Today in History - History - October 2nd

1957"The Bridge on the River Kwai", starring William Holden and Alec Guinness, is released

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

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

1535Jacques Cartier discovers Mount Royal (Montreal)

1974Hank Aaron's 733rd career HR on his last NL at bat

1871Brigham Young, mormon leader, arrested for bigamy

1789George Washington transmits the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification.

1552Conquest of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible.

1919US President Woodrow Wilson has a stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed

1991Eric Lindros refuses to sign with Quebec Nordiques

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1993Spike Lee weds Tonya Lewis

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

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

2011Canadian stand-up comedian and actor Seth Rogen (30) weds screenwriter Lauren Miller at Kunde Family Estate in Sonoma, California

1803Samuel Adams, US revolutionary (Boston Massacre-Tea Party) and politican, dies at 81

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