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.
[edit ] Events
331 BC – Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela .
959 – Edgar the Peaceable becomes king of all England .
1189 – Gerard de Ridefort , grandmaster of the Knights Templar since 1184 , is killed in the Siege of Acre .
1787 – Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn .
1791 – First session of the French Legislative Assembly .
1795 – Belgium is conquered by France .
1800 – Spain cedes Louisiana to France via the Treaty of San Ildefonso .
1811 – The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River arrives in New Orléans, Louisiana .
1814 – Opening of the Congress of Vienna , intended to redraw the Europe 's political map after the defeat of Napoléon the previous spring.
1827 – The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan , ending a millennium of Muslim domination in Armenia .
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 .
1843 – The News of the World tabloid began publication in London .
1847 – German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens AG & Halske.
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 Band .
1880 – First electric lamp factory opened by Thomas Edison .
1887 – Balochistan conquered by the British Empire .
1890 – The Yosemite National Park and the Yellowstone National Park are established by the U.S. Congress .
1891 – In the U.S. state of California , Stanford University opens its doors.
1898 – Czar Nikolay 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 – Baseball : The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series .
1905 – František Pavlík is killed in a demonstration in Prague , inspiring Leoš Janáček to the piano composition 1. X. 1905 .
1908 – Ford puts the Model T car on the market at a price of US$825.
1910 – Los Angeles Times bombing : A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles, California , killing 21.
1918 – World War I : Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence (a/k/a "Lawrence of Arabia") capture Damascus .
1920 – Sir Percy Cox landed in Basra to assume his responsibilities as high commissioner in Iraq .
1926 – An oil field accident cost aviator Wiley Post his left eye, but he used the settlement money to buy his first aircraft.
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 .
1937 – The Japanese city Handa is founded in Aichi Prefecture .
1938 – Germany annexes the Sudetenland .
1939 – After a one-month Siege of Warsaw , hostile forces entered the city.
1940 – The Pennsylvania Turnpike , often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic.
1942 – USS Grouper torpedoes Lisbon Maru not knowing she is carrying British PoWs from Hong Kong
1942 – First flight of the Bell XP-59 "Aircomet".
1943 – World War II : Naples falls to Allied soldiers.
1946 – Nazi leaders sentenced at Nuremberg Trials .
1946 – Mensa International is founded in the United Kingdom .
1947 – The F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.
1949 – The People's Republic of China is declared by Mao Zedong .
1957 – First appearance of "In God We Trust " on U.S. paper currency.
1958 – NASA created to replace NACA .
1960 – Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom .
1961 – East and West Cameroon merge as Federal Republic of Cameroon .
1962 – First broadcast of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
1964 – The Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of University of California, Berkeley .
1964 – Japanese Shinkansen ("bullet trains") begin high-speed rail service from Tokyo to Osaka .
1965 – Apostasia of 1965 , a political move in Greece designed to overthrow the Prime Minister, George Papandreou .
1965 – General Suharto crushes an attempted coup in Indonesia .
1966 – West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with eighteen fatal injuries and no survivors 5.5 miles south of Wemme, Oregon . This accident marks the first loss of a DC-9 .
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 near Orlando, Florida , United States .
1975 – The Seychelles gain internal self-government. 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 , Philippines .
1978 – Tuvalu gains independence from the United Kingdom .
1978 – The Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party is founded.
1979 – The 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 near Orlando, Florida , United States .
1982 – Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101 ).
1985 – The Israeli air force bombs PLO Headquarters in Tunis .
1987 – The Whittier Narrows earthquake shook the San Gabriel Valley , registering as a magnitude 5.9.
1989 – Denmark : World's first legal modern same-sex civil union called "registered partnership"
1991 – New Zealand 's Resource Management Act 1991 commences.
1992 – Turkish destroyer TCG Muavenet (DM-357) crippled causing 27 deaths and injuries, by missiles negligently launched by U.S. aircraft carrier USS Saratoga .
1994 – Palau gains independence from the United Nations (trusteeship administered by the United States of America ).
1998 – Vladimir Putin became a permanent member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation .
2001 The descent of the King of Pop album Michael Jackson Invincible
[edit ] Births
1207 – King Henry III of England (d. 1272)
1507 – Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola , Italian architect (d. 1573)
1540 – Johann Jakob Grynaeus , Swiss Protestant clergyman (d. 1617)
1577 – Fidelis of Sigmaringen , Swiss friar, martyr, and saint (d. 1622)
1620 – Nicolaes Pieterszoon Berchem , Dutch painter (d. 1683)
1644 – Alessandro Stradella , Italian composer (d. 1682)
1671 – Guido Grandi , Italian mathematician (d. 1742)
1685 – Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1740)
1691 – Arthur Onslow , English politician (d. 1768)
1730 – Richard Stockton , American attorney, signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1781)
1760 – William Thomas Beckford , English writer and politician (d. 1844)
1771 – Pierre Baillot , French violinist and composer (d. 1842)
1791 – Sergei Aksakov , Russian writer (d. 1859)
1800 – Lars Levi Laestadius , Swedish-born botanist and founder of Laestadianism (d. 1861)
1835 – Ádám Politzer , Austrian physician (d. 1920)
1842 – Charles Cros , French poet and inventor (d. 1888)
1847 – Annie Besant , Theosophist and women's rights activist (d. 1933)
1865 – Paul Dukas , French composer (d. 1935)
1870 – Josiah Edward Spurr , American Geologist (d. 1950)
1878 – Othmar Spann , Austrian philosopher and economist (d. 1950)
1881 – William Boeing , American engineer (d. 1956)
1885 – Louis Untermeyer , American author (d. 1977)
1890 – Stanley Holloway , British actor (d. 1982)
1893 – Cliff Friend , American songwriter (d. 1974)
1893 – Yip Man , Martial Arts Master (d. 1972)
1896 – Ted Healy , American actor and comedian (d. 1937)
1899 – Ernest Haycox , American writer (d. 1950)
1900 – Tom Goddard , English cricketer (d. 1966)
1903 – Vladimir Horowitz , Ukrainian-American pianist (d. 1989)
1904 – Otto Robert Frisch , Austrian-born physicist (d. 1979)
1904 – A.K. Gopalan , Indian communist leader (d. 1977)
1907 – Ödön Pártos , Hungarian-Israeli violist and composer (d. 1977)
1909 – Maurice Bardèche , French fascist, (d. 1998)
1909 – Sam Yorty , Mayor of Los Angeles (d. 1998)
1910 – Bonnie Parker , American Outlaw Bonnie and Clyde (d. 1934)
1910 – Fritz Köberle , Austrian-born physician (d. 1983)
1910 – José Enrique Moyal , Australian mathematical physicist (d. 1998)
1912 – Kathleen Ollerenshaw , British mathematician
1913 – Helio Gracie , Martial Arts Master (d. 2009)
1914 – Daniel J. Boorstin , American historian, writer, and Librarian of Congress (d. 2004)
1917 – Cahal Daly , Cardinal Archbishop of Armagh (d. 2009)
1920 – Walter Matthau , American actor (d. 2000)
1921 – James Whitmore , American actor (d. 2009)
1922 – Kim Ki-young , South Korean film director (d. 1998)
1924 – Jimmy Carter , 39th President of the United States , recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1924 – William Rehnquist , 16th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 2005)
1925 – Bob Boyd , American baseball player (d. 2004)
1926 – Roger Williams , American pianist
1927 – Tom Bosley , American actor
1927 – Sandy Gall , Malaysian-born British journalist and newscaster
1928 – Laurence Harvey , Lithuanian-born actor (d. 1973)
1928 – George Peppard , American actor (d. 1994)
1928 – Willy Mairesse , Belgian racing driver (d. 1969)
1928 – Zhu Rongji , Chinese politician
1928 – Sivaji Ganesan , Indian Tamil actor (d. 2001)
1929 – Ken Arthurson , Australian rugby league identity
1930 – Frank Gardner , Australian racing driver
1930 – Richard Harris , Irish actor (d. 2002)
1930 – Naimatullah Khan , Pakistani politician
1930 – Philippe Noiret , French actor (d. 2006)
1931 – Sylvano Bussotti , Italian composer
1932 – Albert Collins , American guitarist (d. 1993)
1935 – Julie Andrews , British actress and singer
1935 – Petros Fyssoun , Greek actor
1936 – Duncan Edwards , English footballer (d. 1958)
1936 – Stella Stevens , American actress
1939 – George Archer , American golfer (d. 2005)
1939 – Geoffrey Whitehead , English actor
1942 – Jean-Pierre Jabouille , French race car driver
1943 – Jean-Jacques Annaud , French film director
1943 – Angèle Arsenault , Canadian singer and songwriter
1943 – Jerry Martini , American saxophonist (Sly & the Family Stone )
