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What happened in history on this day: October 2?
On October 2 in ...
- 1780 - John Andre, British major, hanged by Americans at age 30 (spied with Benedict Arnold).
- 1919 - US President Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke.
- 1935 - New York Hayden Planetarium, the fourth in the US, opens.
- 1936 - First alcohol power plant established, Atchison, Kansas.
- 1942 - First self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction demonstrated, Chicago, Illinois.
- 1950 - The comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz first appears, in nine American newspapers.
- 1956 - First atomic power clock exhibited-New York City.
- 1967 - Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as justice of the United States Supreme Court.
- 1970 - Plane carrying Wichita State University football team crashes killing 30.
- 1980 - Michael Myers (Democrat-Pennsylvania), is first representative expelled in over 100 years (ABSCAM).
- 1984 - Richard Miller becomes first (former) FBI agent charged with espionage.
- 1990 - US Senate votes 90-9 to confirm David Souter to the Supreme Court.
- 1991 - Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton announces he will seek the 1992 Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
- 1996 - The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
- 2002 - The Congress of the United States passes a joint resolution, which explicitly authorizes the President to use the United States Armed Forces as he deems necessary and appropriate, against Iraq.
- 2002 - The Beltway sniper attacks begin with five shootings in Montgomery County, Maryland.
- 2004 - American Samoa joins the North American Numbering Plan.
- 2005 - A shipwreck in Lake George, New York kills 20 people.
- 2006 - Charles Carl Roberts IV, a 32-year-old milk-truck driver, kills five female students at an Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania before shooting himself.
- 2008 - The U.S. Senate votes 74-to-25 to endorse a revised US$700 billion bank bailout plan. It involves the Treasury buying bad loans from institutions. The plan, rejected by the House earlier, was revised to include a tax cut and extended federal protection for bank deposits.
- 2020 - US President Donald Trump announces he has tested positive for Covid-19.
Births on October 2
- 1800 - Birth of Nat Turner in Virginia, USA; leader of major slave rebellion.
- 1879 - Birth of Wallace Stevens in Reading, Pennsylvania, USA; poet (Ideas of Order).
- 1890 - Birth of Julius Marx AKA Groucho Marx in New York City, New York, USA; comedian (Marx Bros, You Bet Your Life) (dies 1977).
- 1895 - Birth of Bud Abbott in Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA; comedian (Abbott and Costello) (dies 1974).
- 1909 - Birth of Alex Raymond in New Rochelle, New York, USA; comic strip artist (Tillie the Toiler, Tim Tyler's Luck, Blondie, Secret Agent X-9, Flash Gordon, Jungle Jim, Rip Kirby).
- 1914 - Birth of Charles Ruppert AKA Charles Drake in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Air Force, Glenn Miller Story).
- 1928 - Birth of Clay Felker in Saint Louis, Illinois, USA; journalist (New York Herald Tribune, Esquire).
- 1929 - Birth of Moses Gunn in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA; actor (Amityville II, Good Times, Shaft).
- 1938 - Birth of Rex Reed in Fort Worth, Texas, USA; movie critic/actor (Myra Breckinridge).
- 1946 - Birth of Roger Jett in Maryland, USA; actor (Smithereens).
- 1948 - Birth of Donna Karan in Forest Hills, New York, USA; fashion designer (Coty Award-1977).
- 1951 - Birth of Romina Power in Los Angeles, California, USA; actress (Justine).
- 1965 - Birth of Jill Powell in Jacksonville, Florida, USA; actress (Marcy - As the World Turns).
- 1971 - Birth of Tiffany AKA Renee Darwich in Norwalk, California, USA; singer ("I Think We're Alone Now").
Deaths on October 2
- 1780 - John Andre, British major, hanged by Americans at age 30 (spied with Benedict Arnold).
- 1985 - Death of Rock Hudson AKA Roy Harold Scherer Junior at age 59 of complications from AIDS; actor (McMillan and Wife TV show).
- 1985 - Sidney Clute, actor (Lou Grant, Cagney and Lacey), dies at age 69.
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