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Subject: Oct 3rd Events
Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 10:25:12 EDT

1893 - The motor-driven vacuum cleaner was patented by J.S. Thurman of St.
Louis, MO. Remember his advertising slogan? “You can be sure if it’s Thurman!”

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1901 - The Victor Talking Machine Company was incorporated on this day.
After a merger with Radio Corporation of America, RCA-Victor became the leader in
phonographs and many of the records played on them. The famous Victrola
phonograph logo, with Nipper the dog, and the words “His Master’s Voice”,
appeared on all RCA-Victor phonographs and record labels.
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1906 - One of the nation’s pioneer retailers, W.T. Grant, opened a 25-cent
department store on this day.
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1945 - Stan Kenton and his orchestra recorded Painted Rhythm for Capitol
Records.
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1946 - Dennis Day started his own radio show on NBC. Dennis, a popular tenor
featured on The Jack Benny Show, played the same naive young bachelor he
played on the Benny show. A Day in the Life of Dennis Day aired for five years.
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1951 - “The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant! The Giants
are the champs of the National League!” Listeners were hearing the voice of
New York Giants play-by-play legend Russ Hodges on the ninth-inning heroics of
Bobby Thomson. Thomson’s dramatic home run (off Dodger pitcher Ralph Branca)
gave the Giants the pennant as they beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 5-4.
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1951 - CBS-TV presented the first coast-to-coast telecast of a prize fight.
The telecast saw Dave Sands kick Carl ‘Bobo’ Olson’s butt for the
middleweight boxing crown at Soldier Field, Chicago.
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1954 - One of the favorite TV shows of our time was first seen on this day.
Father Knows Best began its long run on CBS, then made the move to NBC in
1956. For Jim Anderson (Robert Young) and family, it was a made-for-TV marriage
of over eight wonderful years.
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1955 - “Good Morning, Captain!” It was Bob Keeshan’s first day at work in
what became a TV institution via CBS: Captain Kangaroo. The children’s
television milestone featured Mr. Green Jeans, Bunny Rabbit, Grandfather Clock, Mr.
Moose and other characters.
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1955 - LIFE magazine’s cover displayed Hollywood’s most handsome bachelor,
Rock Hudson.
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1955 - Walt Disney premiered The Mickey Mouse Club on ABC-TV.
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1961 - Rob (Dick Van Dyke), Laura (Mary Tyler Moore), Sally (Rose Marie) and
Buddy (Morey Amsterdam) debuted in The Dick Van Dyke Show on CBS-TV.
Created by Carl Reiner, the show ran for five years (if you don’t include cable
reruns).
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1962 - The play, Stop the World, I Want to Get Off!, opened. Broadway
welcomed Anthony Newley to the stage with many standing ovations.
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1980 - ‘The Boss’, Bruce Springsteen, forgot some of the words to Born to
Run before an enthusiastic opening night crowd in Ann Arbor, MI.
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1986 - Two cinema greats, Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas, joined for their
first comedic collaboration. Their seventh film together, Tough Guys, was
released. The film is best described as a modern Rip Van Winkle story.
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1990 - On this day, just four days away from the 41st anniversary of the
forming of the East German state, East and West Germany came together again. The
reunification, originally scheduled to take place during the December
parliamentary elections, occurred earlier because East Germany’s economy was in
serious shape.
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1995 - In a Los Angeles courtroom, O.J. Simpson was acquitted of the June
12, 1994 stabbing deaths of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and waiter, Ronald
Goldman. Simpson smiled and nodded toward the jury, saying “Thank you, thank
you.”

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