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Wednesday 2 October is the 276th day of the Gregorian calendar, 90 days left until the end of the year.
Saint of the day: Holy Guardian Angels
October Proverb
Rainy October, prosperous field
It happened today
1836 – Charles Darwin returns to Falmouth, England, aboard HMS Beagle after a 5-year voyage in which he collected data that he would later use to develop his Theory of Evolution
1870 – Plebiscite for the annexation of Rome to the Kingdom of Italy, after the capture of Rome
1919 – US President Woodrow Wilson suffers a heart attack that leaves him partially paralyzed
1924 – The Geneva Protocol is adopted as a method to strengthen the League of Nations
1950 – Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts strip is published for the first time, in seven US newspapers
1959 – The first episode of The Twilight Zone airs in the USA
1967 – Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of the United States Supreme Court
1968 – A peaceful student demonstration in Mexico City ends in the Tlatelolco Massacre
1996 – The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by US President Bill Clinton
2001 – The first episode of the sitcom Scrubs is broadcast in the United States of America
2009 – In and around Messina, due to storms, a large landslide seriously damaged Giampilieri Superiore and Scaletta Zanclea causing 35 deaths
Nati
Adelmo Togliani – Italian actor, director and screenwriter (2 October 1975)
Brianna Lynn Brown – American actress and film producer (2 October 1979)
Marta Gastini – Italian actress (2 October 1989)
Romina Francesca Power – American singer, actress, showgirl and painter (2 October 1951)
Sting – born Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, British singer-songwriter (2 October 1951)