October 2

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October 2 is the 275th day (276th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 90 days remaining.

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1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

Events

1187 - Siege of Jerusalem: 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 for his role in Benedict Arnold's p sell West Point to the British Army.
1789 - George Washington transmits the proposed Constitutional amendments (the so called "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.
1836 - Naturalist Charles Darwin returns to Falmouth, England aboard the HMS Beagle after a five-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.
1872 - On this day, Phileas Fogg sets off on his round world trip to return on December 21st or lose £20,000 in the book "Around the World in Eighty Days" by Jules Verne
1889 - In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American old west.
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.
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).
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 - The comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published in seven US newspapers.
1951 - Gordon Matthew Sumner (Sting) of the band The Police is born.
1955 - The ENIAC computer is deactivated at 11:45 PM.
1955 - Alfred Hitchcock Presents debuts (last new episode aired on June 26, 1962).
1958 - Guinea declares itself independent from France.
1959 - The Twilight Zone pilot premieres.
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.
1978 - Baseball: Bucky Dent hits a home run for the New York Yankees to defeat the Boston Red Sox in a one-game play off at Fenway Park. The home run was Dent's 5th of the season.
1990 - A Chinese airline Boeing 737-247 is hijacked; after landing at Guangzhou it crashes into two airliners on the ground, killing 132
1992 - The Carandiru Massacre takes place after a riot in the Carandiru prison system in São Paulo, Brazil.
1996 - The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
1996 - An AeroPerú Boeing 757 crashes in Pacific Ocean shortly after takeoff from Lima, Peru killing 70.
1996 - Lance Armstrong is diagnosed with testicular cancer that spreads to his liver, lungs, and brain.
2000 - The science fiction TV-series Andromeda premiered, it ended on May 13, 2005.
2001 - Bankruptcy of Swissair.
2001 - First palindromic MM-DD-YYYY date since August 31, 1380.
2004 - American Samoa joins the North American Numbering Plan.
2005 - The Ethan Allen tour boat capsized on Lake George in Upstate New York, killing twenty-one people.