October 2

October 2 is the 275th day of the year (276th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 90 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Wednesday or Thursday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Saturday (56).

Events

• 829 – Theophilos succeeds his father Michael II as Byzantine Emperor.
• 939 – Battle of Andernach: King Otto I crushes a rebellion against his rule, by a coalition of Eberhard of Franconia and other Frankish dukes.
• 1187 – Siege of Jerusalem: Saladin captures Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule.
• 1263 – The Battle of Largs is fought between Norwegians and Scots.
• 1470 – Richard Neville's rebellion forces King Edward IV of England to flee to the Netherlands, restoring Henry VI to the throne.
• 1528 – William Tyndale, the renowned English Reformer and Bible translator published his famous work The Obedience of a Christian Man.
• 1535 – Jacques Cartier discovers the area where Montreal is now located.
• 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.
• 1789 – George Washington sends proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification.
• 1814 – Battle of Rancagua: Spanish Royalists troops under Mariano Osorio defeats rebel Chilean forces of Bernardo O'Higgins and José Miguel Carrera.
• 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.
• 1919 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.
• 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 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.
• 1942 – World War II: Ocean Liner RMS Queen Mary accidentally rams and sinks her own escort ship, HMS Curacoa, off the coast of Ireland, killing 239 crewmen aboard the Curacoa.
• 1944 – World War II: German troops end the Warsaw Uprising.
• 1949 – The Soviet Union recognises the People's Republic of China, proclaimed the previous day by Mao Zedong.
• 1950 – Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published.
• 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 the United States Supreme Court.
• 1968 – Mexican President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz orders soldiers to suppress a demonstration of unarmed students, ten days before the 1968 Summer Olympics will start.
• 1970 – A plane carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado killing 31 people.
• 1980 – Michael Myers becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War.
• 1990 – Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 is hijacked and lands at Guangzhou, where it crashes into two other airliners on the ground, killing 128.
• 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.
• 2006 – Five Amish girls are murdered by Charles Carl Roberts in a shooting at an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania before Roberts commits suicide.
• 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.
• 2016 – In a protest at a religious feast, fifty-two people are killed and many others are injured in Ethiopia's Oromia region.

