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This day in history: 2 October

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281 historical events, births and deaths are listed for 2 October.
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1942: World War II: Ocean Liner RMS Queen Mary accidentally rams and sinks HMS Curacoa, killing over 300 crewmen aboard Curacoa.

Holidays and observances

Batik Day (Indonesia)

Christian feast day: Blessed Antoine Chevrier

Christian feast day: Blessed Jan Beyzym

Christian feast day: Blessed Maria Antonina Kratochwil

Christian feast day: Blessed María Francisca Ricart Olmos

Christian feast day: Denha I of Tikrit (Syriac Orthodox Church)

Christian feast day: Leodegar

Christian feast day: Memorial of the Holy Guardian Angels

Christian feast day: October 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Gandhi's birthday-related observances: Gandhi Jayanti (India)

Gandhi's birthday-related observances: International Day of Non-Violence

Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Guinea from France in 1958

Events

1942World War II: Ocean Liner RMS Queen Mary accidentally rams and sinks HMS Curacoa, killing over 300 crewmen aboard Curacoa.

-48Julius Caesar arrives in Ptolemaic Egypt in his pursuit of Pompey and learns of the latter's death.

1864American Civil War: Confederates defeat a Union attack on Saltville, Virginia. A massacre of wounded Union prisoners ensues.

1780American Revolutionary War: John André, a British Army officer, is hanged as a spy by the Continental Army.

1187Saladin won Jerusalem after the city surrendered to his forces following a prolonged siege.

1958Guinea declares its independence from France.

2002The Beltway sniper attacks begin in Washington, D.C., extending over three weeks and killing 10 people.

2019A privately owned Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress conducting a living history exhibition flight crashes shortly after takeoff from Windsor Locks, Connecticut, killing seven.

1967Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of the United States Supreme Court.

1928The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded.

1919Seven days after suffering a "physical collapse" following a speech in Pueblo, Colorado, U.S. president Woodrow Wilson has a catastrophic stroke at the White House, leaving him physically and mentally incapacitated for the remainder of his

2018The Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi is assassinated in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.

1789The United States Bill of Rights is sent to the various States for ratification.

1937Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of Haitians living in the border region of the Dominican Republic.

1944World War II: German troops end the Warsaw Uprising.

1470The Earl of Warwick's rebellion forces King Edward IV of England to flee to the Netherlands, restoring Henry VI to the throne.

1870By plebiscite, the citizens of the Papal States accept annexation by the Kingdom of Italy.

1971South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu is re-elected in a one-man election.

2006Five Amish girls are murdered in a shooting at a school in Pennsylvania, United States.

2007President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea goes to North Korea for an Inter-Korean summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.

1996Aeroperú Flight 603 crashes into the ocean near Peru, killing all 70 people on board.

1920Ukrainian War of Independence: Mikhail Frunze orders the Red Army to immediately cease hostilities with the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine.

1996The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.

2004The first parkrun, then known as the Bushy Park Time Trial, takes place in Bushy Park, London, UK.

1992Military police storm the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil during a prison riot. The resulting massacre leaves 111 prisoners dead.

1968Mexican President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz orders soldiers to suppress a demonstration of unarmed students, ten days before the start of the 1968 Summer Olympics.

20252 people are killed and at least 4 others injured in an attack on a synagogue in Manchester, UK, during Yom Kippur.

1970An aircraft carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado, killing 31 people.

829Theophilos succeeds his father Michael II as Byzantine Emperor.

1263The Battle of Largs is fought between Norwegians and Scots.

1990Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 is hijacked and lands at Guangzhou, where it crashes into two other airliners on the ground, killing 132.

1552Russo-Kazan Wars: Russian troops enter Kazan.

811Michael I Rangabe is proclaimed as Byzantine Emperor, forcing the rival claimant Staurakios to abdicate his claim.

1835Texas Revolution: Mexican troops attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.

1980Michael Myers becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War.

1766The Nottingham Cheese Riot breaks out at the Goose Fair in Nottingham, UK, in response to the excessive cost of cheese.

1971British European Airways Flight 706 crashes near Aarsele, Belgium, killing 63.

2016Ethiopian protests break out during a festival in the Oromia region, killing dozens of people.

