On This Day - 2nd October

1869 - Mahatma Gandhi born
1890 - Groucho Marx born
1895 - Bud Abbott born
1928 - George "Spanky" McFarland born
1938 - Rex Reed born
1945 - Don McLean born
1948 - Donna Karan born
1951 - Sting born
1955 - Lorraine Bracco born
1968 - More than 25 people die during a gun battle in Mexico City just 10 days before the Olympics Games are due to begin. In Birmingham a woman gives birth to six babies in what is being hailed as the first recorded case of live sextuplets in Britain.
1970 - Kelly Ripa born
1974 - Experiments on monkeys in America reveal how smoking cannabis can cause brain damage.
1978 - Ayumi Hamasaki born
1983 - Neil Kinnock becomes the new leader of the Labour party, with Roy Hattersley joining him as deputy.
1989 - Anglican rebels disrupt a church service in Rome attended by the Archbishop of Canterbury in protest at plans for closer ties with the Catholic church.
1993 - Demonstrators who back rebel ministers occupying Moscow's parliament in defiance of President Boris Yeltsin clash with police.

On This Day - 1st October

1903 - Vladimir Horowitz born
1920 - Walter Matthau born
1921 - James Whitmore born
1924 - Jimmy Carter born
1927 - Tom Bosley born
1928 - George Peppard born
1932 - Richard Harris born
1935 - Julie Andrews born
1936 - Stella Stevens born
1945 - Rod Carew born
1950 - Randy Quaid born
1957 - A vaccine against the strain of influenza 'Asian Flu' sweeping around the world is made available to the British public.
1958 - Nasa is created to carry out America's space programme
1962 - Two people die and at least 75 are injured in rioting following the admission of James Meredith to the University of Mississippi.
1963 - Mark McGwire born
1968 - Jay Underwood born
1970 - Dozens are crushed in crowded Cairo streets as millions of Egyptians mourn the death of President Abdel Nasser.
1975 - Muhammad Ali retains the world heavyweight boxing championship after defeating Joe Frazier in their third and arguably greatest fight, the 'Thrilla in Manila'.
1985 - Police close off areas of Liverpool (Toxteth) and London (Peckham) after outbreaks of violence and vandalism.
1995 - US convicts Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman of plotting holy war
2004 - British Prime Minister Tony Blair undergoes heart surgery
2005 - At least 26 people die and more than 50 are injured as the Indonesian resort island of Bali is hit by bomb blasts.

On This Day - 30th September

1917 - Buddy Rich born
1921 - Deborah Kerr born
1924 - Truman Capote born
1928 - Alexander Fleming discovers Penicillin
1931 - Angie Dickinson born
1935 - Z.Z. Hill born
1935 - Johnny Mathis born
1938 - The British Prime Minister is hailed as bringing "peace to Europe" after signing a pact with Germany.
1943 - Marilyn McCoo born
1951 - Big crowds have attended the final ceremonies which marked the offical end of the Festival of Britain.
1955 - Hollywood actor James Dean is killed when his sports car is involved in a head-on collision with another vehicle.
1957 - Fran Drescher born
1961 - Eric Stoltz born
1964 - Robby Takac born
1967 - BBC Radio 1 launches as UK's first legal pop music station
1968 - Monica Bellucci born
1971 - The British Government names Oleg Lyalin as the Soviet defector who last week exposed dozens of Russians alleged to be spying in the UK and Jenna Elfman born
1980 - Martina Hingis born
1981 - Dominique Moceanu born
1982 - Kieran Culkin and Lacey Chabert born
1988 - The killing of three unarmed IRA suspects by British soldiers was lawful, a Gibraltar court finds.
1993 - Quakes in western state of Maharashtra, India, kill 22,000
1994 - A meeting between Irish Taoiseach Albert Reynolds and Russian President Boris Yeltsin had to be cancelled because the Russian premier overslept.
2000 - There is a shocked and angry reaction to images of the death of a 12-year-old Palestinian boy caught in Israeli-Palestinian crossfire.
2004 - Baghdad bomb kills 34 children in day of bloodshed
2010 - Hollywood actor Tony Curtis dies