Births

• 1452 – Richard III of England (d. 1485)
• 1470 – Isabella of Aragon, Duchess of Milan (d. 1524)
• 1470 – Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal, Daughter of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon (d. 1498)
• 1527 – William Drury, English politician (d. 1579)
• 1538 – Charles Borromeo, Italian cardinal and saint (d. 1584)
• 1589 – Muhammad Parviz, Mughal Empire emperor (d. 1626)
• 1644 – François-Timoléon de Choisy, French historian and author (d. 1724)
• 1704 – František Tůma, Czech organist and composer (d. 1774)
• 1718 – Elizabeth Montagu, English author and critic (d. 1800)
• 1727 – Ignaz Schiffermüller, Austrian entomologist and academic (d. 1806)
• 1768 – William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, English general and politician (d. 1854)
• 1798 – Charles Albert, King of Sardinia (1831-49) (d. 1849)
• 1800 – Nat Turner, American slave and uprising leader (d. 1831)
• 1821 – Alexander P. Stewart, American general (d. 1908)
• 1824 – Henry C. Lord, American businessman (d. 1884)
• 1828 – Charles Floquet, French lawyer and politician, 55th Prime Minister of France (d. 1896)
• 1832 – Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist and academic (d. 1917)
• 1847 – Paul von Hindenburg, Polish-German field marshal and politician, 2nd President of Germany (d. 1934)
• 1851 – Ferdinand Foch, French field marshal and theorist (d. 1929)
• 1852 – William Ramsay, Scottish-English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)
• 1854 – Patrick Geddes, Scottish biologist, sociologist, geographer, and philanthropist (d. 1932)
• 1869 – Mahatma Gandhi, Indian freedom fighter, activist and philosopher (d. 1948)
• 1871 – Cordell Hull, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 47th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
• 1871 – Martha Brookes Hutcheson, American landscaper and author (d. 1959)
• 1873 – Stephen Warfield Gambrill, American lawyer and politician (d. 1924)
• 1873 – Pelham Warner, English cricketer and manager (d. 1963)
• 1879 – Wallace Stevens, American poet and educator (d. 1955)
• 1882 – Boris Shaposhnikov, Russian colonel (d. 1945)
• 1883 – Lesley Ashburner, American hurdler (d. 1950)
• 1883 – Karl von Terzaghi, Czech-American geologist and engineer (d. 1963)
• 1890 – Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (d. 1977)
• 1893 – Leroy Shield, American composer and conductor (d. 1962)
• 1895 – Ruth Cheney Streeter, American colonel (d. 1990)
• 1897 – Bud Abbott, American comedian (d. 1974)
• 1902 – John G. Crommelin, American admiral and politician (d. 1996)
• 1902 – Leopold Figl, Austrian engineer and politician, 18th Chancellor of Austria (d. 1965)
• 1904 – Graham Greene, English novelist, playwright, and critic (d. 1991)
• 1904 – Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian academic and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of India (d. 1966)
• 1905 – Franjo Šeper, Croatian cardinal (d. 1981)
• 1906 – August Komendant, Estonian-American engineer and academic (d. 1992)
• 1907 – Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian politician, 52nd President of Bolivia (d. 2001)
• 1907 – Alexander R. Todd, Scottish-English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
• 1909 – Alex Raymond, American cartoonist, creator of Flash Gordon (d. 1956)
• 1911 – Jack Finney, American author and playwright (d. 1995)
• 1912 – Frank Malina, American engineer and painter (d. 1981)
• 1914 – Jack Parsons, American chemist, occultist, and engineer (d. 1952)
• 1914 – Bernarr Rainbow, English organist, conductor, and historian (d. 1998)
• 1915 – Chuck Williams, American author and businessman, founded Williams-Sonoma (d. 2015)
• 1917 – Christian de Duve, English-Belgian cytologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
• 1917 – Charles Drake, American actor (d. 1994)
• 1919 – John W. Duarte, English guitarist and composer (d. 2004)
• 1919 – Jan Flinterman, Dutch race car driver and pilot (d. 1992)
• 1921 – Albert Scott Crossfield, American pilot and engineer (d. 2006)
