What happened on 2 October?

8 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1869 Born: Mahatma Gandhi Indian independence leader; pioneered mass non-violent civil disobedience.
2. 1187 Saladin retakes Jerusalem Three months after Hattin, Saladin's army takes Jerusalem after a brief siege; treats inhabitants far more leniently than the 1099 crusaders did.
3. 1847 Born: Paul von Hindenburg German Field Marshal; later last President of the Weimar Republic.
4. 1941 Battle of Moscow Soviets stop the Wehrmacht at the gates of Moscow in December 1941; first major German defeat; Blitzkrieg myth shattered.
5. 1851 Born: Marshal Foch Allied Generalissimo at the end of WW1; signed the Armistice.
6. 1968 Tlatelolco massacre Mexican security forces kill scores of student protesters in Mexico City days before the Olympics.
7. 2018 Murder of Jamal Khashoggi Saudi agents kill the dissident journalist in Istanbul, triggering a global outcry over the kingdom's rulers.
8. 1808 Goethe meets Napoleon at Erfurt At the Congress of Erfurt the Emperor summons Goethe, tells him he has read Werther seven times, and greets him: 'Vous êtes un homme.'