On this day …
October 3, 2016
- In 42 BC, the forces of Mark Antony and Octavius Caesar defeated those of Brutus and Cassius at the Battle of Philippi.
- In 1849, author Edgar Allan Poe was found delirous in a gutter in Baltimore; it was the last time he was seen in public.
- In 1872, the Bloomingdale brothers opened their first store in New York City.
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Atlantis was the fourth Space Shuttle operated by NASA. - In 1932, Iraq gained its independence from the United Kingdom.
- In 1952, the United Kingdom successfully tested a nuclear weapon to become the world’s third nuclear power.
- In 1957, the California State Superior Court ruled that Allan Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems was not obscene.
- In 1985, the Space Shuttle Atlantis made its maiden flight.
- In 1995, O.J. Simpson was acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown and Ronald Goldman.
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