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
- 1187 –Siege of Jerusalem: Saladin captures Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule.
- 1535 –Jacques Cartier discovers Montreal, Quebec.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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.
- 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 –The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
- 2001 –NATO backs U.S. military strikes following 9/11.
- 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.
- 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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