Browsing: October 3

A Brief History On October 3, 1683, Shi Lang, a naval commander representing the Qing Dynasty of China took the surrender of Tywan on the island of Taiwan.  Almost four centuries later, mainland China is still threatening Taiwan, with no sign of rapprochement Digging Deeper Ever since the Communists took over in 1949, the Chinese Nationalists that fled to Taiwan have claimed to be the legal government of China and the Communists have wanted to take over Taiwan. Rumors of Chinese plans to invade Taiwan remain, with China boasting 1.4 billion people and a military of just over two million…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on October 3rd.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On October 3, 1283, Dafydd ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales, became the first nobleman executed by being hanged, drawn and quartered. On October 3, 1683, Shi Lang, a naval commander representing the Qing Dynasty of China took the surrender of Tywan on the island of Taiwan. On October 3, 1919, Adolfo Luque, born in Cuba in 1890, became the first Latin American major…

A Brief History On October 3, 1986, Vince DiMaggio died, the eldest of the three DiMaggio brothers of major league baseball, the others being Dom and the most famous, Joltin’ Joe. Digging Deeper Joe DiMaggio is of course one of the all-time greats, while Dom was pretty good, making seven All Star teams, while Vince was more average.  All three played center field.  Are these brothers the best in baseball history?  We list a few other brother sets for you to pick from out of the 275 sets of brothers in MLB history. Paul and Lloyd Waner, the second pair…

A Brief History Live-action/animated musical comedy fans, here is your chance to be among the first in Cleveland, Ohio to see Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile on Monday, October 3, 2022 at 5:00PM at Cinemark At Valley View and XD on 6001 Canal Rd. in Valley View, Ohio!  For your chance to get a pass, please log on to https://gofobo.com/CROCHISTORYVV3.  Passes are first-come, first-serve.  The theater is overbooked slightly to ensure a full audience.  Therefore, seating is not guaranteed.  So, please arrive early!  Saving seats for other parties is prohibited. Digging Deeper Based on the best-selling book series by Bernard Waber, Lyle, Lyle,…

A Brief History On October 3, 1952, (October 2 local date), the British became the third country to boast the possession of atomic weapons when Operation Hurricane resulted in a successful nuclear blast in the Monte Bello Islands of Western Australia.  The United States had first achieved nuclear fission in bomb form on July 16, 1945, in a famous/infamous blast called the Trinity test in the desert of New Mexico, the culmination of a joint Allied effort to design and field an atomic bomb, an effort that the United Kingdom had contributed to.  So why was the UK not included…