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 becomes king of all England
• 965 - John XIII[?] becomes santified as 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 Phillip 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
• 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 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. Rehnquiest[?], 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.

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