October 1

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

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.
1886 - U.S. miknt in Carson City,Nevada closes.
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
1983 - Horizons (closed 1999) pavilion opens at one-year anniversary of EPCOT Center.
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)
1730 - Richard Stockton, attorney,signer of the Daclaration of Independence
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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