TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2017

On this day in history:

1824 - Explorers Hume and Hovell set out to explore between Sydney and Western Port. [

1888 - The Yeomen of the Guard was performed for the first time. It was the first of 423 shows.

1929 - The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes officially changed its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. 1932 - Iraq was admitted into the League of Nations leading Britain to terminate their mandate over the nation. Britain had ruled Iraq since taking it from Turkey during the First World War.

1935 - Italian forces invaded Abyssinia (now Ethiopia). 1935 - The Australian/New Zealand dessert, the pavlova, is named after ballerina Anna Pavlova.

1941 - Adolf Hitler stated in a speech that Russia was “broken” and they “would never rise again.”

1952 - Britain became the third nuclear power in the world when they successfully detonated their first atomic bomb. The US and Russia were the only other nuclear powers. 1953 - Britain tests its first atomic bomb at a group of uninhabited islands off Western Australia.

1981 - Irish Nationalist in Maze Prison in Belfast, Northern Ireland called off their hunger strike. The strike had lasted 7 months and 10 people had died.

1989 - East Germany suspended unrestricted travel to Czechoslovakia in an effort to slow the flow of refugees to the West.

1990 - The Berlin Wall was dismantled eleven months after the borders between East and West Germany were dissolved. The unification of Germany ended 45 years of division.

1990 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein made a visit to Kuwait since his country had seized control of the oil-rich nation. 2006 - North Korea announced that it would conduct a nuclear test as a key step in the manufacture of atomic bombs that it viewed as a deterrent against a U.S. attack. A date for the test was not announced.