• 1921 – Robert Runcie, English archbishop (d. 2000)
• 1925 – Wren Blair, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Jan Morris, English-Welsh historian and author
• 1928 – George McFarland, American actor (d. 1993)
• 1928 – Wolfhart Pannenberg, Polish-German theologian and academic (d. 2014)
• 1929 – Peter Bronfman, Canadian businessman (d. 1996)
• 1929 – Moses Gunn, American actor (d. 1993)
• 1930 – Dave Barrett, Canadian social worker and politician, 26th Premier of British Columbia
• 1932 – Maury Wills, American baseball player, manager, and sportscaster
• 1933 – John Gurdon, English biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1933 – Phill Niblock, American composer and director
• 1934 – Richard Scott, Baron Scott of Foscote, South African-English lawyer and judge
• 1934 – Earl Wilson, American baseball player and coach (d. 2005)
• 1936 – Dick Barnett, American basketball player and educator
• 1936 – Feliciano Belmonte Jr., Filipino lawyer and politician, 20th Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines
• 1936 – Connie Dierking, American basketball player (d. 2013)
• 1937 – Johnnie Cochran, American lawyer (d. 2005)
• 1938 – Nick Gravenites, American singer–songwriter and guitarist
• 1938 – Waheed Murad, Pakistani actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1983)
• 1938 – Rex Reed, American film critic
• 1939 – Budhi Kunderan, Indian cricketer (d. 2006)
• 1941 – Diana Hendry, English poet and author
• 1942 – Steve Sabol, American director and producer, co-founded NFL Films (d. 2012)
• 1943 – Anna Ford, English journalist and academic
• 1943 – Franklin Rosemont, American poet, painter, and historian (d. 2009)
• 1944 – Vernor Vinge, American computer scientist and author
• 1945 – Martin Hellman, American cryptographer and academic
• 1945 – Don McLean, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1946 – Sonthi Boonyaratglin, Thai general and politician
• 1946 – Peter Kellner, English journalist and author
• 1947 – Ward Churchill, American author and activist
• 1947 – Paul Jackson, English director and producer
• 1948 – Trevor Brooking, English footballer and manager
• 1948 – Donna Karan, American fashion designer, founded DKNY
• 1948 – Siim Kallas, Estonian soldier and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Estonia
• 1948 – Persis Khambatta, Indian model and actress, Femina Miss India 1965 (d. 1998)
• 1948 – Chris LeDoux, American singer-songwriter and sculptor (d. 2005)
• 1949 – Richard Hell, American singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1949 – Annie Leibovitz, American photographer
• 1951 – Sting, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and actor
• 1952 – Jan Švejnar, Czech-American economist and politician
• 1953 – Vanessa Bell Armstrong, American singer
• 1953 – Muhammad Abdul Bari, Bangladeshi-English physicist and academic
• 1954 – Lorraine Bracco, American actress and producer
• 1955 – Philip Oakey, English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer
• 1955 – Nancy Rothwell, English physiologist and academic
• 1956 – Peter Bruce, Scottish chemist and academic
• 1956 – Viatcheslav Mukhanov, Russian-German cosmologist and physicist
• 1957 – John Cook, American golfer
• 1957 – Wade Dooley, English rugby player and police officer
• 1957 – Dave Faulkner, Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1957 – Kate St John, English singer-songwriter and producer
• 1958 – Robbie Nevil, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1960 – Glenn Anderson, Canadian ice hockey player and sportscaster
• 1960 – Django Bates, English pianist and composer
• 1960 – Johan Lammerts, Dutch cyclist
• 1960 – Joe Sacco, American journalist and cartoonist
• 1960 – Tom Schweich, American lawyer and politician, 36th State Auditor of Missouri (d. 2015)
• 1960 – Dereck Whittenburg, American basketball player and coach
• 1961 – Jaan Toomik, Estonian director and producer
• 1962 – James Hunter, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1962 – Mark Rypien, Canadian-American football player
