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Events on the 2nd of October in history

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02 Oct 0829 Theophilos (813–842), succeeds his father as Byzantine Emperor.
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02 Oct 0939 Battle at Andernach: King Otto and Hermann of Zwaben beat Eberhard of France and Giselbert of Lutherans
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02 Oct 1134 Storm flood ravages Zeeland county
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02 Oct 1187 Sultan Saladin captures Jerusalem from Crusaders
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02 Oct 1187 Siege of Jerusalem: Saladin captures Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule.
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02 Oct 1263 The battle of Largs is fought between Norwegians and Scots.
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02 Oct 1470 A rebellion organised by Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick forces King Edward IV of England to flee to the Netherlands, restoring Henry VI to the throne.
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02 Oct 1492 King Henry VII of England invades France
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02 Oct 1518 English Cardinal Thomas Wolsey makes European plan
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02 Oct 1535 Jacques Cartier discovers the area where Montreal is now located.
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02 Oct 1540 Venice / Turkey signs peace
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02 Oct 1552 Conquest of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible.
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02 Oct 1572 Spanish army occupies / plunders / destroys Mechelen
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02 Oct 1586 Battle at Zutphen: English-Dutch army
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02 Oct 1608 Prototype of modern reflecting telescope completed by Jan Lippershey
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02 Oct 1614 French King Louis XIII (13) declared an adult
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02 Oct 1656 US colony Connecticut passes law against Quakers
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02 Oct 1700 Spanish King Carlos II appoints Philip van Anjou, heir to throne
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02 Oct 1780 John André, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War, is hanged as a spy by American forces.
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02 Oct 1787 Maagden House opens in Amsterdam
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02 Oct 1789 George Washington sends proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification.
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02 Oct 1792 Baptist Missionary Society forms in London
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02 Oct 1795 Tula (leader slave uprising) sentence to death in Curacao
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02 Oct 1799 Duke of York and Russians capture Alkmaar in the Netherlands
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02 Oct 1804 England mobilizes to protect against French invasion
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02 Oct 1814 Battle of Rancagua: Spanish Royalists troops under Mariano Osorio defeats rebel Chilean forces of Bernardo O'Higgins and José Miguel Carrera.
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02 Oct 1833 Charles Darwin rides through Corunda to Santa Fe Argentina
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02 Oct 1833 New York Anti-Slavery Society organized
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02 Oct 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.
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02 Oct 1836 Darwin returns to England aboard HMS Beagle (after 5 years)
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02 Oct 1853 Austrian law forbids Jews from owning land
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02 Oct 1861 Former VP John C Breckinridge flees Kentucky
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02 Oct 1864 Battle of Saltville, Virginia
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02 Oct 1864 American Civil War: Battle of Saltville – Union forces attack Saltville, Virginia, but are defeated by Confederate troops.
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02 Oct 1866 J Osterhoudt patents tin can with key opener
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02 Oct 1870 Italy annexes Rome and Papal States; Rome made Italian capital
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02 Oct 1871 Brigham Young, mormon leader, arrest for bigamy
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02 Oct 1872 Morgan State University founded
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02 Oct 1879 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Musgrave Ritual" (BG)
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02 Oct 1889 1st Pan American conference (Washington DC)
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02 Oct 1889 In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West.
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02 Oct 1895 1st cartoon comic strip is printed in a newspaper
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02 Oct 1899 Orange Free state mobilizes
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02 Oct 1900 Belgian crown Prince Albert von Saksen-Coburg weds Elisabeth of Bayern
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02 Oct 1901 1st Royal Naval submarine launched at Barrow
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02 Oct 1906 Tommy Burns KOs Jim Burns in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
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02 Oct 1907 Phillies Eddie Grant goes 7 for 7 in a doubleheader vs. Giants
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02 Oct 1908 Addie Joss perfect game stops Ed Walsh 1-0 who won 40 in a row
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02 Oct 1909 1st rugby match (Twickenham)
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02 Oct 1910 1st 2 aircraft collision (Milan Italy)
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02 Oct 1910 Henry Wijnmalen flies to 2,800m altitude (world record)
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02 Oct 1913 Phillies beat the New York Giants 2 games out of 3 in a tripleheader
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02 Oct 1916 Grover Cleveland Alexander records his 16th shutout of year
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02 Oct 1916 San Diego Zoo founded
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02 Oct 1919 U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.
