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📅 October 3, 1990 — German Reunification

A wall that once split East from West,
Had kept German hearts quite distressed.
On October the third,
The whole world finally heard,
"We're ONE nation again!" — they were blessed.

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🇩🇪 October 3, 1990: Germany was formally reunified after more than four decades of division.

The historic moment came less than a year after the fall of the Berlin Wall and helped define the end of the Cold War.

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Today in History - 1929: The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes changed its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. #TodayInHistory

3 Oct 1781
French cavalry & British forces skirmish at Gloucester, Virginia; French block supplies to Cornwallis.
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ON THIS DAY — October 3
Celebrate: National Techies Day
In History: 1863 — Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation.
Good to Know: National Bullying Prevention Month.
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📅Oct 02, 1608 Hans Lippershey --- Developed the 🥇1st known telescope, in the Netherlands 🇳🇱

(Within 2 years, Gallileo made his own and made many discoveries -- rings of Saturn, moons of Jupiter, ...)

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💀Oct 02, 2002 Heinz Von Foerster died in Pescadero, California, USA 🇺🇸

1930: Table of historical events drawn on logarithmic paper, changing the default linear of history

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💀Sep 30, 1955 Louis Leon Thurstone died in Chapel Hill, NC, USA 🇺🇸
Belated tribute to my academic grandfather.
In 1935, he developed multiple factor analysis in his book _Vectors of the Mind_, taking the study of dimensions of intelligence and performance to higher D