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1187 - Siege of Jerusalem: Saladin captures Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule.

1263 - The battle of Largs fought between Norwegians and Scots.

1535 - Jacques Cartier discovers Montreal, Quebec.

1552 - Conquest of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible.

1789 - George Washington transmits the proposed Constitutional amendments (the so-called "Bill of Rights") to the States for ratification.

1835 - The Texas Revolution begins with the Battle of Gonzales: Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.

1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Saltville - Union forces attack Saltville, Virginia, but are defeated by Confederate troops.

1889 - In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West.

1919 - US President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.

1924 - The Geneva Protocol is adopted as a means to strengthen the League of Nations.

1928 - The "Prelature of the Holy Cross and the Work of God", commonly known as Opus Dei, was founded by Saint Josemaría Escrivá.

1935 - Italy invades Abyssinia (Ethiopia).

1937 - Samuel R. Caldwell becomes the first person in the United States to be arrested on a marijuana charge.

1941 - World War II: In Operation Typhoon, Germany begins an all-out offensive against Moscow.

1944 - World War II: Nazi troops end the Warsaw Uprising.

1950 - The comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published in seven US newspapers.

1958 - Guinea declares itself independent from France.

1967 - Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court.

1968 - A peaceful student demonstration in Mexico City ends in the Tlatelolco massacre.

1970 - A plane carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado killing 31 people.

1990 - A Chinese airline Boeing 737-247 is hijacked; after landing at Guangzhou, it crashes into two airliners on the ground, killing 132 people.

1992 - The Carandiru Massacre takes place after a riot in the Carandiru prison system in São Paulo, Brazil.

1996 - The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by former U.S. President Bill Clinton.

1996 - An AeroPerú Boeing 757 crashes in Pacific Ocean shortly after takeoff from Lima, Peru, killing 70.

2004 - American Samoa joins the North American Numbering Plan.

2005 - Ethan Allen Boating Accident: The Ethan Allen tour boat capsizes on Lake George in Upstate New York, killing twenty people.

2005 - NFL plays first regular season game outside United States when the Arizona Cardinals defeat the San Francisco 49ers 31-14 in Mexico City, Mexico

2006 - Five school girls are murdered by Charles Carl Roberts die in a shooting at an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania before Roberts commits suicide.

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1452 - King Richard III of England (d. 1485)

1538 - Saint Charles Borromeo, Italian cardinal (d. 1584)

1644 - François-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (d. 1724)

1722 - Leopold Widhalm, Austrian luthier (d. 1776)

1737 - Francis Hopkinson, American author and signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1791)

1768 - William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, British general and politician (d. 1854)

1798 - King Charles Albert of Sardinia (d. 1849)

1800 - Nat Turner, American leader of slave uprising (d. 1831)

1828 - Charles Floquet, French statesman (d. 1896)

1832 - Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist (d. 1917)

1847 - Paul von Hindenburg, German officer and politician (d. 1934)

1851 - Ferdinand Foch, French soldier (d. 1929)

1852 - William Ramsay, Scottish chemist (d. 1916)

1869 - Mahatma Gandhi, Bapu, Indian political leader, Father of the Nation (d. 1948)

1871 - Cordell Hull, United States Secretary of State, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1955)

1873 - Stephen Warfield Gambrill, U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 5th District. (d. 1924).

1873 - Plum Warner, English cricketer (d. 1963)

1879 - Wallace Stevens, American poet (d. 1955)

1882 - Boris Shaposhnikov, Russian military commander (d. 1945)

1890 - Groucho Marx, American comedian and actor (d. 1977)

1895 - Bud Abbott, American comedian and actor (d. 1974)

1901 - Alice Prin, French singer and artist (d. 1953)

1904 - Graham Greene, British novelist (d. 1991)

1904 - Lal Bahadur Shastri, Prime Minister of India (d.1966)

1907 - Alexander R. Todd, Baron Todd, Scottish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)

1911 - Jack Finney, American author (d. 1995)

1913 - Karl Miller, German footballer (d. 1967)

1914 - Jack Parsons, American rocket scientist (d. 1952)

1917 - Christian de Duve, English-born biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

1917 - Charles Drake, American actor (d. 1994)

1921 - Albert Scott Crossfield, American test pilot (d. 2006)

1921 - Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 2000)

1926 - Jan Morris, English writer

1928 - George "Spanky" McFarland, American actor (d. 1993)

1929 - Moses Gunn, African-American actor (d. 1993)

1930 - Dave Barrett, Premier of British Columbia

1932 - Maury Wills, American baseball player

1934 - Earl Wilson, American baseball player (d. 2005)

1935 - Omar Sivori, Argentine football player (d. 2005)

1937 - Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., American attorney (d. 2005)

1938 - Rex Reed, American movie critic and actor

1938 - Waheed Murad, Pakistani film actor and director (d. 1983)

1943 - Franklin Rosemont, American artist

1945 - Don McLean, American songwriter

1948 - Avery Brooks, American actor

1948 - Donna Karan, American fashion designer

1948 - Chris LeDoux, American musician and rodeo performer (d. 2005)

1949 - Richard Hell, American musician

1949 - Annie Leibovitz, American photographer

1950 - Persis Khambatta, Indian actress (d. 1998)

1950 - Michael Rutherford, British musician (Genesis)

