RE: On this day
October 3rd
1906 - Liverpool: The biggest TUC conference opens with 490 delegates representing 1.5 million union members.
1912 - Balkans: Greece, Bulgaria, and Serbia issue an Ultimatum to Turkey.
1916 - London: Doctors receive help providing diagnostic tests and drugs to combat an increase in syphilis.
1918 - Berlin: Prince Maximilian of Baden is appointed Imperial Chancellor in succession to Georg von Hertling.
1928 - Spain: 43 sailors are killed when the French Submarine "Ondine" collides with a Greek steamer off the Spanish coast.
1929 - Belgrade: The informal term Yugoslavia is declared the official name of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes.
1936 - Spain: A cabinet reshuffle brings anarchists into the government for the first time, with four becoming ministers.
1938 - London: Duff Cooper resigns as First Lord of the Admiralty over Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of Hitler.
1939 - London: Neville Chamberlain announces the set-up of a new Whitehall department to handle censorship and control of news.
1941 - New York: John Huston's classic "The Maltese Falcon" with Humphrey Bogart, has it's premiere.
1942 - Washington: President Roosevelt orders a freeze on wages, rents, and farm prices.
1952 - London: The government announces the end of tea rationing.
1957 - UK: 1,000 parish councillors ask the government to stop British Rail closing branch lines.
1960 - Nice: Actress Brigette Bardot leaves hospital after recovering from a suicide attempt.
1963 - Honduras: A coup overthrows President Ramon Morales.
1965 - Washington: President Lyndon Johnson announces all refugees from Castro's Cuba are welcome to come to the US.
1967 - Hanoi: North Vietnam rejects a US offer of peace talks.
1971 - South Vietnam: Nguyen Van Thieu wins another four-year term as president.
1975 - Belfast: Ulster Secretary Merlyn Rees, bans the Ulster Volunteer Force.
1976 - Rhodesia: Black leader Bishop Abel Muzorewa returns to a tumultuous welcome after 15 months in exile.
1980 - UK: The Housing Act comes into force, allowing council tenants to buy their homes.
1985 - London: Sir Robert Haslam is appointed to succeed Ian MacGregor as NCB chairman.
1987 - Scotland: SAS troops storm Peterhead jail to free a prison officer held hostage by inmates.
1993 - Mogadishu: 12 US soldiers are killed and 78 are wounded in a failed attempt to capture leaders of Somali warlord Mohammed Aidid's militia.
1995 - Los Angeles: The trial of O.J Simpson which had lasted nine months, comes to a swift conclusion when the jury of ten women and two men return a verdict of "Not Guilty."
1997 - Paris: Princess Diana's bodyguard Trevor Rees Jones is released from hospital, experts she he cannot recall the events leading up to the crash, but say his memory may return.
2008 - Sweden: Remains of a Viking-era stave church, with the skeletal remains of a woman are uncovered near the cemetery of the Lannas church in Odensbaken outside Orebro, in central Sweden.
2009 - UK: Archaeologist's discover a similar prehistoric site near Stonehenge, dubbed as "Bluehenge" named after the hue of the stones.
2010 - USA: Tiger Woods drops out of golfs Top 50 for the first time in nearly 15 years.
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