About October 2
October 2, 2025 is the 275th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 90 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 138 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.
- 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.
- 1864 –American Civil War: Battle of Saltville – Union forces attack Saltville, Virginia, but are defeated by Confederate troops.
- 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.
- 1967 –Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court.
- 1970 –A plane carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado killing 31 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.
- 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.
- 2002 –The Beltway sniper attacks begin, extending over three weeks.
- 2005 –Ethan Allen Boating Accident: The Ethan Allen tour boat capsizes on Lake George in Upstate New York, killing twenty people.
- 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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