Friday, October 2, 2026
Tomorrow in
Misc. History
1863 - U.S. President Lincoln declared that the last Thursday of November would be recognized as Thanksgiving Day.
1901 - The Victor Talking Machine Company was incorporated. After a merger with Radio Corporation of America the company became RCA-Victor.
1929 - The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes officially changed its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
1941 - Adolf Hitler stated in a speech that Russia was "broken" and they "would never rise again."
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.
1955 - "Captain Kangaroo" premiered on CBS-TV.
1988 - The space shuttle
Discovery landed safely after its four-day mission. It was the first American shuttle mission since the
Challenger disaster.
1990 - The Berlin Wall was dismantled eleven months after the borders between East and West Germany. The unification ended 45 years of division.
Random Quotes
God grant that this is the work of the Communists. You are witnessing the beginning of a great new epoch in German history. This fire is the beginning. - German Chancellor Adolf Hitler while speaking to a foreign correspondent as the Reichstag burned, 1933.
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