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Birthday October 02, 1851 Ferdinand Foch, believed to be responsible for Allies winning WW I |
Birthday October 02, 1869 Mahatma K Ghandi, pacifist Porbandar, Kathiawad, India |
Birthday October 02, 1871 Cordell Hull, sec of state, lowered tariffs (Nobel 1945) |
Birthday October 02, 1879 Wallace Stevens is born |
Birthday October 02, 1895 Groucho Marx, comedian |
Birthday October 02, 1904 Graham Greene, prolific English novelist (Brighton Rock) |
Birthday October 02, 1921 Robert Runcie, archbishop of Canterbury |
Birthday October 02, 1928 Spanky McFarland, Little Rascal |
Birthday October 02, 1932 Maury Wills, Dodger shortstop |
Birthday October 02, 1939 Yuri N. Glazkov, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 24) |
Birthday October 02, 1940 Rex Reed, movie critic |
Birthday October 02, 1945 Don McLean, singer, songwriter (American Pie, Vincent) |
Birthday October 02, 1948 Donna Karan, Actress |
Birthday October 02, 1951 Sting, (Police) |
History October 02, 0322 BC Aristotle dies of indigestion |
History October 02, 1608 Hans Lippershey offers the Dutch a new invention - the telescope |
History October 02, 1780 British spy executed in Arnold affair |
History October 02, 1780 Benedict accomplice hanged |
History October 02, 1833 NY Anti-Slavery Society organized |
History October 02, 1835 First shots of the Texas Revolution fired in the Battle of Gonzales |
History October 02, 1836 Darwin returns to England aboard the HMS Beagle |
History October 02, 1836 Darwin returns to England |
History October 02, 1864 Battle of Saltville |
History October 02, 1870 Italy annexes Rome & the Papal States; Rome made Italian capital |
History October 02, 1889 1st Pan American conference |
History October 02, 1908 Addie Joss perfect game stops Ed Walsh 1-0 who won 40 in a row |
History October 02, 1916 Grover Cleveland Alexanders 16th shutout of the year |
History October 02, 1919 U.S President Woodrow Wilson suffers massive stroke |
History October 02, 1919 Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke |
History October 02, 1932 Yanks sweep Cubs in the world series |
History October 02, 1935 NY Hayden Planetarium the 4th in the US opens |
History October 02, 1936 Tony Lazzeri becomes the 1st Yank to hit a world series grand slam |
History October 02, 1936 1st alcohol power plant established Atchison Kansas |
History October 02, 1939 Birdbaths installed in Union Square |
History October 02, 1941 Operation Typhoon is launched |
History October 02, 1942 1st self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction demonstrated Chicago |
History October 02, 1944 Warsaw Uprising ends |
History October 02, 1946 1st network soap opera - Faraway Hill - Dumont |
History October 02, 1947 Yogi Berra become the 1st player to pinch hit a world series homer |
History October 02, 1948 Checkered flag waves at first postwar U.S. road race in Watkins Glen, New York |
History October 02, 1949 Yanks & Red Sox tie for 1st place played the final game of the season Yanks won 5-3 & clinched pennant #16 |
History October 02, 1950 Bob Shaw of the Chicago Cardinals sets NFL record with 5 TD catches |
History October 02, 1950 The comic strip 'Peanuts' 1st appears in 9 newspapers |
History October 02, 1955 Alfred Hitchcock Presents premiers |
History October 02, 1956 1st atomic power clock exhibited - NYC |
History October 02, 1958 Guinea gains independence from France (National Day) |
History October 02, 1958 The Cold War comes to Africa, as Guinea gains its independence |
History October 02, 1959 Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone" premieres on CBS |
History October 02, 1961 Ben Casey premiers |
History October 02, 1963 Hurricane devastates Haiti |
History October 02, 1965 Mel Stottlemyre wins game #20 |
History October 02, 1966 Soviets report that Russian military personnel have come under fire |
History October 02, 1967 Aerial offensive against North Vietnam continues |
History October 02, 1967 Thurgood Marshall sworn in |
History October 02, 1967 Thurgood Marshall is sworn as 1st black Supreme Court Justice |
History October 02, 1968 Bob Gibson sets a world series record of 17 strikeouts |
History October 02, 1968 Gibson strikes out 17 in World Series |
History October 02, 1970 Billy Martin named manager of the Tigers |
History October 02, 1971 Rod Stewart earns his first #1 hit with Maggie May |
History October 02, 1971 homing pigeon averages 133 kph (record) in 1100-km Australian race |
History October 02, 1978 Yanks win 3rd straight AL East beating Red Sox 5-4 in a playoff game. Guidry wins #25 aided by Dent's homer & Pinella's fielding |
History October 02, 1984 3 cosmonauts return after a record 237 days in orbit |
History October 02, 1985 Rock Hudson dies of AIDS |
History October 02, 2006 Gunman kills five students at Amish school |