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• Today is Thursday, Oct. 3, the 276th day of 2013. There are 89 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Oct. 3, 1990, West Germany and East Germany ended 45 years of postwar division, declaring the creation of a reunified country.
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• On this date:
• In 1226, St. Francis of Assisi, founder of the Franciscan order, died; he was canonized in 1228.
• In 1789, President George Washington declared Nov. 26, 1789, a day of Thanksgiving to express gratitude for the creation of the United States of America.
• In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the last Thursday in November Thanksgiving Day.
• In 1929, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes formally changed its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
• In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt established the Office of Economic Stabilization.
• In 1951, the New York Giants captured the National League pennant by a score of 5-4 as Bobby Thomson hit a three-run homer off the Brooklyn Dodgers' Ralph Branca in the "shot heard 'round the world."
• In 1961, "The Dick Van Dyke Show," also starring Mary Tyler Moore, made its debut on CBS.
• In 1962, astronaut Wally Schirra blasted off from Cape Canaveral aboard the Sigma 7 on a nine-hour flight.
• In 1970, the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) was established under the Department of Commerce.
• In 1991, Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton entered the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
• In 1995, the jury in the O.J. Simpson murder trial found the former football star not guilty of the 1994 slayings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman (however, Simpson was later found liable in a civil trial).

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