On This Day - 29th September

1547 - Miguel de Cervantes author of 'Don Quixote' born .
1902 - Author Emile Zola dies
1907 - Gene Autry born
1908 - Greer Garson born
1913 - Stanley Kramer born
1931 - Anita Ekberg born
1935 - Jerry Lee Lewis born
1941 - Nazis kill thousands of Jews at Babi Yar ravine near Kiev
1942 - Madeline Kahn born
1943 - Lech Walesa born
1948 - Bryant Gumbel born
1952 - John Cobb killed attempting water-speed record on Loch Ness
1960 - Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschchev thumps his desk and interrupts UN speeches to show disapproval.
1971 - Mackenzie Crook born
1972 - China and Japan agreed to establish diplomatic relations
1978 - The leader of the Roman Catholic Church has dies of a heart attack after the shortest papal reign in history, just 33 days.
1979 - Pope John Paul II calls on the people of Ireland to end all violence and return to "the ways of peace".
1988 - The United States successfully launches its first manned space mission since the Challenger disaster two and a half years ago.
1997 - British scientists say they have established a link between a human brain disease - vCJD - and one found in cows - BSE.
2010 - David Miliband quits front line politics.

On This Day - 28th September

1901 - Ed Sullivan born
1924 - Marcello Mastroianni born
1925 - Arnold Stang born
1934 - Brigitte Bardot born
1964 - The Warren Commission concludes there was no conspiracy surrounding the assassination of President Kennedy and gunman Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone and Janeane Garofalo born
1967 - Moon Unit Zappa and Mira Sorvino born
1970 - Egyptian leader Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack
1972 - Gwyneth Paltrow born
1975 - Gunmen take eight hostage at London's Spaghetti House
1984 - The miners' strike is unlawful because a union ballot was never held, a high court judge rules.
1985 - Riots break out on the streets of south London after a woman was shot and seriously injured in a house search.
1992 - Skye Bartusiak born
1994 - The Estonia car and passenger ferry with 950 people on board sinks in the Baltic Sea.
1995 - Israeli and Palestinian leaders sign a deal that will allow a certain degree for autonomy in the West Bank.
2000 - Palestinians in east Jerusalem fight police after hardline Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon visits the sacred Al Aqsa mosque compound.
2002 - Edwina Currie reveals she had love affair with John Major

On This Day - 27th September

1825 - The firsts world railway is opened. The railway which runs between Stockton and Darlington was designed by George Stephenson.
1920 - William Conrad born
1922 - Arthur Penn born
1926 - Jayne Meadows born
1934 - Greg Morris born
1934 - Wilford Brimley born
1940 - Germany, Italy and Japan sign pact forming the Axis
1947 - Cheryl Tiegs born
1947 - Meat Loaf born
1958 - Shaun Cassidy born
1962 - Rebels in Yemen assassinate Iman Ahmed and establish republic
1964 - Stephan Jenkins born
1968 - The American hippy musical "Hair" opens in London - one day after the abolition of theatre censorship.
1970 - The king of Jordan and the leader of the PLO's Yasser Arafat agree a ceasefire at a summit of Arab leaders in Cairo, Egypt.
1988 - Sprinter Ben Johnson is sent home from the Seoul Olympic Games in disgrace having tested positive for drugs.
1996 - The capital of Afghanistan falls to opposition militia after three days of fierce fighting.
1998 - 16 years under Kohl end as Schroeder wins German elections
2001 - A gunman runs amok in a central Switzerland government building, killing at least 14 people before turning the gun on himself.

On This Day - 26th September

1774 - John Chapman born
1849 - Ivan Pavlov born
1888 - T.S. Eliot born
1898 - George Gershwin born
1914 - Jack LaLanne born
1917 - Artist Edgar Degas dies
1926 - Julie London born
1944 - British and Polish soldiers withdraw from Arnhem after days of fierce fighting with little food or water and Anne Robinson born
1945 - Composer Bela Bartok dies
1948 - Olivia Newton-John born
1956 - Linda Hamilton born
1960 - Almost 70 million Americans tune in to watch the first ever televised debate between the two presidential candidates Kennedy and Nixon.
1962 - Lawrence Leritz born
1968 - Portugal's Salazar still in coma - Caetano takes over as PM and James Caviezel born
1972 - Shawn Stockman born
1973 - Concorde makes its first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic in record-breaking time.
1981 - Serena Williams born
1982 - Christina Milian born
1983 - Australia II wins America's Cup after 132 years in US hands
1984 - Britain and China finalise proposals to end 150 years of British rule in Hong Kong.
1997 - Two earthquakes kill 10 people and severely damage priceless art treasures in central Italy.
2002 - More than 1,000 die as Joola ferry capsizes off Gambia coast