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02 Oct 1920 Only tripleheader of century (Reds win 13-4, 7-3 then Pirates win 6-0)
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02 Oct 1921 New York Yankee Babe Ruth hits then record 59th HR
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02 Oct 1923 British occuping army leaves Constantinople
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02 Oct 1923 Harry Heilmann goes 2-for-2, sit out rest of season, except for a pinch single on final day, hitting .403
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02 Oct 1925 John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system.
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02 Oct 1926 Bert Gibb of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game
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02 Oct 1928 The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded by Saint Josemaría Escrivá.
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02 Oct 1931 Pope Pius XI encyclical On economic crisis
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02 Oct 1932 New York Yankees sweep Chicago Cubs in 29th World Series
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02 Oct 1932 Washington Redskins (as Boston Braves) play 1st NFL game, lose 14-0
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02 Oct 1935 New York Hayden Planetarium, 4th in US, opens
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02 Oct 1936 1st alcohol power plant forms, Atchison, Kansas
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02 Oct 1936 New York Yankees score World Series record 18 runs, beating Giants 18-4
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02 Oct 1936 Tony Lazzeri becomes 1st Yank to hit a World Series grand slam
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02 Oct 1937 FDR visits Grand Coulee Dam construction site in Washington State
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02 Oct 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.
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02 Oct 1938 Indian Bob Feller strikes out record 18 Tigers (Chester Laabs 5 times)
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02 Oct 1939 Birdbaths installed in Union Square, San Francisco
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02 Oct 1940 17 German aircrafts shot down above England
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02 Oct 1940 British Council receives British Charter
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02 Oct 1940 British liner Empress loaded with refugees for Canada, sunk
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02 Oct 1941 6 Paris synagogues are bombed by Gestapo
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02 Oct 1941 Germans launch attack on Moscow
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02 Oct 1941 World War II: In Operation Typhoon, Germany begins an all-out offensive against Moscow.
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02 Oct 1942 "Queen Mary" slices cruiser "Curacao" in half, killing 338
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02 Oct 1942 1st self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction demonstrated, Chicago
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02 Oct 1942 World War II: Ocean Liner RMS Queen Mary accidentally rams and sinks her own escort ship, HMS Curacoa, off the coast of Ireland.
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02 Oct 1943 Japanse troops leave Kolombangara, Solomon Island
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02 Oct 1943 Yankees sweep 14th doubleheader of year, beating Browns, 5-1 and 7-6
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02 Oct 1944 Nazis crush Warsaw Uprising killing 250,000 people
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02 Oct 1944 World War II: German troops end the Warsaw Uprising.
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02 Oct 1946 1st network soap opera-Faraway Hill-Dumont
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02 Oct 1947 "Music in My Heart" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 124 performances
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02 Oct 1947 Revised International Telecommunication Convention adopted
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02 Oct 1947 Yankee Yogi Berra becomes 1st to pinch hit a World Series homer
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02 Oct 1949 St. Louis Browns use 9 pitchers, lose to Whites Sox 4-3
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02 Oct 1949 Yanks and Red Sox, tied for 1st place, play final game of season. Yanks win 5-3 and clinch pennant #16
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02 Oct 1950 Bob Shaw of Chicago Cardinals sets NFL record with 5 TD receptions
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02 Oct 1950 Chicago Cards Jim Hardy passes for 6 touchdowns vs. Baltimore Colts (55-13)
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02 Oct 1950 Mao Tse Tung proclaims in telegram to Stalin, China intervenes Korea
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02 Oct 1950 Red Sox Dom DiMaggio leads AL with only 15 stolen bases
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02 Oct 1950 Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published.
