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 275^th 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, 1,759,363,200 seconds 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.

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.

October 2 Historical Events

• 1263 –
  The battle of Largs is fought between Norwegians and Scots.
• 1535 –
  Jacques Cartier discovers Montreal, Quebec.
• 1789 –
  George Washington sends the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification.
• 1814 –
  Battle of Rancagua: Spanish Royalists troops under Mariano Osorio defeated rebel Chilean forces of Bernardo O'Higgins and Jose Miguel Carrera.
• 1925 –
  John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system.
• 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.
• 1950 –
  Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published
• 1970 –
  A plane carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado killing 31 people.
• 1990 –
  Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 is hijacked; after landing at Guangzhou, it crashes into two airliners on the ground, killing 132 people.

Who were born on October 2?

• 1893 –
  Leroy Shield, American film score and radio composer (Our Gang, Laurel and Hardy) (d. 1962)
• 1895 –
  Ruth Cheney Streeter, American military officer, first director of the United States Marine Corps Women’s Reserve (d. 1990)
• 1902 –
  John G. Crommelin, American naval officer and white supremacist figure (d. 1996)
• 1921 –
  Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 2000)
• 1940 –
  Pantelis Voulgaris, Greek film director and screenwriter
• 1948 –
  Donna Karan, American fashion designer
• 1952 –
  Robin Riker, American actress
• 1955 –
  Phil Oakey, English singer (The Human League)
• 1960 –
  Glenn Anderson, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1976 –
  John Thornton, American football player

Who died on October 2?

• 1626 –
  Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar, Spanish diplomat (b. 1567)
• 1629 –
  Antonio Cifra, Italian composer (b. 1584)
• 1764 –
  William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1720)
• 1782 –
  Charles Lee, British and U.S. general (b. 1732)
• 1981 –
  Hazel Scott, West Indian-born singer (b. 1920)
• 1996 –
  Andrey Lukanov, Former Bulgarian Prime Minister (1990), shot (b. 1938)
• 1998 –
  Gene Autry, American singer, actor, and entrepreneur (b. 1907)
• 2003 –
  John T. Dunlop, U.S. Secretary of Labor (b. 1914)
• 2005 –
  Nipsey Russell, American comedian (b. 1918)
• 2006 –
  Paul Halmos, Hungarian-born American mathematician (b. 1916)