| Date | Text | |||
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| 100 years anniversary | ||||
| 02 Oct 1925 | Alois Pinos: Composer | |||
| 02 Oct 1925 | Brian Dilton: British lord justice of appeal | |||
| 02 Oct 1925 | Wren Blair, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 2013) | |||
| 02 Oct 1925 | John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system. | |||
02 Oct 1925
John Logie Baird |
John Logie Baird (technology) John Logie Baird successfully transmits the first television pictures with a greyscale image, in London. |
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| 75 years anniversary | ||||
| 02 Oct 1950 | Bob Shaw of Chicago Cardinals sets NFL record with 5 TD receptions | |||
| 02 Oct 1950 | Chicago Cards Jim Hardy passes for 6 touchdowns vs. Baltimore Colts (55-13) | |||
| 02 Oct 1950 | Mao Tse Tung proclaims in telegram to Stalin, China intervenes Korea | |||
| 02 Oct 1950 | Red Sox Dom DiMaggio leads AL with only 15 stolen bases | |||
| 02 Oct 1950 | Ian McNeice, English actor | |||
| 02 Oct 1950 | Mike Rutherford, English singer-songwriter and bass player (Genesis and Mike + The Mechanics) | |||
| 02 Oct 1950 | Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published. | |||
| 02 Oct 1950 | birth Mike Rutherford, guitar, Genesis, (1986 US No.1 single 'Invisible Touch', 1992 UK No.7 single 'I Can't Dance' & 6 UK No.1 albums). & Mike And The Mechanics, (1989 US No.1 & UK No.2 single 'The Living Years'). | |||
| 50 years anniversary | ||||
| 02 Oct 1975 | Wade Crosby: Actor (Sign of Wolf, Tales of Robin Hood), dies at 70 | |||
| 02 Oct 1975 | Hrysopiyi Devetzi, Greek triple jumper | |||
| 02 Oct 1975 | Michel Trudeau, Canadian son of Pierre Trudeau (d. 1998) | |||
| 02 Oct 1975 | K. Kamaraj, Indian politician (b. 1903) | |||
| 20 years anniversary | ||||
| 02 Oct 2005 | Bert Eriksson, Belgian activist (b. 1931) | |||
| 02 Oct 2005 | Nipsey Russell, American comedian and actor (b. 1918) | |||
| 02 Oct 2005 | August Wilson, American author and playwright (b. 1945) | |||
| 02 Oct 2005 | Ethan Allen boating accident: The Ethan Allen tour boat capsizes on Lake George in Upstate New York, killing twenty people. | |||
| 15 years anniversary | ||||
| 02 Oct 2010 | Kwa Geok Choo, Singaporean wife of Lee Kuan Yew (b. 1920) | |||
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