Religious History

1535 London printer Miles Coverdale,
47, published his English version of the Bible. A good translator who later served on two other translation committees, Coverdale was also popular as a Lutheran preacher.
1858 Birth of Dorothy Frances Gurney, English devotional writer. During her lifetime she published two volumes of verse, as well as a small devotional work entitled, 'A Little Book of Quiet.'
1867 In Southwest Africa, the Rhenish Missionary Church constituted itself as the Evangelical Lutheran Church.
1890 Death of Catherine Booth, 61, wife of Salvation Army founder William Booth. Her last words were: 'The waters are rising, but so am I. I am not going under but over. Do not be concerned about dying; go on living well, the dying will be right.'
1965 Paul VI arrived in New York City, making him the first pope in history to visit the United States. While speaking at the UN, Paul published a document exonerating the Jews of all blame in the death of Christ.

Holidays

Bangladesh : Shab I Barat
Lesotho : Independence Day (1966)
Massachusetts : Grandparents Day - - - - - ( Sunday )
Missouri : Missouri Day - - - - - ( Monday )
World : Child Health Day, Universal Children's Day (1928) - - - - - ( Monday )

On this day...

1582 Last day of the Julian calendar in Italy, many Catholic countries
1636 1st code of law for Plymouth Colony
1648 Peter Stuyvesant establishes Americas 1st volunteer firemen
1777 Battle of Germantown 1824 Mexico becomes a republic
1830 Provisional government declares secession of Belgium from Netherlands
1862 Battle of Corinth ends
1864 National black convention meets (Syracuse NY)
1864 New Orleans Tribune, first black daily newspaper, forms
1883 Orient Express' 1st run, linking Turkey to Europe by rail
1900 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Problem of Thor Bridge" (BG)
1901 Columbia (US) beats Shamrock II (England) in 12th America's Cup
1906 Chicago Cubs win their 116th game (116-36) of the year
1910 Portugal becomes a republic, King Manuel II flees to England
1912 Nicaraguan Gen Zeledon, opponent of US occupation, is executed
1913 Freddy Wilson of Regina Roughriders kicks 10 singles in a game
1916 Market Street's "Path of Gold" lit for 1st time
1923 Young Stribling held light-heavyweight boxing championship for the shortest amount of time (3 hrs). Referee overturns the decision
1924 NY Giants become 1st team to appear in 4 consecutive World Series (World Series #21) 1926 Dahlia is officially designated as SF city flower
1928 25th World Series begins, NY Yankees vs St Louis Cardinals
1931 The comic strip Dick Tracy by Chester Gould debuts
1940 Adolph Hitler & Benito Mussolini confer at Brenner Pass in the Alps
1940 Wrestling returns to Madison Sq Garden after 12 year lay off
1944 The St Louis World Series-Cards vs Browns - St Louis Browns win 1st World Series game in their only appearance (World Series #41)
1948 Indians beat Red Sox, 8-0, in 1st AL playoff game
1949 American Contract Bridge League votes 58«% to keep blacks out
1955 Brooklyn Dodgers only World Series victory, beating Yankees in 7 (World Series #52)
1955 Rev Sun Young Moon leaves prison in Seoul
1957 "Leave It to Beaver," debuts on CBS
1957 USSR launches Sputnik I, the 1st artificial Earth satellite
1958 5th French republic established 1958 Transatlantic coml jet passenger service began (BOAC)
1959 1st world series (World Series #56) game played west of St Louis (in LA)
1959 USSR Luna 3 sent back 1st photos of Moon's far side
1960 Courier 1B Launched; 1st active repeater satellite in orbit
1962 USAF Maj Robert A Rushworth takes X-15 to 32,300 m
1962 Whitey Ford's world series 33 2/3 scoreless inning streak ends World Series #59)
1963 Gambia achieves full internal self-government
1964 3 cars of a commuter train derail in South Africa killing 81 1964 Patriots' Gino Cappelletti kicks 6-of-6 field goals against Broncos
1964 St Louis Cards clinch NL pennant
1965 Pope Paul VI becomes 1st Pope to visit Western Hemisphere (UN)
1965 USSR launches Luna 7; crash lands on Moon
1966 Lesotho (Basutoland) gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1967 1st World Series since
1948 not to feature Yanks, Giants or Dodgers (World Series #64)
1969 UN starts issuing postage stamps at Geneva headquarters
1969 Baseball's 1st divisional playoff games, Mets beat Braves 9-5 & Orioles beat Twins 4-3 in 12 innings
1970 Jan Stenerud of Kansas City Chiefs kicks 55-yard field goal
1970 Herbert Schmidtz makes highest parachute jump from a tower by leaping from a 1,984 ft TV mast in Tulsa, Oklahoma
1971 Borden's opens a turn-of-century ice cream parlor at Disney World
1974 John Lennon releases "Walls & Bridges" album
1976 Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns due to telling a racial joke
1977 Pier 39 opens in SF
1978 Funeral services held for Pope John Paul I
1981 Pasakevi Kouna of Greece (9) is youngest intl gymnastics participant
1983 Richard Noble reaches record
1019 kph in jet-powered car
1984 US govt closes down due to budget problems
1984 Yanks clinch AL East
1985 Henry G Perry completes 157 day, 14,021 mile bicycle tour of Australia
1985 Shite Muslims claim to have killed hostage William Buckley
1987 1st "Scrub Sunday" of NFL football with replacement players
1987 Blues Jays lose final 7 games allowing Tigers to win the AL pennant
1987 James Jefferson of Winnipeg scores 2 TDs on interception returns without making an interception. (He scored on laterals) 1988 Pillsbury stock soars $18.37 to $57.37 on takeover bid 1990 Regional elections held, in what was East Germany
1991 NHL NY Rangers trade Bernie Nichols to Edmonton for Mark Messier

