2nd October anniversaries

• Birth
• event
  • 1263
  • Great Britain
  • "Battle of Largs, Ayrshire – King Alexander III said to have defeated Norwegian invaders under King Haakon IV"
  • 1608
  • Dutch lens maker Hans Lippershey demonstrated the first telescope .
  • 1900
  • Great Britain
  • Keir Hardie becomes 1st Labour MP
  • 1901
  • Great Britain
  • Royal Navy launches 1st submarine
  • 1909
  • "The first rugby match was played at Twickenham Stadium, London"
  • 1919
  • US President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke that left him partially paralysed
  • 1928
  • "Opus Dei was founded in Madrid, Spain by Roman Catholic priest Josemaría Escrivá (later made a saint)."
  • 1952
  • Britain tests first Nuclear Bomb
  • 1958
  • Guinea proclaimed its independence from France .
  • 1959
  • The first episode of The Twilight Zone was broadcast by CBS in the USA
  • 1968
  • The first recorded case of live sextuplets being born in Britain .
  • 1968
  • The Redwood National Park was established in California .
  • 1983
  • Neil Kinnock was elected leader of Britain’s Labour Party .
• Death
  • 1708
  • "Death of Anne-Jules, 2nd Duke of Noailles, French general ."
  • 1958
  • "Death of Marie Stopes, Scottish birth-control campaigner ."
  • 1968
  • "Death of Marcel Duchamp, French artist ."
  • 1998
  • "Death of Gene Autry, American entertainer (‘The singing cowboy’) ."