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02 Oct 1951 1st Netherlands TV broadcast (Toverspiegel)
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02 Oct 1951 Dodgers beat Giants 10-0, in 2nd game of play-offs
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02 Oct 1953 "Comedy in Music (Victor Borge)" opens at John Golden NYC for 849 performances
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02 Oct 1953 Dodger Carl Erskine strikes out 14 Yankees in World Series
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02 Oct 1954 8th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Detroit 2-2 at Detroit
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02 Oct 1954 Former French possession of Chandernagore made part of West Bengal
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02 Oct 1954 New York Giants sweep Cleveland Indians, in 51st World Series
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02 Oct 1955 "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" premieres
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02 Oct 1955 9th NHL All-Star Game: Detroit beat All-Stars 3-1 at Detroit
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02 Oct 1955 Actress Joyce Randolph marries publisher Richard Charles
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02 Oct 1955 Chiva Stoica becomes Premier of Romania
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02 Oct 1955 WHTN (now WOWK) TV ch 13 in Huntington-Charleston, WV (CBS) begins
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02 Oct 1956 1st atomic power clock exhibited-NYC
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02 Oct 1957 New volcanic island appears off Fayal Island Azores
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02 Oct 1957 New York Yankees appear in their 25th World Series
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02 Oct 1958 Guinea (French Guinea) gains independence from France (National Day)
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02 Oct 1958 Musical show "Valmouth, " 1st produced in London
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02 Oct 1958 Guinea declares its independence from France.
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02 Oct 1959 The anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS television.
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02 Oct 1960 Louise Suggs wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Tournament
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02 Oct 1961 "Ben Casey" premieres on NBC-TV
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02 Oct 1961 WETA TV channel 26 in Washington, DC (PBS) begins broadcasting
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02 Oct 1961 WHRO TV channel 15 in Hampton-Norfolk, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
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02 Oct 1962 San Francisco beats LA, 8-7 in 4h18m 9 inning playoff game
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02 Oct 1963 W German Chancellor Adenauer condemns western grain shipments to USSR
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02 Oct 1965 Dodgers beat Braves to clinch NL pennant
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02 Oct 1965 Mel Stottlemyre wins game #20
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02 Oct 1966 LA Dodgers Sandy Koufax clinches 3rd LA pennant in 4 years
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02 Oct 1966 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational
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02 Oct 1967 Grateful Dead members arrested by narcotic agents
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02 Oct 1967 Groundbreaking begins on Veteran Stadium in Philadelphia
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02 Oct 1967 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Seven Lakes Golf Invitational
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02 Oct 1967 Thurgood Marshall sworn in as 1st black Supreme Court Justice
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02 Oct 1967 Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court.
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02 Oct 1968 1st London performance of "Promises Promises" presented
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02 Oct 1968 1st time, 2 soon-to-be-named MVPs oppose each other Cards Bob Gibson beat Tigers Denny McLain 4-0
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02 Oct 1968 Bob Gibson sets a World Series record of 17 strikeouts
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02 Oct 1968 Mexico City police fire on protesting students, 300-500 killed
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02 Oct 1968 Republic Guinea forms (Day of the Republic)
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02 Oct 1968 A peaceful student demonstration in Mexico City culminates in the Tlatelolco massacre by the order of the president, Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, to the soldiers of killing unarmed students, hiding the event from the public eye. The 1968 Summer Olympics, hosted in Mexico City, started ten days after the massacre.
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02 Oct 1969 Seattle Pilots last game in Seattle, lose 3-1 to As in front of 5,473
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02 Oct 1970 Billy Martin named manager of Detroit Tigers
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02 Oct 1970 Plane carrying Wichita State University football team crashes killing 30
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02 Oct 1970 A plane carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado killing 31 people.
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02 Oct 1971 Homing pigeon averages 133 km/h (record) in 1100-km Australian race
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02 Oct 1972 "From Israel with Love" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 8 performances
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02 Oct 1972 Aeroflot Il-18 crashes near Black Sea resort of Sochi, kills 105
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02 Oct 1972 Bill Stoneman of Montreal pitches his 2nd no-hitter, beating Mets, 7-0
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02 Oct 1972 Danish population votes for European Common Market membership
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02 Oct 1972 Ron Johnson becomes 1st New York Giant to score 4 TDs (vs. Philadelphia)
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02 Oct 1976 "Let My People Come" closes at Morosco Theater NYC after 106 performances
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02 Oct 1977 Dusty Baker 30th HR joins teammates Steve Garvey (33), Reggie Smith (32), and Ron Cey (30) in make Dodgers 1st team to boast 4 30-HR hitters
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02 Oct 1977 Pakistan general Zia ul-Haq bans all opposition
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02 Oct 1977 Vivian Brownlee wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
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02 Oct 1978 Syrian and Palestinians shoot in East Beirut, 1,300 killed
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02 Oct 1979 Pope John Paul II denounces all forms of concentration camps and torture while speaking at the U.N. in New York City.