• 1963 – Keith Bradshaw, Australian cricketer and accountant
• 1964 – Dirk Brinkmann, German field hockey player
• 1965 – Darren Cahill, Australian tennis player and coach
• 1965 – Tom Moody, Australian cricketer and sportscaster
• 1967 – Frankie Fredericks, Namibian sprinter
• 1967 – Gary L. Gregg, American political scientist, author, and academic
• 1967 – Thomas Muster, Austrian tennis player
• 1967 – Gillian Welch, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1968 – Victoria Derbyshire, English journalist and radio host
• 1968 – Benjie Paras, Filipino basketball player and actor
• 1968 – Jeff Martin, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1968 – Jana Novotná, Czech tennis player and sportscaster
• 1968 – Glen Wesley, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach
• 1970 – Eddie Guardado, American baseball player and coach
• 1970 – Patricia O'Callaghan, Canadian soprano and producer
• 1970 – Kelly Ripa, American actress, producer, and talk show host
• 1970 – Maribel Verdú, Spanish actress
• 1971 – Tiffany Darwish, American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1971 – Jim Root, American guitarist and songwriter
• 1972 – Aaron McKie, American basketball player and coach
• 1973 – Proof, American rapper and actor (d. 2006)
• 1973 – Melissa Harris-Perry, American journalist, author, and educator
• 1973 – Lene Nystrøm, Norwegian singer-songwriter
• 1973 – Scott Schoeneweis, American baseball player
• 1973 – Maria Wetterstrand, Swedish politician
• 1974 – Adel Ferdosipour, Iranian journalist and sportscaster
• 1974 – Bjarke Ingels, Danish architect
• 1974 – Brian Knight, American baseball player and umpire
• 1974 – Michelle Krusiec, Taiwanese-American actress and producer
• 1974 – Matthew Nicholson, Australian cricketer
• 1974 – Mark Porter, New Zealand race car driver (d. 2006)
• 1974 – Sam Roberts, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1974 – Paul Teutul Jr., American motorcycle designer, co-founded Orange County Choppers
• 1974 – Kevin Van De Wege, American firefighter and politician
• 1975 – Baiba Broka, Latvian politician
• 1976 – John Thornton, American football player
• 1978 – Ayumi Hamasaki, Japanese singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1978 – Matthew Hancock, English economist and politician, Minister for the Cabinet Office
• 1979 – Primož Brezec, Slovenian basketball player
• 1979 – Francisco Fonseca, Mexican footballer
• 1979 – Maja Ivarsson, Swedish singer-songwriter
• 1980 – Shane Andrus, American football player
• 1981 – Ridzuan Fatah Hasan, Singaporean footballer
• 1981 – Santi Kolk, Dutch footballer
• 1981 – Luke Wilkshire, Australian footballer
• 1982 – Tyson Chandler, American basketball player
• 1982 – Esra Gümüş, Turkish volleyball player
• 1982 – George Pettit, Canadian singer-songwriter and bass player
• 1982 – Gary Wilkinson, American basketball player
• 1984 – Marion Bartoli, French tennis player
• 1985 – Çağlar Birinci, Turkish footballer
• 1985 – Buster Davis, American football player
• 1985 – Brandon Jackson, American football player
• 1986 – Camilla Belle, American actress
• 1987 – Bojana Bobusic, Australian tennis player
• 1987 – Joe Ingles, Australian basketball player
• 1987 – Phil Kessel, American ice hockey player
• 1987 – Joel Reinders, American football player
• 1987 – Ricky Stenhouse Jr., American race car driver
• 1988 – Brittany Howard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1989 – Aaron Hicks, American baseball player
• 1989 – George Nash, English rower
• 1990 – Dean Bouzanis, Australian footballer
• 1991 – Roberto Firmino, Brazilian footballer
• 1992 – Sirje Roops, Estonian footballer
• 1993 – Michy Batshuayi, Belgian footballer
• 1993 – Aaro Vainio, Finnish race car driver
• 1994 – Joana Eidukonytė, Lithuanian tennis player
• 1995 – Te Maire Martin, New Zealand rugby league player
• 1995 – Tepai Moeroa, Cook Islands rugby league player
• 1996 – Tom Trbojevic, Australian rugby league player
• 1997 – Hana Sugisaki, Japanese actress
• 2002 – Jacob Sartorius, American singer

