October 2

Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.

Psalm 25:5

October is:

Campaign for Healthier Babies Month Cooking, Crafts, and Home Books Month Clergy Appreciation Month Computer Learning Month Family History Month Lupus Awareness Month National AIDS Awareness Month National Breast Cancer Awareness Month National Car Care Month National Caramel Month National Communicate With Your Kid Month National Cookie Month National Crime Prevention Month

Celebrate Today

Eyebrow Day - Celebrate the birthday of Groucho Marx. Perhaps you can trim your eyebrows. Sponsor: The Life of the Party.

Feast of the Guardian Angels - Guardian angels watch over the children and those who are children of God.

Mahatma Gandhi's Birthday - This Indian National Holiday celebrates the birthday of the man who liberated India. He was born in 1869.

Name Your Car Day - Have you picked out a name for your car? Sponsor: KSDK-TV, Saint Louis, MO.

Snoopy's and Charlie Brown's Birthday - The "Peanuts" comic strip first appeared on this day in 1950.

World Farm Animals Day - Fight against abuse and ill treatment of animals raised for food. Sponsor: Farm Animal Reform Movement.

Born on this Day

• 1452: England's King Richard III. The 12th of 13 children, he married the wealthy widow of the Prince of Wales and then imprisoned his mother-in-law for life.
  

• 1800: Nat Turner, a black slave and leader of the only effective and sustained U.S. slave revolt. See Today's History Focus
  

• 1847: German statesman Paul von Hindenburg
  

• 1851: French World War I military commander Ferdinand Foch
  

• 1847: 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
  

• 1869: Political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi in Porbandar, India.
  

• 1871: Cordell Hull, Secretary of State for President Franklin Roosevelt who promoted cooperation with the Soviet Union against Adolf Hitler.
  

• 1879: American poet Wallace Stevens
  

• 1890: Comedian Groucho Marx in New York. He and his brothers Chico, Harpo, and Zeppo, entertained millions through broadway shows and films. He later went on to host the television quiz show "You Bet Your Life"
  

• 1895: Ruth Cheney Streeter, the first director of the U.S. Marine Corps Women's Reserve, in Brookline, Massachusetts.
  

• 1898: Actor-comedian Bud Abbott. He and Lou Costello made many comedy movies before splitting up in 1957. One of their funniest routines was "Who's on First," from their first film "One Night in the Tropics."
  

• 19??: Greg Sparks (Greg & Rebecca Sparks)
  

• 19??: Claude V. McKnight (Take 6)
  

• 1904: Novelist Graham Greene
  

• 1927: Country singer-musician Leon Rausch (Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys)
  

• 1928: Actor George "Spanky" McFarland
  

• 1929: Actor Moses Gunn ("Shaft" and "The Great White Hope")
  

• 1932: Former Dodgers shortstop Maury Wills
  

• 1938: Movie critic Rex Reed
  

• 1945: Singer-songwriter Don McLean
  

• 1946: Cajun/country singer Jo-el Sonnier
  

• 1948: Actor Avery Brooks
  

• 1948: Country singer Chris LeDoux
  

• 1948: Designer Donna Karan
  

• 1950: Rock musician Mike Rutherford (Genesis, Mike & the Mechanics)
  

• 1951: Singer-actor Sting (Gordon Summer)
  

• 1955: Rock singer Phil Oakley (The Human League)
  

• 1958: Rhythm-and-blues singer Freddie Jackson
  

• 1967:Rock musician Bud Graugh (Sublime)
  

• 1970: Rhythm-and-blues singer Dion Allen (Az Yet)
  

• 1971: Singer Tiffany
  

• 1973: Rhythm-and-blues singer LaTocha Scott (Xscape) 

Events in History on this day
  

• 0534: Death of Athalaric, King of the Ostrogothics
  

• 1187: Fall of Jerusalem to al-Malik en-Nasir Salah-ud-Din Yusuf. The Christian crusaders had occupied Jerusalem for 88-years.
  

• 1263: At Largs, King Alexander III of Scotland repels an amphibious invasion by King Haakon IV of Norway.
  

• 1326: Edward II, King of England, flees London, his wife and Barons.
  

• 1491: Ferdinand and Isabella, King and Queen of Castile-Aragon, lay siege to the Moors of Granada, and found Santa Fe, Spain
  

• 1501: Catherine of Aragon arrives in Wales to marry Arthur, Prince of Wales
  

• 1535: Having landed in Quebec a month ago, Jacques Cartier reaches a town which he names Montreal.
  

• 1608: Hans Lippershey petitions the States General of the Netherlands for a patent on his invention of the Telescope
  

• 1649: The Parliament of England names this a Thanksgiving Day, in celebration of the Massacre of Drogheda, Ireland
  

• 1780: British spy Major John Andre was convicted in connection with Benedict Arnold's treason and was hanged in Tappan, N.Y.
  

