October 2

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2006 Calendar

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1187 - Saladin captures Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule.
1535 - Jacques Cartier discovers Montreal, Quebec.
1780 - American Revolutionary War: British spy John Andre is hanged by American forces for his role in Benedict Arnold's plot to sell West Point to the British Army.
1835 - Texas Revolution begins: Battle of Gonzales - Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
1836 - Naturalist Charles Darwin returns to Falmouth, England aboard the HMS Beagle after a 5-year journey collecting biological data he will later use to develop his theory of evolution.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Saltville - Union forces attack Saltville, Virginia but are defeated by Confederate troops.
1889 - In Washington, DC, the first international Conference of American States begins.
1919 - US President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.
1924 - The Geneva Protocol is adopted as a means to strengthen the League of Nations.
1928 - The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, was founded by Saint Josemaría Escrivá.
1935 - Italy invades Abyssinia (Ethiopia).
1941 - World War II: Operation Typhoon - Germany begins an all-out offensive against Moscow.
1944 - Holocaust: Nazi troops end the Warsaw Uprising.
1950 - The comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published in seven US newspapers.
1955 - The ENIAC computer is deactivated at 11:45 PM.
1955 - Alfred Hitchcock Presents debuts (last new episode aired on June 26, 1962).
1958 - Guinea declares itself independent from France.
1959 - The Twilight Zone pilot premieres.
1962 - Johnny Carson debuts as host of The Tonight Show.
1967 - Thurgood Marshall sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court.
1968 - A peaceful student demonstration in Mexico City ends in the Tlatelolco massacre.
1990 - A Chinese airline Boeing 737-247 is hijacked; after landing at Guangzhou, crashes into an empty Boeing 707-3J6B and then a Boeing 757-21B on the ground killing 132
1992 - Hero opens in theaters, starring Dustin Hoffman.
1992 - The Carandiru Massacre takes place after a riot in the Carandiru prison system in São Paulo, Brazil.
1996 - The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
1996 - An Aeroperu Boeing 757 crashes in Pacific Ocean shortly after takeoff from Lima, Peru killing 70.
2001 - Bankruptcy of Swissair.
2004 - American Samoa joins the North American Numbering Plan.