Historical Events In October - 02

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

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

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

1993  On this day in history henry Ringling North, circus owner (Ringling Bros Circus), dies at 83   

1994  On October - 02 faith Davis, oldest triplets (Charity & Hope survive), dies at 95   

1995  On this day in history elizabeth Jane Lloyd, artist/teacher, dies at 67   

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

1999  China and Russia hail 50 years of diplomatic ties with the two neighbours' first joint naval exercises on this day in history.   

2005  20 people are killed in a shipwreck in Lake George, NY on October - 02.   

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 this day in history.   

2006  On October - 02 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 October - 02.   

2012  On this day in history 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  US scientists Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael Young awarded Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for work on the body clock on this day in history.   

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

2018  Saudi American journalist Jamal Khashoggi enters the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, never to be seen again prompting a diplomatic crisis on this day in history.   

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 October - 02.   

2019  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

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  On October - 02 birth of isabella of Naples, Duchess of Milan (d. 1524)   

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

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

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

1644  François-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (d. 1724) was born on this day in history.   

1646  On October - 02 birth of guillaume Poitevin, composer   

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

0472  Olybrius, emperor of Westromeinse republic (472), dies on this day in history.   

0939  On this day in history death of giselbert, duke of Lutheran, drowns at about 49   

1113  On this day in history mawdoed, Selchuk emir/governor of Mosul, dies   

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

1517  John Murmelius, humanist/theory/school book writer, dies at about 37 on October - 02.   

1559  On this day in history 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