Deaths which occurred on October 04:

1904 Frederic Auguste Bertholdi French sculptor ("Statue of Liberty")
1962 John Lowry Mount Vernon NY, NYC builder, dies at 79
1966 Sherman Billingsley talk show host (Stork Club), dies at 66
1970 Janis Joplin rock singer, dies at 27
1972 Colin Gordon actor (John-The Baron), dies at 61
1976 Alexander Gray singer (This is Music), dies at 74
1991 Leonard C Odell wrote 7,000 Burma Shave poems, dies at 83

Birthdates which occurred on your SELECTED date of October 04:

1289 Louis X (the Stubborn) king of France (1314-16)
1626 Richard Cromwell lord protector of England (1658-59)
1822 Rutherford B Hayes (R) 19th pres (1877-81)
1850 John W McGraw (Gov-R-Wash) (1893-97)
1860 Sidney Paget illustrated Sherlock Holmes adventures
1861 Frederic Remington US, artist/sculptor of the American West
1880 Damon Runyon writer (Guys & Dolls-based on his work)
1889 John B Kelly Olympic champion rower/father of Grace Kelly
1892 Engelbert Dollfuss Austrian Fascist chancellor killed by Nazis
1894 Cliff Hall Brooklyn NY, actor (Crime Photographer)
1895 Buster Keaton actor (The Navigator, Steamboat Bill, Jr)
19-- Bill Fagerbakke actor (Dauber Dybinski-Coach)
19-- Brynn Thayer actress (One Life to Live)
19-- Christopher Stone Manchester NH, actor (Dave-Dallas, The Interns)
19-- Eric Kilpatrick St Louis Mo, actor (Curtis-White Shadow)
19-- Mary Lynn Blanks actress (As the World Turns)
19-- Meg Bennett actress (Young & Restless)
1917 Jan Murray Bronx NY, comedian (Treasure Hunt, Who Killed Teddy Bear)
1922 Malcolm Baldrige Conn, US Secretary of Commerce (1981-87)
1923 Charlton Heston actor (10 Commandments, Ben Hur, Planet of the Apes)
1929 Leroy Van Dyke Spring Fork Mo, country singer (Walk on By)
1931 Dick Tracy comic strip crimestopper
1932 Felicia Farr Westchester NY, actress (Charley Varrick, Kotch)
1934 Sam Huff NFL linebacker (NY Giants, Washington Redskins)
1935 Eddie Applegate Wyncote Pa, actor (Richard-Patty Duke Show)
1941 Jackie Collins London, author (Bitch, Stud)
1941 Lori Saunders Kansas City Mo (Petticoat Junction, Dusty Trails)
1943 Buddy Roemer (Gov-D-La)
1943 Owen Keir Davidson Australia, 4 time Wimbledon mix double champ
1944 Patti LaBelle singer (LaBelles-Lady Marmalade)
1945 Clifton Davis Chicago Ill, actor/singer (That's My Mama, Amen)
1946 Susan Sarandon [Tomaling], Jackson Hgts NY, actress (Bull Durham)
1949 Armand Assante NYC, actor (Private Benjamin, Unfaithfully Yours)
1960 Jennifer Anglin Adrian Mich, actress (Cheryl-General Hospital)
1961 David W Harper Abilene Tx, actor (Jim Bob-Waltons)
1989 Dakota Johnson son of Melanie Griffith & Don Johnson

Holidays

Bangladesh : Jamat Ul-Wida
Barbados : United Nations Day/Clerks' Holiday
Germany : Reunion Day "Tag der Deutsche Einheit" (1990)
Honduras : Moraz n Day/Soldier's Day
Iraq : Independence Day (1932)
Netherlands : Relief of Leyden Day (1573-74)
South Korea : National Foundation Day (2333 BC)
Massachusetts : Grandparents Day - - - - - ( Sunday )
Missouri : Missouri Day - - - - - ( Monday )
World : Child Health Day, Universal Children's Day (1928) - - - - - ( Monday )

On this day...

