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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
1100-1899
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.
1900-1999
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: 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 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.
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
1992 - Hero opens in theaters, starring Dustin Hoffman.
1992 - The Carandiru Massacre takes place after a riot in the Carandiru prison system in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
1996 - The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
1996 - An Aeroperu Boeing 757 crashes in Pacific Ocean shortly after takeoff from Lima, Peru killing 70.
2000-2099
2004 - American Samoa joins the North American Numbering Plan.
Births
1400-1899
1452 - King Richard III of England (d. 1485)
1737 - Francis Hopkinson, American author and signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1791)
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)
1900-1999
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 ()
1948 - Donna Karan, fashion designer
1949 - Richard Hell, musician
1950 - Persis Khambatta, actress (d. 1998)
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
1971 - Tiffany, American singer
1973 - Susana Gonzalez, Mexican actress
1978 - Ayumi Hamasaki, Japanese pop singer
Deaths
1200-1899
1264 - Pope Urban IV (b. c. 1195)
1782 - Charles Lee, British and U.S. officer (b. 1732)
1803 - Samuel Adams (b. 1722)
1850 - Sarah Biffen, painter (b. 1784)
1853 - François Jean Dominique Arago, French mathematician (b. 1786)
1900-1999
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)
1981 - Harry Golden, U.S. journalist (b. 1902)
1985 - Rock Hudson, actor (b. 1925)
1998 - Gene Autry, singer, actor, entrepreneur (b. 1907)
2000-2099
2002 - Heinz von Foerster, physicist and philosopher, one of the founders of constructivism
2003 - John T. Dunlop, Secretary of Labor under Gerald Ford
2003 - Gunther Philipp, Austrian comedian and actor
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