I like the chicken wing part best…
(CNN) – History is made every day. But even by that standard, October 3 stands out as an especially eventful day.
Set aside the fact that it was on this day in 1863 that President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of Thanksgiving. Or that in 1964, the first buffalo wings were made at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York. Or that in 2003, Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy was attacked by one of their show tigers.
Here are five of the more significant recent events that took place on October 3:
1974: Baseball racial barriers are broken
On this day in 1974, Frank Robinson became the first black manager of a major league baseball team when he signed with the Cleveland Indians. Robinson managed the Indians during the last two years of his baseball career, before going on to manage three other major league teams. Robinson was inducted into the baseball Hall of Fame in 1982, after winning the World Series twice as a member of the Baltimore Orioles.
1990: Germany becomes one again
Twenty-three years ago on this day – and three years after President Ronald Reagan famously called on Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down that wall” – East and West Germany became one nation once again. The German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany, and Berlin was once again reunited into a single city. The fall of the Berlin Wall began almost a year prior to the official reunification, and the indelible image of Germans beating at the wall with sledgehammers, pick axes, and anything else they could find was hailed as the picture of democratic victory for years to come.
1993: Black Hawk helicopters are shot down
Twenty years ago on this day, two U.S. Special Forces Helicopters, also known as Black Hawks, were shot down in Mogadishu, Somalia, killing 18 Americans. To this day, the battle casts a long shadow on United States’ intervention in foreign soil. The Somali mission was intended to be a short one, but turned into an extended and violent b
