This day in history
Today is Monday, Oct. 2, the 275th day of 2023. There are 90 days left in the year.
Birthdays: Movie critic Rex Reed is 85. Singer-songwriter Don McLean is 78. Cajun/country singer Jo-el Sonnier is 77. Actor Avery Brooks is 75. Fashion designer Donna Karan is 75. Photographer Annie Leibovitz is 74. Genesis bass guitarist Mike Rutherford is 73. Singermusician Sting is 72. Actor Lorraine Bracco is 69. The Human League singer Phil Oakey is 68. R&B singer Freddie Jackson is 67. Singer-producer Robbie Nevil is 65. Retro-soul singer James Hunter is 61. Folk-country singer Gillian Welch is 56. Actor-talk show host Kelly Ripa is 53. Singer Tiffany is 52. Rock singer Lene Nystrom is 50. Actor Efren Ramirez is 50. R&B singer LaTocha Scott (Xscape) is 51. Gospel singer Mandisa is 47. Actor Christopher Larkin is 36. Rock singer Brittany Howard (Alabama Shakes) is 35. Actor Samantha Barks is 33.
▶In 1869, political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi was born in Porbandar, India.
▶In 1919, President Wilson had a serious stroke at the White House that left him paralyzed on his left side.
▶In 1941, during World War II, German armies launched an all-out drive against Moscow; Soviet forces succeeded in holding on to their capital.
▶In 1944, German troops crushed the two-month-old Warsaw Uprising, during which a quarter of a million people had been killed.
▶In 1959, Rod Serling’s “The Twilight Zone” made its debut on CBS with the episode “Where Is Everybody?” starring Earl Holliman.
▶In 1967, Thurgood Marshall was sworn as an associate justice of the US Supreme Court as the court opened its new term.
▶In 1970, one of two chartered twin-engine planes flying the Wichita State University football team to Utah crashed into a mountain near Silver Plume, Colo., killing 31 of the 40 people on board.
▶In 1984, Richard W. Miller became the first FBI agent to be arrested and charged with espionage. (Miller was tried three times; he was sentenced to 20 years in prison, but was released after nine years.)
▶In 2016, Hall of Fame baseball broadcaster Vin Scully signed off for the last time, ending 67 years behind the mic for the Los Angeles Dodgers, as he called the team’s 7-1 loss to the Giants in San Francisco.
▶In 2017, rock superstar Tom Petty died at a Los Angeles hospital at age 66, a day after going into cardiac arrest at his home.
▶In 2019, a B-17 Flying Fortress owned by the Collings Foundation crashed at Bradley International Airport in Connecticut. Seven of the thirteen people on board were killed, and the other six, as well as one person on the ground, were injured.
▶In 2020, stricken by COVID-19, President Trump was injected with an experimental drug combination at the White House before being flown to a military hospital, where he was given Remdesivir, an antiviral drug.
▶Last year, police firing tear gas after an Indonesian soccer match in an attempt to stop violence triggered a disastrous crush of fans that left at least 125 people dead.