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Events from History on October 02

1134 : Storm flood ravages Zeeland county
1187 : Sultan Saladin captures Jerusalem from Crusaders
1492 : King Henry VII of England invades France
1518 : English cardinal Thomas Wolsey makes European plan
1535 : Jacques Carti‚r discovers Mount Royal (Montr‚al)
1540 : Venice/Turkey signs peace
1572 : Spanish army occupies/plunders/destroys Mechelen
1586 : Battle at Zutphen: English-Dutch army
1608 : Prototype of modern reflecting telescope completed by Jan Lippershey
1614 : French king Louis XIII (13) declared an adult
1656 : US colony Connecticut passes law against Quakers
1700 : Spanish king Carlos II appoints Philip van Anjou, heir to throne
1760 : Russian/Austrian army evacuates Berlin [NS=10/13]
1787 : Maagden House opens in Amsterdam
1792 : Baptist Missionary Society forms in London
1795 : Tula (leader slave uprising) sentence to death in Cura‡ao
1799 : Duke of York & Russians capture Alkmaar in Netherlands
1804 : England mobilizes to protect against French invasion
1833 : Charles Darwin rides through Corunda to Santa Fe Argentina
1833 : NY Anti-Slavery Society organized
1836 : Darwin returns to England aboard HMS Beagle (after 5 years)
1853 : Austrian law forbids Jews from owning land
1861 : Former VP John C Breckinridge flees Kentucky
1864 : Battle of Saltville, VA
1866 : J Osterhoudt patents tin can with key opener
1870 : Italy annexes Rome & Papal States; Rome made Italian capital
1871 : Brigham Young, mormon leader, arrest for bigamy
1872 : Morgan State University founded
1879 : Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Musgrave Ritual" (BG)
1889 : 1st Pan American conference (Washington DC)
1895 : 1st cartoon comic strip is printed in a newspaper
1899 : E F Coddington discovers asteroid #445 Edna
1899 : Orange Free state mobilizes
1900 : Belg crown prince Albert von Saksen-Coburg weds Elisabeth of Bayern
1901 : 1st Royal Naval submarine launched at Barrow
1906 : Tommy Burns KOs Jim Burns in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1907 : Phillies Eddie Grant goes 7 for 7 in a doubleheader vs Giants
1908 : Addie Joss perfect game stops Ed Walsh 1-0 who won 40 in a row
1909 : 1st rugby match (Twickenham)
1910 : 1st 2 aircraft collision (Milan Italy)
1910 : Henry Wijnmalen flies to 2,800m altitude (world record)
1910 : V Cerulli discovers asteroid #704 Interamnia
1913 : Phillies beat NY Giants 2 games out of 3 in a tripleheader
1915 : Max Wolf discovers asteroid #2298 Cindijon
1916 : F Sy discovers asteroid #859 Bouzareah
1916 : Grover Cleveland Alexander records his 16th shutout of year
1916 : San Diego Zoo founded
1919 : 1st edition "Volkskrant" (People's newspaper) published in Neth
1919 : Pres Woodrow Wilson has a stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed
1920 : Only tripleheader of century (Reds win 13-4, 7-3 then Pirates win 6-0)
1921 : NY Yankee Babe Ruth hits then record 59th HR
1923 : British occuping army leaves Constantinople
1923 : Harry Heilmann goes 2-for-2, sit out rest of season, except for a
1923 : pinch single on final day, hitting .403
1924 : League of Nations approves protocols of GenŠva
1926 : Bert Gibb of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game
1931 : Pope Pius XI encyclical On economic crisis
1932 : NY Yankees sweep Chicago Cubs in 29th World Series
1932 : Washington Redskins (as Boston Braves) play 1st NFL game, lose 14-0
1933 : Eugene O'Neill's comedy "Ah, Wilderness," premieres in NYC
1935 : Mussolini's Italian armys attacks Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1935 : NY Hayden Planetarium, 4th in US, opens
1936 : 1st alcohol power plant forms, Atchison, Kansas
1936 : Amsterdam's Calvinist Churches reject nazism
1936 : French franc devalued
1936 : NY Yankees score World Series record 18 runs, beating Giants 18-4
1936 : Tony Lazzeri becomes 1st Yank to hit a World Series grand slam
1937 : FDR visits Grand Coulee Dam construction site in Washington State
1938 : G Neujmin discovers asteroid #2237 Melnikov
1938 : Indian Bob Feller strikes out record 18 Tigers (Chester Laabs 5 times)
1939 : Birdbaths installed in Union Square, SF
1940 : 17 German aircrafts shot down above England
1940 : British Council receives British Charter
1940 : British liner Empress loaded with refugees for Canada, sunk
1941 : 6 Paris synagogues are bombed by Gestapo
1941 : Germans launch attack on Moscow
1942 : "Queen Mary" slices cruiser "Curacao" in half, killing 338
1942 : 1st self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction demonstrated, Chicago
1943 : Japanse troops leave Kolombangara, Solomon Island
1943 : Yankees sweep 14th doubleheader of year, beating Browns, 5-1 & 7-6
1944 : Nazis crush Warsaw Uprising killing 250,000 people
1944 : US B-17's drops pamphlets on Walcheren
1946 : 1st network soap opera-Faraway Hill-Dumont
1947 : "Music in My Heart" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 124 performances
1947 : Revised International Telecommunication Convention adopted
1947 : Yankee Yogi Berra becomes 1st to pinch hit a World Series homer
1948 : "Finian's Rainbow" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 725 perfs
1949 : St Louis Browns use 9 pitchers, lose to Whites Sox 4-3
1949 : USSR recognizes People's Republic of China
1949 : Yanks & Red Sox, tied for 1st place, play final game of season.
