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Today in History ~ October 2
Independence Day, celebrated in Guinea.
Events1187 - Sultan Saladin captures Jerusalem from Crusaders
1535 - Jacques Cartier discovers Mount Royal (Montreal)
1608 - Prototype of modern reflecting telescope completed by Jan Lippershey
1656 - US colony Connecticut passes law against Quakers
1780 - British spy Major John Andre was convicted in connection with Benedict Arnold's treason and was hanged in Tappan, N.Y.
1792 - Baptist Missionary Society forms in London
1804 - England mobilizes to protect against expected French invasion by Napoleon
1833 - Charles Darwin rides through Corunda to Santa Fe Argentina
1833 - NY Anti-Slavery Society organized
1835 - The Texas Revolution began at the Battle of Gonzales as Texans repelled a Mexican force sent to disarm them. [H]
1836 - Darwin returns to England aboard HMS Beagle (after 5 years)
1853 - Austrian law forbids Jews from owning land
1865 - Former Confederate General Robert E. Lee became president of Washington and Lee University in Virginia
1866 - J Osterhoudt patents tin can with key opener
1870 - Italy annexes Rome & Papal States; Rome made Italian capital
1871 - Brigham Young, Mormon leader, arrested for bigamy
1895 - 1st cartoon comic strip is printed in a newspaper
1901 - 1st Royal Naval submarine launched at Barrow
1919 - President Wilson suffered a stroke that left him partially paralyzed.
1931 - Norah Upchurch, a 20-year-old prostitute, is found strangled to death
1933 - Eugene O'Neill's comedy "Ah, Wilderness," premieres in NYC
1935 - Mussolini's Italian armies attack Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1935 - NY Hayden Planetarium, 4th in US, opens
1940 - 17 German aircrafts shot down above England
1940 - British liner Empress loaded with refugees for Canada, sunk
1941 - 6 Paris synagogues are bombed by Gestapo
1941 - German armies began Operation "Typhoon" _ an all-out drive against Moscow.
1942 - "Queen Mary" slices cruiser "Curacao" in half, killing 338
1942 - 1st self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction demonstrated, Chicago (Enrico Fermi et al)
1944 - Nazi troops crushed the 63 day-old Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, during which a quarter of a million people were killed.
1947 - The Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) formally established Formula One racing in Grand Prix competition
1948 - "Finian's Rainbow" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 725 performances
1948 - First Races at Watkins Glen, NY
1949 - USSR recognizes People's Republic of China
1950 - 1st strip of Charlie Brown, "Li'l Folks," later "Peanuts" in 9 papers. Started with only four characters: Charlie Brown, Peppermint Patty (Reichardt), Shermy and, of course, the world’s most famous beagle, Snoopy.
1958 - The former French colony of Guinea in West Africa proclaimed its independence.
1961 - The medical drama "Ben Casey," starring Vince Edwards and Sam Jaffe, premiered on ABC.
1962 - Johnny Carson succeeded Jack Paar as regular host of NBC's "Tonight" show, Joan Crawford guests. [H]
1967 - Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court; he was the first black appointed to the nation's highest court.
1968 - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas withdrew his nomination as chief justice. Six months later, he resigned from the court, admitting he had made a financial deal with the Louis Wolfson Foundation.
1984 - Richard Miller became the first FBI agent ever to be charged with espionage. He was convicted two years later of passing government secrets to the Soviet Union through his Russian lover.
1985 - Actor Rock Hudson died at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif., at age 59 after a battle with AIDS.
1990 - The Senate voted 90-to-9 to confirm the nomination of Judge David H. Souter to the Supreme Court.
1991 - Ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide asked the Organization of American States in Washington to send a delegation to his homeland to demand that the newly installed military junta surrender power immediately.
1992 - The Clinton and Bush camps agreed to a marathon nine days of four presidential and one vice presidential debates.
1992 - The House failed to override President Bush's veto of a bill that would have reversed the administration's "gag rule" on abortion information.
1993 - Ousted Russian vice president Aleksandr Rutskoi called for people to take to the streets against President Boris Yeltsin's "dictatorship."
1996 - Mark Fuhrman was given three years' probation and fined $200 after pleading no contest to perjury for denying at O.J. Simpson's criminal trial that he'd used a certain racial slur in the past decade.
