#3 oct.

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Men putting pantless. Clients of tailor Harris Berger of Queens are enjoying a round of golf while their suits are being pressed, October 3, 1930.

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On October 3, 1944, it was still summer as far as these boys were concerned. They fished and splashed in the pond in Central Park.

Photo: Look magazine via MCNY

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The man who fired "the shot heard round the world," Bobby Thomson, acknowledges the cheers of the crowd at the Polo Grounds on October 3, 1951. With the Dodgers ahead in the bottom of the ninth inning, Thomson's home run off of Ralph Branca gave the Giants a 5-4 win over the Dodgers and the National League championship. ("The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant! The Giants win the pennant!")

Photo: Associated Press

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The Rainbow Room opened on the 65th floor of 30 Rockefeller Plaza (then called the RCA Building) on October 3, 1934. The opening was a society benefit for the Lenox Hill Neighborhood Association and drew a crowd with "a dazzle of surnames that ran from Astors and Auchinclosses to Warburgs and Whitneys."

Photo: Bettmann Archives/Getty Images/Daily Mail

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All that Dodgers left fielder Andy Pafko can do is watch as Bobby Thompson's ninth-inning home run in the National League playoff game sent the Giants to the World Series, October 3, 1951.

Photo: Associated Press via the NY Times