2333 -BC- Tangun establishes kingdom of Chosun (Korea) (legendary)
1264 Comet said to predict the death of Pope Urban IV is last seen
1430 Jews are expelled from Eger Bohemia
1789 Washington proclaims the 1st national Thanksgiving Day on Nov 26
1862 Battle of Corinth, Miss
1863 Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day
1904 Mary McLeod Bethune opens Daytona Normal & Industrial School
1913 Federal Income Tax signed into law (at 1%)
1918 Boris becomes king of Bulgaria
1920 NFL (then American Pro Football Association) plays 1st games
1922 1st facsimile photo send over city telephone lines, Washington, DC
1928 French sub "Ondine" sinks returning to Toulon, drowning 42
1929 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats & Slovenes changes name to Yugoslavia
1942 Launch of the 1st A-4/V-2 rocket to altitude of 53 miles (85 km)
1945 World Federation of Trade Unions formed; CIO a member
1947 1st telescope lens 200" (508 cm) in diameter completed
1947 With only 1 out to go, Yankee Floyd Beven gives up a double breaking his world series no-hit bid, it scored 2 runs & he lost the game (World Series #44)
1948 NFL becomes 1st sport televised as sport of the week
1949 WERD, 1st black-owned radio station, opens in Atlanta
1950 1st black lead (Ethel Waters) on TV (Beulah)
1951 Bobby Thomson HR-The Giants win the pennant defeating Dodgers
1952 1st video recording on magnetic tape, LA, Ca
1954 "Father Knows Best" premieres
1955 "Captain Kangaroo" premieres, Good Morning, Captain!
1955 "Mickey Mouse Club" premieres
1955 Soviet battleship "Novorossiisk" strikes WW II mine in Baltic Sea
1960 SF's White House dept store 1st to accept BankAmericard
1960 Yanks win 8-7, ending season on a 15 game win streak
1961 "Dick Van Dyke Show" premieres on CBS-TV
1961 "Mr Ed" premieres 1962 Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched into Earth orbit
1965 Whitey Ford notches #232 to become Yankees winningest pitcher
1967 William Knight sets X-15 speed rec of 7,297 KPH/4,534 MPH/Mach 6.72
1968 Military coup overthrows Pres Fernando Bela£nde Terry in Peru
1970 Baseball umpires call their 1st strike
1971 Billie Jean King became 1st female athlete to win $100,000
1972 Spaceflight 71-2 launched; 1st flexible substrate photovoltaic flown
1972 Steve Carlton wins 27th game for Phillies (almost « of their 59 wins)
1974 Bundy victim (?) Nancy Wilcox disappears in Salt Lake City, Utah
1974 Frank Robinson becomes baseball's 1st black manager (Cleve Indians)
1974 Watergate trial begins 1975 George Harrison releases "Extra Texture" album in UK
1978 Gold hits record $223.50 an ounce in London
1981 Irish Nationalist at Maze Prison near Belfast end 7-mo hunger strike
1982 Cox 4 rowing record set at 12:52 for 99 miles (Geneva, Switzerland)
1982 Record 11,763 start a 186 mile cross-country race near Stockholm
1982 Scott Weiland runs Detroit marathon backwards in less than 5 hours
1983 Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson release "Say, Say, Say" in UK
1985 21st Shuttle Mission (51J)-Atlantis 1-all-military flight launched
1986 Soviet Yankee-class sub sinks off NC, 3 die 1987 Michael Pruffer of France skis 135.26 MPH at Portillo, Chile
1988 26th Space Shuttle Mission, Discovery 7 returns to Earth after 4-days
1988 Lebanese kidnappers release Mithileshwar Singh (held for 30 months)
1988 WBMW-FM, Wash DC changes calls to WJFK & begins airing Howard Stern
1989 Panamanian Defense Force attempted coup of Manuel Noriega fails
1990 East Germany & West Germany merge to become Germany
1990 George Brett becomes 1st to lead league in batting in 3 decades
1990 Tiger Cecil Fielder becomes 11th, to hit 50 HRs (& 51st)
1990 Florida record store owner Charles Freeman is found guilty of obscenity, for selling 2 Live Crew rap records

Deaths which occurred on October 03:

