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The Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla) is a typical warbler in Europe, western Asia and northern Africa. It has grey upperparts and paler grey underparts, and the male has a black cap, while the female's is reddish-brown. The male's song is a rich musical warbling. The blackcap builds a neat cup nest in scrub, often in mature deciduous woodland. The female lays four to six buff eggs, which hatch in about 11 days. The chicks fledge in 11–12 days, but are fed by both adults for some time after. Birds from the colder areas of the range migrate, wintering in scrub in western Europe, around the Mediterranean and in Africa. Some German birds winter in gardens in the British Isles. Blackcaps eat insects when breeding, but otherwise survive primarily on small fruit; garden birds also eat bread, fat and peanuts in winter. The blackcap's range has been expanding, even though it is hunted in some countries. Its rich song has been featured in literature, films and music. (Full article...)

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Steve Stricker

Expo 2020 opens in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
In golf, the Ryder Cup concludes with the United States (team captain Steve Stricker pictured) defeating Europe.
At the Tony Awards, The Inheritance wins Best Play and Moulin Rouge! wins Best Musical.
The Social Democratic Party wins the most seats in the German federal election.
Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig are released from detention in China shortly after the release of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou from house arrest in Canada.

On this day

October 2: International Day of Non-Violence; Gandhi Jayanti in India

Nguyễn Văn Thiệu

1263 – Scottish–Norwegian War: Norwegian and Scottish armies fought the Battle of Largs, an inconclusive engagement near the present-day town of Largs, Scotland.
1835 – Mexican dragoons dispatched to disarm settlers at Gonzales in Mexican Texas encountered stiff resistance from a Texian militia at the Battle of Gonzales, the first armed engagement of the Texas Revolution.
1937 – President Rafael Trujillo announced that Dominican troops had begun mass killings of Haitians living in the Dominican Republic.
1971 – Nguyễn Văn Thiệu (pictured) was re-elected unopposed as President of South Vietnam.
1996 – A maintenance worker's failure to remove tape covering the aircraft's static ports caused Aeroperú Flight 603 to crash into the ocean near Lima, Peru, killing all 70 people on board.

François-Timoléon de Choisy (d. 1724)
Ruth Cheney Streeter (b. 1895)
Maria Ressa (b. 1963)

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Paul von Hindenburg (2 October 1847 – 2 August 1934), was a German general and statesman who led the Imperial German Army during World War I. In 1925, he returned to public life to become the second elected president of the Weimar Republic. While he was personally opposed to Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party, he nonetheless played a major role in the political instability that resulted in their rise to power, ultimately agreeing to appoint Hitler as Chancellor of Germany in January 1933 after the Nazis had become the largest party in the Reichstag. This 1914 photograph of Hindenburg in military uniform was taken by the German photographer Nicola Perscheid.Photograph credit: Nicola Perscheid; restored by Adam Cuerden

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