CNN Interactive - Almanac - October 3, 1998

Leaders of the world's biggest oil companies meet to discuss industry restructuring and geopolitics of petroleum in Vienna.
A leadership symposium is to be held in San Diego, California, featuring veteran anchorman Walter Cronkite and former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
Willie Nelson, Hootie and the Blowfish, and Neil Young are among those set to perform at Farm Aid '98 in Tinley Park, Illinois.

On Sunday, October 4, Tipper Gore is to lead the 12th annual AIDS Walk in Washington.
On Monday, October 5, the House Judiciary Committee may vote on a resolution to begin impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.
On Tuesday, October 6, U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is scheduled to arrive in the Middle East to try to narrow the gap between Israel and the Palestinians on a West Bank troop pullback.
On Wednesday, October 7, the fall meeting of representatives of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund takes hold in Washington.
On Thursday, October 8, negotiations are scheduled to resume in the NBA lockout.

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In 1863, U.S. President Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday in November Thanksgiving Day.
In 1929, the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenianss formally changed its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
In 1941, Adolf Hitler declared in a speech in Berlin that Russia had been "broken" and would "never rise again."
In 1942, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt established the Office of Economic Stabilization and authorized controls on farm prices, rents, wages and salaries.
In 1962, astronaut Wally Schirra blasted off from Cape Canaveral aboard the "Sigma Seven" on a nine-hour flight.
In 1968, the play "The Great White Hope," by Howard Sackler, opened on Broadway.
In 1995, the jury in the O.J. Simpson murder trial found the former football star innocent of the 1994 slayings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman.