On this day: October 3

October 3: Hoshana Rabbah begins at sunset (Judaism, 2015); German Unity Day; National Day in Iraq (1932); National Foundation Day in South Korea

Allen Ginsberg

• 2333 BC – According to Korean legend, Dangun, the "grandson of heaven", established Gojoseon, the first Korean kingdom.
• 1918 – World War I: Following his armed forces' defeat by the Allied Powers, Bulgarian Tsar Ferdinand I abdicated in favor of his son Boris III.
• 1935 – Italian forces under General Emilio De Bono invaded Abyssinia during the opening stages of the Second Italo-Abyssinian War.
• 1957 – A California Superior Court judge ruled that "Howl", a poem by Allen Ginsberg (pictured), was of "redeeming social importance" and thus not obscene.
• 1981 – The hunger strike by Irish Republican Army prisoners at the Maze jail in Belfast ended after seven months and ten deaths.

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