What day of the week was October 2, 1968?

The day of the week October 2nd, 1968 fell on was a Wednesday. Yom Kippur for Jewish people.

Marcel Duchamp the French painter and sculptor (b. 1887) died on this day in 1968.

A peaceful student demonstration in Mexico City culminates in the Tlatelolco massacre by the order of the president the Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, to the soldiers of killing unarmed students, hiding the event from the public eye. The 1968 Summer Olympics hosted in Mexico City, started 10 days after the massacre.