October 1

October 1 is the 274th day of the year (275th in Leap years). There are 91 days remaining.

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances

Events

331 BC - Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Arbela
959 - Edgar becomes king of all England
965 - John XIII becomes Pope
1701 - Matthieu Garigue received by French Reformed Church of The Hague
1788 - Nguyen Hue declares himself emperor of Viet Nam
1791 - First session of the French National Assembly
1795 - Belgium conquered by France
1800 - Spain cedes Louisiana to France via Treaty of San Ildefonso
1811 - First steamboat to sail the Mississippi arrives in New Orleans
1869 - Austria issues the world's first postcards
1880 - John Philip Sousa becomes leader of the United States Marine Corps Band
1880 - First electric lamp factory opened by Thomas Edison
1885 - United States begins special delivery mail service.
1887 - Baluchistan conquered by British Empire
1890 - Yosemite National Park established by US Congress
1898 - Czar Nicholas II expels Jews are expelled from major Russian cities
1903 - Boston Americans played the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
1908 - Ford introduces Model T car
1910 - In downtown Los Angeles, California, a large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building, killing 20.
1918 - Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence capture Damascus
1928 - Soviet Union introduces first five-year plan.
1931 - George Washington Bridge links New Jersey and New York
1936 - Francisco Franco named head of the Nationalist government of Spain
1938 - Germany annexes Sudetenland
1943 - Naples falls to Allied soldiers
1946 - Nazi leaders sentenced at Nuremberg Trials
1949 - The People's Republic of China is declared by Mao Zedong
1949 - First rectangular television tubes manufactured by Kimble Glass
1957 - First appearance of "In God We Trust" on paper currency
1958 - NASA created to replace NACA
1959 - Acme Refrigeration incorporated by Adrian Kaiser
1960 - Nigeria gains independence from Great Britain
1960 - Cyprus gains independence from Great Britain
1961 - East and West Cameroon merge as Federal Republic of Cameroon
1961 - Roger Maris sets new record for most home runs in a single season.
1962 - Johnny Carson becomes host of NBC's Tonight Show
1963 - California State Board of Education created.
1964 - Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of University of California, Berkeley.
1964 - Japanese bullet train begins service from Tokyo to Osaka
1965 - Suharto crushes attempted coup in Indonesia
1968 - BGBS taken over by Guyana Government
1969 - Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time
1971 - Walt Disney World opens in Orlando, Florida
1975 - Seychelles gain internal self-government
1975 - Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands, take name Tuvalu
1977 - Brazilian soccer star Pele retires
1979 - United States returns sovereignty of the Panama canal to Panama
1982 - Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a Constructive Vote of No Confidence.
1982 - Epcot Center opens at Walt Disney World
1988 - Mikhail Gorbachev named head of the Supreme Soviet
1998 - ICANN assumes responsibility for selling top-level domain names.

Births

1207 - Henry III of England
1865 - Paul Dukas, French composer
1881 - William Boeing, engineer
1885 - Louis Untermeyer, author († 1977)
1876 - Huynh Thuc Khang, Vietnamese politician
1878 - Othmar Spann, Austrian philosopher and economist
1903 - Vladimir Horowitz, pianist († 1989)
1904 - Otto Robert Frisch, Austrian physicist
1909 - Sam Yorty, former mayor of Los Angeles, California († 1998)
1910 - Bonnie Parker, American outlaw († 1934)
1920 - Walter Matthau, American actor († 2000)
1921 - James Whitmore, actor
1924 - Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States
1924 - William H. Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States
1926 - Roger Williams, pianist
1927 - Tom Bosley, actor
1928 - George Peppard, American actor († 1994)
1928 - Laurence Harvey, actor († 1973)
1930 - Sir Richard Harris, actor
1935 - Julie Andrews, British actress and singer
1936 - Stella Stevens, actress
1946 - Tom O'Brien, American author
1949 - Isaac Bonewits, American author
1950 - Randy Quaid, actor
1954 - Martin Strel, Slovene ultra marathon swimmer
1963 - Mark McGwire, American baseball player

Deaths

1404 - Pope Boniface IX
1684 - Pierre Corneille, French author
1864 - Rose Greenhow, Confederate spy
1876 - James Lick, California land baron
1901 - Abdur Rahman Khan, Afghan amir
1929 - Antoine Bourdelle, sculptor
1946 - Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Austrian SS officer
1955 - Charles Christie, pioneer film studio owner in Hollywood
1980 - George Meany, American trade union leader
1985 - E.B. White, American author
1992 - Petra Kelly, German Green politician

Holidays and observances

Nigeria - National Day
Tuvalu - Independence Day
People's Republic of China - National Day
In San Marino, two captain regents, elected by parliament, take office for six months.
Saint Thérèse de Lisieux

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