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| October 2 is the 276th day of the year. There are 90 days remaining until the end of the year. |
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| 1871 Brigham Young, Mormon leader, is arrested for bigamy. . .and questionable sanity |
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| 1919 U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed. |
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| 1924 The Geneva Protocol is adopted as a means to strengthen the League of Nations. Oh, and to reduce chemical warfare. |
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| 1925 Über-nerd John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system. |
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| 1950 Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published. |
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| 1961 "Ben Casey" premieres on ABC-TV |
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| 1967 Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court. |
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| 1976 "Let My People Come" closes at Morosco Theater New York City after 106 sticky performances |
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| 1980 Michael Myers (D-Pa), is 1st US representative expelled from Congress in over 100 years (ABSCAM)...and boy is he pissed |
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| 1995 "Moon Over Buffalo" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 308 performances |
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| 1869 Mohandas Karamchand “Mahatma” Gandhi, Indian rabble-rouser BONUS TRIVIA QUESTION: In what year was Gandhi awarded the Nobel Peace Prize? |
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| 1926 Jan (nèe James) Morris, transsexual Welsh author, historian, travel writer |
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| 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] |
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| 1942 Annie Leibovitz, gay US photographer |
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| 1951 Sting [Gordon Sumner], English singer/musician/humanitarian/The Police |
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| 1959 Will West, gay US pornographic actor |
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| 1959 Max Stone, gay US pornographic actor |
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| 1962 [William Joseph] Joe Lara, maybe gay US model/actor/country musician |
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| 1966 Chip Arndt, gay US civil rights activist/Amazing Race winner with former partner, Reichen Lehmkuhl |
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| 1967 Thomas Muster, Austrian tennis player |
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| 1967 Frankie Fredericks, Namibian Olympic runner |
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| 1968 Joey Slotnick, maybe gay US actor |
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| 1969 Dan Montgomery Jr, US actor/Red Dirt |
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| 1973 Bret Hudson, maybe gay Australian gymnast |
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| 1977 Adrian Quiñonez, maybe gay US actor |
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| 1979 Nathan Marlow, gay US reality game show participant/Big Brother 4 USA |
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| 1979 Yann Cucherat, maybe gay French gymnast |
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| 1981 Erik Fellows, maybe gay US model/actor |
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| 1986 Ashton Star, gay US pornographic actor |
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| 1985 Rock Hudson [Roy Harold Scherer, Jr.], gay US actor (MacMillian and Wife), succumbs to AIDS at 59 |
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| 2005 Nipsey Russell, maybe gay US comedian, tries to rhyme but gets slapped down by father time |
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| 2006 Tamara Dobson, maybe gay US model/actress (Cleopatra Jones), wasn’t expecting chained heat. |
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| BONUS TRIVIA QUESTION: Can you identify the celebrity who introduces Johnny and chats him up? ANSWER: Groucho Marx |
