October 2 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for October 2
In the headlines today:

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.