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) Today is October 3rd 2007 – there are 89 more days left of this year On this day in 1922, Rebecca L. Felton became the first female to hold office of U.S.
Senator. She was appointed by Governor Thomas W. Hardwick of Georgia to fill a vacancy.
Rebecca Ann Latimer Felton (June 10, 1835 – January 24, 1930) was an American writer, teacher, reformer, and briefly a politician who became the first woman to serve in the United States Senate, filling an appointment. At 87 years old, she was also the oldest freshman senator to enter the Senate. As of 2007, she is also the only woman to have served as a Senator from Georgia.
Other notable events in history on this day include… 1226 - St. Francis of Assisi died. He was the founder of the Franciscan order.
1863 - U.S. President Lincoln declared that the last Thursday of November would be recognized as Thanksgiving Day.
1888 - "The Yeomen of the Guard" was performed for the first time. It was the first of 423 shows. 1893 - The motor-driven vacuum cleaner was patented by J.
S. Thurman. 1901 - The Victor Talking Machine Company was incorporated.
After a merger with Radio Corporation of America the company became RCA-Victor. 1902 - Harvey Kurtzman, founder of "Mad" magazine, was born. 1906 - W.
T. Grant opened a 25-cent department store. 1929 - The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes officially changed its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
1932 - Iraq was admitted into the League of Nations leading Britain to terminate their mandate over the nation. Britain had ruled Iraq since taking it from Turkey during World War I. 1935 - Italian forces invaded Abyssinia (now Ethiopia).
1941 - Adolf Hitler stated in a speech that Russia was "broken" and they "would never rise again." 1942 - The Office of Economic Stabilization was established by U.S.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He also authorized controls on rents, wages, salaries and farm prices.
1944 - During World War II, U.S. troops broke through the Siegfried Line.
1946 - "A Day in the Life of Dennis Day" began airing on NBC-TV. 1951 - CBS-TV aired the first coast-to-coast telecast of a prizefight. Dave Sands defeated Carl Olson at Soldier Field in Chicago.
1952 - Britain became the third nuclear power in the world when they successfully detonated their first atomic bomb. The U.S.
and Russia were the only other nuclear powers. 1954 - "Father Knows Best" began airing on CBS-TV. 1955 - "Captain Kangaroo" premiered on CBS-TV.
1955 - Rock Hudson was featured on the cover of "LIFE" magazine. 1955 - "The Mickey Mouse Club" premiered on ABC-TV. 1961 - "The Dick Van Dyke Show" debuted on CBS-TV.
1962 - The Sigma VII blasted off from Cape Canaveral for a nine-hour flight. 1962 - The play, "Stop the World, I Want to Get Off!" opened on Broadway.
1974 - Frank Robinson took over the management position of the Cleveland Indians baseball team. He was the first black manager in major league baseball. 1981 - 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. 1986 - "Tough Guys" was released. It was the first comedy to feature Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas.
It was, however, their seventh movie together. 1988 - The space shuttle Discovery landed safely after its four-day mission. It was the first American shuttle mission since the Challenger disaster.
1988 - Mithileshwar Singh, an Indian educator, was released by kidnappers in Lebanon. He had been held captive for almost two years with three Americans. 1989 - An unsuccessful coup was attempted against Panamanian Gen.
Manuel Antonio Noriega. 1989 - East Germany suspended unrestricted travel to Czechoslovakia in an effort to slow the flow of refugees to the West. 1989 - Art Shell became the first African-American head coach in the modern NFL when he took over the Los Angeles Raiders.
1990 - The Berlin Wall was dismantled eleven months after the borders between East and West Germany. The unification ended 45 years of division. 1990 - Iraqi President Saddam Hussein made a visit to Kuwait since his country had seized control of the oil-rich nation.
1994 - The headquarters of the Haitian pro-army militia was raided by U.S. soldiers.
1995 - O.J. Simpson was acquitted of the 1994 murder of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald L.
Goldman. Simpson was later found liable in a civil trial. 1997 - U.
S. Attorney General Janet Reno said she had found no evidence that U.S.
President Clinton had broken the law with White House coffees and overnight stays for big contributors. 2001 - Near Manchester, TN, a passenger on a Greyhound bus slashed the throat of the driver. The resulting wreck killed six and injured 34 others.
The driver survived his injuries. The attacker was killed in the accident and was identified as Damir Igric.
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