Events on This Day
1835 - The Battle of
Gonzales, the first battle of the Texas
Revolution, broke out.
1871 - 70-year-old Morman leader Brigham
Young was arrested for polygamy. At the time, Young had more than 20
wives and 47 children. He was convicted, but the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the
conviction.
1908 - For the fourth time in
history, baseball fans saw a perfect game. Cleveland
pitcher Addie
Joss never let Chicago near the bases as Cleveland won, 1-0.
1916 - The first official meeting of the
Board of Directors of the San Diego Zoological Society was held. This meeting
paved the way for the world-famous San Diego Zoo.
1920 - The third
triple-header in baseball history was played, as the Cincinnati Reds took
two out of three games from the Pittsburgh Pirates. (Triple headers are currently
prohibited under baseball’s collective bargaining agreement, except when the first game is
the conclusion of a game suspended from a prior date.)
1928 - This was a busy day at Victor Records Studios
in Nashville, TN. DeFord Bailey
cut eight masters. Three songs were issued, marking the first studio recording
sessions in the place now known as Music City, USA.
1932 - Red Adams was heard for
the first time on NBC radio. Later, the program was retitled, Red Davis
(starring Burgess Meredith), Forever Young and, finally, Pepper
Young’s Family (starring Mason Adams). Radio listeners kept listening through
all the changes until 1959.
1935 - The New York Hayden Planetarium, the fourth in the U.S., was inaugurated.
1937 - Ronald Reagan, just 26 years old, made his acting
debut with the Warner Brothers release of Love Is on the Air.
1939 - Flying
Home was recorded by Benny Goodman and his six-man-band -- for Columbia Records. A chap
named Fletcher Henderson tickled the ivories on this classic. It later became a big hit
and a signature
song for Lionel Hampton, who also played on this original version of
the tune.
1941 - Gathering their forces from across the entire
front, Nazi Germany launched Operation Typhoon, an all-out offensive against Moscow. The
Soviets did not expect a German offensive so late in the season and were taken by
surprise. The Soviet front line was quickly shattered and surrounded, with over 600,000
men taken prisoner. However, autumn rains, a bitter Russian winter, and a reinforced
Soviet army eventually stalled the German advance. By Dec 5, the Nazis were halted along
the entire front.
1942 - The Queen Mary, in service as a troop transport and
traveling at top speed off the Irish coast, rammed one of her British
escort ships. The cruiser Curacao was sliced in half and sank
within a few minutes. The accident, off the Irish coast, claimed 338 of the 439 aboard
the Curacao.
1944 - Nazi troops crushed the two-month-old
Warsaw
Uprising. An estimated 200,000 people were killed.
1949 - “Hennnnnnreeeeee! Henry Aldrich!”
“Coming, Mother!” The popular radio program, The
Aldrich Family, became one of TV’s first hits, as the longtime radio show
appeared on NBC-TV for the first time. In addition to being a successful radio
transplant, The Aldrich Family scored another distinction -- being the very first
TV sitcom (situation comedy).
1950 - The renowned comic strip Peanuts, from the pen of
cartoonist, Charles
Schulz, began on this day in seven U.S. newspapers. The strip, for the United
Features Syndicate, had only three characters at its inception: Charlie Brown, Peppermint
Patty (Reichardt) and Shermy. The world’s most famous beagle, Snoopy, made his first
appearance on October 4th. Later, we were introduced to Linus, Lucy Van Pelt, Sally and
Schroeder; and learned that the Peanuts gang came from the California town of
Sebastopol, which really exists. 
1953 - Friday nights were Person to
Person nights on CBS, beginning this night. Edward R. Murrow,
with lit cigarette in hand, premiered the popular interview program which would
establish him as a TV icon.
1953 - Pianist and comedian Victor Borge started
his Comedy in Music show at the John Golden Theatre on Broadway
in New York City. It was to became the longest running one-man show in the history of theater.
The Borge had done 849 performances when the show closed on 21 January 1956, a feat which
placed it in "The Guinness Book of World Records".
1955 - “Good Eeeeeeevening.” The master
of mystery movies, Alfred Hitchcock, presented his brand of suspense to
millions of viewers on CBS. The man who put the thrill in thriller would
visit viewers each week for ten years with Alfred Hitchcock Presents. And who could forget that
theme song (The Funeral March of a Marionette)?
