2 October

2 October 1413	Poland-Lithuania [political events]	The Union of Horodlo, a charter issued by King Wldyslaw Jagiello of Poland and Grand Duke Vitold of Lithuania, reaffirms the unity of the two states but makes the autonomy of Lithuania permanent and cedes new privileges to its nobility.
2 October 1518	England, France, Spain, Holy Roman Empire, Papal States, Italy, Europe, Ottoman Empire [treaties]	In the Treaty of London drawn up by the English Lord Chancellor, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, King Henry VIII of England, King Francis I of France, King Charles I of Spain, the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I, and Pope Leo X agree to join in a crusade against the Turks with all other European powers.
2 October 1540	Venice, Italy, Ottoman Empire [treaties]	Venice signs a peace treaty with the Ottoman sultan Suleiman I the Magnificent in Constantinople; it surrenders its last fortresses in the Morea (Peloponnese), Napoli, and Monemvasia, and acknowledges the Ottoman conquests in the Cyclades.
2 October 1648	UK, Ireland [treaties]	At the Newport (Isle of Wight) Treaty negotiations, King Charles I of Great Britain and Ireland agrees to accept Parliament's demands on the issue of church government, on condition that episcopacy will not be completely abolished. He also agrees to surrender the militia for 20 years, as well as the government of Ireland.
2 October 1869	India, UK [births and deaths]	Mahatma Gandhi (honorific name of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi), leader of the nationalist movement to free India from British rule, born in Porbandar, India (–1948).
2 October 1890	USA [births and deaths]	Groucho Marx (born Julius Marx), US comedian of stage, film, radio, and television along with two of his brothers, Harpo and Chico, born in New York City (–1977).
2 October 1904	[births and deaths]	Graham Greene, English novelist, born in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England (–1991).
2 October 1932	China, Japan [diplomacy]	The Lytton Commission, set up by the League of Nations to investigate Japan's 1931 invasion of Manchuria, China, recognizes Japan's special transport and economic interests in the region and recommends an autonomous state under Chinese sovereignty but Japanese control.
2 October 1938	Japan [Sino–Japanese War (1933–40)]	Japan withdraws from the League of Nations in protest at its identification by the League as the aggressor in the Sino-Japanese war.
2 October 1950	USA [births and deaths]	Al Jolson, US popular singer and comedian, star of The Jazz Singer (1927), the first feature film with synchronized speech and music, dies in San Francisco, California (64).
2 October 1950	USA [newspapers]	In the USA, Charles Schulz's comic strip Peanuts, starring Charlie Brown, Snoopy, and friends, appears in newspapers for the first time.
2 October 1958	Guinea [decolonization]	Guinea becomes independent, having already rejected membership of the French Union.
2 October 1990	East Germany [political events]	The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) ceases to exist at midnight, and on 3 October, East and West Germany are formally reunited.
2 October 1997	UK [health and medicine]	The UK scientists Moira Bruce and, independently, John Collinge, and their colleagues show that the new variant form of the brain-wasting Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in humans is the same disease as bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or ‘mad cow disease’) in cows.
2 October 2000	UK [human rights]	In what is widely viewed as a radical legal shake-up, the Human Rights Act comes into force in England and Wales. The act incorporates the 1951 European Convention on Human Rights into UK law.

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