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. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Wednesday or Thursday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Saturday (56).
NATIONAL NAME YOUR CAR DAY
1535 – French explorer Jacques Cartier discovers the area where Montreal is now located.
1937 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) visits the construction site of Grand Coulee Dam in Washington State for the second time. Marveling at the "wonderful progress" made since his first visit, three years earlier, Roosevelt describes the dam and the related Columbia Basin Reclamation Project as undertakings that will benefit the entire nation.
NATIONAL NAME YOUR CAR DAY
1535 – French explorer Jacques Cartier discovers the area where Montreal is now located.
1780 – During the Revolutionary War, British Major John Andre is hanged as a spy by U.S. military forces in Tappan, New York.
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.
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.
1866 – J. Osterhoudt patents tin can with key opener.
1919 – President Thomas Woodrow Wilson, who had just cut short a tour of the country to promote the formation of the League of Nations, suffers a stroke.
1937 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) visits the construction site of Grand Coulee Dam in Washington State for the second time. Marveling at the "wonderful progress" made since his first visit, three years earlier, Roosevelt describes the dam and the related Columbia Basin Reclamation Project as undertakings that will benefit the entire nation.
1944 – The Warsaw Uprising ends with the surrender of the surviving Polish rebels to German forces.
1963 – Hurricane Flora crashes into Haiti, killing thousands of people. This huge storm, which also killed large numbers of people in Cuba and wreaked havoc elsewhere in the Caribbean, was one of the most deadly hurricanes in history.
1967 – Chief Justice Earl Warren swears in Thurgood Marshall, the first black justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. As chief counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in the 1940s and '50s, Marshall was the architect and executor of the legal strategy that ended the era of official racial segregation.
1976 – Atlanta's Hank Aaron hit his 755th and final career HR on his last NL at bat.
1990 – Radio Berlin International's final transmission (links to Deutsche Welles of West Germany); final song is "The End" by Doors.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1452 – Richard III of England (d. 1485)
1800 – Nat Turner, American slave and uprising leader (d. 1831)
1847 – Paul von Hindenburg, Polish-German field marshal and politician, 2nd President of Germany (d. 1934)
1879 – Wallace Stevens, American poet and educator (d. 1955)
1904 – Graham Greene, English novelist, playwright, and critic (d. 1991)
1948 – Donna Karan, American fashion designer, founded DKNY
1452 – Richard III of England (d. 1485)
1800 – Nat Turner, American slave and uprising leader (d. 1831)
1847 – Paul von Hindenburg, Polish-German field marshal and politician, 2nd President of Germany (d. 1934)
1879 – Wallace Stevens, American poet and educator (d. 1955)
1904 – Graham Greene, English novelist, playwright, and critic (d. 1991)
1948 – Donna Karan, American fashion designer, founded DKNY
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