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Wikipedia Current Events
October 2
Armed conflicts and attacks
Disasters and accidents
- Thirty-eight people are injured in a fire at a police facility in Ismailia, Ismailia Governorate, Egypt. (Al Jazeera)
International relations
- Haitian crisis
- The United Nations Security Council approves a resolution establishing a Kenya-led security force with a mandate of one year to combat gang violence in Haiti. (The New York Times)
Politics and elections
- Indigenous peoples in Brazil
- The government of Brazil begins expelling non-indigenous residents off of the Apyterewa and Trincheira Bacajá indigenous territories in Pará state. (AP)
Science and technology
- The European Space Agency reports that the James Webb Space Telescope has detected "Jupiter-sized objects", unconnected to any stars, which appear to be moving in pairs in the Orion constellation. Around 40 of the objects, known as Jupiter Mass Binary Objects, have been detected so far. (BBC News)
- Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman are awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for developing technology that resulted in mRNA vaccines for COVID-19. (BBC News)
Sports
- 2023–24 AFC Champions League
- Al-Ittihad refuses to play a match with Sepahan due to the placement of busts of Qasem Soleimani at the side of the football pitch. (Arabnews)
On This Day
- 1392 – Muhammad VII became the twelfth sultan of the Emirate of Granada.
- 1602 – Anglo-Spanish War: An English fleet intercepted and attacked six Spanish ships at the Battle of the Narrow Seas (depicted).
- 1849 – American author Edgar Allan Poe was found semi-conscious and delirious in Baltimore, Maryland, under mysterious circumstances; it was the last time he was seen in public before his death four days later.
- 1952 – The United Kingdom successfully completed a nuclear test, becoming the world's third state with nuclear weapons.
- 1991 – Nadine Gordimer became the first South African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature.