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1263 Oct 2, At Largs, King Alexander III of Scotland repelled
an amphibious invasion by King Haakon IV of Norway.
(HN, 10/2/98)
1535 Oct 2, Jacques Cartier first saw the site of what is
now Montreal and proclaimed "What a royal mountain," hence the name
of the city. [see 1536] Having landed in Quebec a month ago, Jacques
Cartier reached a town, which he names Montreal.
(SFEC, 3/2/97, p.T7)(HN, 10/2/98)
1780 Oct 2, British spy John Andre was hanged in Tappan,
N.Y.
(AP, 10/2/97)
1835 Oct 2, The first battle of the Texas Revolution took
place as American settlers defeated a Mexican cavalry near the Guadalupe
River.
(AP, 10/2/97)
1847 Oct 2, Paul von Hindenburg, German Field Marshall during
World War I whose brilliant victories on the Eastern Front promoted
him to become the second president of the Weimar Republic, was born.
(HN, 10/2/98)
1862 Oct 2, An Army under Union General Joseph Hooker arrived
in Bridgeport, Alabama to support the Union forces at Chattanooga.
(HN, 10/2/98)
1869 Oct. 2, Mohandas Karamchad Gandhi (d.1948), called Mahatma,
Hindu nationalist, political and spiritual leader was born in Porbandar,
India. His nonviolent actions helped to eradicate British rule in
India. He was assassinated in 1948. "Love is the strongest force
the world possesses, and yet it is the humblest imaginable." [first
sources say Oct 3]
(AHD, 1971, p.542)(HFA, '96, p.40)(SFC, 1/31/97, p.A13) (AP,
10/2/97) (AP, 1/12/98)(HN, 10/2/98)
1870 Oct 2, The papal states voted in favor of union with
Italy. The capital was moved from Florence to Rome.
(HN, 10/2/98)
1871 Oct 2, Cordell Hull, Secretary of State for President
Franklin Roosevelt who promoted cooperation with the Soviet Union
against Adolf Hitler, was born.
(HN, 10/2/98)
1871 Oct 2, Mormon leader Brigham Young, 70, was arrested
for polygamy. He was later convicted, but the U.S. Supreme Court
overturned the conviction.
(HN, 10/2/98)
1879 Oct 2, Wallace Stevens, poet, was born.
(HN, 10/2/00)
1879 Oct 2, A dual alliance was formed between Austria and
Germany, in which the two countries agreed to come to the other's
aid in the event of aggression.
(HN, 10/2/98)
1890 Oct 2, Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx was a performer for
more than 70 years. Although there is some discrepancy about the
exact date, Groucho was most likely born on October 2, 1890, in
New York. He later went on to host the television quiz show "You
Bet Your Life." He began singing as a boy and then performed wisecracking
comedy on stage and screen with his brothers (Chico, Harpo, Zeppo
and Gummo). Groucho also had radio shows, wrote books and screenplays,
and became the most famous Marx Brother for his mustached, cigar-smoking
persona and lines like, "I sent the club a wire stating, 'please
accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club that will
accept me as a member.'" "There's one way to find out if a man is
honest--ask him. If he says 'yes,' you know he is crooked." Groucho
Marx died in 1977.
(HNPD, 10/2/98)(AP, 10/2/97)
1900 Oct 2, William A. 'Bud' Abbot, comedian, was born. He
was the straight man to Lou Costello.
(HN, 10/2/00)
1901 Oct 2, Roy Campbell, poet, was born. His work included
"The Flaming Terrapin."
(HN, 10/2/00)
1904 Oct 2, Graham Greene, novelist, was born. His work included
"The Power and The Glory" and "The Heart of the Matter."
(HN, 10/2/00)
1909 Oct 2, Orville Wright set an altitude record, flying
at 1,600 feet. This exceeded Hubert Latham's previous record of
508 feet.
(HN, 10/2/98)
1919 Oct 2, President Wilson suffered a stroke that left
him partially paralyzed and Vice-President Thomas R. Marshall was
urged to assume the presidency but he refused. It was Marshall who
had earlier said: "What this country needs is a really good five-cent
cigar." The quote was attributed to Marshall in 1920 by the SFEM..
