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October 2nd is the 275th day (276th in leap years) of the
year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 90 days remaining.
Events
- 1187 - Saladin captures Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader
rule.
- 1535 - Jacques Cartier
discovers Montreal, Quebec.
- 1780 - American Revolutionary War: British spy
John Andre is hanged by American forces.
- 1835 - Texas Revolution
begins: Battle of Gonzales - Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales,
Texas but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
- 1836 - Naturalist Charles
Darwin returns to Falmouth, England
aboard the HMS Beagle after a 5-year journey collecting biological
data he will later use to develop his theory of
evolution.
- 1864 - American Civil
War: Battle of
Saltville - Union forces attack Saltville, Virginia but are defeated by Confederate troops.
- 1889 - In Washington, DC,
the first international Conference of American States begins.
- 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.
- 1935 - Italy invades Abyssinia (Ethiopia).
- 1941 - World War II: Operation Typhoon - Germany
begins an all-out offensive against Moscow.
- 1944 - Holocaust: Nazi troops end the Warsaw Uprising.
- 1950 - The comic strip Peanuts by Charles M.
Schulz is first published in seven US newspapers.
- 1955 - The ENIAC computer is deactivated.
- 1955 - Alfred Hitchcock Presents
debuts (last new episode aired on June 26, 1962).
- 1958 - Guinea declares itself independent
from France.
- 1959 - The Twilight
Zone debuts.
- 1962 - Johnny Carson debuts as
host of The Tonight Show.
- 1967 - Thurgood
Marshall 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.
- 1990 - A Chinese airline Boeing
737-247 is hijacked; after landing at Guangzhou, crashes into an empty
Boeing 707-3J6B and then a Boeing
757-21B on the ground killing 132
- 1996 - The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S.
President Bill Clinton.
- 1996 - A Aeroperu Boeing 757
crashes in Pacific Ocean shortly after takeoff from Lima, Peru killing 70.
- 2004 - American Samoa joins
the North American Numbering Plan.
Births
- 1452 - King Richard III of England (d. 1485)
- 1798 - Charles
Albert of Savoy (d. 1849)
- 1800 - Nat Turner, American leader of slave uprising (d.
1831)
- 1832 - Edward Burnett
Tylor, anthropologist (d. 1917)
- 1847 - Paul von
Hindenburg, German officer and politician (d. 1934)
- 1851 - Ferdinand Foch,
French soldier (d. 1929)
- 1852 - William Ramsay,
Scottish chemist (d. 1916)
- 1869 - Mahatma Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Indian
political leader (d. 1948)
- 1871 - Cordell Hull, United States Secretary of State (d. 1955)
- 1879 - Wallace Stevens,
poet (d. 1955)
- 1890 - Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (d. 1977)
- 1895 - Bud Abbott, comedian, actor
(d. 1974)
- 1901 - Alice Prin, singer/artist:
"Kiki" (d. 1953)
- 1904 - Graham
Greene, British novelist (d. 1991)
- 1911 - Jack Finney, author (d.
1995)
- 1928 - George McFarland,
American actor (d. 1993)
- 1932 - Maury Wills, baseball star
- 1937 - Johnnie L.
Cochran Jr., attorney
- 1938 - Rex Reed, movie critic, actor
- 1943 - Franklin
Rosemont, co-founder of the Surrealist Movement in the United States
- 1945 - Don McLean, American songwriter
- 1948 - Avery Brooks, actor
(Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
- 1948 - Donna Karan, fashion designer
- 1949 - Richard Hell,
musician
- 1951 - Sting,
British singer, actor
- 1954 - Lani O'Grady, actress (d. 2001)
- 1955 - Lorraine Bracco,
actress
- 1961 - Edmond Yu (d. 1997)
- 1967 - Frankie
Fredericks, Namibian athlete
- 1970 - Kelly Ripa, actress, television host
Deaths
- 1264 - Pope Urban IV (b. c.
1195)
- 1782 - Charles
Lee, British and U.S. officer (b.
1732)
- 1803 - Samuel Adams (American revolutionary) (b. 1722)
- 1853 - François Jean Dominique Arago, French mathematician (b. 1786)
- 1927 - Svante Arrhenius,
Swedish scientist (b. 1857)
- 1962 - Boris
Y. Bukreev, Soviet mathematician (b. 1859)
- 1968 - Marcel Duchamp,
French artist (b. 1887)
- 1973 - Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (b. 1897)
- 1981 - Hazel Scott, singer (b.
1920)
- 1985 - Rock Hudson, actor (b.
1925)
- 1998 - Gene Autry, singer, actor,
entrepreneur (b. 1907)
- 2003 - Gunther Philipp, Austrian comedian and actor
Holidays and observances
October 1 - October 3 -
September 2 - November 2 -
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