Events on October 2 35
Year 939
Battle of Andernach: King Otto I crushes a rebellion against his rule, by a coalition of Eberhard of Franconia and other Frankish dukes.
Year 1470
Richard Neville's rebellion forces King Edward IV of England to flee to the Netherlands, restoring Henry VI to the throne.
Year 1528
William Tyndale, the renowned English Reformer and Bible translator published his famous work The Obedience of a Christian Man.
Year 1780
John André, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War, is hanged as a spy by American forces.
Year 1789
George Washington sends proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification.
Year 1814
Battle of Rancagua: Spanish Royalists troops under Mariano Osorio defeats rebel Chilean forces of Bernardo O'Higgins and José Miguel Carrera.
Year 1835
The Texas Revolution begins with the Battle of Gonzales: Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
Year 1864
American Civil War: Battle of Saltville: Union forces attack Saltville, Virginia, but are defeated by Confederate troops.
Year 1919
U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.
Year 1928
The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded by Josemaría Escrivá.
Year 1937
Dominican Republic strongman Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of the Haitian population living within the borderlands; approximately 20,000 are killed over the next five days.
Year 1941
World War II: In Operation Typhoon, Germany begins an all-out offensive against Moscow.
Year 1942
World War II: Ocean Liner RMS Queen Mary accidentally rams and sinks her own escort ship, HMS Curacoa, off the coast of Ireland, killing 337 crewmen aboard the Curacoa.
Year 1949
The Soviet Union recognises the People's Republic of China, proclaimed the previous day by Mao Zedong.
Year 1967
Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of the United States Supreme Court.
Year 1968
Mexican President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz orders soldiers to suppress a demonstration of unarmed students, ten days before the 1968 Summer Olympics will start.
Year 1970
A plane carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado killing 31 people.
Year 1980
Michael Myers becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War.
Year 1990
Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 is hijacked and lands at Guangzhou, where it crashes into two other airliners on the ground, killing 128.
Year 1996
A maintenance worker's failure to remove tape covering the static ports of the aircraft causes Aeroperú Flight 603 to crash into the ocean near Lima, Peru, due to instrument failure.
Year 1996
The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
Year 2006
Five Amish girls are murdered by Charles Carl Roberts in a shooting at an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania before Roberts commits suicide.
Year 2007
President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea walks across the Military Demarcation Line into North Korea on his way to the second Inter-Korean summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.
Year 2016
Ethiopian protests: Violence breaks out during an Irreechaa festival in the Oromia region, killing dozens of people.