October 1

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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 the Peaceable 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 Legislative 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
1854 - The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts to become the Waltham Watch Company pioneer in the American System of Watch Manufacturing.
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 United States Congress
1891 - In California, Stanford University open its doors
1898 - Czar Nicholas II expels Jews 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 the United Kingdom
1960 - Cyprus gains independence from the United Kingdom
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.
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
1975 - Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila.
1977 - Brazilian soccer star Pel� 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
1985 - Bombing of the PLO Headquarters in Tunis by the Israeli air force. [[
1988 - Mikhail Gorbachev named head of the Supreme Soviet
1998 - ICANN assumes responsibility for selling top-level domain names.
2004 - Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki gets his 258th hit of the season, breaking George Sisler's 84-year-old single-season record.

Births

1207 - Henry III of England (d. 1272)
1760 - William Thomas Beckford, writer, politician (d. 1844)
1865 - Paul Dukas, French composer (d. 1935)
1881 - William Boeing, engineer (d. 1956)
1885 - Louis Untermeyer, author (d. 1977)
1876 - Huynh Thuc Khang, Vietnamese politician
1878 - Othmar Spann, Austrian philosopher and economist (d. 1950)
1890 - Stanley Holloway, British actor
1896 - Liaquat Ali Khan, first Prime Minister of Pakistan, (d. 1951)
1903 - Vladimir Horowitz, pianist (d. 1989)
1904 - Otto Robert Frisch, Austrian physicist
1909 - Sam Yorty, former mayor of Los Angeles, California (d. 1998)
1910 - Bonnie Parker, American outlaw (d. 1934)
1920 - Walter Matthau, American actor (d. 2000)
1921 - James Whitmore, actor
1924 - Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States
1924 - William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States
1926 - Roger Williams, pianist
1927 - Tom Bosley, actor
1928 - George Peppard, American actor (d. 1994)
1928 - Laurence Harvey, actor (d. 1973)
1930 - Sir Richard Harris, actor (d. 2002)
1935 - Julie Andrews, British actress and singer
1936 - Stella Stevens, actress
1945 - Rod Carew, American baseball player
1946 - Tom O'Brien, American author
1947 - Stephen Collins, actor
1948 - Cub Koda, lead singer, Brownsville Station
1949 - Isaac Bonewits, American author
1950 - Randy Quaid, actor
1954 - Martin Strel, Slovene ultra marathon swimmer
1962 - Esai Morales, actor
1963 - Mark McGwire, American baseball player
1985 - Dizzee Rascal, British hip hop artist

Deaths

1040 - Duke Alan III, Duke of Brittany, poisoned (b. 997)
1404 - Pope Boniface IX (b. c. 1350)
1684 - Pierre Corneille, French author (b. 1606)
1864 - Rose Greenhow, Confederate spy (b. 1817)
1876 - James Lick, California land baron (b. 1796)
1901 - Abdur Rahman Khan, Afghan amir (b. c. 1844)
1929 - Antoine Bourdelle, sculptor (b. 1861)
1955 - Charles Christie, pioneer film studio owner in Hollywood (b. 1880)
1980 - George Meany, American trade union leader (b. 1894)
1985 - E.B. White, American author (b. 1899)
1992 - Petra Kelly, German Green politician (b. 1947)

Holidays and observances

Nigeria - National Day
Tuvalu - Independence Day
People's Republic of China - National Day
In San Marino, two Captains Regent, elected by parliament, take office for six months.
Saint Th�r�se de Lisieux
Saint Bavo

September 30 - October 2 - September 1 - November 1 - more historical anniversaries

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