Independence
day
Guinea
UN
Day
World
Habitat Day (A/RES/40/202 A)
First Monday of October is World Habitat
Day
World
Statistics Day
International
Day of Non-Violence
Events
of the day
October
2
Gandhi Jayanti (India)
DaanUstav
DaanUtsav
(earlier called the Joy of Giving Week)
is India's "festival of giving".
Launched in 2009, the festival is celebrated
every year, in the week including Gandhi
Jayanti, i.e., October 2-8, and brings together
Indians from all walks of life, to celebrate
"giving".
1187
– Siege of Jerusalem: Saladin captures Jerusalem
after 88 years of Crusader rule.
1263 – The battle of Largs is fought between
Norwegians and Scots.
1535 – Jacques Cartier discovers Montreal,
Quebec.
1552 – Conquest of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible.
1780 – John André, British Army officer
of the American Revolutionary War, is hanged
as a spy by American forces.
1789 – George Washington sends the proposed
Constitutional amendments (The United States
Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification.
1814 – Battle of Rancagua: Spanish Royalists
troops under Mariano Osorio defeated rebel
Chilean forces of Bernardo O'Higgins and
Jose Miguel Carrera.
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.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Saltville
– Union forces attack Saltville, Virginia,
but are defeated by Confederate troops.
1889 – In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes
it rich in silver during the last great
silver boom of the American Old West.
1919 – U.S. 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.
1925 – John Logie Baird performs the first
test of a working television system.
1928 – The "Prelature of the Holy Cross
and the Work of God", commonly known
as Opus Dei, is founded by Saint JosemarÃa
Escrivá.
1937 – Dominican Republic strongman Rafael
Trujillo orders the execution of the Haitian
population living within the borderlands;
approximately 20,000 are killed over the
next five days.
1941 – World War II: In Operation Typhoon,
Germany begins an all-out offensive against
Moscow.
1944 – World War II: German troops end the
Warsaw Uprising.
1950 – Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first
published
1958 – Guinea declares its independence
from France.
1959 – The anthology series The Twilight
Zone premieres on CBS television.
1967 – Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as
the first African-American justice of United
States Supreme Court.
1968 – A peaceful student demonstration
in Mexico City culminates in the Tlatelolco
massacre.
1970 – A plane carrying the Wichita State
University football team, administrators,
and supporters crashes in Colorado killing
31 people.
1990 – Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 is hijacked;
after landing at Guangzhou, it crashes into
two airliners on the ground, killing 132
people.
1992 – The Carandiru Massacre takes place
after a riot in the Carandiru Penitentiary
in São Paulo, Brazil.
1996 – The Electronic Freedom of Information
Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President
Bill Clinton.
1996 – Aeroperú Flight 603, a Boeing 757,
crashes into the Pacific Ocean shortly after
takeoff from Lima, Peru, killing 70.
2001 – NATO backs U.S. military strikes
following 9/11.
2001 – Swissair liquidates and the airline
is replaced by SWISS.
2002 – The Beltway sniper attacks begin,
extending over three weeks.
2005 – Aleksandër Moisiu University was
open in Durrës, Albania.
2005 – Ethan Allen Boating Accident: The
Ethan Allen tour boat capsizes on Lake George
in Upstate New York, killing twenty people.
2006 – Five school girls are murdered by
Charles Carl Roberts in a shooting at an
Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania
before Roberts commits suicide.
2007 – President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea
walks across the Military Demarcation Line
into North Korea on his way to the second
Inter-Korean Summit with North Korean leader
Kim Jong Il.
Holidays
and observances
Batik
Day (Indonesia)
Christian Feast Day:
Feast of the Guardian Angels
Leodegar
October 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Gandhi's birthday-related observances:
Gandhi Jayanti (India)
International Day of Non-Violence (International)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence
of Guinea from France in 1958.
Mehregan, according to Iranian civil calendar.
(Iran)
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