The Daily News | October 3

Earl S. Tupper, inventor of Tupperware, died, 1983
Declaration of Panama, 1939
William Morris, English poet and artist, died, 1896
Leiden (Netherlands) liberated, 1574
Elias Howe, inventor of the sewing machine, died, 1867
East and West Germany reunited, 1990
First episode of “The Andy Griffith Show” aired, 1960
Rembrandt Peale, US painter, died, 1860
Woodrow Wilson “Woody” Guthrie, folk singer, died, 1967
Benito Mussolini attacked Ethiopia, 1935
Lucy Hobbs Taylor, first American woman dentist, died, 1910
Carl Nielsen, Danish composer, died, 1931
US troops cracked the Siegfried Line (Aachen, Germany), 1944
Motor-driven vacuum cleaner patented, 1899
Three Mile Island nuclear power plant restarted one reactor, 1985
“The Mickey Mouse Club” premiered, 1955
Rebecca Felton appointed first woman Senator (term - one day), 1922
“Captain Kangaroo” first broadcast, 1955
US President Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November Thanksgiving Day, 1863
First flight of space shuttle Atlantis, 1985
Bobby Thomson hit a homerun off Ralph Branca to win the National League title for the Giants, 1951
Third V4 launch attempt (first successful), 1943
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes formally changed its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, 1929
Charles Collingwood, CBS correspondent, died, 1985