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.