Today in History
2 October
162 births · 79 deaths · 37 events recorded
Featured Birthday · Born 1904
Graham Greene
British writer and playwright (1904–1991)
Notable Births
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Sam Konstas
b. 2005
Australian cricketer (born 2005)
Jacob Sartorius
b. 2002
American social media personality (born 2002)
Quadeca
b. 2000
American rapper, producer, and YouTuber (born 2000)
Tom Trbojevic
b. 1996
Australia international rugby league footballer
Tepai Moeroa
b. 1995
Cook Islands international rugby league & union footballer
Lance McCullers Jr.
b. 1993
American baseball player (born 1993)
Tiffany Darwish
b. 1971
American singer (born 1971)
Graham Greene
b. 1904
British writer and playwright (1904–1991)
Notable Deaths
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Francis Lee (footballer)
d. 2023
English footballer (1944–2023)
Sacheen Littlefeather
d. 2022
American actress and activist (1946–2022)
Jamal Khashoggi
d. 2018
Saudi journalist and dissident (1958–2018)
Tom Petty
d. 2017
American rock musician (1950–2017)
Neville Marriner
d. 2016
English conductor and violinist (1924–2016)
Brian Friel
d. 2015
Irish dramatist, author and theatre director (1929–2015)
Coleridge Goode
d. 2015
British Jamaican-born jazz bassist (1914–2015)
Kwa Geok Choo
d. 2010
Singaporean lawyer (1920–2010)
On This Day in History
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2025
2 people are killed and at least 4 others injured in an attack on a synagogue in Manchester, UK, during Yom Kippur.
2025 Manchester synagogue attack
2019
A privately owned Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress conducting a living history exhibition flight crashes shortly after takeoff from Windsor Locks, Connecticut, killing seven.
Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
2018
The Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi is assassinated in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.
The Washington Post
2016
Ethiopian protests break out during a festival in the Oromia region, killing dozens of people.
2014–2016 Oromo protests
2007
President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea goes to North Korea for an Inter-Korean summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.
Roh Moo-hyun
2006
Five Amish girls are murdered in a shooting at a school in Pennsylvania, United States.
West Nickel Mines School shooting
2004
The first parkrun, then known as the Bushy Park Time Trial, takes place in Bushy Park, London, UK.
Parkrun
2002
The Beltway sniper attacks begin in Washington, D.C., extending over three weeks and killing 10 people.
D.C. sniper attacks