This Date in History: October 2

 

Captain Thomas H. French of Company M, 7th Cavalry Regiment went on leave on October 2, 1873 and remained absent from the unit for the remainder of the year, when he was placed on an unspecified temporary duty at Fort Abercrombie, Dakota Territory until March 18, 1874 when he returned to Fort Rice.  (Custer’s Best: The Story of Company M, 7th Cavalry at the Little Bighorn)

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Paul von Hindenburg, German Field Marshal in World War I, born October 2, 1847 in Posen, winner of the Pour le Mérite in World War I, second president of the Weimar Republic until 1934, died August 2, 1934 in Gut Neudeck (East Prussia), nicknamed: “The Iron Hindenburg” and “The Old Gentleman” said of Adolf Hitler: “Make that man [Hitler] my Chancellor?  I’ll make him a postmaster, and he can lick stamps with my head on them!”  (2,000 Quotes From Hitler’s 1,000-Year Reich)