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October 2 is the 275th day of the year (276th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 90 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 1187 – Siege of Jerusalem: Saladin captures Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule.
• 1263 – The battle of Largs is fought between Norwegians and Scots.
• 1535 – Jacques Cartier discovers Montreal, Quebec.
• 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.
• 1789 – George Washington sends the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification.
• 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.
• 1851 – The pasilalinic-sympathetic compass is demonstrated but proves to be a fake.
• 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Saltville – Union forces attack Saltville, Virginia, but are defeated by Confederate troops.
• 1889 – In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West.
• 1919 – US President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.
• 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.
• 1938 – Tiberias massacre: Arabs murder 20 Jews.
• 1941 – World War II: In Operation Typhoon, Germany begins an all-out offensive against Moscow.
• 1944 – World War II: Nazi troops end the Warsaw Uprising.
• 1950 – Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published
• 1958 – Guinea declares its independence from France.
• 1959 – The anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS television.
• 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 ends in the Tlatelolco massacre.
• 1970 – A plane carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado killing 31 people.
• 1990 – A Chinese airline Boeing 737-247 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 – The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
• 1996 – An AeroPerú Boeing 757 crashes in Pacific Ocean shortly after takeoff from Lima, Peru, killing 70.
• 1997 – European Union: The Amsterdam Treaty is signed.
• 2001 – NATO backs US military strikes following 9/11.
• 2001 – Swissair liquidates and the airline is replaced by SWISS.
• 2002 – The Beltway sniper attacks begin, extending over three weeks.
• 2004 – American Samoa joins the North American Numbering Plan.
• 2005 – Ethan Allen Boating Accident: 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.

