October 1
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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 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
- 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 d'�tat|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
- 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
- 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.
See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
September 30 - October 2 - September 1 - November 1 - more historical anniversaries
References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "October 1" http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_1 October 1, 2003
