| Date | Weekday | Event |
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| October 2, 322 | Monday | BC Aristotle dies of indigestion |
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| October 2, 1608 | Thursday | Hans Lippershey offers the Dutch a new invention - the telescope |
| October 2, 1833 | Wednesday | NY Anti-Slavery Society organized |
| October 2, 1836 | Sunday | Darwin returns to England aboard the HMS Beagle |
| October 2, 1870 | Sunday | Italy annexes Rome & the Papal States; Rome made Italian capital |
| October 2, 1889 | Wednesday | 1st Pan American conference |
| October 2, 1908 | Friday | Addie Joss perfect game stops Ed Walsh 1-0 who won 40 in a row |
| October 2, 1916 | Monday | Grover Cleveland Alexanders 16th shutout of the year |
| October 2, 1932 | Sunday | Yanks sweep Cubs in the world series |
| October 2, 1935 | Wednesday | NY Hayden Planetarium the 4th in the US opens |
| October 2, 1936 | Friday | 1st alcohol power plant established Atchison Kansas |
| October 2, 1936 | Friday | Tony Lazzeri becomes the 1st Yank to hit a world series grand slam |
| October 2, 1939 | Monday | Birdbaths installed in Union Square |
| October 2, 1942 | Friday | 1st self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction demonstrated Chicago |
| October 2, 1946 | Wednesday | 1st network soap opera - Faraway Hill - Dumont |
| October 2, 1947 | Thursday | Yogi Berra become the 1st player to pinch hit a world series homer |
| October 2, 1949 | Sunday | Yanks & Red Sox tie for 1st place played the final game of the season Yanks won 5-3 & clinched pennant #16 |
| October 2, 1950 | Monday | Bob Shaw of the Chicago Cardinals sets NFL record with 5 TD catches |
| October 2, 1950 | Monday | The comic strip 'Peanuts' 1st appears in 9 newspapers |
| October 2, 1955 | Sunday | Alfred Hitchcock Presents premiers |
| October 2, 1956 | Tuesday | 1st atomic power clock exhibited - NYC |
| October 2, 1958 | Thursday | Guinea gains independence from France (National Day) |
| October 2, 1959 | Friday | Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone" premieres on CBS |
| October 2, 1961 | Monday | Ben Casey premiers |
| October 2, 1965 | Saturday | Mel Stottlemyre wins game #20 |
| October 2, 1967 | Monday | Thurgood Marshall is sworn as 1st black Supreme Court Justice |
| October 2, 1968 | Wednesday | Bob Gibson sets a world series record of 17 strikeouts |
| October 2, 1970 | Friday | Billy Martin named manager of the Tigers |
| October 2, 1971 | Saturday | homing pigeon averages 133 kph (record) in 1100-km Australian race |
| October 2, 1978 | Monday | Yanks win 3rd straight AL East beating Red Sox 5-4 in a playoff game. Guidry wins #25 aided by Dent's homer & Pinella's fielding |
| October 2, 1984 | Tuesday | 3 cosmonauts return after a record 237 days in orbit |