1959 - “There is a fifth dimension beyond
that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as
timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow,
between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fear
and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is
an area which we call the twilight zone.” Familiar words now, but
they were first
spoken this Friday night on CBS-TV at 10 p.m. as The Twilight Zone debuted with host, Rod Serling.
1963 - Pitcher Sandy Koufax struck out New
York Yankee Harry Bright to end game one of the World
Series. Bright was Koufax’ 15th strikeout victim, breaking the World Series
single game record of 14 set by Brooklyn’s Carl Erskine against the Yankees in
1953. Koufax’ performance helped the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 5-2 victory over the
Yankees and their ace, Whitey Ford. The Dodgers went on to sweep New York in four
games. Koufax was the Game 4 winner also. His 1963 regular-season record was 25-5.
1965 - The McCoys’ Hang on Sloopy
hit #1 in the U.S. The song snuck in at number one for one week, between Eve of
Destruction, by Barry McGuire and Yesterday, by The Beatles.
1966 - Sandy Koufax,
in great pain from an arthritic elbow, won 27 games and, for the third time in four
years, led the Los Angeles Dodgers to the National League pennant.
However, the Baltimore Orioles swept the Dodgers 4-0 in the World Series that year.
1967 - Thurgood Marshall, appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, was
sworn in as associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Marshall was the
first black Supreme Court justice and served until his retirement on June 27, 1991, at
the age of 82. He had served in the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals (1961-1965) and
as U.S. Solicitor General (1965-1967). Justice Marshall died on January 24, 1993.
1971 - This was a very good day for singer Rod
Stewart. His Every Picture Tells a Story album hit number one in
both the U.S. and the U.K. And, to add a little icing to this day’s cake,
his single with two back-to-back hits from the album -- Maggie May and
Reason to Believe -- rose to #1 on the Billboard
singles chart.
1975 - Japanese Emperor Hirohito began his first
visit to the United States.
1980 - Michael Myers (D-PA) became the first member of the House of
representatives to be expelled in over 100 years -- in an ABSCAM sting operation.
1985 - Actor Rock
Hudson died at his home in Beverly Hills, CA after a battle with the
AIDS virus. Rock Hudson
was 59 years old.
1988 - The games of the XXIV
Olympiad closed at Seoul, Korea. The Soviet Union topped the medals tally with
132 (55 gold) against 102 medals for East Germany (37 gold) and 94 for the United States
(36 gold). The Olympics were also profitable, with a surplus of $288 million. And the
Games helped open new avenues of foreign trade and commerce to the isolated, but
burgeoning, South Korean economy.
1990 - The U.S. Senate voted 90-9 to
confirm the nomination of Judge David H. Souter to the Supreme Court.
1990 - A hijacked Xiamen Airlines Boeing 737 landing at Canton Airport in China
crashed into two parked planes. One of the planes, a Boeing 757, was loaded
with passengers. 128 people were killed.
1994 - Actress Harriet Nelson (Ozzie & Harriet) died of heart failure. She was 80 years old.
1996 - An AeroPerú
Boeing 757 crashed into the Pacific Ocean, killing all 61 passengers and nine
crew members on board.
1998 - These motion pictures opened in U.S.
theatres: Antz (Dreamworks Pictures),starring Woody Allen, Dan
Aykroyd, Anne Bancroft, Jane Curtin, Danny Glover, Gene Hackman, Jennifer Lopez, John
Mahoney, Paul Mazursky, Grant Shaud, Syvester Stallone, Sharon Stone and Christopher
Walken; Strangeland (Raucous Releasing), with Dee Snider, Kevin
Gage, Brett Harrelson, Elizabeth Pena, Robert Englund, Linda Cardellini and Amy Smart;
A Night at the
Roxbury (Paramount Pictures), starring Will Ferrell, Chris Kattan, Dan
Hedaya, Molly Shannon, Richard Grieco, Loni Anderson, Elisa Donovan, Gigi Rice,
Lochlyn Munro, Dwayne Hickman and Colin Quinn; and What Dreams May
Come (Polygram Films), with Robin Williams, Cuba Gooding Jr., Annabella
Sciorra, Max Von Sydow, Rosalind Chao, Jessica Brooks Grant and Josh Paddock.