Births

• 1452 – King Richard III of England (d. 1485)
• 1470 – Isabella of Naples, Duchess of Milan (d. 1524)
• 1538 – Saint Charles Borromeo, Italian cardinal (d. 1584)
• 1644 – François-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (d. 1724)
• 1722 – Leopold Widhalm, Austrian luthier (d. 1776)
• 1737 – Francis Hopkinson, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (d. 1791)
• 1768 – William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician (d. 1854)
• 1798 – King Charles Albert of Sardinia (d. 1849)
• 1800 – Nat Turner, American leader of slave uprising (d. 1831)
• 1828 – Charles Floquet, French statesman (d. 1896)
• 1832 – Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist (d. 1917)
• 1833 – Rev. William Corby, American Catholic priest (d. 1897)
• 1847 – Paul von Hindenburg, German officer and politician (d. 1934)
• 1851 – Ferdinand Foch, French soldier (d. 1929)
• 1852 – William Ramsay, Scottish chemist (d. 1916)
• 1869 – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (also known as Mahatma Gandhi), Indian politician and spiritual leader (d. 1948)
• 1871 – Cordell Hull, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1955)
• 1871 – Martha Brookes Hutcheson, American landscape architect (d. 1959)
• 1873 – Stephen Warfield Gambrill, U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 5th District (d. 1924)
• 1873 – Plum Warner, English cricketer (d. 1963)
• 1879 – Wallace Stevens, American poet (d. 1955)
• 1882 – Boris Shaposhnikov, Russian military commander (d. 1945)
• 1890 – Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (d. 1977)
• 1893 – Leroy Shield, American film score and radio composer (Our Gang, Laurel and Hardy) (d. 1962)
• 1895 – Bud Abbott, American comedian and actor (d. 1974)
• 1896 – Liaqat Ali Khan, Pakistan's first Prime Minister (d. 1951)
• 1901 – Alice Prin, French singer and artist (d. 1953)
• 1902 – Leopold Figl, Austrian politician (d. 1965)
• 1904 – Graham Greene, British novelist (d. 1991)
• 1904 – Lal Bahadur Shastri, Prime Minister of India (d. 1966)
• 1907 – Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scottish chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1997)
• 1911 – Jack Finney, American author (d. 1995)
• 1913 – Karl Miller, German footballer (d. 1967)
• 1914 – Jack Parsons, American rocket scientist, author, and occultist (d. 1952)
• 1914 – Bernarr Rainbow, historian of music education, organist, and choir master (d. 1998)
• 1917 – Christian de Duve, English-born biologist, Nobel laureate
• 1917 – Charles Drake, American actor (d. 1994)
• 1921 – Albert Scott Crossfield, American test pilot (d. 2006)
• 1921 – Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 2000)
• 1926 – Jan Morris, English writer
• 1928 – George "Spanky" McFarland, American actor (d. 1993)
• 1928 – Wolfhart Pannenberg, German theologian
• 1929 – Howard Roberts, American Jazz Guitarist, Educator, and Session Musician (d. 1992)
• 1929 – Moses Gunn, American actor (d. 1993)
• 1929 – Cesare Maestri, Italian climber, famous for climbing Cerro Torre
• 1930 – Dave Barrett, Premier of British Columbia
• 1932 – Maury Wills, American baseball player
• 1933 – Phill Niblock, American composer, filmmaker and videographer
• 1934 – Earl Wilson, American baseball player (d. 2005)
• 1935 – Omar Sivori, Argentine football player (d. 2005)
• 1936 – Dick Barnett, American basketball player
• 1937 – Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., American attorney (d. 2005)
• 1938 – Eddie Cochran, American singer (d. 1960)
• 1938 – Rex Reed, American movie critic and actor
• 1938 – Waheed Murad, Pakistani film actor and director (d. 1983)
• 1940 – Gheorghe Gruia, Romanian handball player
• 1941 – Zareh Baronian, Armenian theologian
• 1943 – Franklin Rosemont, American artist
• 1945 – Don McLean, American songwriter
• 1946 – Gen.Sonthi Boonyaratglin, President of Council for National Security and Commander-in-Chief of Royal Thai Army
• 1946 – Eric Peterson, Canadian actor
• 1948 – Avery Brooks, American actor
• 1948 – Trevor Brooking, English footballer
• 1948 – Donna Karan, American fashion designer
• 1948 – Chris LeDoux, American musician and rodeo performer (d. 2005)
• 1949 – Richard Hell, American musician
• 1949 – Annie Leibovitz, American photographer
• 1950 – Persis Khambatta, Indian actress (d. 1998)
• 1950 – Ian McNeice, English actor
• 1950 – Mike Rutherford, English musician (Genesis)
• 1951 – Sting, English musician and actor
• 1951 – Romina Power, Italian singer
• 1952 – Robin Riker, American actress
• 1952 – Wahed Wafa, Afghan singer
• 1954 – Lorraine Bracco, American actress
• 1955 – Phil Oakey, English singer (The Human League)
• 1957 – Wade Dooley, English rugby union player
• 1960 – Al Connelly, Canadian Musician/Songwriter
• 1960 – Glenn Anderson, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1960 – Robbie Nevil, American singer and songwriter
• 1962 – Sigtryggur Baldursson, Icelandic drummer (The Sugarcubes)
• 1962 – Aziz M. Osman, Malaysian actor and director
• 1962 – Jeff Bennett, American voice actor
• 1964 – Dirk Brinkmann, German field hockey player
• 1964 – Sam Bockarie, RUF Rebel Military Commander
• 1966 – Rodney Anoa'i (Yokozuna), Samoan-American professional wrestler (d. 2000)
• 1967 – Frankie Fredericks, Namibian athlete
• 1967 – Bud Gaugh, American musician (Sublime)
• 1967 – Gillian Welch, American singer and songwriter
• 1968 – Victoria Derbyshire, British radio presenter
• 1968 – Jeff Martin, Canadian singer/songwriter (The Tea Party)
• 1968 – Jana Novotná, Czech tennis player
• 1968 – Glen Wesley, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1969 – Mitch English, American actor
• 1969 – Damon Gough, English singer
• 1969 – Jun Akiyama, Japanese professional wrestler
• 1970 – Eddie Guardado, American baseball relief pitcher
• 1970 – Kelly Ripa, American actress
• 1970 – Colin Rivas, Galician artist
• 1970 – Maribel Verdú, Spanish actress
• 1971 – James Root, American guitarist (Slipknot)
• 1971 – Tiffany, American singer
• 1971 – LeShaun, American rapper
• 1972 – Tara Dawn Holland, Miss America 1997
• 1972 – Aaron McKie, American basketball player
• 1973 – Lene, Norwegian singer (Aqua)
• 1973 – Efren Ramirez, American actor
• 1973 – Scott Schoeneweis, American baseball player
• 1973 – Verka Serduchka, Ukrainian entertainer
• 1973 – Maria Wetterstrand, Swedish politician
• 1973 – Proof, American rapper (D12) (d. 2006)
• 1974 – Simon Gregson, British actor
• 1974 – Michelle Krusiec, American actress
• 1974 – Mark Porter, New Zealand racing driver (d. 2006)
• 1974 – Sam Roberts, Canadian singer and songwriter
• 1974 – Paul Teutul Jr., American custom motorcycle builder
• 1976 – Jason Dodson, American political consultant and teacher of esotericism
• 1976 – Mandisa, American singer
• 1976 – John Thornton, American football player
• 1976 – Anita Kulcsár, Hungarian handball player (d. 2005)
• 1978 – Ayumi Hamasaki, Japanese singer
• 1979 – Primož Brezec, Slovenian basketball player
• 1979 – Francisco Fonseca, Mexican footballer
• 1979 – Maja Ivarsson, Swedish singer (The Sounds)
• 1980 – Shane Andrus, American football player
• 1981 – Luke Wilkshire, Australian footballer
• 1981 – Toro, Taiwanese singer
• 1982 – Tyson Chandler, American basketball player
• 1982 – George Pettit, Canadian singer (Alexisonfire)
• 1982 – Amber Lee Ettinger, American actress
• 1985 – Buster Davis, American football player
• 1986 – Camilla Belle, American actress
• 1987 – Phil Kessel, American ice hockey player
• 1989 – Karissa and Kristina Shannon, models
• 1990 – Dean Bouzanis, Australian footballer
• 1993 – Tara Lynne Barr, American actress

