What are the important events that happened on October 2? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
October 2: Facts & Myths About This Day
October 2 is the 275th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 90 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 19, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 488,712 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectaheptacontapentagon’ day.
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Libra is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 138 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,668 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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October 2 Historical Events
- 1552 –Conquest of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible.
- 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 Saint 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.
- 1958 –Guinea declares its independence from France.
- 1992 –The Carandiru Massacre takes place after a riot in the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil.
- 2001 –NATO backs U.S. military strikes following 9/11.
- 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.
- 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.
Who were born on October 2?
- 1883 –Karl Terzaghi, Austrian-American engineer (d. 1963)
- 1928 –George “Spanky” McFarland, American actor (d. 1993)
- 1933 –Phill Niblock, American composer, filmmaker and videographer
- 1958 –Wayne Toups, Cajun singer-songwriter
- 1960 –Lothar Schlapp, German footballer
- 1967 –Frankie Fredericks, Namibian athlete
- 1969 –Mitch English, American actor
- 1971 –Tiffany, American singer
- 1974 –Kevin Van De Wege, American Politician
- 1980 –Shane Andrus, American football player
Who died on October 2?
- 1709 –Ivan Mazepa, Hetman of Ukraine (b. 1639)
- 1746 –Josiah Burchett, English Secretary of the Admiralty
- 1786 –Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, Royal Navy admiral (b. 1725)
- 1804 –Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French steam vehicle pioneer (b. 1725)
- 1973 –Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (b. 1897)
- 1996 –Andrey Lukanov, Former Bulgarian Prime Minister (1990), shot (b. 1938)
- 2006 –Charles Carl Roberts, American spree killer (b. 1973)
- 2006 –Tamara Dobson, American actress (b. 1947)
- 2007 –Tex Coulter, American football player (b. 1924)
- 2008 –Choi Jin-sil, South Korean actress (b. 1968)
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