(DFP, 7/28/96, p.J1)(SFEM, 12/15/96, p.15)(AP, 10/2/97)
1931 Oct 2, Aerial circus star Clyde Pangborn and playboy
Hugh Herndon, Jr. set off to complete the first nonstop flight across
the Pacific Ocean from Misawa City, Japan.
(HN, 10/2/99)
1939 Oct 2, The Benny Goodman Sextet recorded "Flying Home."
(AP, 10/2/99)
1941 Oct 2, German armies began Operation Typhoon -- an all-out
drive against Moscow.
(AP, 10/2/97)
1944 Oct 2, Nazi troops crushed the 2-month-old Warsaw Uprising,
during which a quarter-million people were killed.
(AP, 10/2/97)
1950 Oct 2, The comic strip "Peanuts," created by Charles
M. Schulz (28), was first published in nine newspapers. Schulz announced
his retirement in 1999 with the last Peanuts to appear Feb 13, 2000.
(AP, 10/2/97)(SFC, 11/29/97, p.C1)(SFC, 12/15/99, p.E1)
1958 Oct 2, The former French colony of Guinea in West Africa
proclaimed its independence from France under the leadership of
Sekou Toure.
(WP, 6/29/96, p.A15)(AP, 10/2/97)
1959 Oct 2, Rod Serling's "The Twilight Zone" made its debut
on CBS-TV.
(AP, 10/2/99)
1964 Oct 2, Scientists announced findings that smoking can
cause cancer.
(HN, 10/2/98)
1967 Oct 2, Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American
Supreme Court justice, was sworn in as an associate justice of he
U.S. Supreme Court. Marshall had previously been the solicitor general,
the head of the legal staff of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and a leading American civil
rights lawyer.
(TMC, 1994, p.1967)(AP, 10/2/97)(HN, 10/2/98)
1975 Oct 2, President Ford welcomed Japan's Emperor Hirohito
to the United States.
(AP, 10/2/00)
1985 Oct 2, Actor Rock Hudson died at his home in Beverly
Hills, Calif., at age 59 after a battle with AIDS.
(AP, 10/2/97)
1987 Oct 2, On Capitol Hill, more Democratic senators lined
up against Supreme Court nominee Robert H. Bork as President Reagan
continued to lobby undecided lawmakers on behalf of his candidate
for the high court.
(AP, 10/2/97)
1988 Oct 2, The Summer Olympic Games concluded in Seoul,
South Korea, with the Soviet Union coming in first in the medals
count, East Germany second, and the United States, third.
(HN, 10/2/98)
1989 Oct 2, Nearly 10,000 people marched through Leipzig,
East Germany, demanding legalization of opposition groups and adoption
of democratic reforms in the country's largest protest since 1953.
(AP, 10/2/99)
1990 Oct 2, President Bush, trying to muster acceptance for
a $500 billion package of tax increases and spending cuts, asked
Americans in a televised address to support the plan.
(AP, 10/2/00)
1990 Oct 2, The Senate voted 90-to-9 to confirm the nomination
of Judge David H. Souter to the Supreme Court.
(AP, 10/2/97)
1992 Oct 2, The campaigns of President Bush and Democrat
Bill Clinton agreed to hold three presidential debates and one vice-presidential
debate.
(AP, 10/2/97)
1993 Oct 2, Hundreds of opponents of Russian President Boris
Yeltsin battled police in Moscow and set up burning barricades in
the biggest clash of Russia's 12-day-old political crisis.
(HN, 10/2/98)
1993 Oct 2, In Son La, Vietnam, 53 members of the Thai minority
died in a mass suicide organized by Ca Van Lieng, leader of a doomsday
cult.
(SFC, 3/27/97, p.A19)
1994 Oct 2, U.S. soldiers in Haiti detained several leaders
of the country's pro-army militias as part of an effort to dismantle
armed opposition to restoration of elected rule.
(AP, 10/2/99)
1995 Oct 2, O.J. Simpson's jurors stunned the courtroom and
the nation by reaching verdicts in the sensational eight-month murder
trial in less than four hours. The decision was kept secret until
the following day, when it was announced that Simpson had been acquitted.
