2 October

The 2t o October is the 275t day o the year (276t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 90 days bidin.

Events

1187: Dome o the Rock in Jerusalem

1958: Banner o Guinea

• 1187 – Saladin conquers Jerusalem endin 88 year o Crusader Rule.
• 1263 – Battle o Largs atween Scotland an Norawa.
• 1535 – Jacques Cartier reaches present-day Montreal.
• 1814 – Battle o Rancagua in Chile.
• 1836 – HMS Beagle, wi Charles Darwin on baird, arrives back in Ingland.
• 1925 – John Logie Baird demonstrates the first wirkin televeesion seestem.
• 1935 – Italy invades Abyssinie.
• 1952 – Wast Germany's Bundestag decides against the introduction o caipital punishment.
• 1955 – ENIAC, ane o the first computers, is switchit aff.
• 1958 – Guinea declares its unthirldom frae Fraunce.
• 1988 – End o the 1988 Simmer Olympics in Seoul, Sooth Korea.
• 1992 – Riots in the owercroudit Carandiru prison in Sao Paulo, Brazil, leave 111 fowk deed.
• 1993 – Moscow riots bi hairdline Communists.
• 1996 – An Aeroperu Boeing 757 crashes intae the Paceefic Ocean shortly efter tak-aff frae Lima, Peru, killin 70 fowk.
• 1997 – The Amsterdam Treaty is signed.
• 2007 – Sooth Korean Preses Roh Moo-hyun crosses the mairch intae North Korea for talks.
• 2009 – The 2016 Simmer Olympics are gien tae Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• 2009 – Maist voters in the Republic o Ireland support the European Union's Lisbon Treaty in a seicont vote on the issue.
• 2016 – Voters in Colombie reject a peace deal atween the govrenment an the FARC bi a nairae margin.
• 2018 – Nobel Prize in Pheesics: Donna Strickland becomes only the thrid female laureate in Pheesics, while Arthur Ashkin (agit 96) becomes the auldest-iver Nobel laureate - they share the prize wi Gerard Mourou.
• 2018 – Saudi jurnalist Jamal Khashoggi is murthert inside Saudi Arabie's consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.

Births

Mahatma Gandhi

• 1452 – Richard III o Ingland (d. 1485)
• 1805 – William Cunningham, Scots theologian (d. 1861)
• 1847 – Paul von Hindenburg, Preses o Germany (d. 1934)
• 1851 – Ferdinand Foch, French general (d. 1929)
• 1852 – William Ramsay, Scots chemist (d. 1916)
• 1854 – Patrick Geddes, Scots polymath (d. 1932)
• 1869 – Mahatma Gandhi, Indian activist an philosopher (d. 1948)
• 1871 – Cordell Hull, Unitit States Secretar o State (d. 1955)
• 1890 – Groucho Marx, American comedian, actor an sangster (d. 1977)
• 1904 – Lal Bahadur Shastri, 2nt Prime meenister o Indie (d. 1966)
• 1904 – Graham Greene, Inglis writer (d. 1991)
• 1907 – Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scots biochemist (d. 1997)
• 1917 – Christian de Duve, Belgian biochemist (d. 2013)
• 1933 – John Gurdon, Inglis biologist
• 1944 – Willie Morgan, Scots fitbawer
• 1949 – Annie Leibovitz, American photographer
• 1951 – Romina Power, American sangster
• 1951 – Sting, Inglis sangster
• 1953 – Willie Pettigrew, Scots fitbawer
• 1961 – Derek Turnbull, Scots rugby union player
• 1964 – John Robertson, Scots fitbawer
• 1973 – Maria Wetterstrand, Swadish politeecian
• 1982 – Stephen Pearson, Scots fitbawer
• 1984 – Marion Bartoli, French tennis player

Daiths

• 1764 – William Cavendish, 4t Duke o Devonshire, Prime Meenister o Great Breetain (b. 1720)
• 1803 – Samuel Adams, American politeecian (b. 1722)
• 1920 – Max Bruch, German componer an conductor (b. 1838)
• 1927 – Svante Arrhenius, Swadish chemist (b. 1859)
• 1931 – Thomas Lipton, Scots merchand an yachtsman (b. 1848)
• 1968 – Marcel Duchamp, French airtist (b. 1887)
• 1973 – Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (b. 1897)
• 1985 – Rock Hudson, American actor (b. 1925)
• 2017 – Tom Petty, American muisicker (b. 1950)
• 2018 – Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi jurnalist (b. 1958)
• 2019 – Giya Kancheli, Georgie componer (b. 1935)

Halidays

• Gandhi Jayanti (Indie)
• Internaitional Day o Non-Violence
• Independence Day (Guinea)