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It happened on a… October 3

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2014

Blues guitarist and singer B.B. King’s last live performance, at the House of Blues in Chicago.

2008

Former NFL star O.J. Simpson found guilty of charges of kidnapping and armed robbery.

2004

Final game in Montreal Expos team history is played in NYC against the Mets at Shea Stadium, an 8-1 defeat.

1997

Gordie Howe, 69, plays in 7th decade, with IHL’S Detroit Vipers.

1992

Sinead O’Connor rips up a picture of Pope John Paul II on “Saturday Night Live”

Bodies of two cult members of the Order of the Solar Temple found in a burned-out condominium north of Montreal.

1981

Montreal Expos defeat the NY Mets 5-4 to win their first NL pennant.

1974

Watergate criminal trial begins involving the administration of U.S. President Richard Nixon.

1955

“Mickey Mouse Club” premieres

1945

Elvis Presley made his first ever-public appearance in a talent contest at the Mississippi Alabama Dairy Show singing ‘Old Shep’, Elvis was 10 years old at the time.

1893

The motor-driven vacuum cleaner was patented by J.S. Thurman.

1872

Bloomingdale’s department store in NY opens.

1863

Abraham Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day

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