October 2nd

President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea walks across the Military Demarcation Line into North Korea on his way to the second Inter-Korean Summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il.

A man took a group of girls hostage in an Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pa., killing five and wounding five others before committing suicide.

A man was shot and killed in a grocery store parking lot in Wheaton, Md., the first victim in a series of sniper attacks in the Washington, D.C. area that left 10 dead.

The International Space Station got its first residents as an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts arrived aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule for a four-month stay.

Gene Autry, the singing cowboy and former owner of the Anaheim Angels baseball team, died at age 91.

Carandiru massacre. A prison riot in Carandiru Penitentiary, Brazil, led to the killing of over 100 inmates by the police.

The Senate voted 90-9 to confirm Supreme Court nominee David H. Souter.

Actor Rock Hudson died at age 59 after a battle with AIDS.

Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first black associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

'The Twilight Zone' debuted on CBS.

The former French colony of Guinea in West Africa proclaimed its independence.

The "Peanuts" comic strip, by Charles M. Schultz, first appeared in newspapers.

The two-month-long Warsaw Uprising was squelched by Nazi troops battling the Polish underground.

President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke, which left him partially paralyzed.

Comedian Groucho Marx was born in New York.

Political and spiritual leader Mohandas K. Gandhi was born in Porbandar, India.

Battle of Gonzales. The first military engagement of the Texas War of Independence, the Battle of Gonzales, occurred on this day between Texas rebels and Mexican troops. This battle marked the beginning of Texas' War of Independence, which resulted in the establishment of the Republic of Texas.

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

King Henry VII of England invades France.

Sultan Saladin captures Jerusalem from Crusaders.