October 2

fr: 2 octobrede: 2. Oktoberes: 2 de octubreit: 2 ottobre

Events :

  • 1187 - Siege of Jerusalem: Saladin captures Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule.
  • 1263 - The battle of Largs fought between Norwegians and Scots.
  • 1535 - Jacques Cartier discovers Montreal, Quebec.
  • 1552 - Conquest of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible.
  • 1780 - John André,
British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War, is hanged as a spy by American forces.
  • 1789 - George Washington transmits the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification.
  • 1835 - The Texas Revolution begins with the Battle of Gonzales: Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
  • 1851 - The pasilalinic-sympathetic compass is demonstrated but proves to be a fake.
  • 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Saltville - Union forces attack Saltville, Virginia, but are defeated by Confederate troops.
  • 1889 - In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West.
  • 1919 - US President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.
  • 1924 - The Geneva Protocol is adopted as a means to strengthen the League of Nations.
  • 1925 - John Logie Baird performers first test of the working television system.
  • 1928 - The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, was founded by Saint Josemaría Escrivá.
  • 1935 - Italy invades Abyssinia (Ethiopia).
  • 1937 - Samuel R. Caldwell becomes the first person in the United States to be arrested on a marijuana charge.
  • 1938 - Tiberias massacre: Arabs murder 20 Jews.
  • 1941 - World War II: In Operation Typhoon, Germany begins an all-out offensive against Moscow.
  • 1944 - World War II: Nazi troops end the Warsaw Uprising.
  • 1950 - Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz first published
  • 1958 - Guinea declares itself independent from France.
  • 1967 - Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court.
  • 1968 - A peaceful student demonstration in Mexico City ends in the Tlatelolco massacre.
  • 1970 - A plane carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado killing 31 people.
  • 1990 - A Chinese airline Boeing 737-247 is hijacked; after landing at Guangzhou, it crashes into two airliners on the ground, killing 132 people.
  • 1992 - The Carandiru Massacre takes place after a riot in the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil.
  • 1996 - The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by former U.S. President Bill Clinton.
  • 1996 - An AeroPerú Boeing 757 crashes in Pacific Ocean shortly after takeoff from Lima, Peru, killing 70.
  • 2001 - The NATO backs US military strikes, following 9/11.
  • 2002 - The Beltway sniper attacks begin, extending over three weeks.
  • 2004 - American Samoa joins the North American Numbering Plan.
  • 2005 - Ethan Allen Boating Accident: The Ethan Allen tour boat capsizes on Lake George in Upstate New York, killing twenty people.
  • 2005 - NFL plays first regular season game outside United States when the Arizona Cardinals defeat the San Francisco 49ers 31-14 in Mexico City, Mexico
  • 2006 - Five school girls are murdered by Charles Carl Roberts in a shooting at an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania before Roberts commits suicide.
  • 2007 - President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea walks across the Military Demarcation Line into North Korea on his way to the second Inter-Korean Summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. The Best day of Scott Emmerson Jones's life; he asked out Louisa Turner.

    • Births :

    Deaths :

    • 939 - Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine
    • 1559 - Jacquet of Mantua, French composer (b. 1483)
    • 1626 - Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar, Spanish diplomat (b. 1567)
    • 1629 - Pierre de Bérulle, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1575)
    • 1629 - Antonio Cifra, Italian composer (b. 1584)
    • 1708 - Anne-Jules, 2nd duc de Noailles, French general (b. 1650)
    • 1724 - François-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (b. 1644)
    • 1746 - Josiah Burchett, English Secretary of the Admiralty
    • 1764 - William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
    • 1775 - Chiyo-ni, Japanese poet (b. 1703)
    • 1780 - John André, British Army officer (executed) (b. 1750)
    • 1782 - Charles Lee, British and U.S. general (b. 1732)
    • 1786 - Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, British admiral (b. 1725)
    • 1803 - Samuel Adams, American revolutionary leader (b. 1722)
    • 1804 - Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French automobile pioneer (b. 1725)
    • 1817 - Fyodor Fyodorovich Ushakov, Russian naval commander and admiral (b. 1744)
    • 1850 - Sarah Biffen, English painter (b. 1784)
    • 1853 - François Jean Dominique Arago, French mathematician (b. 1786)
    • 1927 - Svante Arrhenius, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
    • 1938 - Alexandru Averescu, Romanian soldier and politician (b. 1859)
    • 1947 - Peter D. Ouspensky, Russian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1878)
    • 1962 - Boris Y. Bukreev, Russian mathematician (b. 1859)
    • 1968 - Marcel Duchamp, French artist (b. 1887)
    • 1971 - Bola de Nieve, Cuban singer, pianist, and songwriter (b. 1911)
    • 1973 - Paul Hartman, American actor (b. 1904)
    • 1973 - Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (b. 1897)
    • 1974 - Vasily Shukshin, Russian writer, actor, screenwriter, and director (b. 1929)
    • 1975 - Kumaraswami Kamaraj, Indian political leader, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (b. 1903)
    • 1981 - Harry Golden, American journalist (b. 1902)
    • 1981 - Hazel Scott, West Indian-born singer (b. 1920)
    • 1985 - Rock Hudson, American actor (b. 1925)
    • 1987 - Peter Medawar, Brazilian-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1915)
    • 1987 - Madeleine Carroll, British-born actress (b. 1906)
    • 1988 - Alec Issigonis, Greek-British car designer, developer of the Mini (b. 1906)
    • 1994 - Harriet Hilliard Nelson, American actress (b. 1909)
    • 1996 - Robert Bourassa, politician, premier of Quebec (b. 1933)
    • 1998 - Gene Autry, American singer, actor, and entrepreneur (b. 1907)
    • 1998 - Olivier Gendebien, Belgian racing driver (b. 1924)
    • 1999 - Heinz G. Konsalik, German novelist (b. 1921)
    • 2001 - Franz Biebl, German composer (b. 1906)
    • 2002 - Heinz von Foerster, Austrian-born physicist and philosopher (b. 1911)
    • 2003 - John T. Dunlop, U.S. Secretary of Labor (b. 1914)
    • 2005 - Bert Eriksson, Belgian neo-Nazi (b. 1931)
    • 2005 - Nipsey Russell, American comedian (b. 1918)
    • 2005 - August Wilson, American playwright (b. 1945)
    • 2006 - Helen Chenoweth-Hage, American politician (b. 1938)
    • 2006 - Tamara Dobson, American actress (b. 1947)
    • 2006 - Paul Halmos, Hungarian-born American mathematician (b. 1916)
    • 2007 - Dan Keating, Irish politician (b. 1902)
    • 2007 - Tex Coulter, American football player (b. 1924)
    • 2007 - Christopher Derrick, British writer (b. 1921)

    Holidays and observances :

    • Roman festivals - First day of the Ludi Augustales to celebrate the recovery by emperor August of Roman standards from the Parthians
    • Roman Catholic Church - Memorial of Guardian Angels, Leodegar
    • Also see October 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
    • Guinea - Independence Day (from France, 1958)
    • India - Gandhi Jayanti (birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, 1869)
    • French Republican Calendar - Pomme de terre (Potato) Day, eleventh day in the Month of Vendémiaire
    • International Day of Non-Violence to commomerate birthday of Mahatma Gandhi

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