1656 Myles Standish Plymouth Colony leader, dies (birth date unknown)
1959 William Bishop actor (Steve-It's a Great Life), dies at 42
1965 Zachary Scott actor (Spotlight Playhouse), dies at 51
1979 Charles White artist, dies at 61 in Los Angeles
1979 Claudia Jennings playmate (Nov, 1969)/actress, dies at 29
1983 John K.M. McCaffery TV host (One Minute Please), dies at 69
1985 Charles Collingwood newscaster (Chronicles), dies at 68
1985 Maurice Copeland actor (Ralph-Those Young Charmings), dies at 74
1988 Franz Josef Strauss German FR min of defense (1956-62), dies at 73
1988 Generoso Pope Jr National Enquirer owner, dies at 61
1990 Stefano Casiraghi Princess Caroline of Monaco husband, dies at 30

Birthdates which occurred on your SELECTED date of October 03

1605 Li Tzu-ch'eng Chinese revolutionary, dethroned last Ming emperor
1728 Christian d'Oriola France, foils (Olympic-gold-1952, 56)
1800 George Bancroft historian (Hall of Fame)
1803 John Gorrie inventor (cold-air process of refrigeration)
1804 Townsend Harris 1st Western consul to reside in Japan
1814 Mikhail (Yurevich) Lermontov Russia, romantic poet/novelist (Demon)
1844 Sir Patrick Manson "Father of tropical medicine"
1854 William Crawford Gorgas US, Surgeon-Gen, help cure yellow fever
1859 Elenora Duse Italy, actress (Hedda Gabler)
1886 Henri Alain-Fournier French novelist (Le Grand Meaulnes)
1888 Carl von Ossietzky Germany, journalist, pacifist (Nobel 1935)
1899 Gertrude Berg Harlem NYC, actress (Molly Goldberg-The Goldbergs) 19-- Frank Hannon rock guitarist (Tesla-Psychotic Supper)
1900 Jay Irving NYC, cartoonist (Draw Me a Laugh)
1900 Thomas Wolfe American novelist (Look Homeward Angel)
1904 Charles Pedersen UK, biochemist (Nobel 1987)
1911 Michael Hordern England, actor (Friar Domingo-Shogun)
1923 Stanislaw Skrowaczewski Lwow Poland, conductor (Die Zauberfl”te)
1925 Gore Vidal writer/playwright (Myra Breckinridge, Lincoln)
1928 Erik Bruhn Copenhagen Denmark, dancer (Natl Ballet of Canada)
1934 Madlyn Rhue Wash DC, actress (Bracken's World, Executive Suite)
1935 Abdon Pamich Italy, 50K walker (Olympic-gold-1964)
1935 Charles M Duke Jr Charlotte NC, Brig Gen USAF/astronaut (Apol 16)
1936 Steve Reich NYC, composer (My Name is)
1937 Eli Jacobs baseball owner (Baltimore Orioles)
1938 Eddie Cochran Okla City, rocker (C'Mon Everybody)
1939 James Darren Phila, actor/singer (Gidget, Diamond Head)
1940 Jean Ratelle NHL center (NY Rangers, Boston Bruins)
1941 Chubby Checker singer (The Twist)
1945 Viktor Saneyev USSR, triple jumper (Olympic-3 gold/1 silv-1968-80)
1946 Bob Dotson St Louis Mo, newscaster (Primetime Sunday)
1947 Lindsey Buckingham rocker (Fleetwood Mac-Rumours, Tusk)
1950 Pamela Hensley Glendale Calif, actress (Buck Rogers in 25th Century)
1951 Dave Winfield baseball outfielder (NY Yankee)
1951 Kathryn D Sullivan Paterson NJ, PhD/astro (STS 41-G, 28, 31, 45)
1956 Hart Bochner actor (Supergirl, Die Hard)
1959 Jack Wagner rocker/actor (General Hospital, Santa Barbara)
1962 Tommy Lee Greece, rock drummer (Motley Cre), wed Heather Locklear
1963 Patrick Flatley Ontario, right winger (NY Islanders, Oly-4 gold-1988)
1969 Shane Butterworth actor (Timmy-Bad News Bears)

Religious History

1782 The Baptist Missionary Society was founded in London, England. This first modern mission society was started by William Carey, then 21, who later became England's first great Protestant missionary to India.
1808 Birth of Allen W. Chatfield, an Anglican vicar in Herefordshire (a west England county bordering on Wales). His best remembered writings include the English translation of the hymn, "Lord Jesus, Think on Me."
1918 Birth of Don Hustad, organist for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. He accompanied Graham as organist for his worldwide crusades during 1961-67.
1970 A two-day convention opened at which the Baptist Convention of Pennsylvania-South Jersey was formed. It was comprised of 9,000 charter members from 52 Southern Baptist churches.
1984 Grace Ministries International was incorporated in Grand Rapids, MI. Originating as Bethesda Mission in 1951, GMI engages in church planting in nearly a dozen overseas countries.

