Today in History - Oct. 3

Today’s Highlight in History: On Oct. 3, 1863, President Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday in November Thanksgiving Day.

On this date: In 1226, St. Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan order, died; he was canonized in 1228.
In 1941, Adolf Hitler declared in a speech in Berlin that Russia had been “broken” and would “never rise again.”
In 1951, the New York Giants captured the National League pennant as Bobby Thomson hit a three-run homer off the Brooklyn Dodgers’ Ralph Branca in the “shot heard ‘round the world.”
In 1995, the jury in the O.J. Simpson murder trial 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 in a civil trial).

10 years ago in the C-P: The Hannibal Seventh-day Adventist Church is hosting The Next Millennium Seminar.

Today’s Birthdays: Author Gore Vidal is 83. Composer Steve Reich is 72. Singer Alan O’Day is 68. Rock ‘n’ roll star Chubby Checker is 67. Actor Alan Rachins is 66. Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., is 65. Magician Roy Horn is 64. Singer Lindsey Buckingham is 59. Jazz musician Ronnie Laws is 58. Blues singer Keb’ Mo’ is 57. Baseball Hall-of-Famer Dave Winfield is 57.

Thought for Today: “The worst disease in the world is the plague of vengeance.” — Dr. Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist (1893-1990).