October 2


October 2nd is the 275th day (276th in leap years) of the year in the
Gregorian Calendar, with 90 days remaining.

Events

   * 1187 - Saladin captures Jerusalem
   * 1535 - Jacques Cartier discovers Montreal, Quebec
   * 1780 - British spy John Andre is hanged by American forces
   * 1835 - Battle of Gonzales - Texas Revolution begins
   * 1870 - Italy annexes Rome and the Papal States
   * 1919 - President Woodrow Wilson has a stroke
   * 1935 - Italy invades Abyssinia
   * 1941 - Germany begins Operation "Typhoon" against Moscow.
   * 1942 - First self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction demonstrated, in
     Chicago, Illinois
   * 1944 - Nazi troops end Warsaw Uprising
   * 1950 - Comic stip Peanuts by Charles Schulz is first published in nine
     newspapers.
   * 1955 - ENIAC deactivated
   * 1958 - Guinea declares itself independent from France
   * 1967 - Thurgood Marshall sworn in as first African-American justice of
     United States Supreme Court
   * 1996 - Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments signed by U.S.
     President Bill Clinton

Births

   * 1452 - King Richard III of England
   * 1798 - Charles Albert of Savoy
   * 1800 - Nat Turner, American leader of slave uprising (+ 1831)
   * 1847 - Paul von Hindenburg, German officer and politician (+ 1934)
   * 1851 - Ferdinand Foch, French soldier (+ 1929)
   * 1852 - William Ramsay, Scottish chemist
   * 1869 - Mohandas Gandhi, Indian political leader (+ 1948)
   * 1879 - Wallace Stevens, poet (+ 1955)
   * 1890 - Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (+ 1977)
   * 1895 - Bud Abbott, comedian, actor (+ 1974)
   * 1901 - Alice Prin, singer/artist: "Kiki" (+ 1953)
   * 1904 - Graham Greene, British novelist
   * 1911 - Jack Finney, author (+ 1995)
   * 1928 - George McFarland, American actor
   * 1932 - Maury Wills, baseball star
   * 1937 - Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., attorney
   * 1938 - Rex Reed, movie critic, actor
   * 1943 - Franklin Rosemont, co-founder of the Surrealist Movement in the
     United States
   * 1945 - Don McLean, American songwriter
   * 1948 - Avery Brooks, actor
   * 1948 - Donna Karan, fashion designer
   * 1949 - Richard Hell, musician
   * 1951 - Sting British singer, actor
   * 1954 - Lani O'Grady, actress (+ 2001)
   * 1955 - Lorraine Bracco, actress
   * 1961 - Edmond Yu
   * 1967 - Frankie Fredericks, Namibian athlete
   * 1970 - Kelly Ripa, actress, television host

Deaths

   * 1782 - Charles Lee, British and U.S. officer
   * 1853 - Fran¨ois Jean Dominique Arago, French mathematician
   * 1927 - Svante Arrhenius, Swedish scientist
   * 1962 - Boris Y. Bukreev, Soviet mathematician, dies at 103
   * 1968 - Marcel Duchamp, French artist
   * 1973 - Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner
   * 1981 - Hazel Scott, singer
   * 1985 - Rock Hudson, actor
   * 1998 - Gene Autry, singer, actor, entrepreneur