Today in History...Oct 2nd

[Prerunner1982]

Events:

1780 – John André, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War, is hanged as a spy by American forces.
1789 – George Washington sends the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification.
1835 – The Texas Revolution begins with the Battle of Gonzales: Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Saltville – Union forces attack Saltville, Virginia, but are defeated by Confederate troops.
1870 - Rome was made the capital of Italy.
1889 – In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West.
1919 – US President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.
1925 – John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system.
1938 – Tiberias massacre: Arabs murder 20 Jews.
1940 - During World War II, the HMS Empress was sunk while carrying child refugees from Britain to Canada.
1941 – World War II: In Operation Typhoon, Germany begins an all-out offensive against Moscow.
1944 – World War II: Nazi troops end the Warsaw Uprising.
1948 - The first automobile race to use asphalt, cement and dirt roads took place in Watkins Glen in New York. It was the first road race in the U.S. following World War II.
1950 – Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published
1962 - U.S. ports were closed to nations that allowed their ships to carry arms to Cuba, ships that had docked in a socialist country were prohibited from docking in the United States during that voyage, and the transport of U.S. goods was banned on ships owned by companies that traded with Cuba.
1967 – Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court.
1968 – A peaceful student demonstration in Mexico City ends in the Tlatelolco massacre.
1970 – A plane carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado killing 31 people.
1990 – A Chinese airline Boeing 737-247 is hijacked; after landing at Guangzhou, it crashes into two airliners on the ground, killing 132 people.
1992 – The Carandiru Massacre takes place after a riot in the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil.
1996 – An AeroPerú Boeing 757 crashes in Pacific Ocean shortly after takeoff from Lima, Peru, killing 70.
1998 - Hawaii sued petroleum companies, claiming state drivers were overcharged by about $73 million a year in price-fixing.
1998 - About 10,000 Turkish soldiers cross into northern Iraq and attacked Kurdish rebels.
2001 – NATO backs US military strikes following 9/11.
2002 – The Beltway sniper attacks begin, extending over three weeks.
2005 – Ethan Allen Boating Accident: The Ethan Allen tour boat capsizes on Lake George in Upstate New York, killing twenty people.
2006 – Five school girls are murdered by Charles Carl Roberts in a shooting at an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania before Roberts commits suicide.


Birthdays:

1800 – Nat Turner, American leader of slave uprising (d. 1831)
1869 – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (also known as Mahatma Gandhi), Indian politician and spiritual leader (d. 1948)
1890 – Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (d. 1977)
1893 – Leroy Shield, American film score and radio composer (Our Gang, Laurel and Hardy) (d. 1962)
1895 – Bud Abbott, American comedian and actor (d. 1974)
1911 – Jack Finney, American author (d. 1995)
1914 – Jack Parsons, American rocket scientist, author, and occultist (d. 1952)
1917 – Charles Drake, American actor (d. 1994)
1921 – Albert Scott Crossfield, American test pilot (d. 2006)
1928 – George "Spanky" McFarland, American actor (d. 1993)
1929 – Howard Roberts, American Jazz Guitarist, Educator, and Session Musician (d. 1992)
1929 – Moses Gunn, American actor (d. 1993)
1932 – Maury Wills, American baseball player
1933 – Phill Niblock, American composer, filmmaker and videographer
1934 – Earl Wilson, American baseball player (d. 2005)
1936 – Dick Barnett, American basketball player
1938 – Eddie Cochran, American singer (d. 1960)
1938 – Rex Reed, American movie critic and actor
1948 – Avery Brooks, American actor
1948 – Chris LeDoux, American musician and rodeo performer (d. 2005) (RIP... )
1954 – Lorraine Bracco, American actress
1960 – Robbie Nevil, American singer and songwriter
1967 – Bud Gaugh, American musician (Sublime)
1969 – Mitch English, American actor
1970 – Kelly Ripa, American actress
1971 – James Root, American guitarist (Slipknot)
1971 – Tiffany Darwish, American singer
1972 – Tara Dawn Holland, Miss America 1997
1972 – Aaron Mckie, American basketball player
1973 – Efren Ramirez, American actor
1973 – Scott Schoeneweis, American baseball player
1973 – Proof, American rapper (D12) (d. 2006)
1974 – Michelle Krusiec, American actress
1974 – Paul Teutul Jr., American custom motorcycle builder
1976 – Mandisa, American singer
1976 – John Thornton, American football player
1980 – Shane Andrus, American football player
1982 – Tyson Chandler, American basketball player
1982 – Amber Lee Ettinger, American actress
1985 – Buster Davis, American football player
1986 – Camilla Belle, American actress
1987 – Phil Kessel, American ice hockey player
1989 – Karissa and Kristina Shannon, models
1993 – Tara Lynne Barr, American actress

[SMXJ]

Always a pleasure prerunner.

[Prerunner1982]

Always seems to be something interesting..

But I think I will start posting each even in a separate post to get my post count up..

[flawlesslydisturbed]

The boards would runnith over. lol
Good stuff man.

I remember the beltway sniper. It was a scary feeling knowing that idiot could have a bead on ya while you are headin to work.