939Battle of Andernach: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, crushes a rebellion against his rule, by a coalition of Eberhard of Franconia and other Frankish dukes.

Born on this day

1986Camilla Belle, American actress

1992Alisson Becker, Brazilian footballer

1991Roberto Firmino, Brazilian footballer

1988Brittany Howard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

2002Jacob Sartorius, American social media personality and singer

1990Samantha Barks, Manx actress and singer

1984Marion Bartoli, French tennis player

1987Phil Kessel, American ice hockey player

1989Frederik Andersen, Danish ice hockey player

1987Joe Ingles, Australian basketball player

2000Quadeca, American singer-songwriter and YouTuber

1987Ricky Stenhouse Jr., American race car driver

1992Shane Larkin, American-Turkish basketball player

1996Tom Trbojevic, Australian rugby league player

1989Aaron Hicks, American baseball player

1993Lance McCullers Jr., American baseball player

2005Sam Konstas, Australian cricketer

1989Josh Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player

1995Tepai Moeroa, Cook Islands rugby league player

1989George Nash, English rower

1992Nicol Ruprecht, Austrian rhythmic gymnast

1985Çağlar Birinci, Turkish footballer

1982Esra Gümüş, Turkish volleyball player

1982Tyson Chandler, American basketball player

1981Luke Wilkshire, Australian footballer

1978Ayumi Hamasaki, Japanese singer, songwriter, actress

1977Didier Défago, Swiss skier

1976Mark Chilton, English cricketer

1974Bjarke Ingels, Danish architect

1974Paul Teutul Jr., American motorcycle designer, co-founded Orange County Choppers

1974Sam Roberts, Canadian singer-songwriter and musician

1973Efren Ramirez, American actor

1973Lene Nystrøm, Norwegian singer, songwriter, and musician

1973Melissa Harris-Perry, American journalist, author, and educator

1973Scott Schoeneweis, American baseball player

1972Aaron McKie, American basketball player

1971Chris Savino, American comic book artist, writer, animator and creator of The Loud House

1971Jim Root, American guitarist and songwriter

1971Tiffany Darwish, American singer-songwriter

1970Eddie Guardado, American baseball player

Died on this day

2024Marissa Haque, Indonesian politician (born 1962)

2024Susie Berning, American professional golfer (born 1941)

2023Francis Lee, English footballer (born 1944)

2022Sacheen Littlefeather, American actress, model and activist for Native American civil rights (born 1946)

2021Jack Biondolillo, American bowler (born 1940)

2020Anne-Marie Hutchinson, British lawyer (born 1957)

2018Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi journalist (born 1958)

2017Tom Petty, American musician (born 1950)

2016Neville Marriner, British conductor (born 1924)

2015Brian Friel, Irish author, playwright, and director (born 1929)

2015Coleridge Goode, Jamaican-English bassist and composer (born 1914)

2015Johnny Paton, Scottish footballer and coach (born 1923)

2014Robert Flower, Australian footballer (born 1955)

2013Abraham Nemeth, American mathematician and academic (born 1918)

2012Charles Roach, Trinidadian-Canadian lawyer and activist (born 1933)

2012J. Philippe Rushton, English-Canadian psychologist, theorist, academic (born 1943)

2012Nguyễn Chí Thiện, Vietnamese-American poet and activist (born 1939)

2010Kwa Geok Choo, Singaporean lawyer and scholar (born 1920)

2007Dan Keating, Irish Republican Army volunteer (born 1902)

2007George Grizzard, American actor (born 1928)

2007Tex Coulter, American football player (born 1924)

2006Helen Chenoweth-Hage, American politician (born 1938)

2006Paul Halmos, Hungarian-American mathematician (born 1916)

2005August Wilson, American author and playwright (born 1945)

2005Nipsey Russell, American comedian and actor (born 1918)

2003John Thomas Dunlop, American scholar and politician, United States Secretary of Labor (born 1914)

2002Heinz von Foerster, Austrian-American physicist and philosopher (born 1911)

2001Franz Biebl, German composer and academic (born 1906)

2000David Tonkin, Australian politician, Premier of South Australia (born 1929)

1999Heinz G. Konsalik, German journalist and author (born 1921)

Quote of the day

“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.”

Seneca

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