In October 1 is the 274th day of the year (275th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 91 days remaining until the end of the year.
Holidays
- The National Day (China)
- Armed Forces Day (South Korea)
- Children’s Day (El Salvador, Guatemala, Sri Lanka)
- Christian feast day:
- Day of Prosecutors (Azerbaijan)
- Earliest day on which Children’s Day can fall, while October 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Monday of October. (Chile, Singapore)
- Earliest day on which Teacher’s Day can fall, while October 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Sunday of October. (Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Ukraine)
- Earliest day on which World Habitat Day can fall, while October 7 is the latest; celebrated on the first Monday of October. (International)
- Ground Forces Day (Russia)
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Cyprus from United Kingdom in 1960.
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Nigeria from United Kingdom in 1960.
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Palau from the UN Trust Territory status in 1994.
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Tuvalu from United Kingdom in 1978.
- International Day of Older Persons
- Lincolnshire Day (United Kingdom)
- National Day of the People’s Republic of China (People’s Republic of China)
- Pancasila Sanctity Day (Indonesia)
- Teacher’s Day (Uzbekistan)
- Unification Day (Cameroon)
History
In 331 BC, Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela.
In 959, Edgar the Peaceable becomes king of all England.
In 1189, Gerard de Ridefort, grandmaster of the Knights Templar since 1184, is killed in the Siege of Acre.
In 1207, Henry III of England was born (d. 1272)
In 1553,Coronation of Queen Mary I of England.
In 1730, Richard Stockton, American lawyer and politician, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence was born (d. 1781)
In 1787, Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.
In 1791, First session of the French Legislative Assembly.
In 1795, Belgium is conquered by France.
In 1800– Spain cedes Louisiana to France via the Treaty of San Ildefonso.
In 1811, The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River arrives in New Orleans, Louisiana.
In 1814, Opening of the Congress of Vienna, intended to redraw Europe‘s political map after the defeat of Napoléon the previous spring.
In 1827, Russo-Persian War: The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination in Armenia.
In 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.
In 1832, Texian political delegates convened at San Felipe de Austin to petition for changes in the governance of Mexican Texas.
In 1843, The News of the World tabloid begins publication in London.
In 1847, German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens AG & Halske.
In 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.
In 1880, John Philip Sousa becomes leader of the United States Marine Band.
In 1880, First electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison.
In 1881, William Boeing, American engineer and businessman, founded the Boeing Company was born (d. 1956)
In 1887, Balochistan is conquered by the British Empire.
In 1890, Yosemite National Park is established by the U.S. Congress.
In 1891, In the U.S. state of California, Stanford University opens its doors.
In 1898, The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.
In 1903, Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
In 1905, František Pavlík is killed in a demonstration in Prague, inspiring Leoš Janáček to the piano composition 1. X. 1905.
In 1908, Ford puts the Model T car on the market at a price of US$825.
In 1910, Los Angeles Times bombing: A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles, California, killing 21.
In 1918, World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence, also known as “Lawrence of Arabia” capture Damascus.
In 1920, Sir Percy Cox lands in Basra to assume his responsibilities as high commissioner in Iraq.
In 1928, The Soviet Union introduces its First Five-Year Plan.
In 1931, The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opens.
In 1936, Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain.
In 1937, The Japanese city Handa is founded in Aichi Prefecture.
In 1938, Germany annexes the Sudetenland.
In 1939, After a one-month Siege of Warsaw, hostile Nazi forces enter the city.
In 1940, The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic.
In 1942, USS Grouper torpedoes Lisbon Maru not knowing she is carrying British PoWs from Hong Kong
In 1942, First flight of the Bell XP-59 “Aircomet”.
In 1943, World War II: Naples falls to Allied soldiers.
In 1945, Spider Sabich, American skier was born (d. 1976)
In 1946, Nazi leaders are sentenced at Nuremberg Trials.
In 1946, Daegu October Incident occurs in Allied occupied Korea.
In 1946, Mensa International is founded in the United Kingdom.
In 1947, The North American F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.
In 1949, The People’s Republic of China is established and declared by Mao Zedong.
In 1957, First appearance of In God We Trust on U.S. paper currency.
In 1958, NASA is created to replace NACA.
