October 2 - Happy Birthday Aunt Sallie!!

Happy Birthday Aunt Sallie!!

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This Day In History

1535

Jacques Cartier discovers the area where Montreal, Quebec is located.

1789

George Washington sends the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification.

1889

In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West.

1925

John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system.

1950

Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published

1959

The anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS television.

1996

The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.

Famous Birthdays

1452

King Richard III of England (d. 1485)

1538

Saint Charles Borromeo, Italian cardinal (d. 1584)

1737

Francis Hopkinson, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (d. 1791)

1869

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Indian independence movement figure (d. 1948)

1871

Martha Brookes Hutcheson, American landscape architect (d. 1959)

1890

Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (d. 1977)

1895

Bud Abbott, American comedian and actor (d. 1974)

1904

Graham Greene, British novelist (d. 1991)

1914

John Whiteside Parsons, American rocket scientist, author, and occultist (d. 1952)

1919

John W. Duarte, British composer, guitarist and writer (d. 2004)

1938

Rex Reed, American movie critic and actor

1942

Steve Sabol, American filmmaker and one of founding members of NFL Films (d. 2012)
1945
Don McLean, American songwriter
1948
Avery Brooks, American actor
Chris LeDoux, American musician and rodeo performer (d. 2005)
1951
Sting, English musician and actor
1954
Lorraine Bracco, American actress
1974
Michelle Krusiec, American actress