WHAT HAPPENED ON 2. OCTOBER
Want to find out what all happened on 2. October

Guinea declares its independence from France. (2. October 1958)

The anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS television. (2. October 1959)

Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court. (2. October 1967)

The Beatles begin recording their last 1967 single, Hello, Goodbye. (2. October 1967)

A peaceful student demonstration in Mexico City culminates in the Tlatelolco massacre by the order of the president, Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, to the soldiers of killing unarmed students, hiding the event from the public eye. The 1968 Summer Olympics hosted in Mexico City, started 10 days after the massacre. (2. October 1968)

A plane carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado killing 31 people. (2. October 1970)

Pope John Paul II denounces all forms of concentration camps and torture while speaking at the U.N. in New York City. (2. October 1979)

Michael Myers becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War (2. October 1980)

Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 is hijacked and lands at Guangzhou, where it crashes into two other airliners on the ground, killing 128. (2. October 1990)

The Carandiru Massacre takes place after a riot in the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil. (2. October 1992)

The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton. (2. October 1996)

Aeroperú Flight 603, a Boeing 757, crashes into the Pacific Ocean shortly after takeoff from Lima, Peru, killing 70. (2. October 1996)

NATO backs U.S. military strikes following 9/11. (2. October 2001)

The Beltway sniper attacks begin, extending over three weeks. (2. October 2002)

Ethan Allen boating accident: The Ethan Allen tour boat capsizes on Lake George in Upstate New York, killing twenty people. (2. October 2005)

Five school girls are murdered by Charles Carl Roberts in a shooting at an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania before Roberts commits suicide. (2. October 2006)

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. (2. October 2007)