October 2
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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. (India is the second-largest producer of tobacco in the world.)
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.
2022 - The death toll from Hurricane Ian rose as search crews continued digging through wreckage in southwest Florida. 76 deaths were confirmed in Florida and four in North Carolina. More than 4,000 people had been rescued in Florida after being trapped by flooding and debris.
2023 - The WHO (World Health Organization) approved the second vaccine for Malaria. And the highly effective R21, made by the University of Oxford, could be manufactured on a massive scale.
2023 - U.S. Postal Service issued a commemorative stamp honoring the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. The forever stamp was designed by Ethel Kessler, an art director for USPS. The stamp features a Michael J. Deas oil painting based on a photograph by Philip Bermingham, capturing the 107th U.S. Supreme Court justice in her black judicial robe and favorite white-lace collar.
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Birthdays on This Day October 2
1869 - Mahatma (Mohandas) Gandhi
political and spiritual leader: India; died Jan 30, 19481879 - Wallace Stevens
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: Collected Poems [1955]; died Aug 2, 19551890 - 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, 19771895 - (William Alexander) Bud Abbott
comedian, actor: Abbott of Abbott & Costello; Who’s on First?, The Abbott & Costello Show; died Apr 24, 19741904 - (Henry) Graham Greene
author: The Third Man, The Power and the Glory; died Apr 3, 19911909 - Alex Raymond
cartoonist: created Flash Gordon; died Sep 6, 19561917 - 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, 19941925 - Paul Goldsmith
motorcycle hall of famer: champ Daytona 200 [1953]; auto racer: finished 3rd Indy 500 [1960]; died Sep 6, 20241928 - (George Emmett) ‘Spanky’ McFarland
actor: Little Rascals series, Our Gang comedies; died June 30, 19931929 - Moses Gunn
NAACP Image Award-winning actor: Ragtime [1981]; Othello, The Blacks, Shaft, The Great White Hope, Good Times, Father Murphy; died Dec 16, 19931932 - 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; died Sep 19, 20221936 - Connie Dierking
basketball: Univ. of Cincinnati, Sacramento Kings, San Francisco Warriors, Philadelphia 76ers; died Dec 29, 20131937 - 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, 20051938 - Rex Reed
movie critic; actor: Myra Breckenridge1945 - Don McLean
songwriter, singer: American Pie, Vincent, Castles in the Air1946 - Bob (Robert Eugene) Robertson
baseball: Pittsburgh Pirates [World Series: 1971], Seattle Mariners, Toronto Blue Jays1948 - 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 Story1948 - Donna Karan (Faske)
fashion designer: DKNY line of clothes1949 - 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 Generation1949 - 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, GA1950 - Michael Rutherford
musician: guitar: group: Mike + The Mechanics: Silent Running, All I Need is a Miracle, The Living Years1951 - Sting (Gordon Sumner)
singer: group: The Police; solo: Set Them Free, Fortress Around Your Heart; songwriter: Every Breath You Take; actor: Dune1954 - 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 & Isles1955 - 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 Dreams1956 - Freddie Jackson
singer, songwriter: You are My Lady1962 - 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 Justice1962 - Mark Rypien
football [QB]: Washington State Univ; NFL: Washington Redskins, Cleveland Browns, St. Louis Rams, Philadelphia Eagles, Indianapolis Colts1968 - Glen Wesley
hockey: NHL: Boston Bruins, Hartford Whalers, Carolina Hurricanes, Toronto Maple Leafs1970 - Eddie Guardado
baseball [pitcher]: Minnesota Twins, Seattle Mariners1970 - 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 Children1971 - Tiffany (Darwisch)
singer: I Saw Him Standing There, I Think We’re Alone Now, Could’ve Been; voice of Judy Jetson: The Jetsons1972 - Aaron McKie
basketball [guard]: Temple Univ; NBA: Portland Trail Blazers, Detroit Pistons, Philadelphia 76ers1973 - Tara Moss
model, author: Fetish, Split, Covet, Intuition, Know Your ABCs, Psycho Magnet1973 - Danny Smith
actor: Big Wolf on Campus, Jonovision, The Bail, Boy Meets Girl, Strike!, The Big Hit, White Lies, Open Season, Sugartime, Senior Trip1974 - Anthony Johnson
basketball [guard]: Sacramento Kings, Atlanta Hawks, Orlando Magic, Cleveland Cavaliers, New Jersey Nets, Indiana Pacers1974 - Michelle Krusiec
actress: Far North, Knife Fight, Travelers, Saving Face, The Mind of the Married Man, Dirty Sexy Money, What Happens in Vegas; more1978 - 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, Crossroad1983 - 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 started1986 - 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 Park1986 - Rima Fakih
beauty queen: Miss USA, Miss Michigan [2010]; professional wrestler; more1987 - 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 Harvest1995 - Ambika Mod
actress: This Is Going to Hurt, One Day
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Hit Music on This Day October 2
1948A Tree in the Meadow (facts) - Margaret Whiting
It’s Magic (facts) - Doris Day
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