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.
- 1263 –The battle of Largs is fought between Norwegians and Scots.
- 1552 –Conquest of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible.
- 1789 –George Washington sends the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1950 –Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published
- 1958 –Guinea declares its independence from France.
- 1970 –A plane carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado killing 31 people.
- 1990 –Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 is hijacked; after landing at Guangzhou, it crashes into two airliners on the ground, killing 132 people.
- 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.
- 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.
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