In 1959, The 10th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China is celebrated with pomp across the country.
In 1960, Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom.
In 1961, The United States Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is formed, becoming the country’s first centralized military espionage organization.
In 1961, East and West Cameroon merge to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon.
In 1962, First broadcast of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
In 1964, The Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of University of California, Berkeley.
In 1964, Japanese Shinkansen (“bullet trains”) begin high-speed rail service from Tokyo to Osaka.
In 1965, General Suharto puts down an apparent coup attempt by the 30 September Movement in Indonesia.
In 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.
In 1968, The Guyanese government takes over the British Guiana Broadcasting Service (BGBS).
In 1969, Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
In 1971, Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida, United States.
In 1971, The first brain-scan using x-ray computed tomography (CT or CAT scan) is performed at Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon, London.
In 1975, The Seychelles gain internal self-government. The Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands and take the name Tuvalu.
In 1975, Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines.
In 1978, Tuvalu gains independence from the United Kingdom.
In 1978, The Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party is founded.
In 1979, Pope John Paul II begins his first pastoral visit to the United States.
In 1979, The MTR, the rapid transit railway system in Hong Kong, opens.
In 1979, The United States returns sovereignty of the Panama canal to Panama.
In 1982, Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a Constructive Vote of No Confidence.
In 1982, EPCOT Center opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
In 1982, Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101).
In 1985, The Israeli Air Force bombs Palestine Liberation Organization Headquarters in Tunis.
In 1987, The Whittier Narrows earthquake shakes the San Gabriel Valley, registering as magnitude 5.9.
In 1989, Denmark introduces the world’s first legal modern same-sex civil union called “registered partnership”.
In 1991, The Siege of Dubrovnik begins.
In 1992, Cartoon Network begins broadcasting.
In 1994, Palau gains independence from the United Nations (trusteeship administered by the United States of America).
In 2009,– The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom takes over the judicial functions of the House of Lords.
In 2012, A ferry collision off the coast of Hong Kong kills 38 people and injures 102 others.
In 2013, Tom Clancy, American author (b. 1947) dies at Johns Hopkins Hospital, near his Baltimore home. The Chicago Tribune quoted Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stephen Hunter as saying, “When he published The Hunt for Red October, he redefined and expanded the genre and as a consequence of that, many people were able to publish such books who had previously been unable to do so.” John D. Gresham, a co-author and researcher with Clancy on several books, attributed Clancy’s death to heart problems: “Five or six years ago Tom suffered a heart attack and he went through bypass surgery. It wasn’t that he had another heart attack, his heart just wore out.” Clancy was an American novelist best known for his technically detailed espionage and military-sciencestorylines set during and after the Cold War. Seventeen of his novels were bestsellers, and more than 100 million copies of his books are in print. His name was also used on movie scripts written by ghostwriters, nonfiction books on military subjects, and video games. He was a part-owner of the Baltimore Orioles and vice-chairman of their community activities and public affairs committees.
Clancy’s literary career began in 1984 when he sold The Hunt for Red October for $5,000. His works The Hunt for Red October (1984), Patriot Games (1987), Clear and Present Danger (1989), and The Sum of All Fears (1991) have been turned into commercially successful films. Actors Alec Baldwin, Harrison Ford, Ben Affleck, Chris Pine, and John Krasinski have played Clancy’s most famous fictional character, Jack Ryan. Another well-known character of his, John Clark, has been portrayed by actors Willem Dafoe and Liev Schreiber. Tom Clancy’s works also inspired games such as the Ghost Recon, Rainbow Six, and Splinter Cell series. Clancy died on October 1, 2013. Since his death, his Jack Ryan series has been continued by his family estate through a series of authors.
In 2013, The United States federal government shutdown of 2013 begins. Yes finally !!!!!
In 2014, A series of explosions at a gunpowder plant in Bulgaria completely destroys the factory, killing 15 people.
In 2015, A gunman kills nine people at a community college in Oregon.
In 2015, Heavy rains trigger a major landslide in Guatemala, killing 280 people.
In 2017, An independence referendum, declared illegal by the Constitutional Court of Spain, takes place in Catalonia.
In 2017, Fifty-eight people are killed and 851 others injured in a mass shooting on a music festival in Las Vegas. The gunman commits suicide when police locate him.