Danas je 2. listopada 2024, 276. dan u godini, Srijeda.
Današnji imendani i blagdani
Danas se slavi
Nema državnih praznika za današnji dan.
Imendan imaju: Anđelko, Anda
Povijesni događaji u Hrvatskoj
Nema povijesnih događaja za današnji dan u Hrvatskoj.
Povijesni događaji
- 829: Theophilos succeeds his father Michael II as Byzantine Emperor.
- 939: Battle of Andernach: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor, crushes a rebellion against his rule, by a coalition of Eberhard of Franconia and other Frankish dukes.
- 1263: The Battle of Largs is fought between Norwegians and Scots.
- 1470: The Earl of Warwick's rebellion forces King Edward IV of England to flee to the Netherlands, restoring Henry VI to the throne.
- 1552: Russo-Kazan Wars: Russian troops enter Kazan.
- 1780: American Revolutionary War: John André, a British Army officer, is hanged as a spy by the Continental Army.
- 1789: The United States Bill of Rights is sent to the various States for ratification.
- 1835: Texas Revolution: Mexican troops attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
- 1864: American Civil War: Confederates defeat a Union attack on Saltville, Virginia. A massacre of wounded Union prisoners ensues.
- 1870: By plebiscite, the citizens of the Papal States accept annexation by the Kingdom of Italy.
- 1920: Ukrainian War of Independence: Mikhail Frunze orders the Red Army to immediately cease hostilities with the Revolutionary Insurgent Army of Ukraine.
- 1928: The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded.
- 1937: Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of Haitians living in the border region of the Dominican Republic.
- 1942: World War II: Ocean Liner RMS Queen Mary accidentally rams and sinks HMS Curacoa, killing over 300 crewmen aboard Curacoa.
- 1944: World War II: German troops end the Warsaw Uprising.
- 1958: Guinea declares its independence from France.
- 1967: Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of the United States Supreme Court.
- 1968: Mexican President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz orders soldiers to suppress a demonstration of unarmed students, ten days before the start of the 1968 Summer Olympics.
- 1970: An aircraft carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado, killing 31 people.
- 1971: South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu is re-elected in a one-man election.
- 1971: British European Airways Flight 706 crashes near Aarsele, Belgium, killing 63.
- 1980: Michael Myers becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War.
- 1990: Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 is hijacked and lands at Guangzhou, where it crashes into two other airliners on the ground, killing 132.
- 1992: Military police storm the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil during a prison riot. The resulting massacre leaves 111 prisoners dead.
- 1996: Aeroperú Flight 603 crashes into the ocean near Peru, killing all 70 people on board.
- 1996: The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
- 2002: The Beltway sniper attacks begin in Washington, D.C., extending over three weeks and killing 10 people.
- 2004: The first parkrun, then known as the Bushy Park Time Trial, takes place in Bushy Park, London, UK.
- 2006: Five Amish girls are murdered in a shooting at a school in Pennsylvania, United States.
- 2007: President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea goes to North Korea for an Inter-Korean summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.
- 2016: Ethiopian protests break out during a festival in the Oromia region, killing dozens of people.
- 2018: The Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi is assassinated in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.
- 2019: A privately-owned Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress conducting a living history exhibition flight crashes shortly after takeoff from Windsor Locks, Connecticut, killing seven.
Rođeni na današnji dan
- 1452: Richard III of England (d. 1485)
- 1470: Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal, Daughter of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon (d. 1498)
- 1527: William Drury, English politician (d. 1579)
- 1538: Charles Borromeo, Italian cardinal and saint (d. 1584)
- 1718: Elizabeth Montagu, English author and critic (d. 1800)
- 1768: William Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, English general and politician (d. 1854)
- 1798: Charles Albert, King of Sardinia (1831-49) (d. 1849)
- 1800: Nat Turner, American slave and uprising leader (d. 1831)
- 1815: James Agnew, Irish-Australian politician, Premier of Tasmania (d. 1901)
- 1821: Alexander P. Stewart, American general (d. 1908)
