2 October 1671

The Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi was assassinated in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.

Typhoon Longwang made landfall in China as the deadliest tropical cyclone in that year to impact the country.

Nguyễn Văn Thiệu was re-elected unopposed as President of South Vietnam.

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

Second World War: HMS Curacoa (pictured) was accidentally rammed and sunk by RMS Queen Mary while escorting the liner to provide protection from submarine attacks.

The Shubert Theatre opened on Broadway with a production of Hamlet.

Qing China signed the Treaty of Livadia with the Russian Empire, but the terms were so unfavorable that the Chinese government refused to ratify the treaty.

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.

As part of wider food riots, citizens in Nottingham, England, looted large quantities of cheese; one man was killed during attempts to restore order.

With King Edward IV of England forced to flee to the Burgundian Netherlands after a rebellion organised by Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, Henry VI was restored to the throne.

2 people are killed and at least 4 others injured in an attack on a synagogue in Manchester, UK, during Yom Kippur.

A privately owned Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress conducting a living history exhibition flight crashes shortly after takeoff from Windsor Locks, Connecticut, killing seven.

The Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi is assassinated in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.

Ethiopian protests break out during a festival in the Oromia region, killing dozens of people.

President Roh Moo-hyun of South Korea goes to North Korea for an Inter-Korean summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong-il.

The first parkrun, then known as the Bushy Park Time Trial, takes place in Bushy Park, London, UK.

The Beltway sniper attacks begin in Washington, D.C., extending over three weeks and killing 10 people.

Aeroperú Flight 603 crashes into the ocean near Peru, killing all 70 people on board.

The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.

Military police storm the Carandiru Penitentiary in São Paulo, Brazil during a prison riot. The resulting massacre leaves 111 prisoners dead.

Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 is hijacked and lands at Guangzhou, where it crashes into two other airliners on the ground, killing 132.

Michael Myers becomes the first member of either chamber of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War.

South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu is re-elected in a one-man election.

British European Airways Flight 706 crashes near Aarsele, Belgium, killing 63.