This Day in History - October 3

1789 - President George Washington declares Nov. 26, 1789, a day of Thanksgiving to express gratitude for the creation of the United States of America.
1863 - President Abraham Lincoln proclaims the last Thursday in November to be Thanksgiving Day.
1941 - Adolf Hitler declares in a speech in Berlin that Russia is "broken" and would "never rise again."
1955 - "Captain Kangaroo" and "The Mickey Mouse Club" premiere on CBS and ABC, respectively.
1961 - "The Dick Van Dyke Show," also starring Mary Tyler Moore, premieres on CBS.
1991 - Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton enters the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
1995 - A Los Angeles jury finds O.J. Simpson not guilty of the 1994 slayings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.
2003 - A tiger attacks magician Roy Horn of "Siegfried & Roy" during a performance in Las Vegas, leaving him in critical condition.
2008 - O.J. Simpson is found guilty of robbing two sports memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a Las Vegas hotel room. (Simpson would later be sentenced to nine to 33 years in prison and ultimately granted parole in July 2017 and released in October that same year.)