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Notable anniversaries in history for today: October 3
- 90th: 1934 - Birth of Madlyn Rhue in Washington, DC, USA; actress (Bracken's World, Executive Suite).
- 80th: 1944 - The Warsaw uprising is completely destroyed. In two months of fighting, an estimated 200,000 Poles were killed, ninety percent of them civilian. Estimated property losses: seventy percent of national wealth.
- 70th: 1954 - CBS premieres the Father Knows Best 30-minute comedy TV show, starring Robert Young.
- 50th: 1974 - Nancy Wilcox disappears from Salt Lake City, Utah (possible Ted Bundy victim).
- 50th: 1974 - Neat the coast of Peru, a magnitude 7.6 earthquake occurs, about 80 kilometers southwest of Lima.
- 50th: 1974 - Watergate trial begins.
- 30th: 1994 - Death of Tim Asch, Anthropologist, photographer and ethnographic filmmaker.
- 20th: 2004 - The Montreal Expos play their last baseball game in their 36-year history.
- 20th: 2004 - ABC airs the first episode of TV show Desperate Housewives.
- 20th: 2004 - Death of John Cerutti, baseball player and announcer at age 44 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada (born 1960).
- 5th: 2019 - Islamist Mickaël Harpon from Martinique stabs five officers at the central police headquarters in Paris, France, killing four of them. The attacker, shot dead by other officers, was an administrative intelligence employee at the station.
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