About October 2
October 2, 2024 is the 276th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 90 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Libra is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 119 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 2
- 1263 –The battle of Largs is fought between Norwegians and Scots.
- 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.
- 1814 –Battle of Rancagua: Spanish Royalists troops under Mariano Osorio defeated rebel Chilean forces of Bernardo O'Higgins and Jose Miguel Carrera.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1996 –Aeroperú Flight 603, a Boeing 757, crashes into the Pacific Ocean shortly after takeoff from Lima, Peru, killing 70.
- 1996 –The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
- 2001 –Swissair liquidates and the airline is replaced by SWISS.
- 2005 –Ethan Allen Boating Accident: The Ethan Allen tour boat capsizes on Lake George in Upstate New York, killing twenty people.
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