1996 - An AeroPeru Boeing 757 crashed into the Pacific Ocean, killing all 61 passengers and nine crew members on board.
2000 - In his first public address since a disputed election, Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic branded his opponents puppets of the West. A wave of unrest aimed at driving him from power swept Yugoslavia, and the government responded by arresting dozens of strike leaders.
2001 - NATO said that the United States had shown evidence, sufficient to justify NATO military action, that Osama bin Laden and his organization were responsible for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
2001 - For the 9th time in a year, the Federal Reserve Board cut its rate for overnight loans among banks, this time from 3 percent to 2.5 percent, a 36-year low.
2002 - The first in a series of apparent random sniper attacks that terrorized the Washington area for three weeks occurred on this date with the slaying of a 55-year-old Maryland man.
Birthdays Today
1452 - King Richard III, of England (1483-85)
1715 - Peter II, czar of Russia (1727-30)
1737 - Francis Hopkinson, US, writer/lawyer (design Stars & Stripes)
1800 - Nat Turner, Virginia, leader of major slave rebellion (1831)
1847 - Paul Ludwig Hans von Beneckendorf und Hindenburg, German General/President
1851 - Ferdinand Foch, France, Allied commander in WW I
1869 - Mahatma Karamchand Ghandi, Porbandar Kathiawad India, (political and spiritual leader: India, pacifist)
1879 - Wallace Stevens (Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: Collected Poems [1955])
1890 - Groucho (Julius) Marx ("The one, the only, Groucho.": TV host: You Bet Your Life; comedian, actor: one of the Marx Brothers of vaudeville and film fame: Animal Crackers, A Day at the Races, Duck Soup, Horse Feathers, The Cocoanuts, Monkey Business)
1895 - Bud (William) Abbott (actor, comedian: Abbott of Abbott & Costello; Who's on First?, The Abbott & Costello Show)
1904 - [Henry] Graham Greene, England, prolific novelist (Brighton Rock)
1927 - Paul Goldsmith (auto racer)
1928 - Spanky (George) McFarland (actor: Little Rascals series, Our Gang comedies)
1929 - Moses Gunn (NAACP Image Award-winning actor: Ragtime [1981]; Othello, The Blacks, Shaft, The Great White Hope, Good Times, Father Murphy)
1932 - Maury Wills (baseball: LA Dodgers base-stealing champ & shortstop: Baseball Writers' Award [1962]; AP Male Athlete of the Year [1962])
1936 - Johnnie Cochran, attorney (OJ Simpson defense attorney)
1940 - Rex Reed (movie critic; actor: Myra Breckenridge)
1945 - Don McLean (songwriter: Killing Me Softly; singer: American Pie, Vincent, Castles in the Air)
1946 - Bob Robertson (baseball)
1948 - Donna Karan, Forest Hills NY, fashion designer (Coty Award-1977)
1950 - Michael Rutherford (musician: guitarist: group: Mike & The Mechanics: Silent Running, All I Need Is a Miracle, The Living Years)
1951 - Sting (Gordon Sumner) (singer: group: The Police; solo: Set Them Free, Fortress Around Your Heart; songwriter: Every Breath You Take; actor: Dune)
1952 - Clive Barker, writer (Hellraiser, Lord of Illusions)
1971 - Tiffany (Tiffany Darwisch) (singer: I Saw Him Standing There, I Think We're Alone Now, Could've Been; voice of Judy Jetson: The Jetsons)
Famous deaths
1564 - Andreas Vesalius, Flemish anatomist, dies at 49
1780 - John Andre, British major, hanged by Americans (spied with Benedict Arnold)
1920 - Max Bruch, composer (Scottish Fantasy), dies at 82
1957 - Jacques Fesch, French political assassin/saint?, beheaded at about 26
1958 - Marie Stopes, birth control pioneer, dies
1973 - Paavo "Flying Finn" Nurmi, who won 6 Olympic gold medals, dies at 76
1985 - Rock Hudson, actor (MacMillian & Wife), dies of AIDS at 59
1987 - Peter Brian Medawar, medical scientist, dies
1993 - Henry Ringling North, circus owner (Ringling Bros Circus), dies at 83
1994 - Harriet Nelson, actress (Ozzie & Harriet), dies of heart failure at 80
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