OCTOBER 3
1960:The Andy Griffith Show, starring Andy Griffith, Don Knotts and a young Ron Howard, premieres on CBS, exactly six years after the debut on the same network of another television classic, Father Knows Best, starring Robert Young and Jane Wyatt.
1863: At the urging of author Sarah Josepha Hale, President Abraham Lincoln designates the last Thursday in November as the official Thanksgiving holiday.
1947: The California Institute of Technology announces that after more than a decade of grinding and polishing, the Palomar Mountain Observatory telescope mirror is complete. With a diameter of 200 inches, Palomar's Hale Telescope has the largest mirror in the world at the time of its completion.
1990:Germany is reunified after 43 years of being divided between East & West Germany.
1955: Mickey Mouse Club variety show for children airs for the first time on ABC.
1995:O.J. Simpson found not guilty of the murders of his ex-wife Nicole and her friend Ronald Goldman.
1974:Watergate trial, resulting from June 1972 discovery of break-in to DNC headquarters at Watergate Hotel by Nixon's Administration, begins
1964:First Buffalo Wings are made at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York
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