There were several events that happened on October 2, according to the search results:

• In 1780, British intelligence officer Major John André was hanged as a spy in Tappan, New York.
• In 1836, naturalist Charles Darwin returned to England after a five-year journey on the HMS Beagle.
• In 1893, the Cheniere Caminada hurricane (Great October Storm) killed 1,800 people in Louisiana, making it one of the 1st to be classified as a category 4 storm.
• In 1944, the Warsaw Uprising ended when the few surviving Polish rebels surrendered to German forces.
• In 1967, Thurgood Marshall took the oath of office to become the first African American member of the US Supreme Court.
• In 2002, the Beltway sniper attacks began, a series of coordinated sniper attacks that occurred in Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia.
• In 2023, American actor Rock Hudson died, becoming one of the first Hollywood celebrities known to succumb to AIDS-related complications.

Therefore, on October 2, 2023, American actor Rock Hudson died, becoming one of the first Hollywood celebrities known to succumb to AIDS-related complications.