- 1828: Charles Floquet, French lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 1896)
- 1832: Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist (d. 1917)
- 1847: Paul von Hindenburg, German field marshal and politician, 2nd President of Germany (d. 1934)
- 1851: Ferdinand Foch, French field marshal (d. 1929)
- 1852: William Ramsay, Scottish chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)
- 1854: Patrick Geddes, Scottish biologist, sociologist, geographer, and philanthropist (d. 1932)
- 1866: Swami Abhedananda, Indian mystic and philosopher (d. 1939)
- 1869: Mahatma Gandhi, Indian freedom fighter, activist and philosopher (d. 1948)
- 1871: Cordell Hull, American politician, United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
- 1871: Martha Brookes Hutcheson, American landscaper and author (d. 1959)
- 1873: Stephen Warfield Gambrill, American lawyer and politician (d. 1924)
- 1873: Pelham Warner, English cricketer and manager (d. 1963)
- 1875: Pattie Ruffner Jacobs, American suffragist (d. 1935)
- 1879: Wallace Stevens, American poet (d. 1955)
- 1882: Boris Shaposhnikov, Russian colonel (d. 1945)
- 1883: Karl von Terzaghi, Austrian geologist and engineer (d. 1963)
- 1890: Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (d. 1977)
- 1893: Leroy Shield, American composer and conductor (d. 1962)
- 1895: Ruth Cheney Streeter, American colonel (d. 1990)
- 1900: Leela Roy Nag, Indian freedom fighter, social reformer and politician (d. 1970)
- 1902: Leopold Figl, Austrian politician, Chancellor of Austria (d. 1965)
- 1904: Graham Greene, English novelist, playwright, and critic (d. 1991)
- 1904: Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indian and politician, Prime Minister of India (d. 1966)
- 1905: Franjo Šeper, Croatian cardinal (d. 1981)
- 1906: Thomas Hollway, Australian politician, Premier of Victoria (d. 1971)
- 1907: Víctor Paz Estenssoro, Bolivian politician, President of Bolivia (d. 2001)
- 1907: Alexander R. Todd, Scottish biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
- 1909: Alex Raymond, American cartoonist, creator of Flash Gordon (d. 1956)
- 1912: Frank Malina, American engineer and painter (d. 1981)
- 1914: Jack Parsons, American chemist, occultist, and engineer (d. 1952)
- 1914: Bernarr Rainbow, English organist, conductor, and historian (d. 1998)
- 1915: Chuck Williams, American author and businessman, founded Williams Sonoma (d. 2015)
- 1917: Christian de Duve, Belgian cytologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2013)
- 1917: Charles Drake, American actor (d. 1994)
- 1919: John W. Duarte, English guitarist and composer (d. 2004)
- 1921: Edmund Crispin, English writer and composer (d. 1978)
- 1921: Albert Scott Crossfield, American pilot and engineer (d. 2006)
- 1921: Robert Runcie, English archbishop (d. 2000)
- 1925: Wren Blair, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 2013)
- 1926: Jan Morris, Welsh historian and author (d. 2020)
- 1928: George McFarland, American actor (d. 1993)
- 1928: Wolfhart Pannenberg, Polish-German theologian and academic (d. 2014)
- 1929: Peter Bronfman, Canadian businessman (d. 1996)
- 1929: Moses Gunn, American actor (d. 1993)
- 1930: Dave Barrett, Canadian social worker and politician, 26th Premier of British Columbia (d. 2018)
- 1932: Maury Wills, American baseball player and manager (d. 2022)
- 1933: John Gurdon, English biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1933: Dave Somerville, Canadian singer (d. 2015)
- 1934: Richard Scott, Baron Scott of Foscote, English lawyer and judge
- 1934: Earl Wilson, American baseball player (d. 2005)
- 1935: Omar Sívori, Italian-Argentine footballer and manager (d. 2005)
- 1936: Dick Barnett, American basketball player
- 1936: Connie Dierking, American basketball player (d. 2013)
- 1937: Johnnie Cochran, American lawyer (d. 2005)
- 1938: Waheed Murad, Pakistani actor, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1983)
- 1938: Rex Reed, American film critic
- 1939: Budhi Kunderan, Indian cricketer (d. 2006)
- 1941: Diana Hendry, English poet and author
- 1941: Ron Meagher, American rock bass player
- 1942: Steve Sabol, American director and producer, co-founded NFL Films (d. 2012)
- 1943: Anna Ford, English journalist
- 1943: Henri Szeps, Australian actor
- 1944: Vernor Vinge, American author (d. 2024)
- 1945: Martin Hellman, American cryptographer and academic
- 1945: Don McLean, American singer-songwriter
- 1946: Sonthi Boonyaratglin, Thai general and politician
- 1947: Ward Churchill, American author and activist
- 1948: Trevor Brooking, English footballer and manager
- 1948: Avery Brooks, American actor
- 1948: Donna Karan, American fashion designer, founded DKNY
- 1948: Siim Kallas, Estonian politician, Prime Minister of Estonia
