Volume 13 , Issue 40

This Day In History (October 1st, 2nd & 3rd)

On this day in history, October 1, 1961, Roger Maris of the New York Yankees hit his 61st home run of the season, breaking Babe Ruth's record of 60 set in 1927.

On this day in history, October 2, 1967, Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as an associate justice of the US Supreme Court. He was the first African-American appointed to the nation's highest court.

On this day, October 3, 1990, West Germany and East Germany ended 45 years of postwar division, declaring the creation of a new unified country. On October 3, 1873, Emily Post, the American authority on proper etiquette, was born. Following her death on Sept. 25, 1960, her obituary appeared in The Times.

Also On This DAte, October 3rd:

• 1863 - President Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November Thanksgiving Day.
• 1929 - The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes changed its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
• 1941 - Adolf Hitler declared in a speech in Berlin that Russia had been "broken" and would "never rise again."
• 1951 - Bobby Thomson hit the "shot heard 'round the world" a three-run home run in the bottom of the ninth inning of a playoff game at the Polo Grounds to send the New York Giants into the World Series.
• 1955 - "Captain Kangaroo" premiered on CBS and "The Mickey Mouse Club" premiered on ABC.
• 1960 - "The Andy Griffith Show" premiered on CBS.
• 1974 - The Cleveland Indians hired Frank Robinson as major league baseball's first black manager.
• 1981 - Irish nationalists at the Maze Prison near Belfast, Northern Ireland, ended seven months of hunger strikes that had claimed 10 lives.

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