Notable Historical Events on October 2nd
October 2nd Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
939 |
Battle at Andernach: King Otto & Hermann of Zwaben beat Eberhard of France & Giselbert of Lutherans |
976 |
Hisham II appointed kalief of Cordoba |
1134 |
Storm flood ravages Zeeland county |
1187 |
Sultan Saladin captures Jerusalem from Crusaders |
1263 |
The battle of Largs fought between Norwegians and Scots. |
1492 |
King Henry VII of England invades France |
1518 |
English cardinal Thomas Wolsey makes European plan |
1535 |
Jacques Cartier discovers Mount Royal (Montreal) |
1540 |
Venice/Turkey signs peace |
1552 |
Conquest of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible. |
1572 |
Spanish army occupies/plunders/destroys Mechelen |
1586 |
Battle at Zutphen: English-Dutch army |
1608 |
Hans Lippershey applies for patent for first known early telescope in the Netherlands |
1614 |
French King Louis XIII declared an adult at 13 |
1656 |
British north American colony of Connecticut passes law against Quakers |
1700 |
Spanish king Carlos II appoints Philip van Anjou, heir to throne |
1760 |
Russian/Austrian army evacuates Berlin [NS=10/13] |
1787 |
Maagden House opens in Amsterdam |
1789 |
George Washington transmits the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification. |
1792 |
Baptist Missionary Society forms in London |
1795 |
Tula (leader slave uprising) sentence to death in Curacao |
1799 |
Duke of York & Russians capture Alkmaar in Netherlands |
1804 |
Britain mobilizes to protect against French invasion |
1833 |
Charles Darwin rides through Corunda to Santa Fe Argentina |
1833 |
NY Anti-Slavery Society organized |
1835 |
Battle of Gonzales fought between Texan settlers and Mexican forces. First engagement of the Texas revolution |
1836 |
Darwin returns to England aboard HMS Beagle (after 5 years) |
1851 |
The pasilalinic-sympathetic compass is demonstrated but proves to be a fake. |
1853 |
Austrian law forbids Jews from owning land |
1861 |
Former US VP John C Breckinridge flees Kentucky |
1864 |
Battle of Saltville, VA |
1866 |
J Osterhoudt patents tin can with key opener |
1870 |
Italy annexes Rome & Papal States; Rome made Italian capital |
1871 |
Brigham Young, mormon leader, arrested for bigamy |
1872 |
Morgan State University founded |
1879 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Musgrave Ritual" (BG) |
1889 |
1st Pan American conference (Washington DC) |
1889 |
In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West. |
1895 |
1st cartoon comic strip is printed in a newspaper |
1899 |
Orange Free state mobilizes |
1901 |
First Royal Naval submarine launched at Barrow |
1902 |
Beatrix Potter's "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" is published by Frederick Warne & Co. in London. |
1906 |
Tommy Burns KOs Jim Burns in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
1907 |
Phillies Eddie Grant goes 7 for 7 in a doubleheader vs Giants |
1908 |
Addie Joss perfect game stops Ed Walsh 1-0 who won 40 in a row |
1909 |
1st rugby match (Twickenham) |
1910 |
1st 2 aircraft collision (Milan Italy) |
1910 |
Henry Wijnmalen flies to 2,800m altitude (world record) |
1912 |
Gopal Krishna Gokhale, at invitation of Gandhi, arrives in South Africa on a 26-day tour; he also visits Tolstoy Farm |
1913 |
Phillies beat NY Giants 2 games out of 3 in a tripleheader |
1916 |
Grover Cleveland Alexander records his 16th shutout of year |
1916 |
San Diego Zoo founded |
1919 |
1st edition "Volkskrant" (People's newspaper) published in Neth |
1919 |
US President Woodrow Wilson has a stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed |
1920 |
Only tripleheader of century (Reds win 13-4, 7-3 then Pirates win 6-0) |
1921 |
NY Yankee Babe Ruth hits then record 59th HR |
1923 |
British occuping army leaves Constantinople |
