On October 3, 1942, at the Army Research Center on the island of Usedom at Peenemünde on Germany’s Baltic coast, a slim 14-meter rocket designated Aggregat 4, Versuchsmuster
On October 3, 1929, King Alexander I of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes signed a royal decree that changed the name of his country to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. The word
At the stroke of midnight on October 3, 1990, fireworks erupted over the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. Crowds of hundreds of thousands had gathered in the streets, many weeping openl
At 10:00 in the morning on October 3, 1995, court clerk Deirdre Robertson stood in Los Angeles Superior Court Courtroom 103 and read the words that brought the most watched crimina
On October 2, 1869, a boy was born in Porbandar, a small coastal town on the Kathiawar Peninsula in the present-day Indian state of Gujarat. His parents named him Mohandas Karamcha
On the morning of October 2, 1950, readers of seven American newspapers turned to their comics pages and encountered something they had never seen before. In a row of four equally
On the morning of October 2, 1967, in the chamber of the United States Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., Chief Justice Earl Warren administered the constitutional oath of office t
On October 3, 1863, in the middle of the bloodiest war in American history, President Abraham Lincoln issued Presidential Proclamation 106, declaring that the last Thursday of ever
On the morning of October 2, 1990, Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301, a Boeing 737-200 carrying 93 passengers and 9 crew members, took off from Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport at 6:57
Before dawn on October 2, 1835, a thick autumn fog settled over the banks of the Guadalupe River near the small settlement of Gonzales in Mexican Texas. Through that fog, approxima
