Today in History - History - October 2nd

1187Sultan Saladin captures Jerusalem from Crusaders

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

1967Mickey Wright wins LPGA Seven Lakes Golf Invitational

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

1937FDR visits Grand Coulee Dam construction site in Washington State

1921NY Yankee Babe Ruth hits then record 59th HR

1991Eric Lindros refuses to sign with Quebec Nordiques

1966Mickey Wright wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational

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

1935Mussolini's Italian army attacks Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1993Spike Lee weds Tonya Lewis

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

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

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