Deaths

• 939 – Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine
• 1559 – Jacquet of Mantua, French composer (b. 1483)
• 1626 – Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar, Spanish diplomat (b. 1567)
• 1629 – Pierre de Bérulle, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1575)
• 1629 – Antonio Cifra, Italian composer (b. 1584)
• 1708 – Anne-Jules, 2nd duc de Noailles, French general (b. 1650)
• 1724 – François-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (b. 1644)
• 1746 – Josiah Burchett, English Secretary of the Admiralty
• 1764 – William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1720)
• 1775 – Chiyo-ni, Japanese poet (b. 1703)
• 1780 – John André, British Army officer (executed) (b. 1750)
• 1782 – Charles Lee, British and U.S. general (b. 1732)
• 1786 – Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, British admiral (b. 1725)
• 1803 – Samuel Adams, American revolutionary leader (b. 1722)
• 1804 – Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French steam vehicle pioneer (b. 1725)
• 1817 – Fyodor Fyodorovich Ushakov, Russian naval commander and admiral (b. 1744)
• 1850 – Sarah Biffen, English painter (b. 1784)
• 1853 – François Jean Dominique Arago, French mathematician (b. 1786)
• 1927 – Svante Arrhenius, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
• 1938 – Alexandru Averescu, Romanian soldier and politician (b. 1859)
• 1947 – Peter D. Ouspensky, Russian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1878)
• 1962 – Boris Y. Bukreev, Russian mathematician (b. 1859)
• 1968 – Marcel Duchamp, French artist (b. 1887)
• 1971 – Bola de Nieve, Cuban singer, pianist, and songwriter (b. 1911)
• 1973 – Paul Hartman, American actor (b. 1904)
• 1973 – Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (b. 1897)
• 1974 – Vasily Shukshin, Russian writer, actor, screenwriter, and director (b. 1929)
• 1975 – Kumaraswami Kamaraj, Indian political leader, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (b. 1903)
• 1981 – Harry Golden, American journalist (b. 1902)
• 1981 – Hazel Scott, West Indian-born singer (b. 1920)
• 1985 – Rock Hudson, American actor (b. 1925)
• 1987 – Peter Medawar, Brazilian-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1915)
• 1987 – Madeleine Carroll, British-born actress (b. 1906)
• 1988 – Alec Issigonis, Greek-British car designer, developer of the Mini (b. 1906)
• 1994 – Harriet Hilliard Nelson, American actress (b. 1909)
• 1996 – Robert Bourassa, politician, premier of Quebec (b. 1933)
• 1998 – Gene Autry, American singer, actor, and entrepreneur (b. 1907)
• 1998 – Olivier Gendebien, Belgian racing driver (b. 1924)
• 1999 – Heinz G. Konsalik, German novelist (b. 1921)
• 2001 – Franz Biebl, German composer (b. 1906)
• 2002 – Heinz von Foerster, Austrian-born physicist and philosopher (b. 1911)
• 2003 – John T. Dunlop, U.S. Secretary of Labor (b. 1914)
• 2005 – Bert Eriksson, Belgian neo-Nazi (b. 1931)
• 2005 – Nipsey Russell, American comedian (b. 1918)
• 2005 – August Wilson, American playwright (b. 1945)
• 2006 – Helen Chenoweth-Hage, American politician (b. 1938)
• 2006 – Tamara Dobson, American actress (b. 1947)
• 2006 – Paul Halmos, Hungarian-born American mathematician (b. 1916)
• 2007 – Dan Keating, Irish politician (b. 1902)
• 2007 – Tex Coulter, American football player (b. 1924)
• 2007 – Christopher Derrick, British writer (b. 1921)
• 2008 – Rob Guest, New Zealand entertainer (b. 1950)
• 2008 – Choi Jin-sil, South Korean actress (b. 1968)

