Today in HistoryToday is Thursday, October 2, the 275th day of 2003. There are 90 days left in the year.

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In 1890, comedian Groucho Marx was born in New York.

In 1919, US President Wilson suffered a stroke that left him partially paralysed.

IIn 1944, Nazi troops crushed the two-month-old Warsaw Uprising, during which a quarter-million people were killed.

In 1958, the former French colony of Guinea in West Africa proclaimed its independence.

In 1985, actor Rock Hudson died at his home in California at age 59 after a battle with AIDS.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

“It wasn’t until quite late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say ‘I don’t know’.” — W. Somerset Maugham, English writer (1874-1965).