On This Day:
Thursday October 3, 2013 This is the 276th day of the year, with 89 days remaining in 2013. Fact of the Day: dogs Dogs have lived with people for more than 12,000 years and may have first gravitated toward people for food and warmth. People of ancient Egypt and western Asia were the first to breed distinct types of dogs for different purposes. According to the American Kennel Club, dog breeds are classified into the following groups: sporting, hound, working, terrier, toy, nonsporting, herding, and miscellaneous. There are about 200 breeds in the world today and dogs vary in appearance and behavior more than any other domestic animal. All are descended from the wolf and have wolflike instincts. The average dog can run 19 mph. The oldest American dog breed is the American Foxhound, which dates back to 1650.
Holidays Feast day of St. Hesychius, St. Thomas Cantelupe of Hereford, St. Attilanus, St. Gerard of Brogne, St. Froilan, St. Ewald the Fair, and St. Ewald the Dark.
Germany: Tag der Deutschen Einheit (Day of German Unity)
Korea: National Foundation Day/Tangun Day.
The Netherlands: Leiden Day/Relief of Leiden Day.
Honduras: Francisco Morazan Holiday.
Events 1678 - The Taj Mahal, an architectural masterpiece, was completed after 22 years' work.
1776 - Congress borrowed five million dollars to halt the rapid depreciation of paper money in the colonies.
1863 - President Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November to be Thanksgiving.
1876 - Johns Hopkins University opened.
1922 - Rebecca L. Felton, a Democrat, became the first female senator in U.S. history when she was appointed to the Senate by Governor Thomas W. Hardwick of Georgia to serve out the remaining term of Thomas E. Watson.
1929 - Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes formally changed its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
1931 - Comic strip "Dick Tracy" first appeared in the "New York News."
1932 - With the admission of Iraq into the League of Nations, Britain terminated their mandate over the nation, and Iraq became independent .
1940 - U.S. Army decided to use airborne/parachute soldiers.
1952 - Britain successfully tested its first atomic bomb off the northwest coast of Australia.
1952 - "Ozzie and Harriet" premiered on television.
1955 - "Captain Kangaroo" and "The Mickey Mouse Club" premiered on television.
1960 - "The Andy Griffith Show" premiered on TV.
1961 - "The Dick Van Dyke Show" premiered on TV.
1962 - Astronaut Wally Schirra blasted off from Cape Canaveral aboard the Sigma Seven on a nine-hour flight.
1972 - The USA and USSR signed final SALT accords limiting submarine-carried and land-based missiles.
1974 - Frank Robinson was named Major League Baseball's first black manager, for the Cleveland Indians.
1989 - Art Shell became the first African-American to coach a professional football team, the Los Angeles Raiders.
1990 - Less than a year after East Germany opened its borders to the West and took down the Berlin Wall, East Germany and West Germany became a united and sovereign state.
1995 - O.J. Simpson, a former professional football star, was acquitted of the 1994 murder of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald L. Goldman, in Los Angeles.
2001 - The U.S. Senate approved an agreement normalizing trade between the United States and Vietnam.
2003 - Roy Horn, of the famed illusionist duo Siegfried and Roy, was mauled by a tiger during a performance in Las Vegas.
Births 1790 - John Ross, Chief of the United Cherokee Nation (1839-1866).
1900 - Thomas Wolfe, American novelist.
1916 - James Herriott, Scottish author and veterinarian.
1925 - Gore Vidal, American writer.
1941 - Chubby Checker (Ernest Evans), American singer.
1954 - Stevie Ray Vaughan, American musician, born in Dallas, Texas.
1962 - Tommy Lee (born Thomas Lee Bass), Greek-born American musician.
1967 - Rob Liefeld, American comic book writer and artist.
1969 - Gwen Stefani, American singer, born and raised in Fullerton, California.
1984 - Ashlee Simpson, American singer, born in Waco, Texas.
Deaths 1226 - St. Francis of Assisi, Italian saint, founder of the Franciscan order.
1967 - Woody Guthrie, American singer and composer.
1997 - A(lfred) L(eslie) Rowse, historian, born in St. Austell, Cornwall, SW England.
1998 - Roddy McDowall (born Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall), English actor.
2004 - Janet Leigh {born Jeanette Helen Morrison), American actress.
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