Frank Robinson named American League’s first Black manager – Chicago Tribune
Today is Friday October 3, the 276th day of 2025. It remains 89 days a year.
Today in history:
On October 3, 1974, Frank Robinson was appointed first black manager of the American League after being hired by the Cleveland Indians.
Also on this date:
In 1944, during the Second World War, the American army troops fell for the Siegfried line north of Aix-Un, Germany.
In 1951, the New York Giants captured the national league pennant by a 5-4 score while Bobby Thomson struck a three-point circuit off Ralph Brooklyn Dodgers, which became known as “Shot Heard ‘Round The World”.
In 1990, Western Germany and East Germany ended 45 years of post-war division, declaring the creation of a reunited country.
In 1993, 18 members of the American service and hundreds of Somalians were killed in the Battle of Mogadishu – the deadliest battle for American troops since the Vietnam War. The battle inspired the film “Black Hawk Down”.
In 1995, the jury for the murder trial of OJ Simpson in Los Angeles recognized the former football star who is not guilty of the 1994 murders of her former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
In 2008, OJ Simpson was found guilty of having stolen two sports dealers to the threat of a weapon in a hotel room in Las Vegas. (Simpson was sentenced at the end of the year to nine to 33 years in prison; he obtained parole in July 2017 and released from prison in October of the same year. He died at 76 on April 10, 2024, after fighting prostate cancer.)
In 2011, an Italian court of appeal released Amanda Knox from Seattle after four years in prison, launching convictions of murder against Knox and an ex-friendly friend in the stabs of their British roommate, Meredith Kercher. A high Italian courtyard definitively confirmed Knox in 2015, throwing their convictions once and for all.
In 2013, a smuggler ship filled with African migrants sank off the coast of an island in southern Italy, killing more than 365 people.
In 2023, the House of Representatives of the United States voted to withdraw the president of the Kevin McCarthy House – the first time in American history, an speaker had been ousted from the post. Although McCarthy had the support of many Republican colleagues, several hard -right detractors of his party have essentially forced him to get out.
The birthdays of today: the composer Steve Reich is 89 years old. Rock and roll Star Chubby Checker is 84 years old. The musician Lindsey Buckingham (Fleetwood Mac) is 76 years old. The musician Blues Keb ‘Mo’ is 74. Baseball Hall of Famer Dave Winfield is 74. Baseball Hall of Femed Dennis Eckersley is 71. Golf Hall of Femer Fred Couples is 66. 63. The actor Clive Owen is 61 years old. Director Denis Villeneuve is 58 years old. The personality of the singer-TV Gwen Stefani is 56 years old. Pop singer Kevin Richardson (Backstreet Boys) is 54 years old. Actor Neve Campbell is 52. Tessa Thompson is 42 years old. The actor-sater Ashlee Simpson is 41 years old. Actor Alicia Vikander is 37 years old.