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02 Oct 1980 Larry Holmes TKOs Muhammad Ali in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
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02 Oct 1980 Michael Myers (D-Pa), is 1st rep expelled in over 100 years (ABSCAM)
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02 Oct 1980 Michael Myers becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War.
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02 Oct 1982 Bomb attack in Teheran, kills 60, injures 700
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02 Oct 1983 Art Monk begins NFL streak of 136 plus consecutive game receptions
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02 Oct 1983 Kathy Postlewait wins LPGA San Jose Golf Classic
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02 Oct 1984 3 Cosmonauts return after a record 237 days in orbit
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02 Oct 1984 In 1st LCS game played with replacement umps, Cubs cbeat Padres 13-0
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02 Oct 1984 Richard Miller, becomes 1st (former) FBI agent, charged with espionage
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02 Oct 1985 Russian party leader Gorbatsjov visits Paris
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02 Oct 1985 Tigers Darrell Evans is 1st to hit 40 HR seasons in both leagues
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02 Oct 1986 Failed assassination attempt on India Premier Rajiv Gandhi
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02 Oct 1986 Mike Scott is 3rd NL pitcher to strike out 300 in a season (306)
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02 Oct 1986 New York Met Dwight Gooden is 1st to strike out 200 or more in 1st 3 seasons
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02 Oct 1986 Sikhs attempt to assassinate Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi
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02 Oct 1988 24th Olympic games close at Seoul, Korea
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02 Oct 1988 Gelindo Bordin wins 21st Olympics marathon (2:10:32)
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02 Oct 1988 Mike Tyson wrecks furniture in his Bernardsville New Jersey Mansion
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02 Oct 1988 Minn Twins are 1st AL club ever to break 3 million season attendance
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02 Oct 1988 Police breakup domestic disturbance between Mike Tyson and Robin Givens
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02 Oct 1990 "Michael Feinstein in Concert -" opens at Golden NYC for 30 performances
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02 Oct 1990 Allies cede any remaining rights as occupiers of Germany
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02 Oct 1990 Chinese plane explodes, about 100 die
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02 Oct 1990 US Senate votes 90-9 to confirm David Souter to Supreme Court
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02 Oct 1990 Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 is hijacked and lands at Guangzhou, where it crashes into two other airliners on the ground, killing 128.
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02 Oct 1991 Eric Lindros, refused to sign with Quebec Nordiques
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02 Oct 1991 Steffi Graf becomes the youngest woman to win 500 pro tennis matches
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02 Oct 1991 Toronto Blue Jays clinches AL East title and becomes 1st team to draw 4 million fans
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02 Oct 1992 VP Itamar Franco becomes President of Brazil
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02 Oct 1992 The Carandiru massacre takes place after a riot in the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil.
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02 Oct 1993 Spike Lee weds Tonya Lewis
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02 Oct 1994 "Show Boat, " opens at Gershwin Theater, New York City
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02 Oct 1994 Pakistan defeat Australia by one wicket in Karachi Test
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02 Oct 1995 "Moon Over Buffalo" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 308 performances
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02 Oct 1995 Seattle Mariners beat California Angels, 9-1 in a playoff game to win AL West
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02 Oct 1996 30th Country Music Association Award: Brooks and Dunn win
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02 Oct 1996 The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
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02 Oct 1996 Aeroperú Flight 603, a Boeing 757, crashes into the Pacific Ocean shortly after takeoff from Lima, Peru, killing 70.
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02 Oct 1997 Amsterdam Treaty on European Union is signed.
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02 Oct 2001 NATO backs U.S. military strikes following 9/11.
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02 Oct 2002 The Beltway sniper attacks begin, extending over three weeks.
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02 Oct 2005 Ethan Allen boating accident: The Ethan Allen tour boat capsizes on Lake George in Upstate New York, killing twenty people.
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02 Oct 2006 Five school girls are murdered by Charles Carl Roberts in a shooting at an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania before Roberts commits suicide.
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02 Oct 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.
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