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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

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

Reported: MISSING in ACTION

( Expanded with full Bios, history, & MIA report )
 1964    WALKER           KENNETH E.        LANSING               MI     ACFT HIT WATER/FLIPPED/SANK  
 1967    OTT              PATRICK L.        CUPPERTINO            CA       
 1968    BYTHEWAY         FRANK L.                                       KILLED/BODY NOT RECOVERED  
 1968    ERWIN            DONALD E.         HOBART                IN     REMAINS IDENTIFIED 2/28/90  
 1969    BECK             TERRY L.          LINESVILLE            PA       
 1969    BELL             RICHARD W.        GIBSONIA              PA       
 1969    BOWMAN           MICHAEL L.        WARREN                OH       
 1969    DAYAO            ROLANDO C.        PHILLIPINES                    
 1969    DEAN             DONALD C.         ST LOUIS              MO       
 1969    DILGER           HERBERT H.        VALLEY STREAM         NY       
 1969    ELLERD           CARL J.           ODESSA                TX       
 1969    FOWLER           JAMES J.          LA MONTE              MO       
 1969    FOWLER           ROY G.            ANNANDALE             VA       
 1969    GAN              LEONARDO M.       PHILIPPINES                    
 1969    GORE             PAUL EDWIN        FAISON                NC     NOT ON OFFICIAL DIA LIST  
 1969    GORSUCH          WILLIAM D.        CAMBRIA               WI       
 1969    HILL             RAYFORD J.        HOUSTON               TX     REFNO 2004 1 OF 26  
 1969    KOHLER           DELVIN L.         KERSEY                CO     REFNO 2004 1 OF 26  
 1969    KOSLOSKY         HOWARD M.         ANCHORAGE             AK     REFNO 2004 1 OF 26  
 1969    LEONARD          ROBERT B.         DES MOINES            IA     REFNO 2004 1 OF 26  
 1969    LIVINGSTON       RICHARD A.        TENINO                WA     REFNO 2004 1 OF 26  
 1969    MONTGOMERY       RONALD W.         MOORES HILL           IN     REFNO 2004 1 OF 26  
 1969    MOORE            WILLIAM R.        PRINCETON             KS     REFNO 2004 1 OF 26  
 1969    MOSER            PAUL K.           NEWINGTON             CT     REFNO 2004 1 OF 26  
 1969    PRENTICE         KENNETH M.        TACOMA                WA     REFNO 2004 1 OF 26  
 1969    SALAZAR          FIDEL G.          PHILIPPINES                  REFNO 2004 1 OF 26  
 1969    TERRELL          KEAVIN L.         BATON ROUGE           LA     REFNO 2004 1 OF 26  
 1969    TYE              MICHAEL J.        CLINTON               MO     REFNO 2004 1 OF 26  
 1969    VIADO            REYNALDO R.       PHILIPPINES                  REFNO 2004 1 OF 26

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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




Holidays

Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

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

Religious Observances

RC : Memorial of the Guardian Angel
Jewish : Rosh Hashanah-New Year

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.

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Additional information supplied by the author. Contact via E-mail: William D. Blake. (pilgrimwb@aol.com)

Thought for the day :

" It is far better to be deceived than to be undeceived by those we love. "
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