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", Ruth Cheney Streeter 1895 - The first director of the U.S. Marine Corps Women's Reserve


Graham Greene 1904, George "Spanky" McFarland 1928, Don McLean 1945


1835 - The first battle of the Texas Revolution took place near the Guadalupe River when American settlers defeated a Mexican cavalry unit.


1870 - Rome was made the capital of Italy.


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.


1947 - The Federatino Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) formally established Formula One racing in Grand Prix competition.


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.