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October 2 is the 275th day of the year (276th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 90 days remain until the end of the year. Events. Pre-1600. 829 – Theophilos succeeds his father Michael II as Byzantine Emperor. [1]
Gandhi Jayanti is an event celebrated in India to mark the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi. It is celebrated annually on 2 October, and is one of the three national holidays in India. The United Nations celebrates the day as International Day of Non-Violence.
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Up to 1900
1. 829 – Theophilus becomes Byzantine Emperor. 2. 1187 – Saladin captures Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusaderrule. 3. 1263 – The Battle of Largs is fought between Scots and Norwegians. 4. 1535 – Jacques Cartier discovers Montreal, Quebec. 5. 1552 – Conquest of Kazan by Russian Tsar Ivan the Terrible. 6. 1780 – American Revolutionary War: British spy John Andre is hanged by American forces for his role in Benedict Arnold's plot to sell West Point to the British Army. 7. 1814 – Battle of Ranca...
1901 – 2000
1. 1919 – US President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed. 2. 1924 – The Geneva Protocol is adopted as a means to strengthen the League of Nations. 3. 1925 – John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working televisionsystem. 4. 1928 – The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, was founded by Saint Josemaría Escrivá. 5. 1935 – Italy invades Abyssinia (Ethiopia). 6. 1937 – Dominican Republic leader Rafael Trujill...
From 2001
1. 2001 – Bankruptcy of Swissair. 2. 2002 – The Beltway sniper attacksbegin. 3. 2004 – American Samoa joins the North American Numbering Plan. 4. 2005 – The Ethan Allen tour boat capsizes on Lake George, Upstate New York, killing 20 people. 5. 2006 – Five schoolgirls are killed in a shooting at an Amish school in Pennsylvania, before the gunman commits suicide. 6. 2007 – President of South Korea Roh Moo-hyun walks across the Military Demarcation Line in North Korea, on his way to the inter-Ko...
Up to 1900
1. 1452 – King Richard III of England (d. 1485) 2. 1470 – Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal (d. 1498) 3. 1470 – Isabella of Naples, Duchess of Milan (d. 1524) 4. 1538 – Charles Borromeo, Italian Catholic Saint (d. 1584) 5. 1718 – Elizabeth Montagu, English social reformer, patron of the arts, literary critic and writer (d. 1800) 6. 1722 – Leopold Widhalm, Austrian instrument maker (d. 1776) 7. 1724 – Louis Gabriel Ambroise de Bonald, French philosopher and statesman (d. 1840) 8. 1737 – Fr...
1901 – 1950
1. 1901 – Alice Prin, French singer and artist (d. 1953) 2. 1902 – Leopold Figl, Austrian politician (d. 1965) 3. 1904 – Graham Greene, English writer (d. 1991) 4. 1904 – Lal Bahadur Shastri, 2nd Prime Minister of India (d. 1966) 5. 1905 – Enchi Fumiko, Japanese writer (d. 1986) 6. 1907 – Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian politician (d. 2001) 7. 1907 – Alexander Todd, Baron Todd, Scottish chemist (d. 1997) 8. 1909 – Alex Raymond, American comic artist (d. 1956) 9. 1910 – Aldo Olivieri, Italian...
1951 – 1975
1. 1951 – Romina Power, American singer 2. 1951 – Sting, English musician 3. 1953 – Ernest Bai Koroma, former President of Sierra Leone 4. 1953 – Muhammad Abdul Bari, Bangladeshi-English physicist 5. 1954 – Lorraine Bracco, American actress 6. 1955 – Philip Oakey, English singer (The Human League) 7. 1956 – Viatcheslav Mukhanov, Russian-German cosmologist and physicist 8. 1957 – Janry, Belgian comic artist 9. 1957 – Dave Faulkner, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist 10. 1958 – Robbie N...
Up to 1900
1. 534 – Athalaric, King of the Ostrogoths (b. 516) 2. 939 – Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine (b. 890) 3. 1264 – Pope Urban IV 4. 1559 – Jacquet of Mantua, French-Italian composer (b. 1483) 5. 1629 – Antonio Cifra, Italian composer (b. 1584) 6. 1764 – William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Prime Minister of Great Britain (b. 1720) 7. 1775 – Chiyo-ni, Japanese poet (b. 1703) 8. 1782 – Charles Lee, British and U.S. general (b. 1732) 9. 1786 – Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, English admiral a...
1901 – 2000
1. 1920 – Max Bruch, German composer and conductor (b. 1838) 2. 1927 – Svante Arrhenius, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859) 3. 1931 – Thomas Lipton, British trader and yacht owner (b. 1850) 4. 1938 – Alexandru Averescu, Romanian soldier and politician (b. 1859) 5. 1943 – John Evans, Premier of Tasmania (b. 1855) 6. 1947 – P. D. Ouspensky, Russian philosopher (b. 1878) 7. 1950 – John F. Fitzgerald, Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts and maternal grandfather of John F. Kennedy (b. 1863...
From 2001
1. 2001 – Franz Biebl, German composer (b. 1906) 2. 2002 – Heinz von Foerster, physicist and philosopher (b. 1911) 3. 2003 – John T. Dunlop, U.S. Secretary of Labor (b. 1914) 4. 2006 – Tamara Dobson, American actress (b. 1944) 5. 2006 – Paul Halmos, Hungarian mathematician (b. 1916) 6. 2006 – Charles Carl Roberts, American murderer (b. 1973) 7. 2007 – Tex Coulter, American football player (b. 1924) 8. 2007 – Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark (b. 1913) 9. 2008 – Choi Jin-sil, South Kore...
Feast of the Saint Guardian AngelsGandhi Jayanti (India) and International Day of Non-Violence (birthday of Mahatma Gandhi)Independence Day (Guinea)October 2: International Day of Non-Violence; Gandhi Jayanti in India John Logie Baird 1263 – Scottish–Norwegian War : The armies of Norway and Scotland fought the Battle of Largs , an inconclusive engagement near the present-day town of Largs in North Ayrshire , Scotland.
October is the tenth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Its length is 31 days. Its length is 31 days. The eighth month in the old calendar of Romulus c. 750 BC , October retained its name (from Latin and Greek ôctō meaning "eight") after January and February were inserted into the calendar that had originally been ...
Important events in history for the 2nd of October. See what historic, important and momentous events in history happened on October 2.