Holidays and observances

• International Day of Pro-Violence to commemorate birthday of Mahat myass Gandhi
• Guinea – Independence Day (from France, 1958)
• India – Gandhi Jayanti (birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, 1869)

Roman Catholic Church

• Memorial of Guardian Angels
• Leodegar

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

From Wikiquote

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. ~ Mae West

• selected by Kalki

2005

There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone. ~ Rod Serling in The Twilight Zone

• proposed by Kalki The first episode of The Twilight Zone, "Where is Everybody?" aired on 2 October 1959.

2006

Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process. ~ Salma Hayek

2007

If there must be a god in the house, must be,
Saying things in the room and on the stair,

Let him move as the sunlight moves on the floor,
Or moonlight, silently, as Plato's ghost

Or Aristotle's skeleton. Let him hang out
His stars on the wall. He must dwell quietly.

~ Wallace Stevens ~

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2008

I am one of you and being one of you
Is being and knowing what I am and know.
Yet I am the necessary angel of earth,
Since, in my sight, you see the earth again,
Cleared of its stiff and stubborn, man-locked set
And, in my hearing, you hear its tragic drone
Rise liquidly in liquid lingerings,
Like watery words awash; like meanings said
By repetitions of half-meanings.

~ Wallace Stevens ~

• proposed by Kalki

2009

There is but one means to extenuate the effects of enemy fire: it is to develop a more violent fire oneself. ~ Ferdinand Foch

• proposed by Zarbon

2010 

Rank or add further suggestions…

Ranking system:

4 : Excellent - should definitely be used.

3 : Very Good - strong desire to see it used.

2 : Good - some desire to see it used.

1 : Acceptable - but with no particular desire to see it used.

0 : Not acceptable - not appropriate for use as a quote of the day.

Suggestions

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary. ~ Mohandas Gandhi (born 2 October 1869)

• 3 InvisibleSun 07:20, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 00:07, 2 October 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
• 2 Zarbon 03:45, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

We do not choose our concerns. ~ Graham Greene (born 2 October 1904)

• 3 InvisibleSun 07:20, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 00:07, 2 October 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
• 2 Zarbon 03:45, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore. ~ Wallace Stevens

• 3 Kalki 00:07, 2 October 2007 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
• 3 because this is true. Without difficulty and hardships, life would not be interesting. Zarbon 03:45, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:43, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Style is not something applied. It is something that permeates. It is of the nature of that in which it is found, whether the poem, the manner of a god, the bearing of a man. It is not a dress. ~ Wallace Stevens

• 3 Kalki 00:07, 2 October 2007 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
• 1 Zarbon 03:45, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:43, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire. ~ Ferdinand Foch (born October 2)