1923 |
Harry Heilmann goes 2-for-2, sit out rest of season, except for a pinch single on final day, hitting .403 |
1924 |
League of Nations approves protocols of Geneva |
1926 |
Bert Gibb of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game |
1928 |
The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, was founded by Saint Josemaría Escrivá. |
1931 |
Pope Pius XI encyclical On economic crisis |
1932 |
NY Yankees sweep Chicago Cubs in 29th World Series |
1932 |
Washington Redskins (as Boston Braves) play 1st NFL game, lose 14-0 |
1933 |
Eugene O'Neill's comedy "Ah, Wilderness" premieres in NYC |
1935 |
Mussolini's Italian army attacks Abyssinia (Ethiopia) |
1935 |
NY Hayden Planetarium, 4th in US, opens |
1936 |
1st alcohol power plant forms, Atchison, Kansas |
1936 |
Amsterdam's Calvinist Churches reject nazism |
1936 |
French franc devalued |
1936 |
NY Yankees score World Series record 18 runs, beating Giants 18-4 |
1936 |
Tony Lazzeri becomes 1st Yank to hit a World Series grand slam |
1937 |
FDR visits Grand Coulee Dam construction site in Washington State |
1938 |
Indian Bob Feller strikes out record 18 Tigers (Chester Laabs 5 times) |
1939 |
Birdbaths installed in Union Square, SF |
1940 |
17 German aircrafts shot down above England |
1940 |
British Council receives Royal Charter |
1940 |
British liner Empress loaded with refugees for Canada, sunk |
1941 |
6 Paris synagogues are bombed by Gestapo |
1941 |
Germans launch attack on Moscow |
1942 |
"Queen Mary" slices cruiser "Curacao" in half, killing 338 |
1943 |
Japanse troops leave Kolombangara, Solomon Island |
1943 |
Yankees sweep 14th doubleheader of year, beating Browns, 5-1 & 7-6 |
1944 |
Nazis crush Warsaw Uprising killing 250,000 people |
1944 |
US B-17's drops pamphlets on Walcheren |
1946 |
1st network soap opera-Faraway Hill-Dumont |
1947 |
"Music in My Heart" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 124 performances |
1947 |
Revised International Telecommunication Convention adopted |
1947 |
Yankee Yogi Berra becomes 1st to pinch hit a World Series homer |
1948 |
"Finian's Rainbow" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 725 perfs |
1949 |
St Louis Browns use 9 pitchers, lose to Whites Sox 4-3 |
1949 |
USSR recognizes People's Republic of China |
1949 |
Yanks & Red Sox, tied for 1st place, play final game of season. Yanks win 5-3 & clinch pennant #16 |
1950 |
1st strip of Charlie Brown, "Li'l Folks", later "Peanuts", by Charles M. Schulz published in 9 papers |
1950 |
Red Sox Dom DiMaggio leads AL with only 15 stolen bases |
1950 |
Bob Shaw of Chicago Cardinals sets NFL record with 5 TD receptions |
1950 |
Chic Cards Jim Hardy passes for 6 touchdowns vs Balt Colts (55-13) |
1951 |
1st Netherland TV broadcast (Toverspiegel) |
1951 |
Dodgers beat Giants 10-0, in 2nd game of play-offs |
1953 |
"Comedy in Music (Victor Borge)" opens at John Golden NYC for 849 perf |
1953 |
Dodger Carl Erskine strikes out 14 Yankees in World Series |
1954 |
8th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Detroit 2-2 at Detroit |
1954 |
Former French possession of Chandernagore made part of West Bengal |
1954 |
NY Giants sweep Cleve Indians, in 51st World Series |
1955 |
"Alfred Hitchcock Presents" premieres |
1955 |
9th NHL All-Star Game: Detroit beat All-Stars 3-1 at Detroit |
1955 |
Chiva Stoica becomes premier of Romania |
1955 |
WHTN (now WOWK) TV ch 13 in Huntington-Charleston, WV (CBS) begins |
1956 |
1st atomic power clock exhibited-NYC |
1957 |
NY Yankees appear in their 25th World Series |
1957 |
New volcanic island appears off Fayal Island Azores |
1957 |
"The Bridge on the River Kwai", starring William Holden and Alec Guinness, is released |
1958 |
Guinea (French Guinea) gains independence from France (National Day) |
1958 |
