On this day
2 October
International Day of Non-Violence

1187 Balian Ibelin gives Saladin the keys to Jerusalem
1527 - Marburg dispute (illustrated) between Luther and Zwingli
1919 - American President Woodrow Wilson was paralyzed.
1928 - Escriva de Balaguer founded Opus Dei
1941 - the Wehrmacht launched a large-scale offensive against Moscow
1944 - suppression of the Warsaw Uprising
1968 - The police shot down a student demonstration in the Plaza of the Three Cultures in Mexico City.
1980 - Larry Holmes' fight with Muhammad Ali at Caesars Palace ended with a technical knockout of the latter