From the passage provided, extract the date of birth of Gandhi

Context: Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869 into a Gujarati Hindu Modh Bania family in Porbandar, a coastal town on the Kathiawar Peninsula and then part of the small princely state of Porbandar in the Kathiawar Agency of the British Raj. His father, Karamchand Uttamchand Gandhi, served as the dewan of Porbandar state. His family originated from the then village of Kutiana in what was then Junagadh State.

Answer: Gandhi was born on 2 October 1869