• 3 because this is a very nice piece of imagery. An angered soul burns very well and does not cease to burn its surroundings. And an angered warrior will do heavy damage. Beautifully charming. Zarbon 17:39, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 00:35, 1 October 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:43, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. ~ Ferdinand Foch (born October 2)

• 3 because only those who are inexperienced in the art of war would boast about it. Zarbon 17:39, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 00:35, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:43, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

The will to conquer is the first condition of victory. ~ Ferdinand Foch (born October 2)

• 3 because the man who has the will will find the way. Zarbon 17:39, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 00:35, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:43, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

You can’t conceive, nor can I, the appalling strangeness of the mercy of God. ~ Graham Greene

• 2 Zarbon 04:16, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 00:35, 1 October 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:43, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and the simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt. ~ Graham Greene

• 2 Zarbon 04:16, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 00:35, 1 October 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:43, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. ~ Graham Greene

• 2 Zarbon 04:16, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 00:35, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:43, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

People don't like reality, they don't like common sense, until age forces it on them. ~ Graham Greene

• 2 Zarbon 04:16, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 00:35, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:43, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in. ~ Graham Greene

• 2 Zarbon 17:53, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 00:35, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:43, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction. ~ Graham Greene

• 3 Kalki 01:44, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Zarbon 13:05, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Catholics and communists have committed great crimes, but at least they have not stood aside, like an established society, and been indifferent. I would rather have blood on my hands than water like Pilate...if you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask? ~ Graham Greene

• 3 Kalki 01:44, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 13:05, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Cynicism is cheap — you can buy it at any Monoprix store — it's built into all poor-quality goods. ~ Graham Greene

• 3 Kalki 01:44, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 13:05, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

There's a virtue in slowness, which we have lost. ~ Graham Greene

• 3 Kalki 01:44, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 13:05, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

We mustn't complain too much of being comedians — it's an honourable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed — that's all. We are bad comedians, we aren't bad men. ~ Graham Greene

• 3 Kalki 01:44, 1 October 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
• 2 Zarbon 13:05, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives. ~ Graham Greene

• 3 Kalki 01:44, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 13:05, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Sooner or later...one has to take sides – if one is to remain human. ~ Graham Greene

• 3 Kalki 01:44, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Zarbon 13:05, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

The world about us would be desolate except for the world within us. ~ Wallace Stevens

• 3 Kalki 02:12, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 13:05, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

The imagination is one of the forces of nature. ~ Wallace Stevens

• 3 Kalki 02:12, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 13:05, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

The truth seems to be that we live in concepts of the imagination before the reason has established them. If this is true, then reason is simply the methodizer of the imagination. ~ Wallace Stevens

• 3 Kalki 02:12, 1 October 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
• 2 Zarbon 13:05, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

I like my philosophy smothered in beauty and not the opposite. ~ Wallace Stevens

• 3 Kalki 02:12, 1 October 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
• 2 Zarbon 13:05, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different road, so long as we reach the same goal. Wherein is the cause for quarrelling? ~ Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

• 3 Kalki 23:17, 2 October 2009 (UTC)

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self sustained. ~ Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

• 3 Kalki 23:17, 2 October 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy. That State is the best governed which is governed the least. ~ Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

• 3 Kalki 23:17, 2 October 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

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Games released on October 2.

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Game releases

• 2007
  • Spider-Man: Friend or Foe
  • Syphon Filter: Logan's Shadow (PSP)

Events

• 2005
  • Nintendo releases its miniaturized GBA, the Game Boy micro, in North America

