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October 1
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October 1
Events
331 BC
–
Alexander the Great
defeats
Darius III of Persia
in the
Battle of Gaugamela
.
959
–
Edgar the Peaceful
becomes king of all England.
1553
– Coronation of Queen
Mary I of England
.
1787
– Russians under
Alexander Suvorov
defeat the Turks
at Kinburn
.
1791
– First session of the French
Legislative Assembly
.
1795
–
Belgium
is conquered by France.
1800
–
Spain
cedes
Louisiana
to France via the
Treaty of San Ildefonso
.
1811
– The first
steamboat
to sail the
Mississippi River
arrives in
New Orleans
.
1814
– Opening of the
Congress of Vienna
, intended to redraw Europe's political map after the defeat of
Napoleon
the previous spring.
1827
–
Russo-Persian War
: The Russian army under
Ivan Paskevich
storms
Yerevan
, ending a millennium of Muslim domination in
Armenia
.
1829
–
South African College
is founded in
Cape Town
, South Africa; it will later separate into the
University of Cape Town
and the
South African College Schools
.
1832
–
Texian
political delegates
convened
at
San Felipe de Austin
to petition for changes in the governance of
Mexican Texas
.
1843
– The
News of the World
tabloid begins publication in London.
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
.
1880
–
John Philip Sousa
becomes leader of the
United States Marine Band
.
1880 – First electric lamp factory is opened by
Thomas Edison
.
1887
–
Balochistan
is conquered by the
British Empire
.
1890
–
Yosemite National Park
is established by the
U.S. Congress
.
1891
– In
California
,
Stanford University
opens its doors.
1898
– The
Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration
is founded under the name
k.u.k. Exportakademie
.
1903
–
Baseball
: The
Boston Americans
play the
Pittsburgh Pirates
in the first game of the modern
World Series
.
1905
– František Pavlík is killed in a demonstration in
Prague
, inspiring
Leoš Janácek
to the piano composition
1. X. 1905
.
1908
–
Ford
puts the
Model T
car on the market at a price of US$825.
1910
–
Los Angeles Times bombing
: A large bomb destroys the
Los Angeles Times
building in downtown
Los Angeles
, killing 21.
1918
–
World War I
:
Arab
forces under
T. E. Lawrence
, also known as "Lawrence of Arabia", capture
Damascus
.
1920
– Sir
Percy Cox
lands in
Basra
to assume his responsibilities as
High Commissioner
in
Iraq
.
1928
– The
Soviet Union
introduces its
First five-year plan
.
1931
– The
George Washington Bridge
linking
New Jersey
and New York opens.
1931 –
Spain
adopted
women's suffrage
.
1936
–
Francisco Franco
is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain.
1937
– The Japanese city
Handa
is founded in
Aichi Prefecture
.
1938
– Germany annexes the
Sudetenland
.
1939
– After a one-month
Siege of Warsaw
, hostile Nazi forces enter the city.
1940
– The
Pennsylvania Turnpike
, often considered the first
superhighway
in the United States, opens to traffic.
1942
– torpedoes
Lisbon Maru
not knowing she is carrying British
PoWs
from Hong Kong
1942 – First flight of the
Bell
XP-59
"Aircomet".
1943
–
World War II
:
Naples
falls to
Allied
soldiers.
1946
–
Nazi
leaders are sentenced at
Nuremberg trials
.
1946 –
Daegu October Incident
occurs in
Allied occupied Korea
.
1946 –
Mensa International
is founded in the UK.
1947
– The
North American F-86 Sabre
flies for the first time.
1949
– The People's Republic of China is established and declared by
Mao Zedong
.
1955
–
The Honeymooners
premiered on American television.
1957
– First appearance of
In God we trust
on U.S. paper currency.
1958
–
NASA
is created to replace
NACA
.
1960
–
Nigeria
gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1961
– The United States
Defense Intelligence Agency
(DIA) is formed, becoming the country's first centralized military espionage organization.
1961 – East and West Cameroon merge to form the
Federal Republic of Cameroon
.
1962
– First broadcast of
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
.
1964
– The
Free Speech Movement
is launched on the campus of
University of California, Berkeley
.
1964 – Japanese
Shinkansen
("bullet trains") begin high-speed rail service from Tokyo to
Osaka
.
1965
– General
Suharto
puts down an apparent coup attempt by the
30 September Movement
in Indonesia.
1966
–
West Coast Airlines Flight 956
crashes with eighteen fatalities and no survivors 5.5 miles south of
Wemme, Oregon
. This accident marks the first loss of a
DC-9
.
1968
– The
Guyanese
government takes over the British Guiana Broadcasting Service (BGBS).
1969
–
Concorde
breaks the
sound barrier
for the first time.
1971
–
Walt Disney World
opens near
Orlando, Florida
, United States.
1971 – The first brain-scan using
x-ray computed tomography
(CT or CAT scan) is performed at
Atkinson Morley Hospital
in
Wimbledon, London
.
1975
– The
Seychelles
gain internal self-government. 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
,
Philippines
.
1975 –
Al Jackson, Jr.
(
Booker T. & the M.G.'s
), was shot fatally five times in the back in his own home.
1978
–
Tuvalu
gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1978 – The
Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party
is founded.
1979
–
Pope John Paul II
begins his first pastoral visit to the United States.
1979 – The
MTR
, the
rapid transit
railway system in Hong Kong, opens.
1979 – The 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
opens at
Walt Disney World
near
Orlando, Florida
, United States.
1982 –
Sony
launches the first consumer
compact disc
player (model
CDP-101
).
1985
– The
Israeli Air Force
bombs
Palestine Liberation Organization
Headquarters in
Tunis
.
1987
– The 5.9
Mw
Whittier Narrows earthquake
shakes the
San Gabriel Valley
with a
Mercalli intensity
of VIII (
Severe
).
1989
– Denmark introduces the world's first legal modern same-sex
civil union
called "registered partnership".
1991
– The
Siege of Dubrovnik
begins.
1992
–
Cartoon Network
begins broadcasting.
1994
–
Palau
gains independence from the
United Nations
(
trusteeship
administered by the United States of America).
2001
–
Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly attack
in which
Jaish-e-Mohammed
militants used a
Tata Sumo
vehicle loaded with explosives to attack the state legislature building in Srinagar, Kashmir, killing 38.
2009
– The
Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
takes over the
judicial functions of the House of Lords
.
2012
– A
ferry collision
off the coast of Hong Kong kills 38 people and injures 102 others.
2014
– A
series of explosions
at a gunpowder plant in the village of
Gorni Lom
in Northwestern
Bulgaria
completely destroys the factory, killing 15 people.
2015
–
Umpqua Community College shooting
: a gunman kills 9 people at a community college in
Roseburg, Oregon
.
2015 – Heavy rains triggered a major
landslide
in the village of El Cambray Dos within
Santa Catarina Pinula
, killing 280 people.
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