- 1948: Persis Khambatta, Indian model and actress, (d. 1998)
- 1949: Richard Hell, American singer-songwriter and bass player
- 1949: Annie Leibovitz, American photographer
- 1950: Mike Rutherford, English guitarist
- 1951: Sting, English singer-songwriter and actor
- 1952: Robin Riker, American actress
- 1953: Vanessa Bell Armstrong, American singer
- 1953: Tom Boswell, American basketball player
- 1954: Lorraine Bracco, American actress
- 1955: Philip Oakey, English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer
- 1956: Freddie Jackson, American soul singer
- 1957: John Cook, American golfer
- 1957: Wade Dooley, English rugby player
- 1958: Robbie Nevil, American singer-songwriter
- 1960: Glenn Anderson, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1960: Django Bates, English musician and composer
- 1960: Joe Sacco, Maltese-American journalist and cartoonist
- 1960: Dereck Whittenburg, American basketball player and coach
- 1962: Mark Rypien, Canadian-American football player
- 1963: Keith Bradshaw, Australian cricketer
- 1963: Maria Ressa, Filipino-American journalist
- 1964: Dirk Brinkmann, German field hockey player
- 1965: Darren Cahill, Australian tennis player
- 1965: Tom Moody, Australian cricketer
- 1965: Ferhan and Ferzan Önder, Turkish-Austrian pianists
- 1966: Yokozuna, American wrestler (d. 2000)
- 1967: Frankie Fredericks, Namibian sprinter
- 1967: Thomas Muster, Austrian tennis player
- 1967: Gillian Welch, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1968: Jana Novotná, Czech tennis player and sportscaster (d. 2017)
- 1968: Joey Slotnick, American actor
- 1968: Glen Wesley, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1968: Kelly Willis, American country music singer-songwriter
- 1969: Badly Drawn Boy, English musician
- 1970: Eddie Guardado, American baseball player
- 1970: Patricia O'Callaghan, Canadian soprano
- 1970: Kelly Ripa, American actress and talk show host
- 1970: Maribel Verdú, Spanish actress
- 1971: Tiffany Darwish, American singer-songwriter
- 1971: Jim Root, American guitarist and songwriter
- 1971: Chris Savino, American comic book artist, writer, animator and creator of The Loud House
- 1972: Aaron McKie, American basketball player
- 1973: Melissa Harris-Perry, American journalist, author, and educator
- 1973: Lene Nystrøm, Norwegian singer, songwriter, and musician
- 1973: Efren Ramirez, American actor
- 1973: Scott Schoeneweis, American baseball player
- 1974: Bjarke Ingels, Danish architect
- 1974: Brian Knight, American baseball player
- 1974: Matthew Nicholson, Australian cricketer
- 1974: Sam Roberts, Canadian singer-songwriter and musician
- 1974: Paul Teutul Jr., American motorcycle designer, co-founded Orange County Choppers
- 1976: Mark Chilton, English cricketer
- 1977: Didier Défago, Swiss skier
- 1978: Ayumi Hamasaki, Japanese singer, songwriter, actress
- 1979: Primož Brezec, Slovenian basketball player
- 1981: Santi Kolk, Dutch footballer
- 1981: Luke Wilkshire, Australian footballer
- 1982: Tyson Chandler, American basketball player
- 1982: Esra Gümüş, Turkish volleyball player
- 1984: Marion Bartoli, French tennis player
- 1985: Çağlar Birinci, Turkish footballer
- 1985: Brandon Jackson, American football player
- 1986: Camilla Belle, American actress
- 1987: Bojana Bobusic, Australian tennis player
- 1987: Joe Ingles, Australian basketball player
- 1987: Phil Kessel, American ice hockey player
- 1987: Christopher Larkin, South Korean-American actor
- 1987: Joel Reinders, American football player
- 1987: Ricky Stenhouse Jr., American race car driver
- 1988: Kirara Asuka, Japanese model and adult video actress
- 1988: Brittany Howard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1989: Frederik Andersen, Danish ice hockey player
- 1989: Josh Bailey, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1989: Aaron Hicks, American baseball player
- 1989: George Nash, English rower
- 1990: Samantha Barks, Manx actress and singer
- 1991: Roberto Firmino, Brazilian footballer
- 1992: Alisson Becker, Brazilian footballer
- 1992: Shane Larkin, American-Turkish basketball player
- 1993: Lance McCullers Jr., American baseball player
- 1993: Elizabeth McLaughlin, American actress
- 1994: Joana Eidukonytė, Lithuanian tennis player
- 1995: Tepai Moeroa, Cook Islands rugby league player
- 1996: Tom Trbojevic, Australian rugby league player
Preminuli na današnji dan
- 534: Athalaric, king of the Ostrogoths in Italy
- 829: Michael II, Byzantine emperor
- 939: Eberhard of Franconia
- 939: Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine
- 1264: Pope Urban IV
- 1559: Jacquet of Mantua, French-Italian composer (b. 1483)
- 1626: Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, 1st Count of Gondomar, Spanish academic and diplomat (b. 1567)
