Page 8: Historical Events In October - 02

1989  Liesbeth Ribbius Peletier, Neth's 1st female advisor of State, dies on October - 02.   

1991  Dimitrios I, patriarch/primus interparis orthodox Christians, dies on October - 02.   

1993  President Yeltsin declares a State of Emergency in Moscow on October - 02.   

1993  Henry Ringling North, circus owner (Ringling Bros Circus), dies at 83 on October - 02.   

1994  Faith Davis, oldest triplets (Charity & Hope survive), dies at 95 on this day in history.   

1995  Elizabeth Jane Lloyd, artist/teacher, dies at 67 on October - 02.   

1996  On this day in history 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  On October - 02 20 people are killed in a shipwreck in Lake George, NY.   

2006  On this day in history 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.   

2006  On this day in history per Westerberg takes office as Speaker of the Riksdag in Sweden.   

2007  On this day in history los Ríos Region of Chile officially begins its functions as a new region.   

2007  The second Inter-Korean Summit begins. South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun and North Korean leader Kim Jong-il meet in Pyongyang on this day in history.   

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

2014  On this day in history 15 people are killed after a gun powder plant explodes in Gorni Lom, Bulgaria   

2017  On October - 02 uS scientists Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young awarded Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for work on the body clock   

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

2018  On October - 02 saudi American journalist Jamal Khashoggi enters the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, never to be seen again prompting a diplomatic crisis   

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

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

2019  On this day in history 25 soldiers are killed and 60 missing following attacks on two army camps in Boulkessi and Mondoro, Mali.   

2020  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 on October - 02.   

2023  US Postal Service issues a commemorative stamp honoring late US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg [1] on this day in history.   

2024  On this day in history new Justice Department indictment against Donald Trump alleges he tried to subvert the 2020 transfer of power, taking into account Supreme Courts' immunity ruling for presidents [1]   

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

1470  Isabella of Naples, Duchess of Milan (d. 1524) was born on this day in history.   

1538  On October - 02 birth of saint Charles Borromeo, Italian cardinal (d. 1584)   

1595  Jacob Louys, Flemish engraver was born on this day in history.   

1616  On this day in history birth of a Gryphius, writer   

1644  On this day in history birth of françois-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (d. 1724)   

1646  Guillaume Poitevin, composer was born on this day in history.   

1704  On this day in history birth of frantisek Ignac Antonin Tuma, composer   

0472  On October - 02 olybrius, emperor of Westromeinse republic (472), dies   

0939  Death of Giselbert, duke of Lutheran, drowns at about 49 on this day in history.   

1113  Mawdoed, Selchuk emir/governor of Mosul, dies on October - 02.   

1264  Urbanus IV, [Jacques Pantaleon], French Pope (1261-64), dies on this day in history.   

1517  On this day in history john Murmelius, humanist/theory/school book writer, dies at about 37   

1559  On October - 02 death of jacquet of Mantua, French composer (b. 1483)   

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

1588  On October - 02 bernardino Telesio, Italian philosopher (Rerum in Child), dies