On This Day:
Wednesday October 2, 2013 This is the 275th day of the year, with 90 days remaining in 2013. Fact of the Day: world population In 2006, the world population will exceed 6,500,000,000 and the United States population will exceed 300,000,000. Worldwide, there are 4.1 births per second and 1.8 deaths per second. In the United States, there is one birth every eight seconds and one death every 13 seconds. China has the world's largest population with over 1,300,000,000 people. One out of every five people in the world live in China.
Holidays Feast day of the Guardian Angels, St. Leger or Leodegarius, and St. Eleutherius of Nicomedia.
Guinea: Independence Day.
Holy day of the Guardian Angels.
Events 1187 - Saladin, the Muslim sultan, captured Jerusalem after its 88-year occupation by the Franks.
1608 - First telescope was demonstrated by the Dutch lens maker, Hans Lipperschey.
1780 - British Major John Andre was hanged as a spy by U.S. forces in Tappan, New York, during the American Revolution.
1835 - The first battle of the Texas Revolution was waged near the Guadalupe River.
1836 - Charles Darwin returned from his five-year survey of South American waters aboard the HMS Beagle.
1870 - Rome became the capital of the newly unified Italy. The previous capital was Florence.
1871 - Morman leader Brigham Young was arrested for polygamy.
1909 - Orville Wright set an altitude record, flying at 1,600 feet.
1919 - President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke that left him partially paralyzed.
1944 - Nazi troops crushed the 63-day-old Warsaw Uprising; one-quarter million Poles died.
1950 - Comic strip "Peanuts," by Charles M. Schultz, was first published in nine newspapers,
1955 - "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" had its TV premiere.
1958 - Guinea became the independent Republic of Guinea, rejecting the new French constitution.
1959 - "The Twilight Zone" premiered.
1964 - Scientists announced findings that smoking can cause cancer.
1967 - Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first African-American (associate) justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1968 - California's Redwood National Park was established.
1975 - Showa Tenno Hirohito, the 124th Japanese monarch along an imperial line dating back to 660 BC, was welcomed by President Gerald Ford.
1990 - Senate confirmed the Supreme Court nomination of Justice David H. Souter.
1996 - Former Bulgarian premier Andrei Lukanov was shot and killed by an unidentified gunman.
2002 - A man was shot and killed in a grocery store parking lot in Wheaton, Maryland, becoming the first victim in a series of sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C. area, that left 10 dead.
2006 - Five school girls are murdered by Charles Carl Roberts in a shooting at an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania before Roberts commits suicide.
Births 1452 - Richard III, King of England.
1869 - Mohandas Karamchand (Mahatma) Gandhi, Indian political and spiritual leader.
1890 - American comedian Groucho Marx (Julius Henry Marx).
1895 - Bud Abbott, American actor and comedian.
1904 - Graham Greene, English novelist.
1945 - Don McLean, American singer-songwriter.
1949 - Annie Leibovitz, American portrait photographer.
1951 - Sting (Gordon Sumner), British singer and actor.
1967 - Bud Gaugh, American musician.
Deaths 322 B.C.E. - Aristotle, Greek philosopher, scientist, and physician, born in Stagira, Macedonia.
1803 - Samuel Adams, American Revolution leader and politician.
1985 - Rock Hudson (Roy Harold Scherer, Jr.) , American actor.
1998 - Gene Autry, Hollywood's singing cowboy, at 91.
2005 - Nipsey Russell, American comedian.
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