1998 - Gene Autry, singer,
actor, and business mogul, died -- just three days after his 91st birthday. Autry parlayed
a $5 mail-order guitar into a career as Hollywood’s first singing cowboy. He starred
on radio, TV and in the movies. And his talent for performing made him his fortune. At
his death he had acquired vast real estate holdings, several broadcast stations, and
the American League Anaheim Angels baseball team.
1999 - The controversial art show Sensation:
Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection opened at the Brooklyn
Museum of Art. New York Mayor Giuliani withheld the museum’s monthly city subsidy and
started eviction proceedings. The show included Chris Ofili’s The Holy Virgin Mary
fashioned with some elephant dung.
2000 - Great Britain’s first bill of rights
went into effect, as the Human Rights Act became law.
2002 - Snipers began shooting people at random in and around
Washington DC. James D. Martin, of Silver Spring MD, was killed in a Maryland grocery
store parking lot on this day. Ten people were killed and three critically wounded by a
high-velocity rifle in the three-week shooting spree which ranged from Maryland to nearby
Washington DC and Virginia. The victims were men, women and a child of different races
and walks of life. The snipers eluded the largest federal, state and
local manhunt in the history of the U.S. Capitol region. John Allen Muhammad and John
Lee Malvo were charged with the sniper shootings. Muhammad (also known as John Allen Williams), a
42-year-old army veteran and his 17-year-old stepson, Malvo, were caught Oct 24 while
while sleeping in a car at a Middletown, Maryland highway rest stop.
2002 - Andrew
Fastow, the former chief financial officer of Enron Corp. was charged
with securities, wire and mail fraud, money laundering and conspiring to inflate Enron’s
profits and enrich himself at the company’s expense.
2003 - North Korea said it was using plutonium
extracted from 8,000 spent nuclear fuel rods to construct atomic weapons. Experts said
the rods, when reprocessed with chemicals, could yield enough plutonium to make five or
six nuclear weapons.
2004 - A record
1,446-pound pumpkin was shown off in Ontario, Canada. (The record was broken the
following year.)
2005 - Severely injured victims of the Bali bombings of the previous night were being evacuated
to medical facilities in Australia and Singapore. The Australian
Government was assisting Indonesia in its response, dispatching Australian Federal
Police officers and forensic experts to assist in investigations.
2005 - The Ethan Allen capsized on Lake George in Upstate New
York. 20 people were killed -- 27 survived. The 40-foot, glass-enclosed tour
boat capsized bacause it was overloaded (it should have carried no more than 14
people) as the captain made a hard turn. The benches that passengers were seated on
slid across the boat, shifting the center of gravity.
2006 - Zambia’s Electoral Commission announced that
President Levy Mwanawasa had been elected to a second term, collecting 43% of the votes cast in the
previous week’s balloting.
2006 - 32-year-old milk-truck driver Charles Carl
Roberts IV shot to death five Amish girls
and himself in an Amish school in the hamlet of Nickel Mines, in Lancaster County, PA. His
suicide notes (found by his wife at their home) stated that he was still angry at God for the death of a premature infant daughter nine years
prior.
2007 - Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Nobel peace laureate Desmond Tutu, with others,
began a tour of Darfur. The elder statesmen hoped to promote a political solution
to the region’s conflict.
2007 - Nasdaq said it was acquiring
the Boston stock Exchange for some $61 million.
2007 - A report by the U.S. Government Accountability
Office said Federal employees wasted at least $146 million over a one-year period
by upgrading business- and first-class airline tickets, in some cases simply
because they felt entitled to do so.
2008 - India’s ban
on smoking in public places took effect. The next challenge was getting
India’s 120 million smokers to quit.
2009 - Movies debuting in U.S. theatres: A Serious
Man, starring Michael Stuhlbarg, Fred Melamed, Richard Kind, Aaron Wolf,
Sari Wagner, Jessica McManus and Adam Arkin; Afterschool,
with Ezra Miller, Michael Stuhlbarg and Rosemarie Dewitt; the Michael Moore
documentary, Capitalism: A Love Story; Do Knot
Disturb, starring Govinda, Lara Dutta, Sushmita Sen, Rajpal Yadav, Ritesh
Deshmukh, Ranvir Shorey; the LeBron James documentary, More Than a
Game; The Invention of Lying, starring Ricky Gervais, Jennifer
Garner, Rob Lowe, Jonah Hill, Louis C.K., John Hodgman, Tina Fey, Christopher Guest,
Jeffrey Tambor, Nate Corddry, Patrick Stewart and Jason Bateman; Whip It!,
with Drew Barrymore, Marcia Gay Harden, Kristen Wiig, Juliette Lewis, Zoe Bell, Ellen
Page and Daniel Stern; and Zombieland, starring Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg,
Emma Stone, Abigail Breslin and Amber Heard.
