October 2: Facts & Historical Events On This Day

Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint in Paris, France.

Five men were masked and made off with $10 million worth of jewelry.

American spy thriller TV series “Homeland” first aired on Showtime.

The show starred Claire Danes and Damian Lewis.

EA Games’ FIFA 10, the highest-rated FIFA game made, was released in Europe.

FIFA 10 was a complete game changer for EA games, as it overtook their other titles to become their fastest-selling sports game in Europe. For the most part, this was simply because FIFA 10 was their best version of the game, and with a score of 91 on Metacritic, it likely will remain so for some time!

British rock band Oasis released their second album, “(What’s the Story) Morning Glory?”

The album sold a record 347,000 copies in its first week.

Three Russian cosmonauts returned from space after spending a record time of 237 days in orbit.

Ticketmaster Entertainment Inc. was founded in Phoenix, Arizona.

Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the first black US Supreme Court Justice.

A team of scientists invented the sports drink Gatorade in a University of Florida lab.

After 67 years of colonial rule, the Republic of Guinea gained independence from France.

Adolf Hitler’s German military attacked Moscow.

The battle lasted until January 7, 1942, with over half a million Russians killed, missing, injured, or captured.

The classic children’s book “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” by Beatrix Potter was published in London, England.

After a 5-year voyage around the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, Charles Darwin returned to England.

He traveled on the HMS Beagle, exploring lands far and wide, including The Galapagos Islands, where he studied the wildlife. The findings from this trip would lead him to the theory of evolution.

During the American Revolutionary War, John André, a British Army officer, was hanged as a spy by the Continental Army.

French-Breton explorer Jacques Cartier discovered “Mount Royal,” now known as Montreal, Canada.

English Protestant author William Tyndale published “The Obedience of a Christian Man” in Antwerp, Belgium.

The text is significant because it was the first document suggesting that the king of a country should be the head of that country's church instead of the pope or other religious leader.