Day's Calendar – October 2

The 276th day of the year; 90 days remain until the New Year.

Church Calendar

Martyrs Trophimus, Sabbatius, and Dorymedon (276); Martyr Zosimas the Hermit (4th century).

Born:

1452 – Richard III, King of England, a notorious figure in English history. Died in 1485.

1847 – Paul von Hindenburg, German Field Marshal, President of Germany from 1925 to 1933. Died in 1934.

1851 – Ferdinand Foch, Marshal of France. Died in 1929.

1852 – William Ramsay, English chemist and Nobel Prize laureate. Died in 1916.

1869 – Mahatma Gandhi, Indian pacifist leader. Assassinated in 1948.

1904 – Graham Greene, English writer. Died in 1991. 1927 – Revaz Tabukashvili, writer and film director, laureate of the Shota Rustaveli State Prize. Died in 1990.

1934 – Lomer Akhvlediani, cinematographer.

1954 – Goderdzi Chokheli, film director and writer. Died in 2008.

Died:

322 BC – Aristotle, Greek philosopher and scholar.

1853 – Dominique François Jean Arago, French scholar and politician; born in 1786.

1892 – Joseph Ernest Renan, French writer.

1931 – Thomas Lipton, founder of the famous tea company.

1974 – Vasily Shukshin, Russian writer, film director, and actor.

Events:

1187 – The Sultan of Egypt, Salah ad-Din (Saladin), defeated the Crusader army and captured Jerusalem.

1540 – The Republic of Venice and Turkey signed a peace treaty. 1836 – Charles Darwin returned from his five-year voyage around the world.

1862 – The Saint Petersburg Conservatory opened.

1870 – Rome became the capital of the newly unified Italy.

1924 – The League of Nations approved the Geneva Protocol on the peaceful settlement of international disputes.

Notable Day:

Guinea — Independence Day.