesia.

42 BC - First Battle of Philippi : Triumvirs Mark
Antony and Octavian fight an indecisive battle with
Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius .

1143 - Cardinal Guido elected Pope Coelestinus II

1247 - Willem II of Holland elected Roman Catholic
German emperor

1283 - Dafydd ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in
Wales , becomes the first person executed by being
hanged, drawn and quartered.

1430 - Jews are expelled from Eger Bohemia
1735 - France & Emperor Karel VI sign peace accord
1739 - The
Treaty of
Nissa is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia at
the end of the Russian-Turkish War , 1736- 1739 .
1778 - Capt Cook anchors at Alaska
1789 - Washington proclaims 1st national
Thanksgiving Day on Nov 26
1835 - Staedtler Company was founded by J .S .
Staedtler in Nuremburg, Germany.

1849 - American author Edgar Allan Poe is found
delirious in a gutter in Baltimore , Maryland under
mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is
seen in public before his death .

1862 - - 10] Battle of Corinth , Mississippi

1862 - Skirmish at Bardstown, Kentucky

1863 - Lincoln designates last Thursday in
November as Thanksgiving Day
1873 - Captain Jack and companions are hanged
for their part in the Modoc War .

1890 - Capt Guillaume of Kerckhoven marches into
Boma Congo

1899 - J S Thurman patents motor - driven vacuum
cleaner

1904 - France & Spain sign treaty for Morocco
Independence

1906 - SOS adopted as warning signal by 1st
conference on wireless telegraphy

1906 - US regime names Charles Magoon, governor
of Cuba

1918 - Boris becomes king of Bulgaria

1918 - Czar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria does distance of
throne

923 - Germany 's Stresemann resigns

1924 - King Hussein of Hedzjaz abdicts throne

1926 - 1 st congress of Paneuropabeweging opens in
Vienna

1926 - Violet Percy runs female record marathon
(3 :40: 22)

1929 - British Labour government recovers
diplomatic relations with USSR

1929 - Julius Curtius succeeds Stresemann as
German foreign minister

1929 - Kingdom of Serbs , Croats & Slovenes changes
name to Yugoslavia

1932 - Iraq gains full independence from Britain ,
joins League of Nations

1933 - Gustave "Staf" de Clerq forms Flemish
National Covenant1929 - British Labour government recovers
diplomatic relations with USSR


1929 - Julius Curtius succeeds Stresemann as
German foreign minister

1929 - Kingdom of Serbs , Croats & Slovenes changes
name to Yugoslavia

1932 - Iraq gains full independence from Britain ,
joins League of Nations

1933 - Gustave "Staf" de Clerq forms Flemish
National Covenant
1935 - Italy invades Ethiopia

1935 - Italy invades Ethiopia

1922 - 1 st facsimile photo send over city telephone
lines, Washington , DC

1941 - Adolf
Hitler says
Russia is " broken" & would " never rise again

1960 - Janio Quadros elected president of Brazil

1967 - King Boudouin inaugurates world 's biggest
floodgate (Antwerp)

1994 - Fernando Henrique Cardoso elected president
of Brazil


BIRTHDAYS

1605 - Li Tzu- ch'eng , Chinese revolutionary ,
dethroned last Ming emperor

1804 - Townsend Harris , 1 st Western consul to
reside in Japan
1844 - Patrick Manson, "Father of tropical medicine"

1854 - William Crawford Gorgas , US , Surgeon- Gen ,
help cure yellow fever

1869 - Alfred Flatow, German Olympic champion
gymnast ( d. 1942)

1894 - Walter Warlimont, German General WWII ( d.
1976)

1904 - Charles Pedersen , UK , biochemist ( Nobel
1987)

1957 - Tim Westwood , Pimp My Ride UK presenter
and


DEATHS

695 - "Black Ewald" , helper of Willibrord, murdered

695 - "White Ewald" , helper of Willibrord, murdered

1226 - Saint Francis of Assisi (b . 1181 )

1283 - Dafydd ap Gruffyd, last monarch of
Gwynnedd (North - Wales ), dies

1653 - Mark Zuesius Boxhorn, historian, dies at 41

1795 - Tula, leader Curacaose slave uprising,
executed

1867 - Elias Howe , American sewing machine
pioneer (b . 1819 )

1890 - Joseph Hergenröther , German historian (b .
1824)

1929 - Gustav Stresemann , German chancellor
(Nobel 1926 ), dies at 51

1996 - Denis Frank Owen, Natural historian, dies at
65

1996 - Tom ap Rees , botanist, dies at 65

1996 - Tony Parker, oral historian, dies at 73

1997 - Alfred Leslie Rowse, historian, dies at 93

2009 - Queen Fatima, former Libyan queen ( b. 1918)