1901<\/strong> – The Victor Talking Machine Company was incorporated. After a merger with Radio Corporation of America, the company became RCA-Victor.<\/p>\n 1906<\/strong> – W.T. Grant opened a 25-cent department store.<\/p>\n 1922<\/strong> – Rebecca L. Felton became the first female to hold the office of U.S.\u00a0Senator. She was appointed by Governor Thomas W. Hardwick of Georgia to fill a vacancy.<\/p>\n 1929<\/strong> – The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes officially changed its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.<\/p>\n 1932<\/strong> – Iraq was admitted into the League of Nations leading Britain to terminate its mandate over the nation. Britain had ruled Iraq since taking it from Turkey during World War I.<\/p>\n 1935<\/strong> – Italian forces invaded Abyssinia (now Ethiopia).<\/p>\n 1941<\/strong> – Adolf Hitler stated in a speech that Russia was “broken” and they “would never rise again.”<\/p>\n 1942<\/strong> – The Office of Economic Stabilization was established by\u00a0U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He also authorized controls on rents, wages, salaries, and farm prices.<\/p>\n 1944<\/strong> – During World War II,\u00a0U.S.\u00a0troops broke through the Siegfried Line.<\/p>\n 1946<\/strong> – “A Day in the Life of Dennis Day” began airing on NBC-TV.<\/p>\n 1951<\/strong> – CBS-TV aired the first coast-to-coast telecast of a prizefight. Dave Sands defeated Carl Olson at Soldier Field in Chicago.<\/p>\n 1952<\/strong> – Britain became the third nuclear power in the world when they successfully detonated their first atomic bomb. The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0and Russia were the only other nuclear powers.<\/p>\n 1954<\/strong> – “Father Knows Best” began airing on CBS-TV.<\/p>\n 1955<\/strong> – “Captain Kangaroo” premiered on CBS-TV.<\/p>\n 1955<\/strong> – “The Mickey Mouse Club” premiered on ABC-TV.<\/p>\n 1961<\/strong> – “The Dick Van Dyke Show” debuted on CBS-TV.<\/p>\n 1962<\/strong> – The\u00a0Sigma VII<\/i>\u00a0blasted off from Cape Canaveral for a nine-hour flight.<\/p>\n 1962<\/strong> – The play, “Stop the World, I Want to Get Off!” opened on Broadway.<\/p>\n 1974<\/strong> – Frank Robinson took over the management position of the Cleveland Indians baseball team. He was the first black manager in\u00a0major league baseball.<\/p>\n 1981<\/strong> – Irish Nationalist in Maze Prison in Belfast, Northern Ireland called off their hunger strike. The strike had lasted 7 months and ten people had died.<\/p>\n 1986<\/strong> – “Tough Guys” was released. It was the first comedy to feature Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas. It was, however, their seventh movie together.<\/p>\n 1988<\/strong> – The space shuttle\u00a0Discovery<\/i>\u00a0landed safely after its four-day mission. It was the first American shuttle mission since the\u00a0Challenger<\/i>\u00a0disaster.<\/p>\n 1989<\/strong> – East Germany suspended unrestricted travel to Czechoslovakia in an effort to slow the flow of refugees to the West.<\/p>\n 1989<\/strong> – Art Shell became the first African-American head coach in the modern NFL when he took over the Los Angeles Raiders.<\/p>\n 1990<\/strong> – 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.<\/p>\n 1990<\/strong> – Iraqi President Saddam Hussein made a visit to Kuwait since his country had seized control of the oil-rich nation.<\/p>\n 1994<\/strong> – The headquarters of the Haitian pro-army militia was raided by\u00a0U.S.\u00a0soldiers.<\/p>\n 2001<\/strong> – ESPN began its 10th season of\u00a0National Hockey League (NHL)\u00a0coverage.<\/p>\n 2001<\/strong> – Barry Bonds (San Francisco Giants) broke Babe Ruth’s\u00a0major league\u00a0single-season record for walks at 171.<\/p>\n 2003<\/strong> – Ray Horn, of the duo “Siegfried & Roy,” was attacked by a tiger during a performance. Roy survived the attack after being dragged offstage. The tiger, a 7-year-old male named Montecore, was debuting in his first show.<\/p>\n 2006<\/strong> – 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.<\/p>\n 2006<\/strong> – The Dow Jones industrial average closed at a new high ending the day at 11,727.34. Earlier in the session, the Dow had risen to 11,758.95. Both previous records had been set on January 14, 2000.<\/p>\n 2008<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a0Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008\u00a0for the U.S. financial system is signed by President George W. Bush.<\/p>\n 2009<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey join together in the\u00a0Turkic Council.<\/p>\n 2010<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The\u00a019th Commonwealth Games\u00a0commence in Delhi.<\/p>\n 2013<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 At least 360 migrants are killed when their boat\u00a0sinks\u00a0near the Italian island of Lampedusa.<\/p>\n 2015<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Forty-two are killed and 33 go missing in the\u00a0Kunduz hospital airstrike.<\/p>\n History of 3 October 1901 – The Victor Talking Machine Company was incorporated. 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