Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 2
This is a list of selected October 2 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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National Flag of the Republic of Guinea
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Opus Dei logo -
Rafael Trujillo
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Independence Day in Guinea (1958); | single source section, outdated section |
| 1187 – Ayyubid forces led by Saladin captured Jerusalem, prompting the Third Crusade. | needs more footnotes |
| 1937 – Under the orders of President Rafael Trujillo, Dominican troops began mass killings of Haitians living in the Dominican Republic. | unreferenced table |
| 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 |
Eligible
- 829 – Theophilos ascended to the throne of the Byzantine Empire, the last emperor to support iconoclasm.
- 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 of England.
- 1835 – Mexican dragoons dispatched to disarm settlers at Gonzales, Texas, encountered stiff resistance from a Texian militia in the Battle of Gonzales, the first armed engagement of the Texas Revolution.
- 1925 – Scottish inventor John Logie Baird successfully transmitted the first television picture with a greyscale image.
- 1928 – Spanish priest Josemaría Escrivá founded Opus Dei, a worldwide organization of the Catholic Church which teaches that everyone can be a saint.
- 1967 – Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first African-American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
- 1968 – A peaceful student demonstration in the Tlatelolco section of Mexico City was violently suppressed when army and police forces fired into the crowd.
- 1970 – A Martin 4-0-4 plane carrying part of the Wichita State University football team crashed into a mountain near Silver Plume, Colorado, U.S. killing 31 of the 37 people on board.
- 1990 – A hijacked airliner collided with two other planes while attempting to land at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport in China, resulting in a total 128 fatalities.
- 1992 – In response to a prison riot, military police stormed the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil, killing at least 100 prisoners.
- 2007 – South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun walked across the Military Demarcation Line on his way to the second Inter-Korean Summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.
- 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.
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; Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) begins at sunset (2016, AM 5777); Gandhi Jayanti in India
- 1263 – Scottish–Norwegian War: The armies of Norway and Scotland fought at the Battle of Largs, an inconclusive engagement near the present-day town of Largs in North Ayrshire.
- 1535 – French explorer Jacques Cartier (pictured) sailed along the St. Lawrence River and reached the Iroquois fortified village Hochelaga on the island now known as Montreal.
- 1941 – World War II: Nazi German forces began Operation Typhoon, an all-out offensive to begin the three-month long Battle of Moscow.
- 1996 – A maintenance worker's failure to remove tape covering the static ports of the aircraft caused Aeroperú Flight 603 to crash into the ocean near Lima, Peru, due to instrument failure.
- 2006 – A gunman killed five Amish girls before committing suicide in a one-room schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, US.