1951 - Sting, British musician and actor

1951 - Romina Power, Italian singer

1955 - Lorraine Bracco, American actress

1955 - Phil Oakey, British singer (The Human League)

1960 - Glenn Anderson, Canadian ice hockey player

1960 - Robbie Nevil, American singer and songwriter

1964 - Dirk Brinkmann, German field hockey player

1966 - Rodney "Yokozuna" Anoai, Samoan wrestler (d. 2000)

1967 - Frankie Fredericks, Namibian athlete

1967 - Bud Gaugh, American musician (Sublime)

1967 - Gillian Welch, American singer and songwriter

1968 - Jana Novotná, Czech tennis player

1968 - Glen Wesley, Canadian ice hockey players

1968 - Victoria Derbyshire, British Radio presenter

1969 - Mitch English, American actor

1969 - Damon Gough, English singer

1970 - Kelly Ripa, American actress

1970 - Maribel Verdú, Spanish actress

1971 - James Root, American guitarist (Slipknot)

1971 - Tiffany, American singer

1973 - DeShaun Holton American musician (ex-D12) (d. 2006)

1973 - Lene, Norwegian singer (ex-Aqua)

1973 - Efren Ramirez, American actor

1974 - Paul Teutul Jr., Co-Star of American Chopper

1974 - Sam Roberts, Canadian singer and songwriter

1974 - Simon Gregson, British actor (Coronation Street)

1978 - Ayumi Hamasaki, Japanese singer

1981 - Luke Wilkshire, Australian footballer

1982 - George Pettit, Canadian singer (Alexisonfire)

1986 - Camilla Belle, American actress

1987 - Phil Kessel, American ice hockey player Boston Bruins

1987 - Dia Frampton, American singer (Meg & Dia)

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939 - Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine

1264 - Pope Urban IV

1559 - Jacquet of Mantua, French composer (b. 1483)

1626 - Diego Sarmiento de Acuña, conde de Gondomar, Spanish diplomat (b. 1567)

1629 - Pierre de Bérulle, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1575)

1629 - Antonio Cifra, Italian composer (b. 1584)

1708 - Anne-Jules, 2nd duc de Noailles, French general (b. 1650)

1724 - François-Timoléon de Choisy, French writer (b. 1644)

1746 - Josiah Burchett, English Secretary of the Admiralty

1764 - William Cavendish, 4th Duke of Devonshire, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

1775 - Chiyo-ni, Japanese poet (b. 1703)

1782 - Charles Lee, British and U.S. general

1786 - Augustus Keppel, 1st Viscount Keppel, British admiral (b. 1725)

1803 - Samuel Adams, American revolutionary leader (b. 1722)

1804 - Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot, French automobile pioneer (b. 1725)

1817 - Fyodor Fyodorovich Ushakov, Russian naval commander and admiral (b. 1744)

1850 - Sarah Biffen, English painter (b. 1784)

1853 - François Jean Dominique Arago, French mathematician (b. 1786)

1927 - Svante Arrhenius, Swedish chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1859)

1938 - Alexandru Averescu, Romanian soldier and politician (b. 1859)

1947 - Peter D. Ouspensky, Russian mathematician and philosopher(b. 1878)

1962 - Boris Y. Bukreev, Russian mathematician (b. 1859)

1968 - Marcel Duchamp, French artist (b. 1887)

1973 - Paul Hartman, American actor (b. 1904)

1973 - Paavo Nurmi, Finnish runner (b. 1897)

1974 - Vasily Shukshin, Russian writer, actor, screenwriter, and director (b. 1929)

1975 - Kumaraswami Kamaraj, Indian Political leader, Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu (b. 1903)

1981 - Harry Golden, American journalist (b. 1902)

1981 - Hazel Scott, West Indian-born singer (b. 1920)

1985 - Rock Hudson, American actor (b. 1925)

1987 - Peter Medawar, Brazilian-born scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1915)

1987 - Madeleine Carroll, British-born actress (b. 1906)

1994 - Harriet Hilliard Nelson, American actress (b. 1909)

1996 - Robert Bourassa, politician, premier of Quebec (b. 1933)

1998 - Gene Autry, American singer, actor, and entrepreneur (b. 1907)

1999 - Heinz G. Konsalik, German novelist (b. 1921)

2001 - Franz Biebl, German composer (b. 1906)

2002 - Heinz von Foerster, Austrian-born physicist and philosopher (b. 1911)

2003 - John T. Dunlop, U.S. Secretary of Labor (b. 1914)

2005 - Bert Eriksson, Belgian neo-Nazi (b. 1931)

2005 - Nipsey Russell, American comedian (b. 1918)

2005 - August Wilson, American playwright (b. 1945)

2006 - Helen Chenoweth-Hage, American politician (b. 1938)

2006 - Tamara Dobson, American actress (b. 1947)

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Yom Kippur (2006) (note: begins before sunset on October 1st)

Roman festivals - First day of the Ludi Augustales to celebrate the recovery by emperor August of Roman standards from the Parthians

Roman Catholic Church - Memorial of Guardian Angels

Also see October 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Guinea - Independence Day (from France, 1958)

India - Gandhi Jayanti (birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, 1869)

French Republican Calendar - Pomme de terre (Potato) Day, eleventh day in the Month of Vendémiaire

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1988 - In the film Donnie Darko, the protagonist, Donnie, wakes up and finds out that the end of the world is coming in 28 days. He also dies on this day in the end, when he travels back in time.