Throughout history, events happen every day ranging from things like the signing of the Declaration of Independence to random unknown holidays being created. Regardless of how big or how strange the event may be, everyday has its own adventures. Throwback Thursday is one of many examples of these events occurring in random times, all on similar days, throughout history. For the first Throwback Thursday of the school year, these events start from 2018 and date back all the way to the year of 1789, all occurring on the day of October 3rd.
2018-
The Journal medicine and primary care declared that over 250 people had died since 2011 taking selfies.
2014-
A data breach at JP Morgan Chase and six other institutions caused 83 million accounts to be compromised and 76 million households (approximately two out of the three households in the country) and 7 million small businesses.
1992-
A picture of Pope John Paul ll was torn up by the Irish singer Sinead O’Connor on Saturday Night live.
1989-
The city planning simulation game SimCity was released for the Apple Macintosh.
1983-
Singers Paul McCartney and Micheal Jackson released their song “Say Say Say”
1955-
ABC aired the first episode of “The Mickey Mouse Club.”
1949-
WERD, the first African-American owned radio station in the US, made its first broadcast. Established in Atlanta, Georgia, Weird was operated entirely by African Americans.Within two years, the station’s DJ, “Jockey” Jack Gibson, was the most popular DJ in Atlanta. WERD frequently gave Martin Luther King time to make announcements over the radio.
1926-
Violet Stewart Piercy, a long distance runner from England, set their first record marathon win for women at 3:40:22 and her mark was set on the Polytechnic Marathon between Windsor and London.
1846-
Author Edgar Allan Poe was last seen alive. He was disoriented, lying in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland, US. The last time someone saw him was his dead body on October 8, and the cause of his death is a complete mystery today.
1789-
George Washington issued his “Thanksgiving Proclamation”. The Proclamation stated that everyone should celebrate a day of Thanksgiving on November 26 that year. Consequently, it has become one of the biggest holidays in the United States.
