What are the important events that happened on October 2? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

October 2: Facts & Myths About This Day

October 2 is the 275^th 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.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 19, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,759,363,200 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectaheptacontapentagon’ day.

Libra is the zodiac 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.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,668 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

October 2 Historical Events

• 1552 –
  Conquest of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible.
• 1789 –
  George Washington sends the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification.
• 1937 –
  Dominican Republic strongman Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of the Haitian population living within the borderlands; approximately 20,000 are killed over the next five days.
• 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.
• 1970 –
  A plane carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado killing 31 people.
• 1990 –
  Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 is hijacked; after landing at Guangzhou, it crashes into two airliners on the ground, killing 132 people.
• 2001 –
  NATO backs U.S. military strikes following 9/11.
• 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.

Who were born on October 2?

• 1737 –
  Francis Hopkinson, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (d. 1791)
• 1911 –
  Jack Finney, American author (d. 1995)
• 1926 –
  Jan Morris, English writer
• 1928 –
  George “Spanky” McFarland, American actor (d. 1993)
• 1949 –
  Annie Leibovitz, American photographer
• 1956 –
  Charlie Adler, American voice actor
• 1967 –
  Lew Temple, American actor
• 1969 –
  Damon Gough, English singer
• 1969 –
  Mitch English, American actor
• 1973 –
  Verka Serduchka, Ukrainian entertainer

Who died on October 2?

• 1629 –
  Pierre de Bérulle, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1575)
• 1853 –
  François Jean Dominique Arago, French mathematician (b. 1786)
• 1927 –
  Svante Arrhenius, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
• 1971 –
  Bola de Nieve, Cuban singer, pianist, and songwriter (b. 1911)
• 1981 –
  Hazel Scott, West Indian-born singer (b. 1920)
• 1985 –
  Rock Hudson, American actor (b. 1925)
• 1998 –
  Gene Autry, American singer, actor, and entrepreneur (b. 1907)
• 2005 –
  Bert Eriksson, Belgian neo-Nazi (b. 1931)
• 2006 –
  Charles Carl Roberts, American spree killer (b. 1973)
• 2006 –
  Tamara Dobson, American actress (b. 1947)