2009 - Michael David Barrett, accused of making surreptitious
nude videos of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews, was arrested at O’Hare Airport as he
arrived on a flight from Buffalo, NY. He faced federal charges of interstate
stalking for taking the videos, trying to sell them to a celebrity Web site (TMZ)
and posting the videos online. (On March 15, 2010 Barrett was sentenced to 2½ years
in prison.)
2010 - The Paris Motor Show opened and Renault
unveiled the Twizzy, its smallest 4-wheeled electric vehicle.
2011 - California Governor Jerry Brown signed a
bill to prevent local governments from banning male circumcision.
2011 - The Finance Ministry of Greece admitted that it
was not going to be able to meet deficit targets imposed by international
lenders as a condition of a $152 billion bailout.
2012 - Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court Judge
Robert Simpson ruled that state officials could not enforce a new voter I.D.
law in the November 2012 presidential election. The ruling was good news for
Democrats who contended the voter law was motivated by Republican efforts to suppress
the traditionally Democratic vote by preventing the elderly and minorities from voting.
2013 - Egypt’s interim government ruled that insulting the
flag and refusing to stand for the national anthem was a punishable offense. The Egyptian Cabinet said it had
approved a draft law submitted by the interim President which ordered that lack of
respect to the Egyptian flag and anthem could bring six months in prison or a fine
or both.
2014 - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told
Vietnam’s foreign minister that the U.S. would partially ease its ban on sales of weapons to Vietnam. The ban
had been in effect since 1984.
2015 - Motion pictures opening in U.S. theatres
included: Legend, with Tom Hardy, Emily Browning and Taron
Egerton; The Martian, starring Matt Damon, Jessica
Chastain and Kristen Wiig; Freeheld, with Julianne Moore, Ellen Page and
Steve Carell; the documentaries, He
Named Me Malala and Shout Gladi Gladi; the animated, Hell & Back, featuring the voices of Nick
Swardson, Mila Kunis, Bob Odenkirk, T.J. Miller, Rob Riggle and Susan Sarandon; Partisan, with Vincent Cassel, Nigel Barber and
Jeremy Chabriel; and Sicario, starring Emily Blunt, Josh Brolin and
Benicio Del Toro.
2015 - Category 4 Hurricane Joaquin ripped off roofs, uprooted trees and unleashed heavy
flooding across the Bahamas. The U.S. cargo ship El Faro was missing with 33 people aboard. On Oct
5 the Coast Guard said the ship had sunk and one body had been found.
2016 - A wildfire burning in northern California’s
Santa Cruz Mountains destroyed a dozen homes and 16 other structures. The blaze had charred nearly 7 square miles, was 66 percent contained,
but was still threatening 163 structures.
2017 - U.S. rock icon Tom Petty
died
in Santa Monica, CA. He was 66 years old. Petty was lead singer of Tom Petty and the
Heartbreakers, formed in 1976. They notched 22 entries on the Billboard 200 album chart and dozens of hits on ’s rock and pop charts -- and were inducted into the
Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002. In Jan 2018 the Los Angeles County coroner’s office listed
Petty’s official cause of death as “multisystem organ failure due to resuscitated cardiopulmonary arrest due to
mixed drug toxicity,” noting the singer suffered from coronary artery atherosclerosis and
emphysema.
2017 - Jeffrey C.
Hall won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with fellow Americans Michael
Rosbash and Michael W. Young for their discoveries about the body’s daily rhythms.
2018 - The Wall Street Journal reported that POTUS Donald Trump
personally guided efforts to keep Stormy Daniels from talking about their 2006 tryst, and that his son Eric was enlisted to help in the matter.