Deaths

• 534 – Athalaric, Italian king (b. 516)
• 829 – Michael II, Byzantine emperor (b. 770)
• 939 – Eberhard III, duke of Franconia
• 939 – Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine (b. 890)
• 1264 – Pope Urban IV
• 1348 – Alice de Lacy, 4th Countess of Lincoln (b. 1281)
• 1559 – Jacquet of Mantua, French-Italian composer (b. 1483)
• 1588 – Bernardino Telesio, Italian philosopher and scientist (b. 1509)
• 1626 – Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, 1st Count of Gondomar, Spanish academic and diplomat (b. 1567)
• 1629 – Antonio Cifra, Italian composer (b. 1584)
• 1629 – Pierre de Bérulle, French cardinal and theologian (b. 1575)
• 1685 – David Teniers III, Flemish painter (b. 1638)
• 1708 – Anne Jules de Noailles, French general (b. 1650)
• 1709 – Ivan Mazepa, Ukrainian diplomat (b. 1639)
• 1724 – François-Timoléon de Choisy, French historian and author (b. 1644)
• 1746 – Josiah Burchett, English admiral and politician (b. 1666)
• 1764 – William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1720)
• 1775 – Fukuda Chiyo-ni, Japanese nun and poet (b. 1703)
• 1780 – John André, English soldier (b. 1750)
• 1782 – Charles Lee, English-born American general (b. 1732)
• 1786 – Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, English admiral and politician (b. 1725)
• 1803 – Samuel Adams, American philosopher and politician, 4th Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1722)
• 1804 – Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French engineer (b. 1725)
• 1850 – Sarah Biffen, English painter (b. 1784)
• 1853 – François Arago, French mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and politician, 25th Prime Minister of France (b. 1786)
• 1920 – Max Bruch, German composer and conductor (b. 1838)
• 1927 – Svante Arrhenius, Swedish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
• 1938 – Alexandru Averescu, Romanian field marshal and politician, 24th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1859)
• 1938 – André Lagache, French race car driver and engineer (b. 1885)
• 1947 – P. D. Ouspensky, Russian-English mathematician and philosopher (b. 1878)
• 1953 – John Marin, American painter (b. 1870)
• 1955 – Humphrey Barclay, English priest (b. 1882)
• 1955 – William Orthwein, American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1881)
• 1962 – Boris Yakovlevich Bukreev, Russian mathematician and author (b. 1859)
• 1968 – Marcel Duchamp, French painter and sculptor (b. 1887)
• 1971 – Jessie Arms Botke, American painter (b. 1883)
• 1973 – Paul Hartman, American actor and dancer (b. 1904)
• 1973 – Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (b. 1897)
• 1974 – Vasily Shukshin, Russian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1929)
• 1975 – K. Kamaraj, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1903)
• 1981 – Harry Golden, American journalist and author (b. 1902)
• 1981 – Hazel Scott, Trinidadian-American activist, actress, and musician (b. 1920)
• 1985 – Rock Hudson, American actor (b. 1925)
• 1987 – Madeleine Carroll, English actress (b. 1906)
• 1987 – Peter Medawar, Brazilian-English biologist and zoologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
• 1988 – Alec Issigonis, Greek-English car designer, designed the Mini (b. 1906)
• 1988 – Hamengkubuwono IX, Indonesian politician, 2nd Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1912)
• 1991 – Hazen Argue, Canadian politician (b. 1921)
• 1991 – Demetrios I of Constantinople (b. 1914)
• 1994 – Harriet Nelson, American actress and singer (b. 1909)
• 1996 – Robert Bourassa, Canadian lawyer and politician, 22nd Premier of Quebec (b. 1933)
• 1996 – Andrey Lukanov, Bulgarian lawyer and politician, 40th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1938)
• 1998 – Gene Autry, American actor, singer, and guitarist (b. 1907)
• 1998 – Olivier Gendebien, Belgian race car driver (b. 1924)
• 1999 – Heinz G. Konsalik, German journalist and author (b. 1921)
• 2001 – Franz Biebl, German composer and academic (b. 1906)
• 2002 – Heinz von Foerster, Austrian-American physicist and philosopher (b. 1911)
• 2003 – John Thomas Dunlop, American scholar and politician, 14th United States Secretary of Labor (b. 1914)
• 2005 – Nipsey Russell, American comedian and actor (b. 1918)
• 2005 – August Wilson, American author and playwright (b. 1945)
• 2006 – Helen Chenoweth-Hage, American politician (b. 1938)
• 2006 – Paul Halmos, Hungarian-American mathematician (b. 1916)
• 2007 – Tex Coulter, American football player (b. 1924)
• 2007 – Christopher Derrick, English author and critic (b. 1921)
• 2007 – George Grizzard, American actor (b. 1928)
• 2007 – Dan Keating, Irish Republican Army volunteer (b. 1902)
• 2007 – Tawn Mastrey, American radio host and producer (b. 1954)
• 2010 – Kwa Geok Choo, Singaporean lawyer and scholar (b. 1920)
• 2011 – Peter L. Benson, American psychologist and academic (b. 1946)
• 2012 – Nguyễn Chí Thiện, Vietnamese-American poet and activist (b. 1939)
• 2012 – Charles Roach, Trinidadian-Canadian lawyer and activist (b. 1933)
• 2012 – J. Philippe Rushton, English-Canadian psychologist, theorist, academic (b. 1943)
• 2013 – Gottfried Fischer, German psychologist, therapist, and academic (b. 1944)
• 2013 – Herman Hugg, American painter and sculptor (b. 1921)
• 2013 – Jonathan Kaufer, American director and screenwriter (b. 1955)
• 2013 – Abraham Nemeth, American mathematician and academic (b. 1918)
• 2013 – Kaare Ørnung, Norwegian pianist and educator (b. 1931)
• 2014 – Robert Flower, Australian footballer (b. 1955)
• 2014 – Vaughn O. Lang, American general (b. 1927)
• 2014 – Frederic Tamler Sommers, American philosopher and academic (b. 1923)
• 2015 – Eric Arturo Delvalle, Panamanian lawyer and politician, President of Panama (b. 1937)
• 2015 – Brian Friel, Irish author, playwright, and director (b. 1929)
• 2015 – Rodolfo Frigeri, Argentinian economist and politician, Argentinian Minister of Finance (b. 1942)
• 2015 – Coleridge Goode, Jamaican-English bassist and composer (b. 1914)
• 2015 – James Mutende, Ugandan veterinarian, economist, and politician (b. 1962)
• 2015 – Johnny Paton, Scottish footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1923)
• 2016 – Neville Marriner, British conductor (b. 1924)
• 2016 – Gary Reed, American comic book writer (b. 1956)

Holidays and observances

• Batik Day (Indonesia)
• Christian feast day:
  • Memorial of the Holy Guardian Angels
  • Leodegar
  • October 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Gandhi's birthday-related observances:
  • Gandhi Jayanti (India)
  • International Day of Non-Violence
  • World Day for Farmed Animals
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Guinea from France in 1958.
• Mehregan, according to Iranian civil calendar. (Iran)
• National Grandparents Day (Italy)

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to October 2.

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada