📜 This Day in History
October 2
1470With King Edward IV of England forced to flee to the Burgundian Netherlands after a rebellion organised by Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, Henry VI was restored to the throne.- 1835Mexican dragoons dispatched to disarm settlers at Gonzales in Mexican Texas encountered stiff resistance from a Texian militia at the Battle of Gonzales, the first armed engagement of the Texas Revolution.
- 1913The Shubert Theatre opened on Broadway with a production of Hamlet.
- 1971Nguyễn Văn Thiệu was re-elected unopposed as President of South Vietnam.
- 2005Typhoon Longwang made landfall in China as the deadliest tropical cyclone in that year to impact the country.
- 2018The Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was assassinated in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.
