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.

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1863: The last Thursday in November is declared as Thanksgiving Day by President Abraham Lincoln as are Thursdays, Nov. 30, 1865, and Nov. 29, 1866.

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