10-02-2006, 07:01 AM
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October 2nd
1187 ~ Saladin captured Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule.
1800 ~ Birthday of Nat Turner, American leader of slave uprising.
1836 ~ Charles Darwin returned to England after a 5-year journey aboard the HMS Beagle collecting data he will later use to develop his theory of evolution.
1852 ~ Birthday of William Ramsay, Scottish chemist.
1869 ~ Birthday of Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Indian political leader.
1890 ~ Birthday of Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor.
1935 ~ Italy invaded Abyssinia (Ethiopia).
1950 ~ The comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published in US newspapers.
1967 ~ Thurgood Marshall sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court.
1985 ~ Death of Rock Hudson, Actor.
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