Today in History - History - October 2nd

19501st strip of Charlie Brown, "Li'l Folks", later "Peanuts", by Charles M. Schulz published in 9 papers

1991Eric Lindros refuses to sign with Quebec Nordiques

1906Tommy Burns KOs Jim Burns in 15 for heavyweight boxing title

1991Steffi Graf becomes the youngest woman to win 500 professional tennis matches

1967Mickey Wright wins LPGA Seven Lakes Golf Invitational

1967Thurgood Marshall sworn in as 1st black Supreme Court Justice

1535Jacques Cartier discovers Mount Royal (Montreal)

1902Beatrix Potter's "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" is published by Frederick Warne & Co. in London.

1980Larry Holmes TKOs Muhammad Ali in 11 for heavyweight boxing title

2001"Scrubs", starring Zach Braff as Dr. John "J.D." Dorian, premieres on NBC

1967Thomas Muster, Leibnitz Austria, tennis star (1995 French Open)

1904[Henry] Graham Greene, England, prolific novelist (Brighton Rock)

1942Steve Sabol, Moorestown New Jersey, filmmaker (35 Emmy awards, founder of NFL Films)

1869Mahatma Gandhi [Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi], Porbandar Kathiawad India, pacifist and spiritual leader, (d. 1948)

1949Annie Leibovitz, Waterbury, Connecticut, photographer (Rolling Stones)

1900Coco the Clown [Nicolai Poliakoff], Dvinsk, Famous Russian clown

1800Nat Turner, Southhampton County Virginia, leader of major slave rebellion (1831)

1968Jana Novotna, Brno Czechoslovakia, tennis star (1995 Aust/Wimbledon doubles)

1933John B. Gurdon, Dippenhall, Hampshire, English developmental biologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine)

1890Groucho Marx, [Julius], NYC, comedian (Marx Bros, You Bet Your Life)

1993Spike Lee weds Tonya Lewis

1999"Matchbox Twenty" lead singer Rob Thomas (27) weds model Marisol Maldonado in Santa Ynez, California

1970Actor Christopher Plummer (40) weds actress Elaine Taylor (26) in Montreal, Quebec

2004"Piano Man" singer-songwriter Billy Joel (55) weds television food critic and chef Katie Lee (23) at 15-acre waterfront estate in Centre Island, New York

1973Paavo "Flying Finn" Nurmi, who won 6 Olympic gold medals, dies at 76

1968Marcel Duchamp, French painter and sculptor (Nude Descending a Staircase), dies at 81