1949 : Yanks win 5-3 & clinch pennant #16
1950 : 1st strip of Charlie Brown, "Li'l Folks," later "Peanuts" in 9 papers
1950 : Bob Shaw of Chicago Cardinals sets NFL record with 5 TD receptions
1950 : Chic Cards Jim Hardy passes for 6 touchdowns vs Balt Colts (55-13)
1950 : Mao Tse Tung proclaims in telegram to Stalin, China intervenes Korea
1950 : Red Sox Dom DiMaggio leads AL with only 15 stolen bases
1951 : 1st Netherland TV broadcast (Toverspiegel)
1951 : Dodgers beat Giants 10-0, in 2nd game of play-offs
1953 : "Comedy in Music (Victor Borge)" opens at John Golden NYC for 849 perf
1953 : Dodger Carl Erskine strikes out 14 Yankees in World Series
1954 : 8th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Detroit 2-2 at Detroit
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" premieres
1955 : 9th NHL All-Star Game: Detroit beat All-Stars 3-1 at Detroit
1955 : Actress Joyce Randolph marries publisher Richard Charles
1955 : Chiva Stoica becomes premier of Romania
1955 : WHTN (now WOWK) TV ch 13 in Huntington-Charleston, WV (CBS) begins
1956 : 1st atomic power clock exhibited-NYC
1957 : NY Yankees appear in their 25th World Series
1957 : New volcanic island appears off Fayal Island Azores
1958 : Guinea (French Guinea) gains independence from France (National Day)
1958 : Musical show "Valmouth," 1st produced in London
1958 : USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1959 : Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone" premieres on CBS-TV
1960 : Louise Suggs wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Tournament
1961 : "Ben Casey" premieres on NBC-TV
1961 : USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1961 : WETA TV channel 26 in Washington, DC (PBS) begins broadcasting
1961 : WHRO TV channel 15 in Hampton-Norfolk, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 : SF beats LA, 8-7 in 4h18m 9 inning playoff game
1962 : US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1963 : Dodgers' Sandy Koufax strikes out World Series record 15 Yankees
1963 : W German Chancellor Adenauer condemns western grain shipments to USSR
1964 : Phillies tie major league record with season's 3rd triple play (Reds)
1965 : Dodgers beat Braves to clinch NL pennant
1965 : Mel Stottlemyre wins game #20
1965 : Phillies' Chris Short strikes-out 18 NY Mets
1965 : Pope Paul VI named MR Perey bishop's helper of New Orleans
1966 : 2 perfect game pitchers face each other (Bunning vs Koufax)
1966 : LA Dodgers Sandy Koufax clinches 3rd LA pennant in 4 years
1966 : Mickey Wright wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational
1967 : Grateful Dead members arrested by narcotic agents
1967 : Groundbreaking begins on Veteran Stadium in Philadelphia
1967 : Mickey Wright wins LPGA Seven Lakes Golf Invitational
1967 : Thurgood Marshall sworn in as 1st black Supreme Court Justice
1968 : 1st London performance of "Promises Promises" presented
1968 : 1st time, 2 soon-to-be-named MVPs oppose each other Cards Bob Gibson
1968 : Bob Gibson sets a World Series record of 17 strikeouts
1968 : Mexico City police fire on protesting students, 300-500 killed
1968 : Peru coup under gen Velasco Alvarado, pres Bela£nde Terry flees
1968 : Republic Guinea forms (day of republic)
1968 : beat Tigers Denny McLain 4-0
1969 : P Wild discovers asteroid #5986
1969 : Seattle Pilots last game in Seattle, lose 3-1 to As in front of 5,473
1969 : US performs underground nuclear test at Amchitka Island Aleutians
1970 : Billy Martin named manager of Det 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 : "From Israel with Love" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 8 performances
1972 : Aeroflot Il-18 crashes near Black Sea resort of Sochi, kills 105
1972 : Bill Stoneman of Montreal pitches his 2nd no-hitter, beating Mets, 7-0
1972 : Danish population votes for European Common Market membership
1972 : Mont Expos Bill Stoneman 2nd no-hitter beats NY Mets, 7-0
1972 : N E Kurochkin discovers asteroid #2302 Florya
1972 : Ron Johnson becomes 1st NY Giant to score 4 TDs (vs Phila)