Musical show "Valmouth" 1st produced in London |
1958 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1959 |
Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone" premieres on CBS-TV |
1960 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Tournament |
1961 |
"Ben Casey" premieres on NBC-TV |
1961 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1961 |
WETA TV channel 26 in Washington, DC (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1961 |
WHRO TV channel 15 in Hampton-Norfolk, VA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1962 |
SF beats LA, 8-7 in 4h18m 9 inning playoff game |
1962 |
US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island |
1963 |
Dodgers' Sandy Koufax strikes out World Series record 15 Yankees |
1963 |
W German Chancellor Adenauer condemns western grain shipments to USSR |
1964 |
Phillies tie major league record with season's 3rd triple play (Reds) |
1965 |
Dodgers beat Braves to clinch NL pennant |
1965 |
Mel Stottlemyre wins game #20 |
1965 |
Phillies' Chris Short strikes-out 18 NY Mets |
1965 |
Pope Paul VI named MR Perey bishop's helper of New Orleans |
1966 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational |
1966 |
LA Dodgers Sandy Koufax clinches 3rd LA pennant in 4 years |
1967 |
Grateful Dead members arrested by narcotic agents |
1967 |
Groundbreaking begins on Veteran Stadium in Philadelphia |
1967 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Seven Lakes Golf Invitational |
1967 |
Thurgood Marshall sworn in as 1st black Supreme Court Justice |
1968 |
1st London performance of "Promises, Promises" presented |
1968 |
Bob Gibson sets a World Series record of 17 strikeouts |
1968 |
Mexico City police fire on protesting students, 300-500 killed |
1968 |
Republic Guinea forms (day of republic) |
1968 |
1st time, 2 soon-to-be-named MVPs oppose each other Cards Bob Gibson beat Tigers Denny McLain 4-0 |
1969 |
Seattle Pilots last game in Seattle, lose 3-1 to As in front of 5,473 |
1969 |
US performs underground nuclear test at Amchitka Island Aleutians |
1970 |
Billy Martin named manager of Det Tigers |
1970 |
Plane carrying Wichita State U football team crashes killing 30 |
1971 |
Homing pigeon averages 133 KPH (record) in 1100-km Australian race |
1972 |
"From Israel with Love" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 8 performances |
1972 |
Aeroflot Il-18 crashes near Black Sea resort of Sochi, kills 105 |
1972 |
Bill Stoneman of Montreal pitches his 2nd no-hitter, beating Mets, 7-0 |
1972 |
Danish population votes for membership of the European Common Market |
1972 |
Mont Expos Bill Stoneman 2nd no-hitter beats NY Mets, 7-0 |
1972 |
Ron Johnson becomes 1st NY Giant to score 4 TDs (vs Phila) |
1974 |
Hank Aaron's 733rd career HR on his last NL at bat |
1975 |
The Ulster Volunteer Force kill 7 civilians in a series of attacks across Northern Ireland; 6 were Catholic civilians and 1 was a Protestant civilian |
1975 |
Four Ulster Volunteer Force members killed after a bomb they are carrying prematurely explodes in Farrenlester, near Coleraine |
1976 |
"Let My People Come" closes at Morosco Theater NYC after 106 perfs |
1977 |
Pakistan general Zia ul-Haq bans all opposition |
1977 |
Vivian Brownlee wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open |
1977 |
Dusty Baker 30th HR joins teammates Steve Garvey (33), Reggie Smith (32), & Ron Cey (30) in make Dodgers 1st team to boast 4 30-HR hitters |
1978 |
Syrian & Palestinians shoot in East Beirut, 1,300 killed |
1978 |
Yanks win 3rd straight AL East beating Red Sox 5-4 in a playoff game. Guidry wins #25 aided by Dent's homer & Pinella's fielding |
1980 |
Larry Holmes TKOs Muhammad Ali in 11 for heavyweight boxing title |
1980 |
Michael Myers (D-Pa), is 1st rep expelled in over 100 years (ABSCAM) |
1981 |
Ali Chamenei elected president of Iran |
