October 2, 2024

October 2, 2024, was a Wednesday. It was 1 month and 19 days ago. The zodiac star sign for this date is Libra.

Facts

This date was 50 days ago. It was the 276th day of 2024, in week 40. The decade was the 2020s. A baby that was born on this day is now 7 weeks old.

Zodiac

Zodiac, birthstone, and birth flower information.

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Zodiac Sign (Astrology): Anyone born on October 2, 2024, will have the star sign Libra.
Zodiac Element: Air.
Chinese Zodiac Animal: In the Chinese Zodiac, 2024 is the year of the Dragon (Yang Earth).
The Life Path Number for this date is 11.
Native American Zodiac: October 2, 2024 falls under the Raven.
Birthstone: A person during the month of October will have the birthstones Tourmaline and Opal.
Birth flower (October): The Marigold and the Cosmos.

Personality traits

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What happened around this time?

Notable events that happened close to October 2, 2024.

September 2, 2024: Brazil's Supreme Court panel unanimously upholds a decision to block X (Twitter) nationwide.
September 4, 2024: Four people are killed during a school shooting at Apalachee High School near Winder, Georgia.
September 5, 2024: Ugandan Olympic athlete Rebecca Cheptegei dies five days after being attacked by her ex-boyfriend in Endebess, Trans-Nzoia County, Kenya.
September 6, 2024: The film "Beetlejuice 2" is released.
September 9, 2024: Actor James Earl Jones passes away at the age of 93.
September 10, 2024:
• Kamala Harris and Donald Trump take part in their first presidential debate.
• Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl announces that he fathered a child outside of his marriage.
• Taylor Swift endorses Kamala Harris.
• Sony announces the PlayStation 5 Pro.
September 12, 2024: The true crime documentary "Into the Fire: The Lost Daughter" is released on Netflix.
September 13, 2024:
• Justin Timberlake pleads guilty to impaired driving following his June arrest in the Hamptons.
• The documentary film "Will & Harper" is released on Netflix.
September 15, 2024:
• A man is arrested on suspicion of trying to assassinate Donald Trump in Florida.
• Tito Jackson dies at the age of 70.
September 16, 2024:
• Sean Combs (P. Diddy) is arrested in Manhattan following a grand jury indictment.
• Social media company Meta announces that it is banning the Russian media outlet RT for foreign interference activity.
September 17, 2024:
• Sean "Diddy" Combs is charged with sex-trafficking and racketeering.
• Lebanon: Nine are killed and over 2,750 are wounded after thousands of pagers used by Hezbollah explode simultaneously.
September 18, 2024:
• Former Italian soccer player Salvatore "Toto" Schillaci dies at 59.
• 9 are killed and hundreds injured after walkie talkies begin exploding in Lebanon.
September 21, 2024: 51 people are killed in a coal mine explosion in Tabas, South Khorasan Province, Iran.
September 22, 2024: Israeli strikes on Lebanon kill more than 400 people.
September 25, 2024:
• Soccer: Raphaël Varane announces his retirement at the age of 31.
• New York City Mayor Eric Adams is indicted on federal charges following multiple corruption probes.
• The wrestling documentary TV series "Mr. McMahon" is released on Netflix.
September 26, 2024: Hurricane Helene hits the United States.
September 27, 2024:
• The video game "EA Sports FC 25" is released.
• British actress Maggie Smith passes away at the age of 89.
• Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is killed by an Israeli airstrike in Beirut, Lebanon.
• The film Megalopolis is released.
September 28, 2024: US country singer Kris Kristofferson dies aged 88.
September 30, 2024:
• Hamas says that its leader in Lebanon, Fatah Sharif Abu al-Amine, has been killed by an Israeli airstrike.
• Israel begins "targeted ground raids" in Lebanon.
• Former NBA player Dikembe Mutombo dies from brain cancer at the age of 58.
• Former Major League Baseball player Pete Rose dies aged 83.
• The PlayStation Network experiences a global outage.
• The death toll from Hurricane Helene reaches 100.
October 1, 2024:
• Tim Walz and JD Vance take part in a vice-presidential debate.
• Andres Iniesta retires from professional football.
• Iran launches 180 ballistic missiles at Israel.
• The 2024 United States port strike begins.
• TikTok influencer Mr Prada (Terryon Thomas) is arrested on suspicion of murder in Dallas, Texas.
• Israel invades Southern Lebanon.
This date: October 2, 2024
October 3, 2024: Dockworkers agree to suspend the 2024 United States port strike after their contracts are extended to January 2025.
October 4, 2024: The film "Joker: Folie à Deux" is released.
October 5, 2024: Elon Musk joins Donald Trump at his campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
October 6, 2024: The death toll from Hurricane Helene rises to 227.
October 8, 2024:
• The authorities ask millions of people in Florida to leave their homes before Hurricane Milton arrives.
• The US Supreme Court rejects R. Kelly's appeal.
• The Office actress Jenna Fischer reveals that she was diagnosed with breast cancer 11 months prior.
October 9, 2024: Hurricane Milton dips to Category 3 before it makes landfall in Florida.
October 10, 2024: Hurricane Milton makes landfall in Florida.
October 11, 2024:
• National Geographic magazine reports that human remains found on Mount Everest belong to Briton Andrew Irvine, a famous climber who went missing in 1924.
• R. Kelly's daughter, Buku Abi, accuses him of sexually abusing her as a child.
October 12, 2024: It is reported that Donald Trump's campaign team worked with X (Twitter) to keep a leaked file about JD Vance off its platform.
October 13, 2024: SpaceX catches its Starship rocket booster for the first time.
October 16, 2024:
• Soccer: Thomas Tuchel is appointed as the new manager of England.
• One Direction singer Liam Payne (31) dies after falling from a hotel balcony in Argentina.
• Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar is killed in an airstrike in Gaza.
October 18, 2024: The horror film "Smile 2" is released.
October 22, 2024: An FTC's rule banning fake online reviews goes into effect.
October 23, 2024:
• Seven people are killed in a terrorist attack at an aerospace firm in Ankara, Turkey.
• The true crime documentary "This Is the Zodiac Speaking" is released on Netflix.
October 24, 2024: Rapper Lil Durk is arrested on charges of conspiracy to commit murder-for-hire.
October 25, 2024: The video game "Call of Duty: Black Ops 6" is released.
October 26, 2024: Israel launches a wave of strikes against Iranian military sites.
October 28, 2024:
• Soccer: Manchester United sack Erik ten Hag.
• Georgia's president, Salome Zourabichvili, says that she does not recognize the disputed results of her country's recent parliamentary vote.
• Soccer: Manchester City's Rodri wins the 2024 Ballon d'Or award.
October 29, 2024:
• Tropical Storm Trami leaves more than 150 people dead in the Philippines.
• More than 60 people die after Spain is hit by flash floods.
• Actress Teri Garr dies aged 79.
October 31, 2024: Rapper Young Thug pleads guilty to gang, drug, and gun charges.
November 1, 2024:
• Spanish floods: The death toll in Valencia rises to 200.
• Charli XCX's "Brat" is chosen as the Collins Dictionary word of the year.
• Soccer: Ruben Amorim is appointed as the new head coach of Manchester United.
• 14 people die after a concrete canopy collapses at the main railway station in Novi Sad, Serbia.

