October 3: On This Progressive DayThe Pravda newspaper founded by Leon Trotsky, Adolph Joffe, Matvey Skobelev and other Russian exiles in Vienna (1908)
Iraq gains independence from Britain (1932)
Italy, led by Fascist-Progressive Benito Mussolini, invades Ethiopia (1935)
B. Hussein Obama weds Michelle LaVaughn Robinson (1992)
O.J. Simpson found not guilty of the murders of his ex-wife Nicole and her friend Ronald Goldman (1995)
TARP and the $700 billion "Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008" bailout bill for the U.S. financial system, is signed by President George W. Bush (2008)
President B. Hussein Obama and FLOTUS celebrate their 17th wedding anniversary at the Blue Duck Tavern in Washington, D.C. (2009)
b: Thomas Wolfe (1900), Al Sharpton (1954); d: William Morris (1896), Walter Duranty (1957), Woody Guthrie (1967)
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