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“There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone.”
~ Rod Serling in the The Twilight Zone (The first episode of The Twilight Zone, "Where is Everybody?" aired on 2 October 1959.)
Wikiquote (Rod Serling (Rodman Edward "Rod" Serling (December 25, 1924 – June 28, 1975) an American screenwriter, playwright, television producer, and narrator best known for his live television dramas of the 1950s and his science fiction anthology TV series, The Twilight Zone. Serling was active in politics, both on and off the screen and helped form television industry standards. He was known as the "angry young man" of Hollywood, clashing with television executives and sponsors over a wide range of issues including censorship, racism, and war.)
October 2nd, 1187
Crusades:
1187 - Siege of Jerusalem: Saladin captures Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule.
Wikipedia Image: The Siege of Antioch, from a 15th-century miniature; After the successful siege of Jerusalem in 1099, Godfrey of Bouillon, leader of the First Crusade, became the first ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem; Baldwin I of Jerusalem; Medieval image of Peter the Hermit, leading knights, soldiers and women toward Jerusalem during the First Crusade; The Battle of Ager Sanguinis, 1337 miniature; Pope Innocent III excommunicating the Albigensians, Massacre against the Albigensians by the crusaders; The capture of Jerusalem marked the First Crusade's success.
Third Crusade; depicting Saladin (1138 - 1193) holding Guy of Lusignan (1150 - 1194) captive in golden chains after the battle of Hattin in 1187. Guy of Lusignan is depicted wearing (Christian) royal red cloathes and Saladin is depicted wearing (Islamic) royal green cloathes, by Jan Lievens (1607-1674).
October 2nd, 1263
Battle of Largs: fought between Norwegians and Scots.
Wikipedia Painting: mural of the Battle of Largs, William Hole's, in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.
October 2nd, 1552
Conquest of Kazan by Ivan the Terrible.
Wikipedia Photo: Ivan the Terrible, Grand Prince of Moscow from 1533 until his death
October 2nd, 1535
French explorer Jacques Cartier discovers the area where Montreal, Quebec is located.
Wikipedia Painting: Portrait of Jacques Cartier by Théophile Hamel, 1844.
October 2nd, 1780
American Revolutionary War:
1780 - The John André, British Army officer of the American Revolutionary War, is hanged as a spy by American forces.
Wikipedia Paintings: Washington Crossing the Delaware, by Emanuel Leutz; Battle of the Chesapeake, French (left) and British (right) lines; Battle of Bunker Hill, The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill by John Trumbull; The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 13, 1782, by John Singleton Copley; Washington and the Comte de Rochambeau at Yorktown, 1781; "The surrender at Saratoga" shows General Daniel Morgan in front of a French de Vallière 4-pounder; Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown by (John Trumbull, 1797).
October 2nd, 1789
George Washington sends the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification.
Wikipedia Image: United States Bill of Rights / Second Continental Congress
October 2nd, 1835
Texas Revolution: Battle of Gonzales; Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.
Wikipedia Painting: Battle of Gonzales, “Come and Take It.” ● Ammo The Gonzales Flag: The Untold History of the Battle of Gonzales
October 2nd, 1864
American Civil War:
1864 - Battle of Saltville; Union forces attack Saltville, Virginia, but are defeated by Confederates.
Wikipedia Image: ● Lincoln Memorial; an American national monument built to honor the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln - located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. across from the Washington Monument.
● The northern army led by George McClellan and the southern army led by Robert E. Lee met at Antietam Creek, Maryland in September, 1862. It was a bloody battle where 13,000 Confederates and 12,000 Union troops died in just one day. McClellan had hesitated to attack before the battle thus letting the southern troops regroup. Also, he had saved reserves and refused to use them at the end of the battle thinking that Lee was holding reserves for a counterattack, even though those reserves didn't exist. The Union victory stopped Lee's northward advance and was a turning point in the war.
● Battle of Antietam / Stone Bridge at Antietam Battlefield - Sharpsburg, Maryland
● First Battle Between Ironclads: CSS Virginia/Merrimac (left) vs. USS Monitor, in 1862 at the Battle of Hampton Roads.
● Although photography was still in its infancy, war correspondents produced thousands of images, bringing the harsh realities of the frontlines to those on the home front in a new and visceral way. The Atlantic.
October 2nd, 1889
Colorado: Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West.
Wikipedia Photo: Colorado Silver Boom, credit Mining Artifacts and History.
October 2nd, 1919
United States President, Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.
Wikipedia Photo: Woodrow Wilson
October 2nd, 1925
John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system.
Wikipedia Photo: John Logie Baird with his "televisor" (1888-1946), credit Baird Television
October 2nd, 1937
Dominican Republic strongman Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of the Haitian population living within the borderlands; approximately 20,000 are killed over the next five days.
Wikipedia Photo: Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of the Haitian population living within the borderlands.
October 2nd, 1941
World War II:
1941 - Operation Typhoon; Germany begins an all-out offensive against Moscow.
1944 - Invasion of Poland; German troops end the Warsaw Uprising.
Wikipedia Photo: Bombing of Dresden in World War II; August Schreitmüller's sculpture 'Goodness' surveys Dresden after a firestorm started by Allied bombers in 1945.
USS Bunker Hill was hit by kamikazes piloted by Ensign Kiyoshi Ogawa and another airman on 11 May 1945. 389 personnel were killed or missing from a crew of 2,600; Ensign Kiyoshi Ogawa, who flew his aircraft into the USS Bunker Hill during a Kamikaze mission on 11 May 1945; Kamikaze Missions - Lt Yoshinori Yamaguchi's Yokosuka D4Y3 (Type 33 Suisei) "Judy" in a suicide dive against USS Essex. The dive brakes are extended and the non-self-sealing port wing tank is trailing fuel vapor and/or smoke 25 November 1944.
German V1 flying-bomb and V2 Rockets - Preparations for a Salvo Launch of V-2 Rockets in the Heidelager near Blizna (Poland) (1944), credit German History in Documents and Images GHDI.
Eastern Front (World War II); Germans race towards Stalingrad. August 1942; Soviet children during a German air raid in the first days of the war, June 1941, by RIA Novosti archive; Soviet sniper Roza Shanina in 1944. About 400,000 Soviet women served in front-line duty units Caucasus Mountains, winter 1942/43; Finnish ski patrol: the invisible enemy of the Soviet Army with an unlimited supply of skis; Men of the German Engineers Corps cross a river which is swollen after the first autumn rains, to strengthen bridges linking the German positions on the central front in Russia. by Keystone / Getty Images. October 1942; Russian snipers fighting on the Leningrad front during a blizzard. Photo by Hulton Archive / Getty Images, 1943; German soldiers surrendering to the Russians in Stalingrad, the soldier holding the white flag of surrender is dressed in white so that there could be no doubt of his intentions, a Russian soldier is on the right of the photograph. by Keystone / Getty Images, January 1943.
October 2nd, 1950
Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published.
Wikipedia Image: Peanuts characters by Charles M. Schulz ● Final Sunday strip, which came out February 13, 2000: one day after the death of Charles M. Schulz
October 2nd, 1959
The anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS television.
Wikipedia Photo: The Twilight Zone.
October 2nd, 1967
Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court.
Wikipedia Painting: The Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States, by Simmie L. Knox.
October 2nd, 2001
NATO backs U.S. military strikes following September 11 attacks on the United States.
Wikipedia Photo: September 11 Attacks: From top to bottom: the World Trade Center burning; Trinity Cathedral; Statue of Liberty; a section of the Pentagon collapses; 9/11 memorial service.
October 2nd, 2002
Beltway sniper attacks: begin, extending over three weeks.
Wikipedia Photo: Beltway sniper attacks;, source: The Beltway Snipers, FBI.gov.
October 2nd, 2006
Amish school shooting: Five school girls are murdered by Charles Carl Roberts in a shooting at an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania before Roberts commits suicide.
Wikipedia Photo: A U.S. flag flies at half staff outside the Newtown High School for the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, Sunday, Dec. 16, 2012, in Newtown, Connecticut. source: David Goldman, AP.
October 2nd, 2017
Modern conflicts in the Middle East, social unrest and terrorist attacks:
2016 - Ethiopian protests; Oromia Region - Violence breaks out during an Irreechaa festival in the Oromia region, killing dozens of people.
Wikipedia Photo: Middle East satellite image, NASA. ● Camels are seen early morning on a beach in the Marina area of Dubai October 16, 2008. (Steve Crisp, Reuters) ● A portrait of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad burns during clashes between rebels and Syrian troops in Selehattin, near Aleppo, on July 23, 2012. (Bulent Kilic, AFP / GettyImages) ● Egyptians gather in their thousands in Tahrir Square to mark the one year anniversary of the revolution on Jan. 25, 2012 in Cairo Egypt. Tens of thousands have gathered in the square on the first anniversary of the Arab uprising which toppled President Hosni Mubarak. (Jeff J Mitchell, Getty Images) ● Black smoke rises above the Tehran skyline as supporters of Mir Hossein Mousavi burn tires and other material in the streets as they fight running battles with police to protest the declared results of the Iranian presidential election in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, June 13, 2009. (Ben Curtis, AP) ● The Iron Dome defense system fires to interecpt incoming missiles from Gaza in the port town of Ashdod, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012. (Tsafrir Abayov, AP)