TV shows in 2024

Television shows that people were watching in October 2024:

The Family Stallone

The Night Agent

The Last of Us

House of the Dragon

The Bear

The Kardashians

Severance

The Wheel of Time

Only Murders in the Building

The White Lotus

Cobra Kai

Bridgerton

Kids TV shows on October 2, 2024

Cartoons and TV shows that children and teenagers were watching on this day in 2024:

Rock Paper Scissors

Pretty Freekin Scary

Transformers: EarthSpark

Monster High

The Tiny Chef Show

Chibiverse

Face's Music Party

The Villains of Valley View

Baby Shark's Big Show!

Tyler Perry's Young Dylan

The Adventures of Paddington

Popular toys and games in 2024

Toys and games that were popular in 2024:

The PlayStation 5

The Xbox Series X

Video games

Popular video games that people were playing in October 2024.

Starfield

Diablo IV

Celebrity birthdays

Celebrities, historical figures, and other notable people who were born on October 2.

Mahatma Gandhi

Activist Deceased
Born on October 2, 1869
He was not alive on this date.

Johnnie Cochran

American lawyer Deceased
Born on October 2, 1937
He was not alive on this date.

Sting

Singer
Born on October 2, 1951
He turned 73 on this day in 2024.

Lorraine Bracco

Actress
Born on October 2, 1954
She turned 70 on this day in 2024.

Yokozuna

Wrestler Deceased
Born on October 2, 1966
He was not alive on this date.

Proof

Rapper Deceased
Born on October 2, 1973
He was not alive on this date.

Matt Hancock

British politician
Born on October 2, 1978
He turned 46 on this day in 2024.

Huda Kattan

Makeup artist
Born on October 2, 1983
She turned 41 on this day in 2024.

US President

Joe Biden was the President of the United States on October 2, 2024.

UK Prime Minister

Keir Starmer was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Irish Taoiseach

Simon Harris was the Taoiseach of Ireland.

Conception dates

Conception estimates for this date.

Note: These conception dates are based on broad estimates.

A baby that was born on October 2, 2024 was most likely conceived around January 10, 2024.
The due date for a baby that was conceived on October 2, 2024 is close to June 25, 2025.

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Statistics

Here are some interesting statistics about October 2, 2024:

50 days have passed since this date.
7 weeks have passed.
4,323,600 seconds have passed since October 2, 2024.
If you were born on this day, your heart has beat approximately 5,044,200 times.
Since then, the Earth has traveled approximately 2,230,977,600 miles through space.
If you were born on this day, your eyes have blinked approximately 720,600 times.
You have taken approximately 371,830 steps. That's roughly 165 miles.
51,883 meteors have entered the Earth's atmosphere.
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