Did you know who was Born today:
1971 Tiffany - singer
1970 Kelly Ripa - talk show host, actress (Regis and Kelly)
1968 Kelly Willis - country singer
1967 Bud Gaugh - drummer (Sublime)
1955 Philip Oakey - singer (Human League)
1951 Sting - singer, bassist (The Police)
1950 Michael Rutherford - guitarist (Mike & The Mechanics, Genesis)
1949 Richard Hell - bassist (Television)
1948 Donna Karan - fashion designer
1945 Don McLean - singer
1940 Rex Reed - movie critic
1932 Maury Wills - baseball player
1929 Moses Gunn - actor
1928 Spanky McFarland - actor
1904 Graham Greene - author
1895 Bud Abbott - actor, comedian (Abbott and Costello)
1890 Groucho Marx - actor (The Marx Brothers), TV host
1869 Mahatma Gandhi - spiritual leader of India`
1452 Richard III - King of England
Did you know what happened on this day in time?
2001 The date 10-02-2001 is a palindrome. It reads the same forward as it does backward. The last time we had such a date was 08-31-1380!
Submitted by Dale Gombert, Seattle, Washington, USA.
1998 Cowboy actor and singer Gene Autry dies at age 91 at his Studio City, California, home.
Did you know? Autry founded the California Angels baseball team in 1951.
1995 O.J. Simpson is acquitted of murder charges (the verdict would not be read until the following day).
1985 Actor Rock Hudson dies of AIDS at his Beverly Hills home, at age 59.
1967 Thurgood Marshall becomes the first African-American sworn in as a member of the US Supreme Court.
1959 Rod Serling's imaginative series, The Twilight Zone, debuts on CBS-TV.
1958 Guinea proclaimed its independence from France.
1955 The TV series Alfred Hitchcock Presents debuts on CBS.
1950 The Charles Schulz comic strip, Peanuts, debuts.
1937
Future US president Ronald Reagan makes his acting debut in the Warner Bros. movie Love is in the Air.
(photo credit: NARA)
1919
US president Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.
(photo credit: NARA)
1908 Cleveland pitcher Addie Joss pitches the fourth perfect game in baseball history (at that time).
1902 Women's suffragist Elizabeth Cody Stanton dies.
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