October 2: On This Progressive Day U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed (1919)
Tiberias massacre: Progressive Arabs murder 20 Jews (1938)
Later convicted and jailed for typical bribery and conspiracy crimes in the Abcam Scandal, Democrat Michael Myers, a Longshoreman, becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War (1980)
President B. Hussein Obama and FLOTUS 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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