History for October 2

History for October 2 - On-This-Day.com
Mahatma Gandhi 1869, Groucho (Julius) Marx 1890 - "Marx Brothers" movies and his quiz show "You Bet Your Life", Bud Abbott 1895 


Don McLean 1945, Donna Karan 1948, Sting (Police) 1951 


1780 - British army major John Andre was hanged as a spy. He was carrying information about the actions of Benedict Arnold. 


1836 - Charles Darwin returned to England after 5 years of acquiring knowledge around the world about fauna, flora, wildlife and geology. He used the information to develop his "theory of evolution" which he unveiled in his 1859 book entitled The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. 


1870 - Rome was made the capital of Italy. 


1919 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke that left him partially paralyzed. 


1937 - Warner Bros. released "Love Is on the Air." Ronald Reagan made his acting debut in the motion picture. He was 26 years old. 


1944 - The Nazis crushed the Warsaw Uprising. 


1950 - "Peanuts," the comic strip created by Charles M. Schulz, was published for the first time in seven newspapers. 


1955 - "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" debuted on CBS-TV. 


1959 - "The Twilight Zone" debuted on CBS-TV. The show ran for 5 years for a total of 154 episodes. 


1967 - Thurgood Marshall was sworn in. He was the first African-American member of the U.S. Supreme Court.