About October 2
October 2, 2021 is the 275th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 90 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 122 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1941 –World War II: In Operation Typhoon, Germany begins an all-out offensive against Moscow.
- 1944 –World War II: German troops end the Warsaw Uprising.
- 1958 –Guinea declares its independence from France.
- 1967 –Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court.
- 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.
- 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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