2018 - Three scientists from the U.S., Canada and France won the Nobel Prize in
physics for work with lasers. Arthur Ashkin of Bell Laboratories in New Jersey, developed
‘optical tweezers’ that can grab tiny particles such as viruses without damaging them. Donna
Strickland, of the University of Waterloo in Canada, and Frenchman Gerard Mourou of the Ecole
Polytechnique and University of Michigan, helped develop short and intense laser pulses that have
broad industrial and medical applications, including laser eye surgery and highly precise machine
cutting.
2019 - Former North Carolina Republican Party chairman Robin Hayes pleaded guilty to lying to federal agents in a 2018 bribery investigation. Hayes had coordinated with businessman Greg
Lindberg and two other individuals in an attempt to funnel $250,000 to Mike Causey, the
North Carolina Commissioner of Insurance, in exchange for favorable treatment of Linberg’s
insurance firm and the dismissal of a deputy insurance commissioner.
2019 - The Museum of the Holocaust in Argentina’s capital took
custody of the largest collection of Nazi artifacts discovered in the country’s
history. Federal police and Interpol agents found the more than 70
Nazi objects hidden behind a bookcase in a collector’s home north of Buenos Aires in
2017 as part of an investigation into artworks of illicit origins. The Nazi items found
included busts of Adolf Hitler, an instrument to measure people’s heads (to supposedly
determine their racial purity) and statues of the Nazi eagle with a swastika under its talons.
2020 - POTUS Trump and wife, Melania, said they had tested positive for the coronavirus.
The White House reported Trump was suffering mild symptoms of COVID-19. White House officials said
Trump has been treated with an intravenous dose of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals dual antibody, an
experimental cocktail for COVID-19, and was being moved to a military hospital as a precaution.
2020 - Northern Ireland reported 934 new cases of
COVID-19, more than double the previous record.
2020 - Qatar Airways examined -- “invasively strip-searched” -- a number of female
passengers bound for Sydney and nine other unnamed destinations after a newborn baby
was found abandoned (in a garbage bin at the Qatar airport). The forced vaginal examinations
triggered outrage in Australia, where Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong said the women
“should never have been subjected to this outrageous violation.”
2021 - Women’s rights advocates gathered in Austin, Texas, to protest the most restrictive abortion law in the U.S. Women launched a series
of 660 marches around the United States in support of reproductive freedom.
2021 - A large oil ‘spill’ off the California coast began washing ashore at Huntington Beach.
An oil rig pipeline was thought to have been breached, leaving dead fish and birds strewn on the sand.
A Texas-based oil company and two of its subsidiaries later agreed to plead guilty to violating the federal Clean Water Act, pay a $7.1 million criminal
fine, and compensate federal programs approximately $5.8 million in connection with the discharge of
approximately 25,000 gallons of crude oil.
and more...
Birthdays on This Day
October 2
1869 - Mahatma (Mohandas) Gandhi
political and spiritual leader:
India; died Jan 30, 1948
1879 - Wallace Stevens
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: Collected Poems [1955]; died Aug 2, 1955
1890 - Groucho (Julius Henry) Marx
“The one, the only, Groucho.”: TV host: You Bet Your Life; comedian, actor: one of the Marx
Brothers of vaudeville and film fame: Animal Crackers, A Day at the Races,
Duck Soup, Horse Feathers, The Cocoanuts, Monkey Business;
died Aug 19, 1977
1895 - (William Alexander) Bud Abbott
comedian, actor:
Abbott of Abbott
& Costello; Who’s on First?, The Abbott & Costello Show; died Apr 24, 1974
1904 - (Henry) Graham Greene
author:
The Third Man, The Power and the Glory; died Apr 3, 1991
1909 - Alex
Raymond
cartoonist:
created Flash Gordon; died Sep 6, 1956
1917 - Charles Drake
actor: The
Lives of Jenny Dolan, The Screaming Woman, The Arrangement,
Valley of the Dolls, The Lively Set, Back Street, Until
They Sail, McMillan & Wife, Matt Helm, Marcus Welby,
M.D.; died Sep 10, 1994
1925 - Paul Goldsmith
motorcycle hall of famer: champ Daytona 200 [1953]; auto racer: finished 3rd
Indy 500 [1960]
1928 - (George Emmett) ‘Spanky’ McFarland
actor:
Little Rascals series, Our Gang comedies; died June 30, 1993
1929 - Moses Gunn
NAACP Image Award-winning actor: Ragtime [1981]; Othello, The
Blacks, Shaft, The Great White Hope, Good Times,
Father Murphy; died Dec 16, 1993
1932 - Maury (Maurice Morning) Wills
baseball: LA Dodgers [World Series: 1959, 1963, 1965,
1966/all-star: 1961, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1966/Baseball Writers’ Award: 1962/AP
Male Athlete of the Year: 1962], Pittsburgh Pirates, Montreal Expos
1936 - Connie Dierking
basketball: Univ. of Cincinnati, Sacramento Kings, San Francisco
Warriors, Philadelphia 76ers; died Dec 29, 2013
1937 - Johnnie Cochran Jr.