From Familypedia

October 2 is the 275th day of the year (276th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 90 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 1187 - Siege of Jerusalem: Saladin captures Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule.
• 1263 - The battle of Largs fought between Norwegians and Scots.
• 1535 - Jacques Cartier discovers Montreal.
• 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.
• 1789 - George Washington transmits the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification.
• 1835 - The Texas Revolution begins with the Battle of Gonzales: Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
• 1851 - The pasilalinic-sympathetic compass is demonstrated but proves to be a fake.
• 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Saltville - Union forces attack Saltville, but are defeated by Confederate troops.
• 1889 - In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West.
• 1919 - US President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.
• 1924 - The Geneva Protocol is adopted as a means to strengthen the League of Nations.
• 1925 - John Logie Baird performers first test of the working television system.
• 1928 - The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, was founded by Saint Josemaría Escrivá.
• 1935 - Italy invades Abyssinia (Ethiopia).
• 1937 - Samuel R. Caldwell becomes the first person in the United States to be arrested on a marijuana charge.
• 1938 - Tiberias massacre: Arabs murder 20 Jews.
• 1941 - World War II: In Operation Typhoon, Germany begins an all-out offensive against Moscow.
• 1944 - World War II: Nazi troops end the Warsaw Uprising.
• 1950 - Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz first published
• 1958 - Guinea declares itself independent 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 ends in the Tlatelolco massacre.
• 1970 - A plane carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado killing 31 people.
• 1990 - A Chinese airline Boeing 737-247 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 - The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by former U.S. President Bill Clinton.
• 1996 - An AeroPerú Boeing 757 crashes in Pacific Ocean shortly after takeoff from Lima, killing 70.
• 2001 - The NATO backs US military strikes, following 9/11.
• 2002 - The Beltway sniper attacks begin, extending over three weeks.
• 2004 - American Samoa joins the North American Numbering Plan.
• 2005 - Ethan Allen Boating Accident: 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 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.

