Historical Events In October - 02

1989  On this day in history liesbeth Ribbius Peletier, Neth's 1st female advisor of State, dies  

1991  On October - 02 dimitrios I, patriarch/primus interparis orthodox Christians, dies  

1993  On October - 02 president Yeltsin declares a State of Emergency in Moscow  

1993  On this day in history henry Ringling North, circus owner (Ringling Bros Circus), dies at 83  

1994  Faith Davis, oldest triplets (Charity & Hope survive), dies at 95 on October - 02.  

1995  On October - 02 elizabeth Jane Lloyd, artist/teacher, dies at 67  

1996  On October - 02 andrey Lukanov, PM of Bulgaria (1990), assassinated at 58  

1999  On October - 02 china and Russia hail 50 years of diplomatic ties with the two neighbours' first joint naval exercises  

2005  20 people are killed in a shipwreck in Lake George, NY on October - 02.  

2006  Charles Carl Roberts IV, a 32-yr-old milk-truck driver, kills five female students at an Amish schoolhouse in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania before shooting himself on this day in history.  

2006  Per Westerberg takes office as Speaker of the Riksdag in Sweden on October - 02.  

2007  Los Ríos Region of Chile officially begins its functions as a new region on October - 02.  

2007  On October - 02 the second Inter-Korean Summit begins. South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun and North Korean leader Kim Jong-il meet in Pyongyang.  

2012  On October - 02 20 students are gunned down in Mubi, Nigeria  

2014  15 people are killed after a gun powder plant explodes in Gorni Lom, Bulgaria on October - 02.  

2017  US scientists Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young awarded Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for work on the body clock on this day in history.  

2018  On this day in history uS First Lady Melania Trump arrives in Ghana to begin a four-nation tour of Africa  

2018  Saudi American journalist Jamal Khashoggi enters the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, never to be seen again prompting a diplomatic crisis on this day in history.  

2018  On October - 02 nobel prize in Physics awarded to Arthur Ashkin (optical tweezers), Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland ( both for laser beams)  

2018  Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi is murdered inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, triggering a diplomatic crisis for Saudi Arabia on this day in history.  

2019  On October - 02 prince Harry , Duke of Sussex and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex sue British newspaper The Mail on Sunday claiming it published her private letter  

2019  On October - 02 25 soldiers are killed and 60 missing following attacks on two army camps in Boulkessi and Mondoro, Mali.  

2020  On this day in history uS President Donald Trump announces via twitter that he and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for COVID-19, President hospitalized later that day  

2023  US Postal Service issues a commemorative stamp honoring late US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg [1] on October - 02.  

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1452  King Richard III, of England (1483-85) was born on October - 02.  

1470  On this day in history birth of isabella of Naples, Duchess of Milan (d. 1524)  

1538  Saint Charles Borromeo, Italian cardinal (d. 1584) was born on this day in history.  

1595  On this day in history birth of jacob Louys, Flemish engraver  

1616  A Gryphius, writer was born on October - 02.  

1644  François-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (d. 1724) was born on October - 02.  

1646  On this day in history birth of guillaume Poitevin, composer  

1704  Frantisek Ignac Antonin Tuma, composer was born on this day in history.  

0472  Olybrius, emperor of Westromeinse republic (472), dies on October - 02.  

0939  Death of Giselbert, duke of Lutheran, drowns at about 49 on October - 02.  

1113  On October - 02 mawdoed, Selchuk emir/governor of Mosul, dies  

1264  Urbanus IV, [Jacques Pantaleon], French Pope (1261-64), dies on October - 02.  

1517  John Murmelius, humanist/theory/school book writer, dies at about 37 on October - 02.  

1559  Death of Jacquet of Mantua, French composer (b. 1483) on this day in history.  

1564  On this day in history andreas Vesalius, [Andries of Wesel], Flemish anatomist, dies at 49  

1588  On this day in history bernardino Telesio, Italian philosopher (Rerum in Child), dies