attorney:
best known for his role in the ‘Dream Team’ of legal defense for O.J. Simpson
during his highly publicized murder trial; died March 29, 2005
1938 - Rex Reed
movie critic;
actor: Myra Breckenridge
1945 - Don McLean
songwriter, singer: American Pie, Vincent,
Castles in the Air
1946 - Bob (Robert Eugene) Robertson
baseball: Pittsburgh Pirates [World Series: 1971], Seattle
Mariners, Toronto Blue Jays
1948 - Avery Brooks
actor:
Spenser: For Hire, A Man Called Hawk, Star Trek: Deep Space
Nine, Walking with Dinosaurs, The Ballad of Big Al, Jesus:
The Complete Story
1948 - Donna Karan (Faske)
fashion designer: DKNY line of clothes
1949 - Richard Hell (Myers)
musician: bass: groups:
Television; Heartbreakers; Neon Boys: Love Comes in Spurts, That’s All
I Know Right Now; Voidoids: Kid with the Replaceable Head, Blank
Generation
1949 - Annie Leibovitz
photographer
of the stars for Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair; her work
has been featured on many high profile ad campaigns; official photographer of the Summer
Olympics, Atlanta, GA
1950 - Michael Rutherford
musician:
guitar: group: Mike + The Mechanics: Silent Running, All I Need is a
Miracle, The Living Years
1951 - Sting (Gordon Sumner)
singer: group: The Police; solo: Set Them Free,
Fortress Around Your Heart; songwriter: Every Breath You Take; actor: Dune
1954 - Lorraine Bracco
actress: The
Sopranos, Goodfellas, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, The Taking
of Pelham One Two Three, Riding in Cars with Boys, Long Island
Confidential, I Married a Mobster, Blue Bloods, Rizzoli & Isles
1955 - Philip Oakey
singer: group: The
Human League: Don’t You Want Me?, [Keep Feeling] Fascination, Mirror
Man, The Lebanon, Life on Your Own, Louise, Electric
Dreams
1956 - Freddie Jackson
singer,
songwriter: You are My Lady
1962 - Jeff Bennett
voice actor:
Johnny Bravo, James Bond Jr., Gargoyles, The Land Before
Time film series, Dexter’s Laboratory, Smee, Jake and the
Never Land Pirates, Planet Sheen, The Penguins of Madagascar,
Curious George, Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Planet Sheen,
T.U.F.F. Puppy, Young Justice
1962 - Mark Rypien
football [QB]:
Washington State Univ; NFL: Washington Redskins, Cleveland Browns, St. Louis Rams,
Philadelphia Eagles, Indianapolis Colts
1968 - Glen Wesley
hockey:
NHL: Boston Bruins, Hartford Whalers, Carolina Hurricanes, Toronto Maple Leafs
1970 - Eddie Guardado
baseball [pitcher]: Minnesota Twins, Seattle Mariners
1970 - Kelly Ripa
TV host: Live with
Kelly, Live with Regis and Kelly; actress: Hope &
Faith, Someone to Love, The Stand-In, Marvin’s Room,
All My Children
1971 - Tiffany (Darwisch)
singer: I Saw Him Standing There, I Think We’re
Alone Now, Could’ve Been; voice of Judy Jetson: The Jetsons
1972 - Aaron McKie
basketball [guard]: Temple Univ; NBA: Portland Trail Blazers,
Detroit Pistons, Philadelphia 76ers
1973 - Tara
Moss
model,
author: Fetish, Split, Covet, Intuition, Know
Your ABCs, Psycho Magnet
1973 - Danny Smith
actor: Big
Wolf on Campus, Jonovision, The Bail, Boy Meets Girl,
Strike!, The Big Hit, White Lies, Open Season,
Sugartime, Senior Trip
1974 - Anthony Johnson
