Ocotober 2nd

October 2 is the 276th day of the year.  There are 90 days remaining until the end of the year.

1871 Brigham Young, Mormon leader, is arrested for bigamy. . .and questionable sanity

1919 U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.

1924 The Geneva Protocol is adopted as a means to strengthen the League of Nations. Oh, and to reduce chemical warfare.

1925 Über-nerd John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system.

1950 Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published.

1961 "Ben Casey" premieres on ABC-TV

1967 Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court.

1976 "Let My People Come" closes at Morosco Theater New York City after 106 sticky performances

 1980 Michael Myers (D-Pa), is 1st US representative expelled from Congress in over 100 years (ABSCAM)...and boy is he pissed

1995 "Moon Over Buffalo" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 308 performances

1869 Mohandas Karamchand “Mahatma” Gandhi, Indian rabble-rouser 
BONUS TRIVIA QUESTION: In what year was Gandhi awarded the Nobel Peace Prize?

1926 Jan (nèe James) Morris, transsexual Welsh author, historian, travel writer 

1938 Rex Reed, acerbic gay US critic/writer, appeared (ya can't really call it acting) in Myra Breckenridge [Believe it or not, the NNDb website claims that Reed’s sexuality is “a matter of dispute.”  I wonder by whom] 

1942 Annie Leibovitz, gay US photographer 

1951 Sting [Gordon Sumner], English singer/musician/humanitarian/The Police 

1959 Will West, gay US pornographic actor  

1959 Max Stone, gay US pornographic actor  

1962 [William Joseph] Joe Lara, maybe gay US model/actor/country musician  

1966 Chip Arndt, gay US civil rights activist/Amazing Race winner with former partner, Reichen Lehmkuhl 

1967 Thomas Muster, Austrian tennis player 

1967 Frankie Fredericks, Namibian Olympic runner 

1968 Joey Slotnick, maybe gay US actor 

1969 Dan Montgomery Jr, US actor/Red Dirt 

1973 Bret Hudson, maybe gay Australian gymnast

1977 Adrian Quiñonez, maybe gay US actor 

1979 Nathan Marlow, gay US reality game show participant/Big Brother 4 USA 

1979 Yann Cucherat, maybe gay French gymnast

1981 Erik Fellows, maybe gay US model/actor 

1986 Ashton Star, gay US pornographic actor 

1985 Rock Hudson [Roy Harold Scherer, Jr.], gay US actor (MacMillian and Wife), succumbs to AIDS at 59

2005 Nipsey Russell, maybe gay US comedian, tries to rhyme but gets slapped down by father time

2006 Tamara Dobson, maybe gay US model/actress (Cleopatra Jones), wasn’t expecting chained heat.

BONUS TRIVIA QUESTION:  Can you identify the celebrity who introduces Johnny and chats him up?

ANSWER: Groucho Marx