2 October

The 2t o October is the 275t day o the year (276t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 90 days bidin.

Events

Dome o the Rock in Jerusalem

• 1187 – Saladin conquers Jerusalem ends 88 years o Crusader Rule.
• 1263 – Battle o Largs between Scotland an Norawa.
• 1814 – Battle o Rancagua in Chile.
• 1925 – John Logie Baird demonstrates the first working televeesion system.
• 1958 – Guinea declares its independence frae Fraunce.
• 1988 – End o the 1988 Simmer Olympics in Seoul, Sooth Korea.
• 1997 – The Amsterdam Treaty is signed.
• 2007 – Sooth Korean Preses Roh Moo-Hyun crosses the border intae North Korea for talks.
• 2009 – The 2016 Simmer Olympics are given tae Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Births

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

• 1452 – Richard III o Ingland (d. 1485)
• 1847 – Paul von Hindenburg, Preses o Germany (d. 1934)
• 1852 – William Ramsay, Scots chemist (d. 1916)
• 1869 – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Indian activist an philosopher (d. 1948)
• 1871 – Cordell Hull, Unitit States Secretar o State (d. 1955)
• 1890 – Groucho Marx, American comedian, actor an sangster (d. 1977)
• 1904 – Lal Bahadur Shastri, 2nt Prime meenister o Indie (d. 1966)
• 1904 – Graham Greene, Inglis writer (d. 1991)
• 1907 – Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scots biochemist (d. 1997)
• 1933 – John Gurdon, Inglis biologist
• 1949 – Annie Leibovitz, American photographer
• 1951 – Romina Power, American sangster
• 1951 – Sting, Inglis sangster
• 1973 – Maria Wetterstrand, Swadish politeecian
• 1984 – Marion Bartoli, French tennis player

Daiths

• 1803 – Samuel Adams, American politeecian (b. 1722)
• 1920 – Max Bruch, German componer an conductor (b. 1838)
• 1968 – Marcel Duchamp, French airtist (b. 1887)
• 1973 – Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (b. 1897)

Halidays

• Gandhi Jayanti (Indie)
• Internaitional Day o Non-Violence
• Independence Day (Guinea)