1974 : Hank Aaron's 733rd career HR on his last NL at bat
1976 : "Let My People Come" closes at Morosco Theater NYC after 106 perfs
1977 : (32), & Ron Cey (30) in make Dodgers 1st team to boast 4 30-HR hitters
1977 : Dusty Baker 30th HR joins teammates Steve Garvey (33), Reggie Smith
1977 : Pakistan general Zia ul-Haq bans all opposition
1977 : Vivian Brownlee wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1978 : L V Zhuravleva discovers asteroid #2850, #2979 Murmansk, #3214,
1978 : #3442, #3547 #4167 Riemann, #4363 Sergej, #5304, #5544 & #7320
1978 : Yanks win 3rd straight AL East beating Red Sox 5-4 in a playoff
1978 : Syrian & Palestinians shoot in East Beirut, 1,300 killed
1978 : game. Guidry wins #25 aided by Dent's homer & Pinella's fielding
1980 : A Mrkos discovers asteroid #3716
1980 : Larry Holmes TKOs Muhammad Ali in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1980 : Michael Myers (D-Pa), is 1st rep expelled in over 100 years (ABSCAM)
1981 : Ali Chamene‹ elected president of Iran
1981 : L V Zhuravleva discovers asteroid #3803 Tuchkova & #4053 Cherkasov
1982 : Bomb attack in Teheran, kills 60, injures 700
1983 : Art Monk begins NFL streak of 136 plus consecutive game receptions
1983 : Carl Yastrezemski's last at bat
1983 : Kathy Postlewait wins LPGA San Jose Golf Classic
1984 : 3 cosmonauts return after a record 237 days in orbit
1984 : In 1st LCS game played with replacement umps, Cubs cbeat Padres 13-0
1984 : Richard Miller, becomes 1st (former) FBI agent, charged with espionage
1985 : Russian party leader Gorbatsjov visits Paris
1985 : Tigers Darrell Evans is 1st to hit 40 HR seasons in both leagues
1986 : Failed assassination attempt on India premier Rajiv Gandhi
1986 : Mike Scott is 3rd NL pitcher to strike out 300 in a season (306)
1986 : NY Met Dwight Gooden is 1st to strike out 200 or more in 1st 3 seasons
1986 : P Wild discovers asteroid #3582
1986 : Sikhs attempt to assassinate Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
1988 : 24th Olympic games close at Seoul, Korea
1988 : Gelindo Bordin wins 21st Olympics marathon (2:10:32)
1988 : Mike Tyson wrecks furniture in his Bernardsville NJ Mansion
1988 : Minn Twins are 1st AL club ever to break 3 million season attendance
1988 : Pakistan's Supreme Court orders free elections
1988 : Police breakup domestic disturbance between Mike Tyson & Robin Givens
1989 : K F J Cwach discovers asteroid #4264 Karljosephine
1989 : S J Bus discovers asteroid #5476, #5907 & #7754
1990 : "Michael Feinstein in Concert -" opens at Golden NYC for 30 perfs
1990 : Allies cede any remaining rights as occupiers of Germany
1990 : Chinese plane explodes, about 100 die
1990 : Radio Berlin International's final transmission (links to Deutsche
1990 : US Senate votes 90-9 to confirm David Souter to Supreme Court
1990 : Welles of West Germany); final song is "The End" by Doors
1991 : Toronto Blue Jays clinches AL East title & becomes 1st team to draw
1991 : 4 million fans
1991 : Eric Lindros, refused to sign with Quebec Nordiques
1991 : Steffi Graf becomes the youngest woman to win 500 pro tennis matches
1991 : Y Kushida & O Muramatsu discover asteroid #6865 Dunkerley
1992 : Spacewatch discovers asteroid #8035
1992 : T Seki discovers asteroid #6458
1992 : VP Itamar Franco becomes pres of Brazil
1993 : Spike Lee weds Tonya Lewis
1994 : "Show Boat," opens at Gershwin Theater NYC
1994 : K Endate & Watanabe discover asteroid #6878, #6927, #7664 & #7890
1994 : Pakistan defeat Australia by one wicket in Karachi Test
1995 : "Moon Over Buffalo" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 308 perfs
1995 : Seattle Mariners beat Cal Angels, 9-1 in a playoff game to win AL West
1996 : 30th Country Music Assn Award: Brooks & Dunn win
2001 : Police authorities says that Militants who attacked on the Assembly in Jammu Kashmir are based in Pakistan.
2001 : Gujarat Chief minister Mr. Keshubai patel resigns. Hasn't submitted the resignation letter to the Governor.

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