Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 2
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Bust of John Logie Baird
Order in which European states ratified the Treaty of Lisbon
Opus Dei logo
Rafael Trujillo
Jacques Cartier
John Logie Baird
Nguyễn Văn Thiệu
Thurgood Marshall
Roh Moo-hyun
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| Independence Day in Guinea (1958); | refimprove section |
| Simchat Torah (Judaism, 2018) | needs more footnotes |
| Fast of Gedalia (Judaism 2019) | refimprove section and generally needs more refs |
| 829 – Theophilos ascended to the throne of the Byzantine Empire, the last emperor to support iconoclasm. | unreferenced section |
| 1187 – Ayyubid forces led by Saladin captured Jerusalem, prompting the Third Crusade. | needs more footnotes |
| 1263 – Scottish–Norwegian War: Norwegian and Scottish armies fought the Battle of Largs, an inconclusive engagement near the present-day town of Largs, Scotland. | Yellow "lead too long" banner |
| 1535 – French explorer Jacques Cartier sailed along the St. Lawrence River and reached the Iroquois fortified village Hochelaga on the island now known as Montreal. | refimprove section |
| 1925 – Scottish inventor John Logie Baird successfully transmitted the first television picture with a greyscale image. | Referencing issues |
| 1928 – Spanish priest Josemaría Escrivá founded Opus Dei, a worldwide organization of the Catholic Church. | primary sources, page numbers needed |
| 1937 – President Rafael Trujillo announced that Dominican troops had begun mass killings of Haitians living in the Dominican Republic. | "More sources needed" orange banner |
| 1941 – World War II: Military forces of Nazi Germany began Operation Typhoon, an all-out offensive which opened the three-month-long Battle of Moscow. | Primary sources by involved generals, per FAR demotion |
| 1950 – Peanuts, the syndicated comic strip by Charles M. Schulz, featuring Charlie Brown and his pet Snoopy, was first published in major newspapers. | refimprove section |
| 1968 – A peaceful student demonstration in the Tlatelolco section of Mexico City was violently suppressed when army and police forces fired into the crowd. | unreferenced section |
| 1970 – A Martin 4-0-4 plane carrying part of the Wichita State University football team crashed into a mountain near Silver Plume, Colorado, killing 31 of the 40 people on board. | Page numbers needed |
| 1992 – In response to a prison riot, military police stormed the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil, killing at least 100 prisoners. | unreferenced section |
| 1996 – A maintenance worker's failure to remove tape covering the aircraft's static ports caused Aeroperú Flight 603 to crash into the ocean near Lima, Peru, killing all 70 people on board. | unreferenced section |
| 2004 – The first Parkrun, then known as the Bushy Park Time Trial, took place in Bushy Park, London. | primary sources |
| 2007 – South Korean president Roh Moo-hyun (pictured) walked across the Military Demarcation Line on his way to the second inter-Korean summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. | Orange "section is empty" banner |
| 2009 – The Twenty-eighth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland was approved on the second attempt, permitting the state to ratify the European Union's Treaty of Lisbon. | unreferenced section |
| Isabella of Aragon, Duchess of Milan |b|1470 | page numbers needed |
| Tiffany Darwish |b|1971 | refimprove section |
| Hamengkubuwono IX|d|1988| | Too much uncited |
Eligible
- 1766 – As part of wider food riots, citizens in Nottingham, England, looted large quantities of cheese; one man was killed during attempts to restore order.
- 1879 – Qing China signed the Treaty of Livadia with the Russian Empire, but the terms were so unfavorable that the Chinese government refused to ratify the treaty.
- 1913 – The Shubert Theatre opened on Broadway with a production of Hamlet.
- 1967 – Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first African-American justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
- 1971 – Nguyễn Văn Thiệu was re-elected unopposed as President of South Vietnam.
- 2005 – Typhoon Longwang made landfall in China as the deadliest tropical cyclone in that year to impact the country.
- 2006 – A gunman killed five Amish girls before committing suicide in a one-room schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania.
- Born/died: | Richard III of England|b|1452| William Drury |b|1527| Parviz Mirza |b|1589| David Teniers III |d|1685| François-Timoléon de Choisy |d|1724| Charles Lee |d|1782| Augustus Keppel |d|1786| Samuel Adams |d|1803| Wallace Stevens |b|1879| Thomas Ellison |d|1904| Lal Bahadur Shastri |b|1904| John Gunther|b|1910| Jack Parsons |b|1914| Michael Bambang Hartono |b|1939| Trevor Brooking |b|1948| Sting|b|1951| Glenn Anderson |b|1960| Patricia O'Callaghan |b|1970| Priya Cooper |b|1974| Ayumi Hamasaki |b|1978| Jamal Khashoggi|d|2018| Sacheen Littlefeather|d|2022|
Notes
- Convention of 1832 appears on October 1, so Battle of Gonzales should not appear in the same year
October 2: International Day of Non-Violence; Gandhi Jayanti in India; Yom Kippur (Judaism, 2025)
HMS Curacoa
- 1470 – With King Edward IV of England forced to flee to the Burgundian Netherlands after a rebellion organised by Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, Henry VI was restored to the throne.
- 1835 – Mexican dragoons dispatched to disarm settlers at Gonzales in Mexican Texas encountered stiff resistance from a Texian militia at the Battle of Gonzales, the first armed engagement of the Texas Revolution.
- 1942 – Second World War: HMS Curacoa (pictured) was accidentally rammed and sunk by RMS Queen Mary while escorting the liner to provide protection from submarine attacks.
- 1990 – A hijacked airliner collided with two other planes while attempting to land at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport in China, killing 128 and injuring 71.
- 2018 – The Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was assassinated in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.
- Sarah Biffin (d. 1850)
- Maria Ressa (b. 1963)
- K. Kamaraj (d. 1975)
- Marissa Haque (d. 2024)