basketball [guard]: Sacramento Kings, Atlanta Hawks, Orlando
Magic, Cleveland Cavaliers, New Jersey Nets, Indiana Pacers
1974 - Michelle Krusiec
actress: Far
North, Knife Fight, Travelers, Saving Face, The Mind
of the Married Man, Dirty Sexy Money, What Happens in Vegas; more
1978 - Ayumi Hamasaki
singer
[‘Empress of Pop’]: Love ~Destiny~, Boys & Girls, Surreal, Endless
Sorrow, A Song Is Born, Free & Easy, No Way to Say, Bold &
Delicious/Pride, Talkin’ 2 Myself, Mirrorcle World, Days/Green,
Moon/Blossom, Crossroad
1983 - Frederico Chaves Guedes
Brazilian
footballer [striker]: club Fluminense; scored fastest goal in Brazilian football with
América Mineiro, against Vila Nova during a Copa São Paulo de Juniores match: 3.17 seconds
after the match started
1986 - Camilla Belle
actress:
The Ballad of Jack and Rose, When a Stranger Calls, 10,000
BC, The Quiet, Push, Breakaway, 10,000 BC,
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
1986 - Rima Fakih
beauty queen:
Miss USA, Miss Michigan [2010]; professional wrestler; more
1987 - Phil Kessel
hockey [winger]:
NHL: Boston Bruins [2006–2008]; Toronto Maple Leafs [2009-2015]; Pittsburgh Penguins
[2015–2019]: 2016, 2017 Stanley Cup champs; Arizona Coyotes [2019–2022], Vegas Golden Knights [2022]
1990 - Samantha Jane Barks
actress:
Les Misérables [2012], The Christmas Candle,
Dracula Untold, The Devil’s Harvest
and still more...
Hit Music on This Day
October 2
1948
A Tree in the Meadow
(facts) -
Margaret
Whiting
It’s Magic
(facts) -
Doris Day
You Call Everybody Darlin’
(facts) -
Al Trace (vocal: Bob Vincent)
Just a Little Lovin’ (Will Go a Long Way)
(facts) -
Eddy Arnold
1957Wake Up Little Susie
(facts) - The Everly Brothers
Honeycomb
(facts) -
Jimmie Rodgers
Chances Are (facts)/The Twelfth of Never
(facts) - Johnny Mathis
My Shoes Keep Walking Back to You
(facts) -
Ray Price
1966Cherish
(facts) -
The Association
Beauty Is Only Skin Deep
(facts) -
The Temptations
Black Is Black
(facts) -
Los Bravos
Almost Persuaded
(facts) -
David Houston
1975I’m Sorry
(facts) -
John Denver
Fight the Power
(facts) -
The Isley Brothers
Run Joey Run
(facts) -
David Geddes
Daydreams About Night Things
(facts) -
Ronnie
Milsap
1984Let’s Go Crazy
(facts) -
Prince & The Revolution
Drive
(facts) -
The Cars
I Just Called to
Say I Love You (facts) - Stevie Wonder
Turning Away
(facts) -
Crystal Gayle
1993Dreamlover
(facts) -
Mariah Carey
Right Here/Human
Nature (facts)/Downtown
(facts) -
SWV-Sisters With Voices
The River of Dreams
(facts) -
Billy Joel
Holdin’ Heaven
(facts) -
Tracy Byrd
2002Dilemma
(facts) -
Nelly
featuring Kelly Rowland
Gotta Get Thru This
(facts) -
Daniel Bedingfield
Gangsta Lovin’
(facts) -
Eve featuring Alicia Keys
Beautiful Mess
(facts) -
Diamond Rio
2011Moves Like Jagger (facts) - Maroon 5 featuring Christina Aguilera
Someone Like You (facts) - Adele
Pumped Up Kicks
(facts) - Foster the People
Take a Back Road
(facts) - Rodney Atkins
2020Dynamite (facts) - BTS
WAP (facts) - Cardi B featuring Megan Thee Stallion
Holy (facts) - Justin Bieber
featuring Chance the Rapper
I Hope
(facts) - Gabby Barrett
and even more...
Those were the days, my friend. We thought they’d never end...
