Today's Importance In History October 3

Today in History

October 3

1739 :  Russia signs a treaty with the Turks, ending a three-year conflict between the two countries.

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1776 :  Congress borrows five million dollars to halt the rapid depreciation of paper money in the colonies.

1862  : At the Battle of Corinth, in Mississippi, a Union army defeats the Confederates.

1906  : The first conference on wireless telegraphy in Berlin adopts SOS as a warning signal.

1929  : The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes officially changes its name to Yugoslavia.

1940  : The U.S. Army adopts airborne, or parachute, soldiers. Airborne troops are later used in World War II for landing troops in combat and infiltrating agents into enemy territory.

1942  : The German Wehrmacht successfully launches a V-2 /A4-rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany. It will become the first manmade object to reach space. The Germans have developed the missile, which features a liquid-propellant rocket engine, as a “vengeance weapon” assigned to attack Allied cities in retaliation for the Allied bombings of German cities in World War II. [From MHQ—The Quarterly Journal of Military History].

1944  : German troops evacuate Athens, Greece.

1952  : The u
K successfully develops a nuclear weapon, becoming the world’s third nuclear power.

1963  : A violent coup in Honduras ends a period of political reform and ushers in two decades of military rule.

1985  : The Space ShuttleAtlantis makes its maiden flight.

1990  : After 40 years of division, East and West Germany are reunited as one nation.

1993  : The Battle of Mogadishu takes place, in which 18 US soldiers and some 1,000 Somalis are killed during an attempt to capture officials of the warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid’s organization.