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• ...that many of the most famous Italian Renaissance artists were enlisted to provide temporary decorations for flattering allegories of a Royal Entry (example pictured)?

• ...that release of the award-winning film Lost in Beijing was delayed in part because censors insisted on removing a scene of a Mercedes-Benz driving through a puddle-filled pothole?

• ...that new bacterial species names are not considered valid until published in the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology?
• ...that three 500-goal scorers appeared on a single hockey team for the first time during the 2001–02 Detroit Red Wings season, helping the team to win their tenth Stanley Cup?
• ...that British Conservative MP Richard Hornby unsuccessfully challenged former Prime Minister and Labour leader Clement Attlee before securing a safe seat?
• ...that Teamsters president Dave Beck invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination 117 times before a U.S. Senate investigating committee?
  

• At least four are killed by the unexpected eruption of the previously dormant volcano on the Yemeni Red Sea island of Jabal al-Tair.
• Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie (pictured) sets a new marathon world record in Berlin with a time of 2:04:26.
• Viswanathan Anand of India wins the World Chess Championship.
• Germany defeats Brazil at the 2007 FIFA Women's World Cup to win its second consecutive world title.
• The NASA spacecraft Dawn is launched on a mission to explore mainbelt asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres.

October 2: Eid ul-Fitr begins at sunset (Islam, 2008); Independence Day in Guinea; Gandhi Jayanti in India; International Day of Non-Violence

• 1535 – French explorer Jacques Cartier sailed along the St. Lawrence River and reached an Iroquois fort on the island now known as Montreal.
• 1835 – Mexican dragoons dispatched to disarm settlers at Gonzales, Texas encountered stiff resistance from a Texian militia in the Battle of Gonzales, the first armed engagement of the Texas Revolution.
• 1928 – Saint Josemaría Escrivá (pictured) founded Opus Dei, a worldwide organization of lay members of the Roman Catholic Church.
• 1941 – World War II: Nazi German forces began Operation Typhoon, an all-out offensive against Moscow, starting the three-month long Battle of Moscow.
• 1992 – In response to a prison riot, military police stormed the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil, killing at least 100 prisoners.

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