Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 2

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 * 1263 – Scottish–Norwegian War: Norwegian and Scottish armies fought the Battle of Largs, an inconclusive engagement near the present-day town of Largs, Scotland.
 * 1452 — The future King of England, Richard III is born at Fotheringhay Castle; in 1485 he usurped his brother's throne, denounced his nephews for being illegitimate and was killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field two years later
 * 1835 – Mexican 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.
 * 1937 – President Rafael Trujillo announced that Dominican troops had begun mass killings of Haitians living in the Dominican Republic.
 * 1942 – Second World War: HMS Curacoa (D41) (pictured) was accidentally rammed and sunk by RMS Queen Mary while escorting the liner to provide protection from submarine attacks.
 * 1971 – Nguyễn Văn Thiệu was re-elected unopposed as President of South Vietnam.
 * 1990 – A hijacked airliner collided with two other planes while attempting to land at Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport in China, killing 128 and injuring 71.
 * 1996 – A maintenance worker's failure to remove tape covering the aircraft's static ports caused Aeroperú Flight 603 to crash into the ocean near Lima, Peru, killing all 70 people on board.
 * 2006 – A gunman killed five Amish girls before committing suicide in a one-room schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania.
 * 2007 – South Korean president Roh Moo-hyun walked across the Military Demarcation Line on his way to the second inter-Korean summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.
 * Born/died: | Parviz Mirza |b|1589| David Teniers III |d|1685| François-Timoléon de Choisy |d|1724|  Charles Lee |d|1782| Augustus Keppel |d|1786| Samuel Adams |d|1803| Sarah Biffen |d|1850| Wallace Stevens |b|1879|Ruth Cheney Streeter |b|1895| Lal Bahadur Shastri |b|1904| Sting  |b|1951| Glenn Anderson |b|1960| Maria Ressa  |b|1963| Ayumi Hamasaki |b|1978