On this day: October 2 U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed (1919)
Tiberias massacre: Arabs murder 20 Jews (1938)
President Barack Obama and FLOTUS Michelle Obama take Oprah Winfrey to Copenhagen, Denmark, to give a speech to the International Olympic Committee in a failed attempt to bring the 2016 Summer Olympics to Chicago (2009)
b: Paul von Hindenburg (1897), Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. (1937); d: Samuel Adams (1803), Peter J. Brennan (1996), John Dunlop (2003)
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