October 2 is the 275th day of the year (276th in Leap years). There are 90 days remaining.
Events:
- 1187 - Saladin captures Jerusalem
- 1535 - Jacques Cartier discovers Montreal, Quebec
- 1780 - British spy John Andre[?] is hanged by American forces
- 1835 - Battle of Gonzales[?] - Texas Revolution begins
- 1870 - Italy annexes Rome and the Papal States
- 1919 - President Woodrow Wilson has a stroke
- 1935 - Italy invades Abyssinia
- 1941 - Germany begins Operation "Typhoon" against Moscow.
- 1942 - First self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction demonstrated, in Chicago, Illinois
- 1944 - Nazi troops end Warsaw Uprising[?]
- 1950 - Comic stip Peanuts by Charles Schulz is first published in nine newspapers.
- 1955 - ENIAC deactivated
- 1958 - Guinea declares itself independent from France
- 1967 - Thurgood Marshall sworn in as first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court
- 1996 - Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton
Births:
- 1452 - King Richard III of England
- 1798 - Charles Albert of Savoy
- 1800 - Nat Turner, American leader of slave uprising (+ 1831)
- 1847 - Paul von Hindenburg, German officer and politician (+ 1934)
- 1851 - Ferdinand Foch[?], French soldier (+ 1929)
- 1852 - William Ramsay, Scottish chemist
- 1869 - Mohandas Gandhi, Indian political leader (+ 1948)
- 1879 - Wallace Stevens, poet (+ 1955)
- 1890 - Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (+ 1977)
- 1895 - Bud Abbott, comedian, actor (+ 1974)
- 1901 - Alice Prin, singer/artist: "Kiki" (+ 1953)
- 1904 - Graham Greene, British novelist
- 1911 - Jack Finney[?], author (+ 1995)
- 1928 - George McFarland, American actor
- 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
- 1948 - Donna Karan, fashion designer
- 1949 - Richard Hell, musician
- 1951 - Sting British singer, actor
- 1954 - Lani O'Grady[?], actress (+ 2001)
- 1955 - Lorraine Bracco[?], actress
- 1961 - Edmond Yu
- 1967 - Frankie Fredericks, Namibian athlete
- 1970 - Kelly Ripa, actress, television host
Deaths:
- 1782 - Charles Lee, British and U.S. officer
- 1853 - François Jean Dominique Arago, French mathematician
- 1927 - Svante Arrhenius, Swedish scientist
- 1962 - Boris Y. Bukreev[?], Soviet mathematician, dies at 103
- 1968 - Marcel Duchamp, French artist
- 1973 - Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner
- 1981 - Hazel Scott[?], singer
- 1985 - Rock Hudson, actor
- 1998 - Gene Autry, singer, actor, entrepreneur
Holidays:
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October 1 - October 3 - September 2 - November 2 - more historical anniversaries
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