October 2

1780 –John André, a British Army officer, is hanged as a spy by the Continental Army during the Revolution.

1803 – Revolutionary and Anti-Federalist Founder Samuel Adams, dies at his home in Cambridge Massachusetts, age 81

1835 – Having refused the order to return a cannon stationed at the city of Gonzales since 1831, Texian Militia flying the flag ‘Come And Take It‘, repulse Colonel Domingo de Ugartechea’s Mexican dragoons sent to seize the cannon, in the first battle of the Texas Revolution.

1919 – President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him incapacitated for several weeks.

1967 – Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of the United States Supreme Court.

1970 – A Golden Eagle Aviation chartered Douglas DC-6  crashes on the east slope of Mount Trelease near Silver Plum Colorado, killing 31 of the 40 passengers and crew aboard, among them 14 team members of the Wichita State University football team.

1996 – The Electronic Freedom of Information Act – FOIA – Amendments are signed by President Clinton.

1980 – demoncrap U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania, Michael Myers becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War, due to his involvement in the ABSCAM bribery scandal.

2002 – In the area around the District of Columbia Beltway, sniper attacks begin with one shooting at a store with no injuries and a single murder in a grocery store parking lot

2006 – 5 of 8 Amish girls taken hostage are murdered by a man in a shooting at the school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania before he commits suicide as police immediately begin to enter the building.

2019 – A Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, owned by the Collings Foundation, conducting a living history exhibition flight, crashes shortly after takeoff from Windsor Locks, Connecticut, killing 7 of the 13 passengers and crew aboard and with 1 person on the ground suffering burns as he helps pull people out of the wreckage.