Did you know who's birthday is today, Oct 3?

Did you know what happen on this day in history:

2004 Actress Janet Leigh> dies at her Beverly Hills, California, home at age 77.

2003 Magician Roy Horn of Siegfried and Roy is critically injured when a large white tiger mauls him during a performance in Las Vegas.

1999 Entrepreneur and Sony co-founder Akio Morita dies in Tokyo at age 78.

1998 Today co-host Matt Lauer marries model Annette Roque.

1995 The world learns that former football great O.J. Simpson has been acquitted of murder charges.

1990 Germany is reunified, with the removal of barriers between the communist East and democratic West sectors.


1968
The Beatles begin recording of Savoy Truffle, a song that will ultimately appear on the White Album, at Trident Studios in London.
(photo credit: Capitol Records)

1962 NASA astronaut Wally Schirra makes a successful 9-hour trip into Earth orbit aboard the Mercury space capsule Sigma Seven.
(photo credit: NASA)


1960 The Andy Griffith Show debuts on CBS-TV.

1955 The Mickey Mouse Club debuts on ABC-TV.

1955 Not to be outdone by rival network ABC, CBS debuts their own children's TV show, Captain Kangaroo, starring Bob Keeshan.

1908 The Australian national flag is adopted.

1863 US president Abraham Lincoln declares the last Thursday in November as a national day of Thanksgiving.

1656 Massachusetts colonist Miles Standish dies.