About October 2
October 2, 2022 is the 275th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 90 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 112 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 2
- 1187 –Siege of Jerusalem: Saladin captures Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule.
- 1535 –Jacques Cartier discovers Montreal, Quebec.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1950 –Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published
- 1958 –Guinea declares its independence from France.
- 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 –Aeroperú Flight 603, a Boeing 757, crashes into the Pacific Ocean shortly after takeoff from Lima, Peru, killing 70.
- 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.
- 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.
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