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2014 (Thursday) October 2 is the 275th day of the year (276th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 90 days remain until the end of the year.
Injured. +1000. The Tlatelolco massacre ( Spanish: La Masacre de Tlatelolco) was a military massacre committed against the students of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the National Polytechnic Institute (IPN), and other universities in Mexico. The massacre followed a series of large demonstrations called the Mexican Movement ...
October 2, 1942 (Friday) The British light cruiser Curacoa sank north of Ireland after an accidental collision with the troop transport Queen Mary. It was one of the Royal Navy's worst accidental losses of the war. British forces captured Antsirabe in Madagascar.
The state of the Allies and Axis powers in November 1942. 1: Operation Supercharge, the Allied breakout at El Alamein, begins. On Guadalcanal, the Americans begin the Matanikau Offensive against the Japanese. 3: Second Battle of El Alamein ends – German forces under Erwin Rommel are forced to retreat during the night.
1962 – The Columbus Day Storm strikes the U.S. Pacific Northwest with record wind velocities. There was at least U.S. $230 million in damages and 46 people died. 1963 – After nearly 23 years of imprisonment, Reverend Walter Ciszek, a Jesuit missionary, was released from the Soviet Union.
October 1, 1950 (Sunday) Led by Võ Nguyên Giáp, Communist troops in the northern section of the French Indochina colony of Vietnam began a campaign of attacks on French colonial fortresses along the border with China, Battle of Route Coloniale 4. The 10,000 French troops in the forts faced 14 infantry and three artillery battalions, and were ...
1582. 1582 ( MDLXXXII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) in the Julian calendar, and a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Proleptic Gregorian calendar. This year saw the beginning of the Gregorian calendar switch, when the papal bull Inter gravissimas introduced the ...
On October 1, 2017, 64-year-old Stephen Paddock opened fire on 22,000 people at a country music festival from his hotel suite on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel on the Las Vegas strip ...