October
2
Independence
Day
Guinea : October 2 1958
October
2 :
Gandhi Jayanti (India)
October
2 : International Day of Non-Violence
The International
Day of Non-Violence is marked on 2 October, the birthday of
Mahatma Gandhi, leader of the Indian independence movement and
pioneer of the philosophy and strategy of non-violence.
According
to General Assembly resolution A/RES/61/271 of 15 June 2007,
which established the commemoration, the International Day is
an occasion to "disseminate the message of non-violence,
including through education and public awareness". The
resolution reaffirms "the universal relevance of the principle
of non-violence" and the desire "to secure a culture
of peace, tolerance, understanding and non-violence".
Introducing
the resolution in the General Assembly on behalf of 140 co-sponsors,
India’s Minister of State for External Affairs, Mr. Anand Sharma,
said that the wide and diverse sponsorship of the resolution
was a reflection of the universal respect for Mahatma Gandhi
and of the enduring relevance of his philosophy. Quoting the
late leader’s own words, he said: "Non-violence is the
greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than
the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity
of man".
October
2 : World No Alcohol Day
Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss
on Tuesday sought the support of India's proposal for observing
2nd October every year as 'World No Alcohol Day'.
Dr. Ramadoss
also called for an institution of a framework convention on
Alcohol Control on the lines of framework convention on Tobacco
Control.
DaanUstav
DaanUtsav
(earlier called the Joy of Giving Week) is India's "festival
of giving. Launched in 2009, the festival is celebrated every
year, in the week including Gandhi Jayanti, i.e., October 2-8,
and brings together Indians from all walks of life, to celebrate
"giving".
No one owns
DaanUtsav. It is designed as a festival of giving, and like
Diwali or Dussera, the plan is for it to eventually have no
owners! However, in the initial formative years, to give it
a sense of shape, a group of core volunteers manages the DaanUtsav
campaign, defines guidelines for participation and evangelises
the effort.
Events
1187 – Siege of Jerusalem: Saladin captures Jerusalem
after 88 years of Crusader rule.
1263 – The battle of Largs is fought between Norwegians and
Scots.
1535 – Jacques Cartier discovers Montreal, Quebec.
1552 – Conquest of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible.
1780 – John André, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary
War, is hanged as a spy by American forces.
1789 – George Washington sends the proposed Constitutional amendments
(The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification.
1814 – Battle of Rancagua: Spanish Royalists troops under Mariano
Osorio defeated rebel Chilean forces of Bernardo O'Higgins and
Jose Miguel Carrera.
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.
1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Saltville – Union forces
attack Saltville, Virginia, but are defeated by Confederate
troops.
1889 – In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver
during the last great silver boom of the American Old West.
1919 – U.S. 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.
1925 – John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working
television system.
1928 – The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of
God", commonly known as Opus Dei, is founded by Saint Josemaría
Escrivá.
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.
1941 – World War II: In Operation Typhoon, Germany begins an
all-out offensive against Moscow.
1944 – World War II: German troops end the Warsaw Uprising.
1950 – Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published
1958 – Guinea declares its independence from France.
1959 – The anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS
television.
1967 – Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American
justice of United States Supreme Court.
1968 – A peaceful student demonstration in Mexico City culminates
in the Tlatelolco massacre.
1970 – A plane carrying the Wichita State University football
team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado killing
31 people.
1990 – Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 is hijacked; after landing
at Guangzhou, it crashes into two airliners on the ground, killing
132 people.
1992 – The Carandiru Massacre takes place after a riot in the
Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil.
1996 – The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments
are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.
1996 – Aeroperú Flight 603, a Boeing 757, crashes into the Pacific
Ocean shortly after takeoff from Lima, Peru, killing 70.
2001 – NATO backs U.S. military strikes following 9/11.
2001 – Swissair liquidates and the airline is replaced by SWISS.
2002 – The Beltway sniper attacks begin, extending over three
weeks.
2005 – Aleksandër Moisiu University was open in Durrës, Albania.
2005 – Ethan Allen Boating Accident: The Ethan Allen tour boat
capsizes on Lake George in Upstate New York, killing twenty
people.
2006 – Five school girls are murdered by Charles Carl Roberts
in a shooting at an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania
before Roberts commits suicide.
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.
Holidays
and observances
Batik Day
(Indonesia)
Christian Feast Day:
Feast of the Guardian Angels
Leodegar
October 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Gandhi's birthday-related observances:
Gandhi Jayanti (India)
International Day of Non-Violence (International)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Guinea from
France in 1958.
Mehregan, according to Iranian civil calendar. (Iran)
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