- 1629: Antonio Cifra, Italian composer (b. 1584)
- 1629: Pierre de Bérulle, French cardinal and theologian (b. 1575)
- 1674: George Frederick of Nassau-Siegen, officer in the Dutch Army (b. 1606)
- 1678: Wu Sangui, Qing Chinese general (b. 1612)
- 1708: Anne Jules de Noailles, French general (b. 1650)
- 1709: Ivan Mazepa, Ukrainian diplomat (b. 1639)
- 1724: François-Timoléon de Choisy, French historian and author (b. 1644)
- 1746: Josiah Burchett, English admiral and politician (b. 1666)
- 1764: William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1720)
- 1780: John André, English soldier (b. 1750)
- 1782: Charles Lee, English-born American general (b. 1732)
- 1786: Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, English admiral and politician (b. 1725)
- 1803: Samuel Adams, American politician, Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1722)
- 1804: Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French engineer (b. 1725)
- 1850: Sarah Biffen, English painter (b. 1784)
- 1853: François Arago, French mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and politician (b. 1786)
- 1920: Max Bruch, German composer and conductor (b. 1838)
- 1927: Svante Arrhenius, Swedish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)
- 1938: Alexandru Averescu, Romanian military leader and politician, 24th Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1859)
- 1943: John Evans, English-Australian politician, 21st Premier of Tasmania (b. 1855)
- 1953: John Marin, American painter (b. 1870)
- 1955: William R. Orthwein, American swimmer and water polo player (b. 1881)
- 1968: Marcel Duchamp, French painter and sculptor (b. 1887)
- 1971: Jessie Arms Botke, American painter (b. 1883)
- 1973: Paul Hartman, American actor and dancer (b. 1904)
- 1973: Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (b. 1897)
- 1974: Vasily Shukshin, Russian actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1929)
- 1975: K. Kamaraj, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1903)
- 1981: Harry Golden, American journalist and author (b. 1902)
- 1981: Hazel Scott, Trinidadian-American activist, actress, and musician (b. 1920)
- 1985: Rock Hudson, American actor (b. 1925)
- 1987: Madeleine Carroll, English actress (b. 1906)
- 1987: Peter Medawar, Brazilian-English biologist and zoologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
- 1988: Alec Issigonis, English car designer, designed the Mini (b. 1906)
- 1988: Hamengkubuwono IX, Indonesian politician, Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1912)
- 1991: Hazen Argue, Canadian politician (b. 1921)
- 1991: Demetrios I of Constantinople (b. 1914)
- 1996: Robert Bourassa, Canadian lawyer and politician, Premier of Quebec (b. 1933)
- 1996: Andrey Lukanov, Bulgarian politician, 40th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1938)
- 1998: Gene Autry, American actor, singer, and guitarist (b. 1907)
- 1999: Heinz G. Konsalik, German journalist and author (b. 1921)
- 2000: David Tonkin, Australian politician, Premier of South Australia (b. 1929)
- 2001: Franz Biebl, German composer and academic (b. 1906)
- 2002: Heinz von Foerster, Austrian-American physicist and philosopher (b. 1911)
- 2003: John Thomas Dunlop, American scholar and politician, United States Secretary of Labor (b. 1914)
- 2005: Nipsey Russell, American comedian and actor (b. 1918)
- 2005: August Wilson, American author and playwright (b. 1945)
- 2006: Helen Chenoweth-Hage, American politician (b. 1938)
- 2006: Paul Halmos, Hungarian-American mathematician (b. 1916)
- 2007: Tex Coulter, American football player (b. 1924)
- 2007: George Grizzard, American actor (b. 1928)
- 2007: Dan Keating, Irish Republican Army volunteer (b. 1902)
- 2010: Kwa Geok Choo, Singaporean lawyer and scholar (b. 1920)
- 2012: Nguyễn Chí Thiện, Vietnamese-American poet and activist (b. 1939)
- 2012: Charles Roach, Trinidadian-Canadian lawyer and activist (b. 1933)
- 2012: J. Philippe Rushton, English-Canadian psychologist, theorist, academic (b. 1943)
- 2013: Abraham Nemeth, American mathematician and academic (b. 1918)
- 2014: Robert Flower, Australian footballer (b. 1955)
- 2015: Brian Friel, Irish author, playwright, and director (b. 1929)
- 2015: Coleridge Goode, Jamaican-English bassist and composer (b. 1914)
- 2015: Johnny Paton, Scottish footballer and coach (b. 1923)
- 2016: Neville Marriner, British conductor (b. 1924)
- 2017: Tom Petty, American musician (b. 1950)
- 2018: Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi journalist (b. 1958)
- 2020: Anne-Marie Hutchinson, British lawyer (b. 1957)
- 2022: Sacheen Littlefeather, American actress, model and activist for Native American civil rights (b. 1946)
- 2023: Francis Lee, English football player (b. 1944)