October 2

October 2 is the 275th day of the year (276th in Leap years). There are 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 - François 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

Holidays:

October 1 - October 3 - September 2 - November 2 - more historical anniversaries