11 Mehr 1387

Events

• 829 (1197 years ago) Theophilos succeeds his father Michael II as Byzantine Emperor.
• 1470 (556 years ago) The Earl of Warwick's rebellion forces King Edward IV of England to flee to the Netherlands, restoring Henry VI to the throne.
• 1864 (162 years ago) American Civil War: Confederates defeat a Union attack on Saltville, Virginia. A massacre of wounded Union prisoners ensues.
• 1919 (107 years ago) Seven days after suffering a "physical collapse" following a speech in Pueblo, Colorado, U.S. president Woodrow Wilson has a catastrophic stroke at the White House, leaving him physically and mentally incapacitated for the remainder of his presidency.
• 1942 (84 years ago) World War II: Ocean Liner RMS Queen Mary accidentally rams and sinks HMS Curacoa, killing over 300 crewmen aboard Curacoa.
• 1958 (68 years ago) Guinea declares its independence from France.
• 2004 (22 years ago) The first parkrun, then known as the Bushy Park Time Trial, takes place in Bushy Park, London, UK.
• 2025 (a year ago) 2 people are killed and at least 4 others injured in an attack on a synagogue in Manchester, UK, during Yom Kippur.

Births

• 1452 (574 years ago) Richard III of England,
• 1847 (179 years ago) Paul von Hindenburg, German field marshal and politician, 2nd President of Germany (died 1934)
• 1851 (175 years ago) Ferdinand Foch, French field marshal (died 1929)
• 1852 (174 years ago) William Ramsay, Scottish chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1916)
• 1869 (157 years ago) Mahatma Gandhi, Indian freedom fighter, activist and philosopher (died 1948)
• 1890 (136 years ago) Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (died 1977)
• 1904 (122 years ago) Graham Greene, English novelist, playwright, and critic (died 1991)
• 1951 (75 years ago) Sting, English singer-songwriter and actor

Deaths

• 1264 (762 years ago) Pope Urban IV,
• 1709 (317 years ago) Ivan Mazepa, Ukrainian diplomat (born 1639)
• 1853 (173 years ago) François Arago, French mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and politician (born 1786)
• 1927 (99 years ago) Svante Arrhenius, Swedish physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1859)
• 1968 (58 years ago) Marcel Duchamp, French painter and sculptor (born 1887)
• 1973 (53 years ago) Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (born 1897)
• 1985 (41 years ago) Rock Hudson, American actor (born 1925)
• 2018 (8 years ago) Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi journalist (born 1958)

All 278 events, births and deaths of October 2