October 1

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

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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
• 1788 – Nguyen Hue declares himself emperor of Viet Nam
• 1791 – First session of the French Legislative Assembly
• 1795 – Belgium is 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
• 1814 – Opening of the Congress of Vienna, intended to redraw the Europe's political map after the defeat of Napoleon the previous spring.
• 1854 – The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts to become the Waltham Watch Company, a 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 the British Empire
• 1890 – Yosemite National Park established by Congress
• 1891 – In California, Stanford University opens its doors
• 1898 – Czar Nicholas II expels Jews from major Russian cities
• 1898 – The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.
• 1903 – The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern baseball World Series.
• 1908 – Ford introduces the Model T car
• 1910 – A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles, California, killing 20.
• 1918 – World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence (aka "Lawrence of Arabia") capture Damascus.
• 1928 – The Soviet Union introduces its first Five-Year Plan.
• 1931 – The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opens.
• 1936 – Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain.
• 1938 – Germany annexes Sudetenland
• 1943 – World War II: 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 Shinkansen (or, "bullet trains") begin high-speed rail service from Tokyo to Osaka.
• 1965 – General Suharto crushes an attempted coup in Indonesia.
• 1968 – The Guyanese government takes over the British Guiana Broadcasting Service (BGBS).
• 1969 – The Concorde supersonic transport plane breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
• 1971 – Walt Disney World opens in Orlando, Florida.
• 1975 – Seychelles gain internal self-government.
• 1975  – The Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands and take the name Tuvalu.
• 1975  – Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila.
• 1977 – Brazilian soccer star Pelé 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 – The Israeli air force bombs PLO Headquarters in Tunis.
• 1988 – Mikhail Gorbachev is named head of the Supreme Soviet
• 1998 – ICANN assumes responsibility for selling top-level domain names for the Internet.
• 2004 – Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki makes his 258th hit of the season, breaking George Sisler's 84-year-old single-season record.

Births

• 1207 – Henry III of England (d. 1272)
• 1471 – Frederick I of Denmark (d. 1533)
• 1760 – William Thomas Beckford, English writer and politician (d. 1844)
• 1865 – Paul Dukas, French composer (d. 1935)
• 1881 – William Boeing, American engineer (d. 1956)
• 1885 – Louis Untermeyer, American author (d. 1977)
• 1876 – Huynh Thuc Khang, Vietnamese politician
• 1878 – Othmar Spann, Austrian philosopher and economist (d. 1950)
• 1890 – Stanley Holloway, British actor (d. 1982)
• 1896 – Liaquat Ali Khan, first Prime Minister of Pakistan, (d. 1951)
• 1896 – Ted Healy, American actor and comedian (d. 1937)
• 1900 – Tom Goddard, English cricketer (d. 1966)
• 1903 – Vladimir Horowitz, Ukrainian pianist (d. 1989)
• 1904 – Otto Robert Frisch, Austrian-born physicist (d. 1979)
• 1909 – Sam Yorty, Mayor of Los Angeles, California (d. 1998)
• 1910 – Bonnie Parker, American outlaw (d. 1934)
• 1914 – Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian, writer, and Librarian of Congress (d. 2004)
• 1920 – Walter Matthau, American actor (d. 2000)
• 1921 – James Whitmore, American actor
• 1924 – Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States
• 1924  – William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States
• 1925 – Bob Boyd, Major League Baseball player (d. 2004)
• 1926 – Roger Williams, American pianist
• 1927 – Tom Bosley, American actor
• 1928 – Laurence Harvey, Lithuanian-born actor (d. 1973)
• 1928  – George Peppard, American actor (d. 1994)
• 1930 – Sir Richard Harris, Irish actor (d. 2002)
• 1935 – Julie Andrews, British actress and singer
• 1936 – Stella Stevens, American actress
• 1945 – Rod Carew, Panamanian baseball player
• 1946 – Tom O'Brien, American author
• 1947 – Aaron Ciechanover, Israeli biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
• 1947 – Stephen Collins, American actor
• 1948 – Cub Koda, American singer (d. 2000)
• 1949 – Isaac Bonewits, American author
• 1950 – Randy Quaid, American actor
• 1954 – Martin Strel, Slovenian swimmer
• 1962 – Esai Morales, American actor
• 1963 – Mark McGwire, baseball player
• 1968 – Jon Guenther, American author
• 1979 – Rudi Johnson, American football player
• 1985 – Dizzee Rascal, British musician

Deaths

• 1040 – Duke Alan III, Duke of Brittany (poisoned) (b. 997)
• 1404 – Pope Boniface IX
• 1499 – Marsilio Ficino, Italian philosopher (b. 1433)
• 1684 – Pierre Corneille, French author (b. 1606)
• 1768 – Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician (b. 1687)
• 1708 – John Blow, British composer (b. 1648)
• 1864 – Rose Greenhow, American Confederate spy (b. 1817)
• 1876 – James Lick, California land baron (b. 1796)
• 1901 – Abdur Rahman Khan, Afghan amir (b. c. 1844)
• 1929 – Antoine Bourdelle, French 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)
• 1988 – Sacheverell Sitwell, English writer (b. 1897)
• 1992 – Petra Kelly, German Green Party politician (b. 1947)
• 1997 – Jerome H. Lemelson, American inventor (b. 1923)
• 2002 – Walter Annenberg, publisher and philanthropist
• 2004 – Richard Avedon, American photographer (b. 1923)

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.
• Roman Catholic: Feast days of Saint Saint Thérèse de Lisieux and Saint Bavo

External links

• BBC: On This Day

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