Births

• 1452 - King Richard III of England (d. 1485)
• 1470 - Isabella of Naples, Duchess of Milan (d. 1424)
• 1538 - Saint Charles Borromeo, Italian cardinal (d. 1584)
• 1644 - François-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (d. 1724)
• 1722 - Leopold Widhalm, Austrian luthier (d. 1776)
• 1737 - Francis Hopkinson, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (d. 1791)
• 1768 - William Carr Beresford, British general and politician (d. 1854)
• 1798 - King Charles Albert of Sardinia (d. 1849)
• 1800 - Nat Turner, American leader of slave uprising (d. 1831)
• 1828 - Charles Floquet, French statesman (d. 1896)
• 1832 - Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist (d. 1917)
• 1847 - Paul von Hindenburg, German officer and politician (d. 1934)
• 1851 - Ferdinand Foch, French soldier (d. 1929)
• 1852 - William Ramsay, Scottish chemist (d. 1916)
• 1869 - Mahatma Gandhi, Indian politician and spiritual leader (Father of the India) . (d. 1948)
• 1871 - Cordell Hull, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1955)
• 1873 - Stephen Warfield Gambrill, U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 5th District (d. 1924)
• 1873 - Plum Warner, English cricketer (d. 1963)
• 1879 - Wallace Stevens, American poet (d. 1955)
• 1882 - Boris Shaposhnikov, Russian military commander (d. 1945)
• 1890 - Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (d. 1977)
• 1895 - Bud Abbott, American comedian and actor (d. 1974)
• 1901 - Alice Prin, French singer and artist (d. 1953)
• 1902 - Leopold Figl, Austrian politician (d. 1965)
• 1904 - Graham Greene, British novelist (d. 1991)
• 1904 - Lal Bahadur Shastri, Prime Minister of India (d.1966)
• 1907 - Alexander R. Todd, Scottish chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1997)
• 1911 - Jack Finney, American author (d. 1995)
• 1913 - Karl Miller, German footballer (d. 1967)
• 1914 - Jack Parsons, American rocket scientist (d. 1952)
• 1914 - Bernarr Rainbow, historian of music education, organist, and choir master (d.1998)
• 1917 - Christian de Duve, English-born biologist, Nobel laureate
• 1917 - Charles Drake, American actor (d. 1994)
• 1921 - Albert Scott Crossfield, American test pilot (d. 2006)
• 1921 - Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 2000)
• 1926 - Jan Morris, English writer
• 1928 - George "Spanky" McFarland, American actor (d. 1993)
• 1928 - Wolfhart Pannenberg, German theologian
• 1929 - Moses Gunn, African-American actor (d. 1993)
• 1930 - Dave Barrett, Premier of British Columbia
• 1932 - Maury Wills, American baseball player
• 1933 - Phill Niblock, American composer, filmmaker and videographer
• 1934 - Earl Wilson, American baseball player (d. 2005)
• 1935 - Omar Sivori, Argentine football player (d. 2005)
• 1936 - Dick Barnett, American basketball player
• 1937 - Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., American attorney (d. 2005)
• 1938 - Rex Reed, American movie critic and actor
• 1938 - Waheed Murad, Pakistani film actor and director (d. 1983)
• 1943 - Franklin Rosemont, American artist
• 1945 - Don McLean, American songwriter
• 1946 - Gen.Sonthi Boonyaratglin, President of Council for National Security and Commander-in-Chief of Royal Thai Army
• 1948 - Avery Brooks, American actor
• 1948 - Trevor Brooking, English footballer
• 1948 - Donna Karan, American fashion designer
• 1948 - Chris LeDoux, American musician and rodeo performer (d. 2005)
• 1949 - Richard Hell, American musician
• 1949 - Annie Leibovitz, American photographer
• 1950 - Persis Khambatta, Indian actress (d. 1998)
• 1950 - Ian McNeice, English actor
• 1950 - Michael Rutherford, English musician (Genesis)
• 1951 - Sting, English musician and actor
• 1951 - Romina Power, Italian singer
• 1952 - Wahed Wafa, Afghan singer
• 1954 - Lorraine Bracco, American actress
• 1955 - Phil Oakey, English singer (The Human League)
• 1957 - Wade Dooley, English rugby union player
• 1960 - Glenn Anderson, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1960 - Robbie Nevil, American singer and songwriter
• 1962 - Sigtryggur Baldursson, Icelandic drummer (The Sugarcubes)
• 1962 - Aziz M. Osman, Malaysian actor and director
• 1964 - Dirk Brinkmann, German field hockey player
• 1966 - Rodney Anoa'i (Yokozuna), Samoan-American professional wrestler (d. 2000)
• 1967 - Frankie Fredericks, Namibian athlete
• 1967 - Bud Gaugh, American musician (Sublime)
• 1967 - Gillian Welch, American singer and songwriter
• 1968 - Victoria Derbyshire, British radio presenter
• 1968 - Jeff Martin, Canadian singer/songwriter
• 1968 - Jana Novotná, Czech tennis player
• 1968 - Glen Wesley, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1969 - Mitch English, American actor
• 1969 - Damon Gough, English singer
• 1970 - Colin Rivas, Galician artist
• 1970 - Kelly Ripa, American actress
• 1970 - Eddie Guardado, American baseball relief pitcher
• 1970 - Maribel Verdú, Spanish actress
• 1971 - James Root, American guitarist (Slipknot)
• 1971 - Tiffany, American singer
• 1972 - Tara Dawn Holland, Miss America 1997
• 1973 - Lene, Norwegian singer (Aqua)
• 1973 - Efren Ramirez, American actor
• 1973 - Scott Schoeneweis, American baseball player
• 1973 - Verka Serduchka, Ukranian drag artist
• 1973 - Maria Wetterstrand, Swedish politician
• 1973 - Proof, American rapper (D12) (d. 2006)
• 1974 - Simon Gregson, British actor
• 1974 - Michelle Krusiec, American actress
• 1974 - Mark Porter, New Zealand racing driver (d. 2006)
• 1974 - Sam Roberts, Canadian singer and songwriter
• 1974 - Paul Teutul Jr., co-star of American Chopper
• 1976 - Mandisa, American singer
• 1976 - Jason Dodson, American political consultant and teacher of esotericism
• 1977 - Leon del Muerte, American guitarist
• 1978 - Ayumi Hamasaki, Japanese singer
• 1979 - Francisco Fonseca, Mexican footballer
• 1979 - Maja Ivarsson, lead singer, The Sounds
• 1981 - Luke Wilkshire, Australian soccer player
• 1981 - Toro, Taiwanese singer
• 1982 - George Pettit, Canadian singer (Alexisonfire)
• 1985 - Craig Davis, Wide Receiver for the San Diego Chargers
• 1986 - Camilla Belle, American actress
• 1987 - Phil Kessel, American ice hockey player
• 1990 - Dean Bouzanis, Australian soccer player
• 1993 - Tara Lynne Barr, American actress

