Historical timeline for October 2

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.

Five Amish girls are murdered in a shooting at a school in Pennsylvania, United States.

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.

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

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

An aircraft carrying the Wichita State University football team, administrators, and supporters crashes in Colorado, killing 31 people.

Mexican President Gustavo Díaz Ordaz orders soldiers to suppress a demonstration of unarmed students, ten days before the start of the 1968 Summer Olympics.

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

Guinea declares its independence from France.

World War II: German troops end the Warsaw Uprising.