About October 2
October 2, 2025 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.
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Libra is the sun 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.
What Happened On October 2
- 1187 –Siege of Jerusalem: Saladin captures Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule.
- 1263 –The battle of Largs is fought between Norwegians and Scots.
- 1552 –Conquest of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible.
- 1780 –John André, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War, is hanged as a spy by American forces.
- 1814 –Battle of Rancagua: Spanish Royalists troops under Mariano Osorio defeated rebel Chilean forces of Bernardo O'Higgins and Jose Miguel Carrera.
- 1835 –The Texas Revolution begins with the Battle of Gonzales: Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
- 1924 –The Geneva Protocol is adopted as a means to strengthen the League of Nations.
- 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.
- 1941 –World War II: In Operation Typhoon, Germany begins an all-out offensive against Moscow.
- 1950 –Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published
- 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.
- 1992 –The Carandiru Massacre takes place after a riot in the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil.
- 1996 –Aeroperú Flight 603, a Boeing 757, crashes into the Pacific Ocean shortly after takeoff from Lima, Peru, killing 70.
- 1996 –The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
- 2001 –Swissair liquidates and the airline is replaced by SWISS.
- 2002 –The Beltway sniper attacks begin, extending over three weeks.
- 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.
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