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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 ...