Sunday, October 03, 2010

TODAY IN HISTORY

October 3
1990:The Federal Republic of Germany is reunited after 45 years of separation between East and West Germany; the event is viewed by many as the end of the Cold War.

1995: After a sensational and racially charged trial, former football star O.J. Simpson is acquitted of the murders of his estranged wife, Nicole Brown, and her friend Ronald Goldman. Two years later, a civil trial jury finds Simpson guilty of the wrongful deaths of Brown and Goldman and orders him to pay $33.5 million, little of which has been paid.

2002: The Beltway Sniper claims the lives of five people in the Washington, D.C., area on the second day of a three-week long rampage. John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo are later convicted of the murders, which ultimately will kill 10 people and critically injure three others. Muhammad will be executed in 2009.

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