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, 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.
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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
- 1263 –The battle of Largs is fought between Norwegians and Scots.
- 1864 –American Civil War: Battle of Saltville – Union forces attack Saltville, Virginia, but are defeated by Confederate troops.
- 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.
- 1967 –Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court.
- 1968 –A peaceful student demonstration in Mexico City culminates in the Tlatelolco massacre.
- 1990 –Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 is hijacked; after landing at Guangzhou, it crashes into two airliners on the ground, killing 132 people.
- 2001 –NATO backs U.S. military strikes following 9/11.
- 2001 –Swissair liquidates and the airline is replaced by SWISS.
Who were born on October 2?
- 1895 –Bud Abbott, American comedian and actor (d. 1974)
- 1911 –Jack Finney, American author (d. 1995)
- 1914 –John Whiteside Parsons, American rocket scientist, author, and occultist (d. 1952)
- 1937 –Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., American attorney (d. 2005)
- 1940 –Gheorghe Gruia, Romanian handball player
- 1962 –Sigtryggur Baldursson, Icelandic drummer (The Sugarcubes)
- 1967 –Bud Gaugh, American musician (Sublime)
- 1968 –Jeff Martin, Canadian singer/songwriter (The Tea Party)
- 1974 –Michelle Krusiec, American actress
- 1976 –Anita Kulcsár, Hungarian handball player (d. 2005)
Who died on October 2?
- 1626 –Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar, Spanish diplomat (b. 1567)
- 1709 –Ivan Mazepa, Hetman of Ukraine (b. 1639)
- 1775 –Chiyo-ni, Japanese poet (b. 1703)
- 1804 –Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French steam vehicle pioneer (b. 1725)
- 1853 –François Jean Dominique Arago, French mathematician (b. 1786)
- 1973 –Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (b. 1897)
- 1996 –Robert Bourassa, politician, premier of Quebec (b. 1933)
- 2001 –Franz Biebl, German composer (b. 1906)
- 2005 –Nipsey Russell, American comedian (b. 1918)
- 2007 –Tawn Mastrey, American disc jockey (b. 1954)
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