2 October on the map of history
6 events the records the map draws date to 2 October, from 1941 to 1958. Each one opens the map on that very day.
- 1941
The Battle of Moscow — the first German operational defeat of the war
War record · World War II · 1941-10-02 – 1942-01-07
Open the map on this day → - 1941
Vyazma and Bryansk — the double encirclement that opens Typhoon takes 670,000 prisoners in twelve days
War record · World War II · 1941-10-02 – 1941-10-13
Open the map on this day → - 1944
Aachen — the first German city to fall, after three weeks of house-to-house fighting
War record · World War II · 1944-10-02 – 1944-10-21
Open the map on this day → - 1944
The Scheldt — Antwerp has been Allied since 4 September and cannot be used until its estuary is cleared
War record · World War II · 1944-10-02 – 1944-11-08
Open the map on this day → - 1950
The map stops drawing Tibet; new borders for China
Border record (CShapes 2.0)
Open the map on this day → - 1958
The map begins drawing Guinea; the map stops drawing French Guinea (France)
Border record (CShapes 2.0)
Open the map on this day →
What this page states
A border event is what the border record states about its own outlines, under the names IntMap’s map writes on that day: «the map begins drawing», «stops drawing», «new borders for». It is computed by the map’s own code, comparing the day with the day before.
A name the record does not date is not listed: the map’s table of era names is written in years, so a renaming that falls on another country’s border day is left out.
OpenHistoricalMap, which the map draws from 1689 to 1885, is not included: its dates carry no precision, and most of its first-of-the-month dates are months or years written as days.
The war record covers only the wars IntMap documents day by day (World War I, World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War, Arab–Israeli Wars, Yugoslav Wars).
Sources
CShapes 2.0 (Schvitz et al. 2022, icr.ethz.ch/data/cshapes) · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Territory and dates: the documented record, compiled in scripts/wars/. Country outlines: CShapes 2.0 (Schvitz et al. 2022, icr.ethz.ch/data/cshapes).