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What Happened on October 2nd This Day in History

Year	Name
2019	A privately-owned Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress conducting a living history exhibition flight crashes shortly after takeoff from Windsor Locks, Connecticut, killing seven.
2018	The Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi is assassinated in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.
2016	Ethiopian protests break out during a festival in the Oromia region, killing dozens of people.
2007	President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea goes to North Korea for an Inter-Korean summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.
2006	Five Amish girls are murdered in a shooting at a school in Pennsylvania, United States.
2004	The first parkrun, then known as the Bushy Park Time Trial, takes place in Bushy Park, London, UK.
2002	The Beltway sniper attacks begin in Washington, D.C., extending over three weeks and killing 10 people.
1996	Aeroperú Flight 603 crashes into the ocean near Peru, killing all 70 people on board.
1996	The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
1992	Military police storm the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil during a prison riot. The resulting massacre leaves 111 prisoners dead.
1990	Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 is hijacked and lands at Guangzhou, where it crashes into two other airliners on the ground, killing 132.
1980	Michael Myers becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War.
1971	South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu is re-elected in a one-man election.
1971	British European Airways Flight 706 crashes near Aarsele, Belgium, killing 63.
1970	An aircraft carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado, killing 31 people.
1968	Mexican President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz orders soldiers to suppress a demonstration of unarmed students, ten days before the start of the 1968 Summer Olympics.
1967	Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1958	Guinea declares its independence from France.
1944	World War II: German troops end the Warsaw Uprising.
1942	World War II: Ocean Liner RMS Queen Mary accidentally rams and sinks HMS Curacoa, killing over 300 crewmen aboard Curacoa.
1937	Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of Haitians living in the border region of the Dominican Republic.
1928	The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded.[12]
1870	By plebiscite, the citizens of the Papal States accept annexation by the Kingdom of Italy.
1864	American Civil War: Confederates defeat a Union attack on Saltville, Virginia. A massacre of wounded Union prisoners ensues.
1835	Texas Revolution: Mexican troops attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
1789	The United States Bill of Rights is sent to the various States for ratification.
1780	American Revolutionary War: John André, a British Army officer, is hanged as a spy by the Continental Army.
1552	Russo-Kazan Wars: Russian troops enter Kazan.
1470	The Earl of Warwick's rebellion forces King Edward IV of England to flee to the Netherlands,[4] restoring Henry VI to the throne.
1263	The Battle of Largs is fought between Norwegians and Scots.
939	Battle of Andernach: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, crushes a rebellion against his rule, by a coalition of Eberhard of Franconia and other Frankish dukes.
829	Theophilos succeeds his father Michael II as Byzantine Emperor.

Famous People Born on October 2

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Year	Name
1866	Swami Abhedananda, Indian mystic and philosopher (d. 1939)
1962	Mark Rypien, Canadian-American football player
1934	Earl Wilson, American baseball player (d. 2005)
1914	Jack Parsons, American chemist, occultist, and engineer (d. 1952)
1963	Keith Bradshaw, Australian cricketer
1921	Edmund Crispin, English writer and composer (d. 1978)
1974	Paul Teutul Jr., American motorcycle designer, co-founded Orange County Choppers
1963	Maria Ressa, Filipino-American journalist
1909	Alex Raymond, American cartoonist, creator of Flash Gordon (d. 1956)
1879	Wallace Stevens, American poet (d. 1955)

Famous People Deaths On October 2

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Date	Name
1996	Robert Bourassa, Canadian lawyer and politician, Premier of Quebec (b. 1933)
1985	Rock Hudson, American actor (b. 1925)
534	Athalaric, king of the Ostrogoths in Italy
1955	William R. Orthwein, American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1881)
1973	Paul Hartman, American actor and dancer (b. 1904)
2007	Tex Coulter, American football player (b. 1924)[224]
2006	Helen Chenoweth-Hage, American politician (b. 1938)
1786	Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, English admiral and politician (b. 1725)
1991	Hazen Argue, Canadian politician (b. 1921)
1920	Max Bruch, German composer and conductor (b. 1838)