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The following events took place on October 2. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 37 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 829

  Theophilos succeeds his father Michael II as Byzantine Emperor.
• 1187

  Siege of Jerusalem: Saladin captures Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule.
• 1263

  The battle of Largs is fought between Norwegians and Scots.
• 1470

  A rebellion organised by Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick forces King Edward IV of England to flee to the Netherlands, restoring Henry VI to the throne.
• 1535

  Jacques Cartier discovers the area where Montreal is now located.
• 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 proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification.
• 1814

  Battle of Rancagua: Spanish Royalists troops under Mariano Osorio defeats rebel Chilean forces of Bernardo O'Higgins and José 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.
• 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 Josemaría 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.
• 1942

  World War II: Ocean Liner RMS Queen Mary accidentally rams and sinks her own escort ship, HMS Curacoa, off the coast of Ireland, killing 239 crewmen aboard the Curacoa.
• 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 by the order of the president, Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, to the soldiers of killing unarmed students, hiding the event from the public eye. The 1968 Summer Olympics, hosted in Mexico City, started ten days after the massacre.
• 1970

  A plane carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado killing 31 people.
• 1979

  Pope John Paul II denounces all forms of concentration camps and torture while speaking at the U.N. in New York City.
• 1980

  Michael Myers becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War.
• 1990

  Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 is hijacked and lands at Guangzhou, where it crashes into two other airliners on the ground, killing 128.
• 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.

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