October 2nd (2006) was a Monday. It's the 275th day of the year (276th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 90 days left to the end of the year.
Historical Events for 2nd October, 2006
» Five school girls are murdered by Charles Carl Roberts in a Amish school shooting called shooting at an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania before Roberts commits suicide.
October 2nd Famous Deaths for 2006
» Helen Chenoweth-Hage, American politician (b. 1938)
» Tamara Dobson, American actress (b. 1947)
» Paul Halmos, Hungarian-American mathematician and academic (b. 1916)
» Charles Carl Roberts, American murderer (b. 1973)
October 2nd Holidays in History
» Batik Day (Indonesia)
» Christian feast day:
» Feast of the Guardian Angels
» Leodegar
» October 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
» Gandhi Jayanti (India)
» International Day of Non-Violence (International observance or International)
» Independence Day (Guinea), celebrates the independence of Guinea from France in 1958