Holidays

Guinea : Independence Day (1958)
India : Gandhi Jayanti
Massachusetts : Grandparents Day - - - - - ( Sunday )
Missouri : Missouri Day - - - - - ( Monday )
World : Child Health Day, Universal Children's Day (1928) - - - - - ( Monday )
Bhutan : Tsechhu

On this day...

1187 Sultan Saladin captures Jerusalem from the Crusaders
1535 Jacques Cartie‚r discovers Mount Royal (Monte‚al)
1608 Hans Lippershey offers Dutch gov't a new invention, the telescope
1608 Prototype of modern reflecting telescope completed by Jan Lippershey
1792 Baptist Missionary Society forms in London
1833 NY Anti-Slavery Society organized
1836 Darwin returns to England aboard HMS Beagle
1853 Austrian law forbids Jews from owning land
1870 Italy annexes Rome & Papal States; Rome made Italian capital
1879 Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Musgrave Ritual" (BG)
1889 1st Pan American conference (Washington DC)
1907 Phillies Eddie Grant goes 7 for 7 in a doubleheader
1908 Addie Joss perfect game stops Ed Walsh 1-0 who won 40 in a row
1910 1st 2 aircraft collision (Milan Italy)
1913 Phillies beat NY Giants 2 games out of 3 in a tripleheader
1916 Grover Cleveland Alexander records his 16th shutout of the year
1919 Pres Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke
1920 Cincinnati Reds beat Pittsburgh Pirates 2 games out of 3 in a tripleheader
1926 Bert Gibb of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game
1931 Pope Pius XI encyclical On the economic crisis
1932 NY Yankees sweep Cubs in 29th World Series
1932 Washington Redskins (as Boston Braves) play 1st NFL game, lose 14-0
1935 Italy invades Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1935 NY Hayden Planetarium, the 4th in the US, opens
1936 1st alcohol power plant established, Atchison, Kansas
1936 Tony Lazzeri becomes the 1st Yank to hit a world series (World Series #33) grand slam 1937 FDR visits Grand Coulee Dam construction site in Washington State
1938 Cleveland Indians' Bob Feller strikes out 18 Detroit Tigers
1938 Tigers' Chester Laabs struck out 5 times in a game
1939 Birdbaths installed in Union Square, SF
1940 British liner Empress loaded with refugees for Canada, sunk
1941 6 Parisian synagogues are bombed 1942 "Queen Mary" slices cruiser "Curacao" in half, killing 338
1942 1st self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction demonstrated, Chicago
1946 1st network soap opera-Faraway Hill-Dumont
1947 Revised International Telecommunication Convention adopted
1947 Yogi Berra becomes 1st to pinch hit a world series (World Series #44) homer
1949 St Louis Browns use 9 pitchers, lose to Whites Sox 4-3
1949 Yanks & Red Sox, tied for 1st place, play the final game of the season. Yanks win 5-3 & clinch pennant #16
1950 Bob Shaw of the Chicago Cardinals sets NFL record with 5 TD catches
1950 Chic Cards Jim Hardy passes for 6 touchdowns vs Balt Colts (55-13)
1950 The comic strip "Peanuts" 1st appears, in 9 newspapers
1953 Dodger Carl Erskine strikes out 14 Yankees in the 50th World Series
1954 Former French possession of Chandernagore made part of West Bengal
1954 NY Giants sweep Cleve Indians, in 51st World Series
1955 "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" premiers 1956 1st atomic power clock exhibited-NYC
1957 NY Yankees appear in their 26th World Series (World Series #54)
1958 Guinea gains independence from France (National Day)
1959 Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone" premieres on CBS
1961 "Ben Casey" premieres
1962 SF & LA play a 4h18m 9 inning game
1964 Phillies tie major league record with season's 3rd triple play (Reds)
1965 Mel Stottlemyre wins game #20
1965 Phillies' Chris Short strikes-out 18 NY Mets
1966 2 perfect game pitchers face each other (Bunning vs Koufax)
1967 Grateful Dead members arrested by narcotic agents
1967 Groundbreaking begins on Veteran Stadium in Philadelphia
1967 Thurgood Marshall is sworn as 1st black Supreme Court Justice
1968 Bob Gibson sets a world series record of 17 strikeouts (World Series #65)
1970 Billy Martin named manager of the Tigers
1970 Plane carrying Wichita State U football team crashes killing 30
1971 Homing pigeon averages 133 KPH (record) in 1100-km Australian race
1972 Aeroflot Il-18 crashes near Black Sea resort of Sochi, kills 105
1972 Mont Expos Bill Stoneman 2nd no-hitter beats NY Mets, 7-0
1972 Ron Johnson becomes 1st NY Giant to score 4 TDs (vs Phila)
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
1980 Larry Holmes retains WBC heavweight title defeating Muhammad Ali
1980 Michael Myers (D-Pa), is 1st rep expelled in over 100 years (ABSCAM)
1983 Carl Yastrezemski's last at bat 1984 3 cosmonauts return after a record 237 days in orbit 1984 Richard Miller, becomes 1st (former) FBI agent, charged with espionage
1986 Sikhs attempt to assassinate Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
1988 Police breakup domestic disturbance between Mike Tyson & Robin Givens
1990 US Senate votes 90-9 to confirm David Souter to the Supreme Court
1990 Radio Berlin International's final transmission (links to Deutsche Welles of West Germany); final song is "The End" by the Doors

