On this day: October 3

POSTED: 10:53 PM PDT Oct 02, 2012    UPDATED: 11:00 PM PDT Oct 02, 2012 

Bobby Thomson hits the "shot heard 'round the world," Woody Guthrie passes away, Germany comes together, and O.J. Simpson is found not guilty, all on this day.

OTD October 3 - Edgar Allen Poe
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1849: Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore, Md., under mysterious circumstances. It is the last time he is seen in public before his Oct. 7 death.

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