SomeFacts | October 2

On this day - October 2

829 — Theophilos succeeds his father Michael II as Byzantine Emperor.

939 — Battle of Andernach: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, crushes a ...

1187 — Saladin won Jerusalem after the city surrendered to his forces ...

1263 — The Battle of Largs is fought between Norwegians and Scots.

1470 — The Earl of Warwick's rebellion forces King Edward IV of ...

1552 — Russo-Kazan Wars: Russian troops enter Kazan.

1766 — The Nottingham Cheese Riot breaks out at the Goose Fair in ...

1780 — American Revolutionary War: John André, a British Army ...

1789 — The United States Bill of Rights is sent to the various States ...

1835 — Texas Revolution: Mexican troops attempt to disarm the people ...

1864 — American Civil War: Confederates defeat a Union attack on ...

1870 — By plebiscite, the citizens of the Papal States accept ...

1919 — Seven days after suffering a "physical collapse" ...

1920 — Ukrainian War of Independence: Mikhail Frunze orders the Red ...

1928 — The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of ...

1937 — Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of Haitians living in the ...

1942 — World War II: Ocean Liner RMS Queen Mary accidentally rams and ...

1944 — World War II: German troops end the Warsaw Uprising.

1958 — Guinea declares its independence from France.

1967 — Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American ...

1968 — Mexican President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz orders soldiers to ...

1970 — An aircraft carrying the Wichita State University football ...

1971 — British European Airways Flight 706 crashes near Aarsele, ...

1971 — South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu is re-elected in a ...

1980 — Michael Myers becomes the first member of either chamber of ...

1990 — Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 is hijacked and lands at ...

1992 — Military police storm the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, ...

1996 — The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are ...

1996 — Aeroperú Flight 603 crashes into the ocean near Peru, killing ...

2002 — The Beltway sniper attacks begin in Washington, D.C., ...

2004 — The first parkrun, then known as the Bushy Park Time Trial, ...

2006 — Five Amish girls are murdered in a shooting at a school in ...

2007 — President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea goes to North Korea for ...

2016 — Ethiopian protests break out during a festival in the Oromia ...

2018 — The Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi is assassinated ...

2019 — A privately owned Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress conducting a ...

2025 — 2 people are killed and at least 4 others injured in an attack ...