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| October 2nd, 2007 (October 02 2007) | Event | President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea walks across the Military Demarcation Line into North Korea on his way to the second Inter-Korean Summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il. | |
| October 2nd, 2007 (October 02 2007) | Death | Dan Keating, Irish politician (born in 1902) | |
| October 2nd, 2007 (October 02 2007) | Death | Tex Coulter, American football player (born in 1924) | |
| October 2nd, 2007 (October 02 2007) | Death | Christopher Derrick, British writer (born in 1921) | |
| October 2nd, 1987 (October 02 1987) | Birth | Phil Kessel, American ice hockey player | |
| October 2nd, 1987 (October 02 1987) | Death | Peter Medawar, Brazilian-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (born in 1915) | |
| October 2nd, 1987 (October 02 1987) | Death | Madeleine Carroll, British-born actress (born in 1906) | |
| October 2nd, 1967 (October 02 1967) | Event | Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court. | |
| October 2nd, 1967 (October 02 1967) | Birth | Frankie Fredericks, Namibian athlete | |
| October 2nd, 1967 (October 02 1967) | Birth | Bud Gaugh, American musician (Sublime) | |
| October 2nd, 1967 (October 02 1967) | Birth | Gillian Welch, American singer and songwriter | Eric Gill Quotes |
| October 2nd, 1957 (October 02 1957) | Birth | Wade Dooley, English rugby union player | |
| October 2nd, 1947 (October 02 1947) | Death | Peter D. Ouspensky, Russian mathematician and philosopher (born in 1878) | Philo Quotes |
| October 2nd, 1937 (October 02 1937) | Event | Samuel R. Caldwell becomes the first person in the United States to be arrested on a marijuana charge. | |
| October 2nd, 1937 (October 02 1937) | Birth | Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., American attorney (died in 2005) | Johnnie Cochran Quotes |
| October 2nd, 1927 (October 02 1927) | Death | Svante Arrhenius, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1859) | |
| October 2nd, 1917 (October 02 1917) | Birth | Christian de Duve, English-born biologist, Nobel laureate | |
| October 2nd, 1917 (October 02 1917) | Birth | Charles Drake, American actor (died in 1994) | |
| October 2nd, 1907 (October 02 1907) | Birth | Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scottish chemist, Nobel laureate (died in 1997) | |
| October 2nd, 1847 (October 02 1847) | Birth | Paul von Hindenburg, German officer and politician (died in 1934) | |
| October 2nd, 1817 (October 02 1817) | Death | Fyodor Fyodorovich Ushakov, Russian naval commander and admiral (born in 1744) | |
| October 2nd, 1737 (October 02 1737) | Birth | Francis Hopkinson, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (died in 1791) | |
| October 2nd, 1187 (October 02 1187) | Event | Siege of Jerusalem: Saladin captures Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule. | |