Deaths which occurred on October 02:

322 -BC- Aristotle dies of indigestion
1264 Pope Urban IV (1261-64), dies (birth date unknown)
1678 Gen Wu San-kuei invited Manchus in China, dies trying to expell them
1780 John Andre British major, hanged by Americans (spied with B Arnold, dies at 30
1962 Frank Lovejoy actor (Man Against Crime, Meet McGraw), dies at 48
1973 Paavo "Flying Finn" Nurmi who won 6 Olympic gold medals, dies
1973 Paul Hartman actor (Bert-Petticoat Junction), dies at 68
1981 Hazel Scott singer/pianist (Hazel Scott), dies at 61
1985 George Savalas actor (Kojak), dies at 58
1985 Rock Hudson actor (MacMillian & Wife), dies at 59 of aids
1985 Sidney Clute actor (Lou Grant, Cagney & Lacey), dies at 69

Birthdates which occurred on your SELECTED date of October 02:

1800 Nat Turner Virginia, leader of major slave rebellion

1851 Ferdinand Foch believed to be responsible for Allies winning WW I

1869 Mohandas K Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi), Porbandar Kathiawad India, pacifist

1871 Cordell Hull US Sec of State (1933-44), lowered tariffs (Nobel 1945)

1879 Wallace Stevens Reading Pa, poet (Ideas of Order)

1885 Ruth Bryan Rohde US, (Rep), minister to Denmark

1890 Julius "Groucho" Marx NYC, comedian (Marx Bros, You Bet Your Life)

1891 H V Porter basketball pioneer, created fan shape backboard

1895 Bud Abbott Asbury Pk NJ, comedian (Abbott & Costello)

1899 Nat Turner famous African

19-- Avery Brooks Evansville Ind, actor (Hawk-Spenser for Hire)

19-- Betty Kennedy Roswell NM, actress (Andrea-Ladies' Man)

19-- Chip McAllister St Louis Mo, actor (Luther-Better Days)

19-- Lani O'Grady Walnut Creek Calif, actress (Mary-8 is Enough)

19-- Wesley Thompson Chicago Ill, actor (Wardell-He's the Mayor)

1904 Graham Greene England, prolific novelist (Brighton Rock)

1914 Charles Drake Bayside NYC, actor (Air Force, Glenn Miller Story)

1921 Robert Runcie archbishop of Canterbury

1928 Clay Felker St Louis, journalist (NY Herald Tribune, Esquire)

1928 Spanky McFarland actor (Little Rascals)

1929 Moses Gunn St Louis Mo, actor (Amityville II, Good Times, Shaft)

1932 Maury Wills baseball shortstop (LA Dodgers, NL MVP 1962)

1938 Rex Reed Ft Worth Tx, movie critic/actor (Myra Breckinridge)

1939 Yuri N Glazkov cosmonaut (Soyuz 24)

1945 Don McLean singer/songwriter (American Pie, Vincent)

1945 Neil Frances Tennant rocker (Pet Shop Boy-West End Girl)

1946 Roger Jett Maryland, actor (Smithereens)

1948 Donna Karan Forest Hills NY, fashion designer (Coty Award-1977)

1950 Persis Khambatta Bombay India, actress (Star Trek, Megaforce)

1951 Mike Rutherford rocker (Genesis-Against All Odds, Mike & Mechanics)

1951 Romina Power LA Calif, actress (Justine)

1951 Sting AKA Gordon Sumner, rocker (Police-Roxanne)/actor (Dune)

1952 George Meegen England, walked 19,019 miles from Argentina to Alaska

1954 Lorraine Bracco actress (Someone to Watch Over Me, Dream Team)

1957 Kimberly Herrin Santa Barbara Calif, playmate (March, 1981)

1960 Glenn Anderson Vancouver, NHL (Edmonton Oilers)

1961 Phil Oakey rocker (Human League-Human)

1961 Robbie Nevil rocker (A Place Like This)

1962 Esai Morales actor (Bad Boys, La Bamba)

1964 Sherry Arnett St Louis Mo, playmate (Jan, 1986)

1965 Jill Powell Jacksonville Fla, actress (Marcy-As The World Turns)

1970 Kelly Ripa actress (Hayley Vaughan-All My Children)

1971 "Tiffany" Renee Darwich Norwalk Cal, singer (I Think We're Alone Now)

