DAILY ALMANAC
Today is Sunday, Oct. 3, the 276th day of 2021. There are 89 days left in the year.
On this date:
1863: President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday in November Thanksgiving Day.
1941: Adolf Hitler declared in a speech in Berlin that Russia had been “broken” and would “never rise again.”
1944: During World War II, U.S. Army troops cracked the Siegfried Line north of Aachen, Germany.
1955: “Captain Kangaroo” and “The Mickey Mouse Club” premiered on CBS and ABC, respectively.
1967: Folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie, the Dust Bowl Troubadour best known for “This Land Is Your Land,” died in New York of complications from Huntington’s disease; he was 55.
1970: The National Oceanic & Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA) was established under the Department of Commerce.
1974: Frank Robinson became Major League Baseball’s first Black manager when he was placed in charge of the Cleveland team.
1981: Irish nationalists at the Maze Prison near Belfast, Northern Ireland, ended seven months of hunger strikes that had claimed 10 lives.
1991: Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton entered the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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 (however, 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.)
Composer Steve Reich is 85. Singer Chubby Checker is 80. Actor Alan Rachins (“Dharma and Greg”) is 79. Singer-guitarist Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac is 72. Jazz saxophonist Ronnie Laws is 71. Blues singer Keb’
Mo’ is 70. Actor Hart Bochner (“Breaking Away”) is 65. Actor Peter Frechette (“Profiler”) is 65. Actor-comedian Greg Proops is 62. Actor Jack Wagner is 62. Drummer Tommy Lee of Motley Crue is 59. Actor Janel Moloney (“The West Wing”) is 52. Singer Gwen Stefani of No Doubt is 52. Singer Kevin Richardson of the Backstreet Boys is 50. Singer G. Love is 49. Actor Keiko Agena (“Gilmore Girls”) is 48. Actor Neve Campbell is 48. Actor Lena Headey (“Game of Thrones”) is 48. Singer India.arie is 46. Rapper Talib Kweli is 46. Actor Alanna Ubach (“Legally Blonde” movies) is 46. Actor Seann William Scott (movie “Dukes of Hazzard,” “American Pie”) is 45. Singer-actor Ashlee Simpson is 37.