October 2
Today is observed as an
International Day Of Non-Violence, observed on the birth date of one
Mohandas K. Gandhi.
Rosh Hashanah begins today at sunset. So...Shanah Tovah Umetukah!
1187 – Siege of Jerusalem:
Saladin captures Jerusalem after 88 years of
Crusader rule.
1535 –
Jacques Cartier "discovers" [there was already a fortified village of ~3000 Iroquois living there] the area where
Montreal is now located.
1789 – George Washington sends proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States
Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification.
1835 – The
Texas Revolution begins with the
Battle of Gonzales: Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
1889 – In Colorado,
Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the
American Old West.
1919 – U.S. President
Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.
1925 –
John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system.
1928 -
Opus Dei is founded by
Josemaría Escrivá.
1937 – Dominican Republic strongman
Rafael Trujillo orders the
execution of the Haitian population living within the borderlands; approximately 20,000 people are killed over the next five days.
1942 – World War II: Ocean Liner
RMS Queen Mary accidentally rams and sinks her own escort ship,
HMS Curacoa, off the coast of Ireland, killing 239 crewmen aboard the Curacoa.
1950 –
Peanuts by
Charles M. Schulz is first published.
1959 – The anthology series
The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS television.
1967 –
Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1970 – A
plane carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado killing 31 people.
1980 –
Michael Myers, then Democratic Representative of Pennsylvania, becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War.
1992 – The
Carandiru massacre takes place after a riot in the
Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil. 111 prisoners are killed.
2002 – The
Beltway sniper attacks begin, extending over three weeks.
2006 –
Five Amish girls are murdered by Charles Carl Roberts in a shooting at an Amish school in
Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania before Roberts commits suicide.
Births
1452 – Richard III of England; 1800 – Nat Turner; 1847 – Paul von Hindenburg; 1869 – Mahatma Gandhi
; 1871 – Cordell Hull; 1879 – Wallace Stevens; 1890 – Groucho Marx; 1897 – Bud Abbott (Abbott & Costello); 1904 – Graham Greene (no, not the one in
Dances With Wolves, there was another one); 1911 – Jack Finney (wrote
The Body Snatchers); 1915 – Chuck Williams (Williams-Sonoma); 1917 – Charles Drake; 1921 – Albert Scott Crossfield (X-plane pilot); 1929 –
Moses Gunn; 1942 – Steve Sabol (co-founded NFL Films); 1945 – Don McLean♪ ♫(sang American Pie); 1946 – Jo-El Sonnier♪ ♫; 1948 – Avery Brooks ('Hawk' on
Spenser: For Hire, 'Capt. Sisko' on
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine); 1948 – Donna Karan (founded DKNY); 1948 – Chris LeDoux♪ ♫; 1949 – Richard Hell
; 1949 – Annie Leibovitz; 1950 – Ian McNeice; 1950 – Mike Rutherford
(Genesis, Mike & The Mechanics); 1951 – Sting
(The Police); 1954 – Lorraine Bracco (Tony's shrink on
The Sopranos); 1955 – Philip Oakey
(The Human League); 1956 – Freddie Jackson
; 1967 – Gillian Welch♪ ♫; 1970 – Kelly Ripa; 1971 – Jim Root
(Slipknot); 1971 - Tiffany♪ ♫; 1974 – Paul Teutul Jr. (co-founded Orange County Choppers); 1987 – Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
; 1988 - Brittany Howard♪ ♫
(Alabama Shakes)
Deaths
1764 – William Cavendish; 1803 – Samuel Adams; 1968 – Marcel Duchamp
; 1985 – Rock Hudson
; 1994 – Harriet Nelson (
The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet); 1998 – Gene Autry♪ ♫; 2005 – Nipsey Russell; 2006 – Tamara Dobson (
Cleopatra Jones); 2007 – George Grizzard