1991 Beau Grayson son of country singer Tanya Tucker

Religious History

1883 American churchman A. B. Simpson founded the first school in America to train missionaries, in New York City. Called the Missionary Training Institute in 1894, its name was changed to Nyack College in 1972. 1889 Birth of Ralph W. Sockman, American scholar and devotional writer. His best-remembered poem begins: "I met God in the morning, when my day was at its best...." 1921 The Latin American Mission was incorporated in Philadelphia by founders Harry and Susan Strachan. Today, over 125 staff work with LAM in eight Central and South American countries. 1946 World Literature Crusade was founded in Saskatchewan, Canada, by Rev. Jack McAlister (president 1946-79). This mission is engaged primarily in Bible distribution, church planting and Bible correspondence courses. 1957 Representatives from 49 churches met in Roseville, MI, to begin organizing the Baptist State Convention of Michigan. The organization officially came into being the following month

Holidays

Burma : Bank Holiday
Cameroon : Unification Day (1961)
Cyprus & Tuvalu-1978 : National Day
Nigeria : Independence Day (1960, 1963)
Omaha, Nebraska : Ak-Sar-Ben Day (1894)
South Korea : Armed Forces Day
Spain : Day of Caudillo (1936)
US : Agricultural Fair Day (1810)
World : Vegetarian Day
Massachusetts : Grandparents Day - - - - - ( Sunday )
Missouri : Missouri Day - - - - - ( Monday )
World : Child Health Day, Universal Children's Day (1928) - - - - - ( Monday )
China PR : Liberation Day (1949)

On this day...