Deaths

• 939 - Gilbert
• 1559 - Jacquet of Mantua, French composer (b. 1483)
• 1626 - Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, Spanish diplomat (b. 1567)
• 1629 - Pierre de Bérulle, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1575)
• 1629 - Antonio Cifra, Italian composer (b. 1584)
• 1708 - Anne-Jules, French general (b. 1650)
• 1724 - François-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (b. 1644)
• 1746 - Josiah Burchett, English Secretary of the Admiralty
• 1764 - William Cavendish, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1775 - Chiyo-ni, Japanese poet (b. 1703)
• 1780 - John André, British Army officer (executed) (b. 1750)
• 1782 - Charles Lee, British and U.S. general (b. 1732)
• 1786 - Augustus Keppel, British admiral (b. 1725)
• 1803 - Samuel Adams, American revolutionary leader (b. 1722)
• 1804 - Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French automobile pioneer (b. 1725)
• 1817 - Fyodor Fyodorovich Ushakov, Russian naval commander and admiral (b. 1744)
• 1850 - Sarah Biffen, English painter (b. 1784)
• 1853 - François Jean Dominique Arago, French mathematician (b. 1786)
• 1927 - Svante Arrhenius, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
• 1938 - Alexandru Averescu, Romanian soldier and politician (b. 1859)
• 1947 - Peter D. Ouspensky, Russian mathematician and philosopher (b. 1878)
• 1962 - Boris Y. Bukreev, Russian mathematician (b. 1859)
• 1968 - Marcel Duchamp, French artist (b. 1887)
• 1971 - Bola de Nieve, Cuban singer, pianist, and songwriter (b. 1911)
• 1973 - Paul Hartman, American actor (b. 1904)
• 1973 - Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (b. 1897)
• 1974 - Vasily Shukshin, Russian writer, actor, screenwriter, and director (b. 1929)
• 1975 - Kumaraswami Kamaraj, Indian political leader, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (b. 1903)
• 1981 - Harry Golden, American journalist (b. 1902)
• 1981 - Hazel Scott, West Indian-born singer (b. 1920)
• 1985 - Rock Hudson, American actor (b. 1925)
• 1987 - Peter Medawar, Brazilian-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1915)
• 1987 - Madeleine Carroll, British-born actress (b. 1906)
• 1988 - Alec Issigonis, Greek-British car designer, developer of the Mini (b. 1906)
• 1994 - Harriet Hilliard Nelson, American actress (b. 1909)
• 1996 - Robert Bourassa, politician, premier of Quebec (b. 1933)
• 1998 - Gene Autry, American singer, actor, and entrepreneur (b. 1907)
• 1998 - Olivier Gendebien, Belgian racing driver (b. 1924)
• 1999 - Heinz G. Konsalik, German novelist (b. 1921)
• 2001 - Franz Biebl, German composer (b. 1906)
• 2002 - Heinz von Foerster, Austrian-born physicist and philosopher (b. 1911)
• 2003 - John T. Dunlop, U.S. Secretary of Labor (b. 1914)
• 2005 - Bert Eriksson, Belgian neo-Nazi (b. 1931)
• 2005 - Nipsey Russell, American comedian (b. 1918)
• 2005 - August Wilson, American playwright (b. 1945)
• 2006 - Helen Chenoweth-Hage, American politician (b. 1938)
• 2006 - Tamara Dobson, American actress (b. 1947)
• 2006 - Paul Halmos, Hungarian-born American mathematician (b. 1916)
• 2007 - Dan Keating, Irish politician (b. 1902)
• 2007 - Tex Coulter, American football player (b. 1924)
• 2007 - Christopher Derrick, British writer (b. 1921)

Holidays and observances

• Roman festivals - First day of the Ludi Augustales to celebrate the recovery by emperor August of Roman standards from the Parthians
• Roman Catholic Church - Memorial of Guardian Angels, Leodegar
• Also see October 2
• Guinea - Independence Day (from France, 1958)
• India - Gandhi Jayanti (birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, 1869)
• French Republican Calendar - Pomme de terre (Potato) Day, eleventh day in the Month of Vendémiaire
• International Day of Non-Violence

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day

• On This Day in Canada