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October 1
(Redirected from 1 October)
October 1 is the 274th day of the year (275th in Leap years). There are 91 days remaining.
Events
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331 BC - Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Arbela
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959 - Edgar the Peaceable becomes king of all England
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965 - John XIII becomes Pope
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1701 - Matthieu Garigue received by French Reformed Church of The Hague
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1788 - Nguyen Hue declares himself emperor of Viet Nam
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1791 - First session of the French Legislative Assembly
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1795 - Belgium is conquered by France
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1800 - Spain cedes Louisiana to France via Treaty of San Ildefonso
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1811 - First steamboat to sail the Mississippi arrives in New Orleans
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1814 - Opening of the Congress of Vienna, intended to redraw the Europe's political map after the defeat of Napoleon the previous spring.
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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.
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1869 - Austria issues the world's first postcards
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1880 - John Philip Sousa becomes leader of the United States Marine Corps Band
- 1880 - First electric lamp factory opened by Thomas Edison
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1885 - United States begins special-delivery mail service.
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1887 - Baluchistan conquered by the British Empire
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1890 - Yosemite National Park established by Congress
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1891 - In California, Stanford University opens its doors
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1898 - Czar Nicholas II expels Jews from major Russian cities
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1898 - The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.
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1903 - The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern baseball World Series.
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1908 - Ford introduces the Model T car
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1910 - A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles, California, killing 20.
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1918 - Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence (aka "Lawrence of Arabia") capture Damascus.
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1928 - The Soviet Union introduces its first Five-Year Plan.
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1931 - The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opens.
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1936 - Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain.
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1938 - Germany annexes Sudetenland
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1943 - World War II: Naples falls to Allied soldiers
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1946 - Nazi leaders sentenced at Nuremberg Trials
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1949 - The People's Republic of China is declared by Mao Zedong
- 1949 - First rectangular television tubes manufactured by Kimble Glass
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1957 - First appearance of "In God We Trust" on paper currency
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1958 - NASA created to replace NACA
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1959 - Acme Refrigeration incorporated by Adrian Kaiser
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1960 - Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom
- 1960 - Cyprus gains independence from the United Kingdom
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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.
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1963 - California State Board of Education created.
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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.
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1965 - General Suharto crushes an attempted coup in Indonesia.
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1968 - The Guyanese government takes over the British Guiana Broadcasting Service (BGBS).
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1969 - The Concorde supersonic transport plane breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
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1971 - Walt Disney World opens in Orlando, Florida.
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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.
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1977 - Brazilian soccer star Pelé retires
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1979 - United States returns sovereignty of the Panama canal to Panama
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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
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1985 - The Israeli air force bombs PLO Headquarters in Tunis.
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1988 - Mikhail Gorbachev is named head of the Supreme Soviet
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1998 - ICANN assumes responsibility for selling top-level domain names for the Internet.
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2004 - Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki makes his 258th hit of the season, breaking George Sisler's 84-year-old single-season record.
Births
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1207 - Henry III of England (d. 1272)
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1471 - Frederick I of Denmark (d. 1533)
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1760 - William Thomas Beckford, writer, politician (d. 1844)
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1865 - Paul Dukas, French composer (d. 1935)
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1881 - William Boeing, engineer (d. 1956)
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1885 - Louis Untermeyer, author (d. 1977)
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1876 - Huynh Thuc Khang , Vietnamese politician
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1878 - Othmar Spann, Austrian philosopher and economist (d. 1950)
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1890 - Stanley Holloway, British actor
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1896 - Liaquat Ali Khan, first Prime Minister of Pakistan, (d. 1951)
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1896 - Ted Healy (born Charles Earnest Lee Nash), actor, comedian (d. 1937)
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1900 - Tom Goddard, Gloucestershire off spinner and fifth highest first class wicket taker (d. 1966)
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1903 - Vladimir Horowitz, pianist (d. 1989)
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1904 - Otto Robert Frisch, Austrian physicist
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1909 - Sam Yorty, former mayor of Los Angeles, California (d. 1998)
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1910 - Bonnie Parker, American outlaw (d. 1934)
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1914 - Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian, writer and Librarian of Congress (d. 2004)
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1920 - Walter Matthau, American actor (d. 2000)
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1921 - James Whitmore, actor
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1924 - Jimmy Carter, 39th president of the United States
- 1924 - William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States
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1925 - Bob Boyd, Major League Baseball player (d. 2004)
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1926 - Roger Williams, pianist
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1927 - Tom Bosley, actor
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1928 - Laurence Harvey, actor (d. 1973)
- 1928 - George Peppard, American actor (d. 1994)
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1930 - Sir Richard Harris, actor (d. 2002)
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1935 - Julie Andrews, British actress and singer
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1936 - Stella Stevens, actress
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1945 - Rod Carew, American baseball player
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1946 - Tom O'Brien , American author
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1947 - Stephen Collins, actor
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1948 - Cub Koda, lead singer, Brownsville Station
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1949 - Isaac Bonewits, American author
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1950 - Randy Quaid, actor
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1954 - Martin Strel, Slovene ultra marathon swimmer
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1962 - Esai Morales, actor
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1963 - Mark McGwire, American baseball player
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1968 - Jon Guenther, American author
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1979 - Rudi Johnson, American football player
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1985 - Dizzee Rascal, British hip hop artist
Deaths
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1040 - Duke Alan III, Duke of Brittany, poisoned (b. 997)
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1404 - Pope Boniface IX (b. c. 1350)
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1684 - Pierre Corneille, French author (b. 1606)
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1768 - Robert Simson, Scottish mathematician (b. 1687)
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1708 - John Blow, British composer (born 1648)
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1864 - Rose Greenhow, Confederate spy (b. 1817)
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1876 - James Lick, California land baron (b. 1796)
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1901 - Abdur Rahman Khan, Afghan amir (b. c. 1844)
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1929 - Antoine Bourdelle, sculptor (b. 1861)
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1955 - Charles Christie, pioneer film studio owner in Hollywood (b. 1880)
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1980 - George Meany, American trade union leader (b. 1894)
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1985 - E. B. White, American author (b. 1899)
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1992 - Petra Kelly, German Green politician (b. 1947)
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2002 - Walter Annenberg, publisher and philanthropist
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2004 - Richard Avedon, American photographer (b. 1923)
Holidays and observances
External links
September 30 - October 2 - September 1 - November 1 - more historical anniversaries
Last updated: 10-13-2005 10:37:15
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