2016 -BC- Origin of Era of Abraham 331 -BC- Alexander the Great of Macedon defeats Persian army at Gaugamela 110 -BC- Origin of Sidonian Era 366 St Damasus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope 1661 Yachting begins in England; King Charles II beats his brother James 1791 1st session of the new French legislative assembly 1800 Spain cedes Louisiana to France in a secret treaty 1837 "Racer's" Hurricane (Gulf of Mexico) 1837 Treaty with Winnebago Indians 1847 Maria Mitchell discovers a non-naked-eye comet 1851 1st Hawaiian stamps issued 1869 1st postcards are issued (Vienna) 1879 Cincinnati Enquirer publishes 1st report on baseball reserve clause 1885 Special delivery mail service begins in US 1886 US mint at Carson City, Nevada closes 1889 Washington voters adopt state constitution in referendum 1890 Yosemite National Park established 1893 3rd worst hurricane in US history kills 1,800 (Mississippi) 1894 Civic organization, Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben founded in Omaha, Nebraska 1896 Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Veiled Lodger" takes place (BG) 1898 Henry Huntington buys the LA Railway 1898 Jews are expelled from Kiev Russia 1903 1st baseball World Series, Pitts Pirates vs Boston Pilgrims (Red Sox) 1908 Henry Ford introduces the Model T car (costs $825) 1908 Jack Chesbro's final Yankee victory, beats Walter Johnson 2-1 1910 Berkshire Cattle Fair held in Pittsfield Mass (1st state fair) 1912 Yanks lose game #100 en route to a 50-102 season 1919 World Series #16 begins as a best of 9 affair, White Sox intentionally throw this series to satisfy gamblers (The Black Sox Scandal) 1921 1st all NY series to be played entirely in 1 stadium (the Polo Grounds) & 1st NY Yankee World Series begins (World Series #18) 1922 Former Chicago Staleys play 1st NFL game as Chicago Bears, win 6-0 1928 Leon Vanderstuyft of Belgium bicycled 76 miles 504 yards in 1 hour 1932 Babe Ruth's points & hits a HR there, off of Cubs Charlie Root 1932 NHL readmits Ottawa & drops Pittsburgh 1933 Packers make 5 1st downs, the Giants make 0, but still win 10-7 1933 Wash Senator coach Nick Altrock plays in a game at age 57 1936 Gen Francisco Franco establishes the state of Spain 1937 Pullman Co formally recognizes Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters 1938 Germany annexes Sudetenland (1/3 of Czechoslovakia) 1939 Winston Chruchill refers to Soviet policy as "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma" 1940 Pennsylvania Turnpike, pioneer toll thruway, opens 1942 Bell P-59 Airacomet fighter, 1st US jet, makes maiden flight 1943 Allied forces captured Naples during WW II 1944 Newspaper editor Alejandro C¢rdova assassinated in Guatemala 1944 St Louis Browns win their only AL pennant 1945 Heavyweight champ Joe Louis is discharged from the army 1946 1st NL playoffs, Dodgers vs Cards (St Louis wins 2 games to 0) 1946 Bob Feller 348th strikeout of the season 1947 1st helicopter air mail & express service, LA, Ca 1947 NHL Pension Society founded 1947 US control of Haitian customs & governmental revenue ends 1948 Calif Supreme Court voids state statute banning interracial marriages 1948 Radio Denmark begins transmitting 1949 People's Republic of China proclaimed by Mao Tse-tung (National Day) 1949 Republic of China (Taiwan) forms on the island of Formosa 1950 Phillies win NL pennant on last day of season (10th inning HR) 1951 1st treaty signed by woman ambassador-Eugenie Anderson 1951 24th Infantry Regiment, last all-black military unit, deactivated 1952 1st ultra high frequency (UHF) television station, Portland Or 1953 Indian state of Andhra Pradesh partitioned from Madras 1954 British colony of Nigeria becomes a federation 1955 "Honeymooners" premieres 1956 Johnny Heckmann rides 7 winners at Chicago Hawthorne Horse track 1957 B-52 bombers begin full-time flying alert in case of USSR attack 1958 Britain transfers Christmas Island (south of Java) to Australia 1958 Inauguration of NASA 1958 Vanguard Project transferred from military to NASA 1959 1st World Series (World Series #56) since 1948 not to feature a NY team (LA vs Chic) 1960 Nigeria gains independence from Britain (National Day) 1961 A believed extinct volcanco erupts in Tristan da Cunha 1961 East & West Cameroon merge as Federal Republic of Cameroon 1961 Roger Maris sets record of 61 HRs, last off of Tracy Stallard 1962 Barbra Streisand signs her 1st recording contract (with Columbia) 1962 Brian Epstein signs a contract to manage the Beatles through 1977 1962 James Meredith became 1st black at U of Mississippi 1962 Johnny Carson hosts his 1st Tonight Show, Joan Crawford guests 1962 The Lucy Show premiers 1962 US National Radio Astronomy Obs gets a 300' (91m) radio telescope 1963 Nigeria becomes a republic within the Commonwealth 1964 Free Speech Movement launched at U of California, Berkley 1964 SF cable cars declared a national landmark 1968 "Night of the Living Dead" premieres in Pittsburgh 1969 Guernsey & Jersey begin issuing their own postage stamps 1970 Last game at Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium, Phils-2 Expos-1 1971 Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida opens 1972 1st games of the World Hockey Association 1973 Leo Durocher resigns as Houston Astro manager 1975 Britain grants internal self-government to Seychelles 1975 Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands, take name "Tuvalu" 1975 Reunion Island stops prints stamps, France takes over production 1977 Brazilian soccer great Pele' retires with 1,281 goals in 1,363 games 1977 Yanks win 2nd consecutive AL East title 1978 Tuvalu (Ellice Islands) gains independence from Britain 1978 Yanks lose 9-2 to Indians forcing a playoff game with Red Sox 1979 US returns Canal Zone to Panama after 75 years (but not the canal) 1980 Cosmonauts Ryumin & Popov break space endurance record of 176 days 1982 EPCOT Center opens in Orlando Florida 1982 West Germany's Parliament ousts chancellor Helmut Schmidt 1984 Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury comic strip resumes after 2-year hiatus 1984 Peter Ueberroth replaces Bowie Kuhn as 6th commissioner of baseball 1986 President Carter's presidential library/museum dedicated in Atlanta 1987 6 killed by an earthquake measuring 6.1 in LA 1988 Lowest batting avg for NL champion (Tony Gwynn .313) 1988 Robert Englund the actor who plays Freddie Kruger weds Nancy Booth 1989 Dallas Cowboy, Ed "Too Tall" Jones records his 1,000th NFL tackle 1989 Thousands of East Germans flee to West Germany 1989 US issues a stamp, labeling an apatosaurus as a brontosaurus 1990 Pres Bush at the UN, condemns Iraq's takeover of Kuwait 1991 Howard Stern adds Baltimore to his radio network (WJFK-AM)

Deaths which occurred on October 01:

1807 John Mhlenberg Lutheran pastor, dies on his 61st birthday 1961 Donald Cook actor (Too Young To Go Steady), dies at 60 1972 Louis Leakey anthropologist, dies at 68 1973 Joe Devlin actor (Sam-Dick Tracy), dies at 74 1990 Curtis E LeMay USAF General, dies at 83