Today in History October 2

829 – Theophilos becomes Byzantine Emperor.

1187 – Saladin captures Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule.

1470 – War of the Roses: King Edward IV of England escapes to Flanders, only to return the following March to reclaim his throne.

1780 – American Revolutionary War: John André, a British Army officer, is hanged as a spy by the Continental Army.

1925 – John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system.

1942 – World War II: Ocean Liner RMS Queen Mary accidentally rams and sinks HMS Curacoa, killing 337 crewmen aboard Curacoa.

1959 – Rod Serling’s anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS. The first episode is “Where Is Everybody?”

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

2002 – The Beltway sniper attacks begin, extending over three weeks.

2006 – Five Amish girls are murdered in a shooting at a school in Pennsylvania.

2018 – Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi is last seen entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

1800 – Nat Turner, American slave and uprising leader (d. 1831)

1847 – Paul von Hindenburg, German field marshal and politician, 2nd President of Germany (d. 1934)

	Marcel Duchamp photographed by Man Ray

1869 – Mahatma Gandhi, Indian freedom fighter, activist and philosopher (d. 1948)

1890 – Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (d. 1977)

1897 – Bud Abbott, American comedian (d. 1974)

1937 – Johnnie Cochran, American lawyer (d. 2005)

1951 – Sting, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and actor

1264 – Pope Urban IV

1764 – William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1720)

1803 – Samuel Adams, American philosopher and politician, 4th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1722)

1947 – P. D. Ouspensky, Russian-English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1878)

1953 – John Marin, American painter (b. 1870)

1968 – Marcel Duchamp, French painter and sculptor (b. 1887)

1985 – Rock Hudson, American actor (b. 1925)