Page 8: Historical Events In October - 02

1989  Liesbeth Ribbius Peletier, Neth's 1st female advisor of State, dies on this day in history.   

1991  On this day in history dimitrios I, patriarch/primus interparis orthodox Christians, dies   

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

1993  Henry Ringling North, circus owner (Ringling Bros Circus), dies at 83 on this day in history.   

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

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

1996  Andrey Lukanov, PM of Bulgaria (1990), assassinated at 58 on October - 02.   

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 this day in history.   

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 October - 02.   

2006  Per Westerberg takes office as Speaker of the Riksdag in Sweden on this day in history.   

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

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

2012  20 students are gunned down in Mubi, Nigeria on this day in history.   

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

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 October - 02.   

2018  US First Lady Melania Trump arrives in Ghana to begin a four-nation tour of Africa on October - 02.   

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

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

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1452  King Richard III, of England (1483-85) was born on this day in history.   

1470  Isabella of Naples, Duchess of Milan (d. 1524) was born on October - 02.   

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

1595  On October - 02 birth of jacob Louys, Flemish engraver   

1616  On October - 02 birth of a Gryphius, writer   

1644  On October - 02 birth of françois-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (d. 1724)   

1646  Guillaume Poitevin, composer was born on October - 02.   

1704  On October - 02 birth of frantisek Ignac Antonin Tuma, composer   

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

0939  On October - 02 death of giselbert, duke of Lutheran, drowns at about 49   

1113  Mawdoed, Selchuk emir/governor of Mosul, dies on this day in history.   

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

1517  On October - 02 john Murmelius, humanist/theory/school book writer, dies at about 37   

1559  Death of Jacquet of Mantua, French composer (b. 1483) on October - 02.   

1564  Andreas Vesalius, [Andries of Wesel], Flemish anatomist, dies at 49 on October - 02.   

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