What Happened on October 2, 1996

• 30th Country Music Association Awards: Brooks & Dunn win

• Andrey Lukanov, Bulgarian politician (40th Prime Minister of Bulgaria), assassinated at 58
• Banjo Matthews, American auto racing constructor (72% of winning cars in top NASCAR division 1974-85; 262 wins in 362 Cup races), dies of heart and respiratory disease at 64
• Frida Knight, English Communist activist and author, dies at 85
• Ivan Mark Waller, English mountaineer, dies at 89
• Joonas Kokkonen, Finnish composer (The Last Temptations), dies at 74
• Robert Bourassa, Prime Minister of Quebec province (1970-76, 85-93), dies at 63
• Ronald John Bilsland Colville, businessman, dies at 79
• Sybil Marion Rosenfeld, theatre historian, dies at 93

Holidays: Gandhi Jayanti (India)

• #1 Song: Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix) - Los Del Rio
• #1 Song: Breakfast At Tiffany's - Deep Blue Something