1982 |
Bomb attack in Teheran, kills 60, injures 700 |
1983 |
Art Monk begins NFL streak of 136 plus consecutive game receptions |
1983 |
Carl Yastrezemski's last at bat |
1983 |
Kathy Postlewait wins LPGA San Jose Golf Classic |
1984 |
3 cosmonauts return after a record 237 days in orbit |
1984 |
In 1st LCS game played with replacement umps, Cubs cbeat Padres 13-0 |
1984 |
Richard Miller, becomes 1st (former) FBI agent, charged with espionage |
1985 |
Russian party leader Gorbachev visits Paris (his first trip abroad) |
1985 |
Tigers Darrell Evans is 1st to hit 40 HR seasons in both leagues |
1986 |
Mike Scott is 3rd NL pitcher to strike out 300 in a season (306) |
1986 |
NY Met Dwight Gooden is 1st to strike out 200 or more in 1st 3 seasons |
1986 |
Sikhs attempt to assassinate Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi |
1988 |
24th Olympic games close at Seoul, Korea |
1988 |
Gelindo Bordin wins 21st Olympics marathon (2:10:32) |
1988 |
Minnesota Twins are 1st AL club ever to break 3 million season attendance |
1988 |
Pakistan's Supreme Court orders free elections |
1988 |
Police breakup domestic disturbance between Mike Tyson & Robin Givens |
1988 |
Mike Tyson wrecks furniture in his Bernardsville NJ Mansion |
1990 |
"Michael Feinstein in Concert" opens at Golden NYC for 30 perfs |
1990 |
Allies cede any remaining rights as occupiers of Germany |
1990 |
Chinese plane explodes, about 100 die |
1990 |
US Senate votes 90-9 to confirm David Souter's appointment to Supreme Court |
1990 |
Radio Berlin International's final transmission (links to Deutsche Welles of West Germany); final song is "The End" by Doors |
1991 |
Eric Lindros refuses to sign with Quebec Nordiques |
1991 |
Steffi Graf becomes the youngest woman to win 500 professional tennis matches |
1991 |
Toronto Blue Jays clinches AL East title & becomes 1st team to draw 4 million fans |
1992 |
VP Itamar Franco becomes pres of Brazil |
1992 |
The Carandiru Massacre takes place after a riot in the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil. |
1994 |
"Show Boat" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC |
1994 |
Pakistan defeat Australia by one wicket in Karachi Test |
1995 |
"Moon Over Buffalo" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 308 perfs |
1995 |
Seattle Mariners beat Cal Angels, 9-1 in a playoff game to win AL West |
1996 |
30th Country Music Association Award: Brooks & Dunn win |
2001 |
NATO backs US military strikes, following 9/11. |
2001 |
"Scrubs", starring Zach Braff as Dr. John "J.D." Dorian, premieres on NBC |
2002 |
The Beltway sniper attacks begin, extending over three weeks. |
2004 |
American Samoa joins the North American Numbering Plan. |
2005 |
The Ethan Allen tour boat capsizes on Lake George in Upstate New York, killing twenty people. |
2005 |
NFL plays first regular season game outside United States when the Arizona Cardinals defeat the San Francisco 49ers 31-14 in Mexico City, Mexico |
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. |
2009 |
Rio de Janeiro is elected the host city of the 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics. |
2009 |
The economic crisis in Ireland is considered to be the driving force behind the largest migration of Irish people to London in 20 years, it is reported today |
2012 |
20 students are gunned down in Mubi, Nigeria |
2012 |
10 people are killed after a minibus and truck collide in Ilocos Norte, Philippines |
2013 |
8 people are killed and 14 are injured after an accident involving an SUV, church bus, and tractor trailer in Jefferson County, Tennessee |
2014 |
15 people are killed after a gun powder plant explodes in Gorni Lom, Bulgaria |
2016 |
Evacuations in Caribbean as fierce Hurricane Matthew looms |
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