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

*1187 &ndash; Saladin conquers Jerusalem endin 88 year o Crusader Rule.
*1263 &ndash; Battle o Largs atween Scotland an Norawa. 
*1535 &ndash; Jacques Cartier reaches present-day Montreal.
*1814 &ndash; Battle o Rancagua in Chile.
*1836 &ndash; HMS Beagle, wi Charles Darwin on baird, arrives back in Ingland.
*1925 &ndash; John Logie Baird demonstrates the first wirkin televeesion seestem.
*1935 &ndash; Italy invades Abyssinie.
*1952 &ndash; Wast Germany's Bundestag decides against the introduction o caipital punishment.
*1955 &ndash; ENIAC, ane o the first computers, is switchit aff.
*1958 &ndash; Guinea declares its unthirldom frae Fraunce.
*1988 &ndash; End o the 1988 Simmer Olympics in Seoul, Sooth Korea.
*1992 &ndash; Riots in the owercroudit Carandiru prison in Sao Paulo, Brazil, leave 111 fowk deed.
*1993 &ndash; Moscow riots bi hairdline Communists.
*1996 &ndash; An Aeroperu Boeing 757 crashes intae the Paceefic Ocean shortly efter tak-aff frae Lima, Peru, killin 70 fowk.
*1997 &ndash; The Amsterdam Treaty is signed.
*2007 &ndash; Sooth Korean Preses Roh Moo-hyun crosses the mairch intae North Korea for talks.
*2009 &ndash; The 2016 Simmer Olympics are gien tae Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
*2009 &ndash; Maist voters in the Republic o Ireland support the European Union's Lisbon Treaty in a seicont vote on the issue.
*2016 &ndash; Voters in Colombie reject a peace deal atween the govrenment an the FARC bi a nairae margin.
*2018 &ndash; Nobel Prize in Pheesics: Donna Strickland becomes only the thrid female laureate in Pheesics, while Arthur Ashkin (agit 96) becomes the auldest-iver Nobel laureate - they share the prize wi Gerard Mourou.
*2018 &ndash; Saudi jurnalist Jamal Khashoggi is murthert inside Saudi Arabie's consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.

## Births
 
*1452 &ndash; Richard III o Ingland (d. 1485)
*1805 &ndash; William Cunningham, Scots theologian (d. 1861)
*1847 &ndash; Paul von Hindenburg, Preses o Germany (d. 1934)
*1851 &ndash; Ferdinand Foch, French general (d. 1929)
*1852 &ndash; William Ramsay, Scots chemist (d. 1916)
*1854 &ndash; Patrick Geddes, Scots polymath (d. 1932)
*1869 &ndash; Mahatma Gandhi, Indian activist an philosopher (d. 1948)
*1871 &ndash; Cordell Hull, Unitit States Secretar o State (d. 1955)
*1890 &ndash; Groucho Marx, American comedian, actor an sangster (d. 1977)
*1904 &ndash; Lal Bahadur Shastri, 2nt Prime meenister o Indie (d. 1966)
*1904 &ndash; Graham Greene, Inglis writer (d. 1991)
*1907 &ndash; Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scots biochemist (d. 1997)
*1917 &ndash; Christian de Duve, Belgian biochemist (d. 2013)
*1933 &ndash; John Gurdon, Inglis biologist
*1944 &ndash; Willie Morgan, Scots fitbawer
*1949 &ndash; Annie Leibovitz, American photographer
*1951 &ndash; Romina Power, American sangster
*1951 &ndash; Sting, Inglis sangster
*1953 &ndash; Willie Pettigrew, Scots fitbawer
*1961 &ndash; Derek Turnbull, Scots rugby union player
*1964 &ndash; John Robertson, Scots fitbawer
*1973 &ndash; Maria Wetterstrand, Swadish politeecian
*1982 &ndash; Stephen Pearson, Scots fitbawer
*1984 &ndash; Marion Bartoli, French tennis player

## Daiths
*1764 &ndash; William Cavendish, 4t Duke o Devonshire, Prime Meenister o Great Breetain (b. 1720)
*1803 &ndash; Samuel Adams, American politeecian (b. 1722)
*1920 &ndash; Max Bruch, German componer an conductor (b. 1838)
*1927 &ndash; Svante Arrhenius, Swadish chemist (b. 1859)
*1931 &ndash; Thomas Lipton, Scots merchand an yachtsman (b. 1848)
*1968 &ndash; Marcel Duchamp, French airtist (b. 1887)
*1973 &ndash; Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (b. 1897)
*1985 &ndash; Rock Hudson, American actor (b. 1925)
*2017 &ndash; Tom Petty, American muisicker (b. 1950)
*2018 &ndash; Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi jurnalist (b. 1958)
*2019 &ndash; Giya Kancheli, Georgie componer (b. 1935)

## Halidays
* Gandhi Jayanti (Indie)
* Internaitional Day o Non-Violence
* Independence Day (Guinea)