• 1835: The first battle of the Texas Revolution took place as American settlers defeated a Mexican cavalry near the Guadalupe River.
  

• 1836: Charles Darwin returned from his voyage on the HMS Beagle to the Pacific. It would be 23 years before he publishedOrigin of Species.
  

• 1849: 24-year-old Johann Strauss the Younger took over his father's orchestra, just one week after his death. The musicians weren't too happy about it, but Junior told them he needed to keep the band going to support his siblings.
  

• 1862: An Army under Union General Joseph Hooker arrives in Bridgeport, Alabama to support the Union forces at Chattanooga.
  

• 1866: The tin can opened with a key was patented by J. Ostyerhondt of New York City.
  

• 1870: The papal states vote in favor of union with Italy. The Capital is moved from Florence to Rome.
  

• 1871: Morman leader Brigham Young, 70, is arrested for polygamy. He was later convicted, but the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the conviction.
  

• 1889: The first international Conference of American States was convened in Washington, D.C., with representatives from most Latin America countries present.
  

• 1909: Orville Wright sets an altitude record, flying at 1,600 feet. This exceeded Hubert Latham's previous record of 508 feet.
  

• 1913: Not one, but two compositions by Delius were premiered in Leipzig "Summit Night on the River" and "On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring."
  

• 1913: Two other British composers put new works before their public at a festival in Leeds. George Butterworth's "A Shropshire Lad" was performed, and Elgar conducted his own symphonic poem "Falstaff."
  

• 1919: President Wilson suffered a stroke that left him partially paralyzed.
  

• 1937: Warner Bros. released "Love Is on the Air" which featured the motion picture debut of then 26-year-old actor Ronald Reagan.
  

• 1940: The HMS Empress, carrying child refugees from Britain to Canada, was sunk during World War II.
  

• 1941: German armies began Operation Typhoon - an all-out drive against Moscow.
  

• 1944: Nazi troops crushed the two-month-old Warsaw Uprising, during which a quarter of a million people were killed.
  

• 1946: Scientists announce findings that smoking can cause cancer.
  

• 1950: The "Peanuts" comic strip by Charles M. Schulz was published for the first time.
  

• 1955: Alfred Hitchcock's TV show began with its portly profile of the famous director and the theme music of Gopunod's "Funeral March for a Marionette." The show ran for 10 years.
  Actor Rock Hudson died on this day in 1985.
  

• 1958: The former French colony of Guinea in West Africa proclaimed its independence.
  

• 1959: "The Twilight Zone" made its debut on CBS television. The program ran for 5 seasons for 154 installments, with a one-year hiatus between the third and fourth seasons.
  

• 1964: Scientists announce findings that smoking can cause cancer.
  

• 1967: Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court justice, is sworn in. 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.
  

• 1968: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas withdrew his nomination as chief justice. Six months later, he resigned from the court, admitting he had made a financial deal with the Louis Wolfson Foundation.
  

• 1974: China, in a statement at the United Nations, declared they favored Arabs using oil as a weapon.
  

• 1975: President Ford welcomed Japan's Emperor Hirohito to the United States.
  

• 1985: Actor Rock Hudson died at his home in Beverly Hills, California, at age 59 after a battle with AIDS.
  

• 1985: The Senate joined the House in voting to override President Reagan's veto of stiff economic sanctions against South Africa.
  

• 1986: The Senate joined the House in voting to override President Reagan's veto of stiff economic sanctions against South Africa.
  

• 1987: 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.
  

• 1988: 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.
  

• 1988: Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered free elections.
  

• 1989: 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.
  

• 1990: The Senate voted 90-to-nine to confirm the nomination of Judge David H. Souter to the Supreme Court.
  

• 1990: 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.
  

• 1991: Ousted Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide asked the Organization of American States in Washington to send a delegation to his homeland to demand that the newly installed military junta surrender power immediately.
  

• 1992: The campaigns of President Bush and Democrat Bill Clinton agreed to hold three presidential debates and one vice-presidential debate.
  

• 1993: 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.
  

• 1994: 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.
  

• 1995: 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 next day.)
  

• 1996: Mark Fuhrman was given three years' probation and fined $200 after pleading no contest to perjury for denying at OJ Simpson's criminal trial that he had used a certain racial slur in the past decade.
  

• 1996:An AeroPeru Boeing 757 crashed into the Pacific Ocean, killing all 61 passengers and nine crew members on board.
  

• 1997: 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.    
  

• 1998: Hollywood's original singing cowboy and former owner of the Anaheim Angels, Gene Autry, died at age 91.
  

• 1998: The House released 4,600 pages of evidence that meticulously detailed President Clinton's efforts to contain the Monica Lewinsky scandal as it erupted.
  

• 1999: The Brooklyn Museum of Art opened its much-hyped "Sensation" exhibit which had drawn controversy because of New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's move to cut off city funding to the museum. (Giuliani objected to some of the artwork, which included a portrait of the Virgin Mary decorated with elephant dung.)
  

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