Today
in History
2 October
Sultan Saladin
Cardinal Thomas Wolsey
Mohandas Gandhi
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2 October |
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| 1134 Storm flood ravages Zeeland county |
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| 1187 Sultan Saladin captures Jerusalem from Crusaders | ||
| 1452 King Richard III, of England (1483-85) was born | ||
| 1492 King Henry VII of England invades France | ||
| 1518 English cardinal Thomas Wolsey makes European plan | ||
| 1535 Jacques Carti‚r discovers Mount Royal (Montr‚al) | ||
| 1540 Venice/Turkey signs peace | ||
| 1572 Spanish army occupies/plunders/destroys Mechelen | ||
| 1586 Battle at Zutphen: English-Dutch army | ||
| 1608 Prototype of modern reflecting telescope completed by Jan Lippershey | ||
| 1614 French king Louis XIII (13) declared an adult | Sultan Saladin |
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| 1656 US colony Connecticut passes law against Quakers | ||
| 1700 Spanish king Carlos II appoints Philip van Anjou, heir to throne | ||
| 1715 Peter II, czar of Russia (1727-30) was born | ||
| 1760 Russian/Austrian army evacuates Berlin | ||
| 1787 Maagden House opens in Amsterdam | ||
| 1792 Baptist Missionary Society forms in London | ||
| 1795 Tula (leader slave uprising) sentence to death in CuraCao | ||
| 1799 Duke of York & Russians capture Alkmaar in Netherlands | ||
| 1804 England mobilizes to protect against French invasion | ||
| 1833 Charles Darwin rides through Corunda to Santa Fe Argentina | ||
| 1833 NY Anti-Slavery Society organized | ||
| 1836 Darwin returns to England aboard HMS Beagle (after 5 years) |
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| 1853 Austrian law forbids Jews from owning land | ||
| 1869 Mohandas Gandhi, a political and spiritual leader, was born in Porbandar, India. Gandhi was internationally respected for his nonviolent opposition against tyranny | ||
| 1870 Italy annexes Rome & Papal States; Rome made Italian capital | ||
| 1871 Brigham Young, mormon leader, arrest for bigamy | ||
| 1872 Morgan State University founded | ||
| 1880 George Alexander Russell, composer was born | ||
| 1895 1st cartoon comic strip is printed in a newspaper | ||
| 1900 Belg crown prince Albert von Saksen-Coburg weds Elisabeth of Bayern | ||
| 1901 1st Royal Naval submarine launched at Barrow | ||
| 1906 Tommy Burns KOs Jim Burns in 15 for heavyweight boxing title | ||
| 1910 1st 2 aircraft collision (Milan Italy) | ||
| 1923 British occuping army leaves Constantinople | Cardinal Thomas Wolsey |
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| 1924 League of Nations approves protocols of GenŠva | ||
| 1931 Pope Pius XI encyclical On economic crisis | ||
| 1935 Mussolini's Italian armys attacks Abyssinia (Ethiopia) | ||
| 1936 Amsterdam's Calvinist Churches reject nazism | ||
| 1940 17 German aircrafts shot down above England | ||
| 1940 British Council receives British Charter | ||
| 1940 British liner Empress loaded with refugees for Canada, sunk | ||
| 1941 6 Paris synagogues are bombed by Gestapo | ||
| 1941 Operation Typhoon, an all-out offensive against Moscow, was launched by Germany. | ||
| 1942 "Queen Mary" slices cruiser "Curacao" in half, killing 338 | ||
| 1943 Japanse troops leave Kolombangara, Solomon Island | ||
| 1944 Nazis crush Warsaw Uprising killing 250,000 people | ||
| 1949 USSR recognizes People's Republic of China | ||
| 1949 Yanks & Red Sox, tied for 1st place, play final game of season. |
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| 1950 Mao Tse Tung proclaims in telegram to Stalin, China intervenes Korea | ||
| 1950 Newspapers first published Charles M. Schulz's comic strip "Peanuts." | ||
| 1956 1st atomic power clock exhibited-NYC | ||
| 1957 New volcanic island appears off Fayal Island Azores | ||
| 1958 Guinea (French Guinea) gains independence from France (National Day) | ||
| 1958 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR | ||
| 1968 Mexico City police fire on protesting students, 300-500 killed | ||
| 1968 Republic Guinea forms (day of republic) | ||
| 1972 Aeroflot Il-18 crashes near Black Sea resort of Sochi, kills 105 | ||
| 1972 Danish population votes for European Common Market membership | ||
| 1975 Japanese Emperor Hirohito was welcomed to the United States by President Gerald Ford. | Mohandas Gandhi |
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| 1978 Syrian & Palestinians shoot in East Beirut, 1,300 killed | ||
| 1984 3 cosmonauts return after a record 237 days in orbit | ||
| 1984 Richard Miller, becomes 1st (former) FBI agent, charged with espionage | ||
| 1985 Russian party leader Gorbatsjov visits Paris | ||
| 1985 Actor Rock Hudson died of AIDS. He was 59. | ||
| 1986 Failed assassination attempt on India premier Rajiv Gandhi | ||
| 1986 Sikhs attempt to assassinate Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi | ||
| 1990 Chinese plane explodes, about 100 die | ||
| 1992 VP Itamar Franco becomes pres of Brazil | ||
| 1995 Jurors decided in less than four hours of deliberations to acquit former football player O. J. Simpson of murder charges after a sensational, eight-month trial. The verdicts were announced the next day. | ||
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