Simpson was acquitted in the double-murder of his wife Nicole Brown
Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.
(WSJ, 10/4/95, p.A-1)(SFEC, 9/8/96, BR p.1)(AP, 10/2/00)
1996 Oct 2, 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 had used a certain racial
slur in the past decade.
(AP, 10/2/97)
1996 Oct 2, The US Army prepared to shift 5,000 troops to
Bosnia from Germany for 6-months to protect troops slated to leave.
(SFC, 10/2/96, p.A8)
1996 Oct 2, The EU said that it will challenge the US Helms-Burton
law in a new court of world trade.
(SFC, 10/2/96, p.A8)
1996 Oct 2, The US meeting between Benjamin Netanyahu, Yasser
Arafat and King Hussein ended with no specific issues resolved in
the recent Middle East flare-up between Palestinians and Jews.
(SFC, 10/3/96, p.A8)
1996 Oct 2, In Bulgaria former Prime Minister Andrei Lukanov
was assassinated. It was said that he had new proofs of corruption
in the highest power circles.
(SFC, 10/5/96, p.A10)
1996 Oct 2, Mexican and US authorities captured 5 alleged
hit men of the Arellan Felix brothers drug cartel in a series of
raids in Mexico and California.
(SFC, 10/3/96, p.A8)
1996 Oct 2, The AeroPeru flight 603, a Boeing 757, crashed
shortly after takeoff into the Pacific and all 61 passengers and
nine crew members were killed. The pilot claimed loss of navigational
equipment just before the crash.
(SFC, 10/3/96, p.A8)(AP, 10/2/97)
1997 Oct 2, President Clinton proposed sending inspectors
to farms around the world to ensure that foreign-grown fruits and
vegetables are safe for American consumers. The president also said
he would ask Congress to empower the Food and Drug Administration
to ban produce from countries whose safety precautions do not meet
American standards.
(HN, 10/2/98)
1997 Oct 2, A Navy F-14 Tomcat fighter jet crashed off the
coast of N. Carolina. One crew member was rescued but the pilot
was still missing.
(SFC, 10/3/97, p.A12)
1997 Oct 2, In California some 200 police, FBI, IRS and DEA
agents swept over 18 homes and business in Oakland, Hayward and
San Leandro and seized 73 kilograms of cocaine valued at $70 million.
Some 22 people were arrested in the drug and smuggling ring culminating
a 3-month investigation.
(SFC, 10/3/97, p.A19)
1997 Oct 2, In Algeria attackers killed 20 members of a wedding
party in Blida.
(SFEC, 10/5/97, p.A22)
1997 Oct 2, In Azerbaijan a helicopter with 20 passengers
crashed near an offshore oil platform and no survivors were found.
(SFC, 10/4/97, p.A10)
1997 Oct 2, In Brazil thousands turned out to greet Pope John
Paul II for the start of his 4-day visit.
(SFC, 10/3/97, p.B2)
1998 Oct 2, The House released 4,600 pages of evidence that
detailed President Clinton's efforts to contain the Monica Lewinsky
scandal as it erupted.
(AP, 10/2/99)
1998 Oct 2, Gene Autry (b.1907), America's first singing cowboy
and former owner of the Anaheim Angels, died at age 91 in Studio
City, CA. He made 96 films and cut 635 records including "Back in
the Saddle Again." His comic sidekick was Smiley Burnette and his
horse was named Champion.
(SFC, 10/3/98, p.A1)(SFC, 10/5/98, p.A18)(SFEC, 12/20/98,
Z1 p.5)
1998 Oct 2, In Europe the new "Swatchmobile," a 2-seater plastic
car by Daimler-Benz, made its debut. The Smart car was to sell for
$8,500 and was rated at 59 miles per gallon.
(WSJ, 10/2/98, p.B1)
1998 Oct 2, In Japan the parliament passed bills to provide
$74 billion in taxpayer money to help banks recover from bad loans.
(SFC, 10/3/98, p.A10)
1998 Oct 2, In Mongolia Sanjaasurangiin Zorig (36), who helped
oust the Communist regime in 1990, was assassinated. He was stabbed
and hacked with a knife and an ax. It was seen as a move to silence
pro-democracy officials.
(WSJ, 10/5/98, p.A1)(SFC, 10/6/98, p.A14)(WSJ, 10/22/98, p.A17)
1999 Oct 2, The controversial art show "Sensation: Young
British Artists from the Saatchi Collection" opened at the Brooklyn
Museum of Art. Mayor Giuliani withheld the museum's monthly city
subsidy and started eviction proceedings. The show included Chris
Ofili's "The Holy Virgin Mary" fashioned with some elephant dung.
(SFEC, 10/3/99, p.A3)
1999 Oct 2, The US and Russia opened a new video-conferencing
center in Moscow to allow real-time links with the White House.
(SFEC, 10/3/99, p.A17)
1999 Oct 2, Bo Mya, leader of the Karen National Union, said
he would grant sanctuary to the Burmese students who were flown
to the Thai-Burma following a 26 hour takeover of the Burmese Embassy
in Thailand.
(SFEC, 10/3/99, p.A25)
1999 Oct 2, In India 6 people, including 4 police personnel,
were killed as national elections began in Tripura state.
(SFEC, 10/3/99, p.A23)
1999 Oct 2, From Kenya it was reported that the flamingos
of Lake Nakuru had migrated away to other locations. Environmental
stress from industrial refuse and other wastes was blamed. Fluctuating
salinity was also suspect in that flamingoes feed on the algae spirulina
platensis, which blooms in saline waters. It was later reported
that tens of thousands of flamingos on Lake Bogoria had died since
July due to heavy metals.
(SFC, 10/2/99, p.A9)(SFC, 3/4/00, p.A8)
1999 Oct 2, Russian troops engaged Chechen guerrilla defenders
as armored columns rolled into the villages of Alpatova and Chernokosova.
(SFEC, 10/3/99, p.A22)
1999 Oct 2, In the Ukraine Natalia Vitrenko of the leftist
Progressive Socialist Party was wounded in a grenade attack at a
campaign meeting in Inguletsk.
(WSJ, 10/4/99, p.A)
2000 Oct 2, Britain's 1st bill of rights went into effect.
(SFC, 10/2/00, p.A13)
2000 Oct 2, Israeli troops fired on protesting Arabs. 19 people
were killed in the West Bank and Gaza and another 7 in Arab towns
of northern Galilee. The 5 day toll passed 51 with over 1,300 wounded.
(SFC, 10/3/00, p.A1)(WSJ, 10/3/00, p.A1)
2000 Oct 2, In the Philippines soldiers freed 12 Christian
evangelists from Abu Sayyaf rebels after one escaped and alerted
the military. The guerrillas escaped with 5 remaining hostages.
(SFC, 10/3/00, p.A8)
2000 Oct 2, In Serbia the opposition staged a general strike
as Pres. Milosevic went on national TV and called on his countrymen
to re-elect him.
(SFC, 10/3/00, p.A8)
2000 Oct 2, In Sri Lanka a suspected suicide bomber killed
at least 19 people at a political rally.
(WSJ, 10/3/00, p.A1)
2000 October 2 Birthdays: Country singer-musician Leon Rausch
(Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys) is 73. Former Dodgers shortstop
Maury Wills is 68. Movie critic Rex Reed is 62. Singer-songwriter
Don McLean is 55. Cajun/country singer Jo-el Sonnier is 54. Country
singer Chris LeDoux is 52. Photographer Annie Leibovitz is 51. Rock
musician Mike Rutherford (Genesis, Mike & the Mechanics) is
50. Singer-actor Sting is 49. Rock singer Phil Oakey (The
Human League) is 45. Rhythm-and-blues singer Freddie Jackson is
42. Rock musician Bud Gaugh (Sublime) is 33. Rhythm-and-blues singer
Dion Allen (Az Yet) is 30. Singer Tiffany is 29. Rhythm-and-blues
singer LaTocha Scott (Xscape) is 27.
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