1945 – Rod Carew , Panamanian-born baseball player
1945 – Donny Hathaway , American soul musician and composer (d. 1979)
1945 – Ellen McIlwaine , American singer/songwriter
1945 – Spider Sabich , American skier (d. 1976)
1946 – Tim O'Brien , American writer
1947 – Aaron Ciechanover , Israeli biologist
1947 – Stephen Collins , American actor
1947 – Adriano Tilgher , Italian politician
1947 – Mariska Veres , Dutch singer (Shocking Blue ) (d. 2006)
1948 – Cub Koda , American singer (Brownsville Station ) (d. 2000)
1949 – Isaac Bonewits , American author
1950 – Randy Quaid , American actor
1950 – Jeane Manson , American singer and actress
1950 – Elpida , Greek singer and Eurovision contestant (Sokrati , Tora Zo )
1952 – Jacques Martin , Canadian ice hockey coach and executive
1953 – John Hegley , British poet
1953 – Pete Falcone , American baseball player
1953 – Grete Waitz , Norwegian athlete
1954 – Martin Strel , Slovenian swimmer
1955 – Howard Hewett , R & B Singer
1956 – Theresa May , British politician
1957 – Stelios Mainas , Greek actor
1958 – Masato Nakamura , Japanese musician
1959 – Youssou N'Dour , Senegalese singer
1961 – Gary Ablett , Australian rules footballer
1961 – Robert Rey , Brazilian-American plastic surgeon and television personality
1961 – Rico Constantino , American professional wrestler
1961 – Corrie van Zyl , former South African cricketer
1962 – Esai Morales , American actor
1962 – Paul Walsh , English footballer
1963 – Jean-Denis Délétraz , Swiss race car driver
1963 – Mark McGwire , American baseball player
1964 – Harry Hill , British comedian
1964 – Max Matsuura , Japanese record producer
1964 – Jonathan Sarfati , Australian-born chess player, scientist, and author
1965 – Andreas Keller , German field hockey player
1965 – Cindy Margolis , American model and spokesmodel
1965 – Cliff Ronning , Canadian ice hockey player
1965 – Ted King , American actor
1965 – Chris Reason , Australian journalist
1966 – Christopher Titus , American actor/comedian
1966 – George Weah , Liberian politician and footballer
1966 – Cuco Ziganda , Spanish footballer
1967 – Scott Young , American ice hockey player
1967 – Mike Pringle , American football player
1968 – Jon Guenther , American author
1968 – Rob Collard , British racing driver
1969 – Igor Ulanov , Russian hockey player
1969 – Zach Galifianakis , American comedian and actor
1969 – Ori Kaplan , Israeli jazz musician
1969 – Marcus Stephen , Nauruan weightlifter and politician, current President of Nauru
1970 – Gam Wu-seong , South Korean actor
1970 – Jung Joon-ho , South Korean actor and singer
1970 – Simon Davey , Barnsley football manager
1970 – Alexei Zhamnov , Russian ice hockey player
1971 – Andrew O'Keefe , Australian television personality
1971 – Song Il Gook , Korean actor
1971 – Gigi Lai , Hong Kong actress
1972 – Jean Paulo Fernandes , Brazilian footballer
1972 – Ronen Altman Kaydar , Israeli Author
1973 – Jana Henke , German swimmer
1973 – Rachid Chékhémani , French runner
1973 – John Thomson , American baseball player
1974 – Mats Lindgren , Swedish ice hockey player
1974 – Christian Borle , American actor
1974 – Keith Duffy , Irish singer (Boyzone ) and actor
1974 – Sherri Saum , American actress
1975 – Chulpan Khamatova , Russian actress
1975 – Zoltán Sebescen , German footballer
1975 – Kim Suna , Korean actress
1976 – Antonio Roybal , American painter and sculptor
1976 – Denis Gauthier , Canadian hockey player
1976 – Dora Venter , Hungarian pornographic film actress
1976 – Ümit Karan , Turkish footballer
1977 – Jeffrey van Hooydonk , Belgian race car driver
1978 – Andrew JC Jackson , Australian surf lifesaver
1978 – Leticia Cline , American model and TV Personality
1979 – Cameron Bruce , Australian rules footballer
1979 – Rudi Johnson , American football player
1979 – Gilberto Martínez , Costa Rican footballer
1979 – Marko Stanojevic , English-born Italian rugby union footballer
1980 – Antonio Narciso , Italian footballer
1981 – Júlio Baptista , Brazilian footballer
1981 – Rupert Friend , British actor
1981 – Johnny Oduya , Swedish ice hockey player
1981 – Arnau Riera , Spanish footballer
1982 – Haruna Babangida , Nigerian footballer
1982 – Sandra Oxenryd , Swedish singer
1983 – Mirko Vučinić , Montenegrin footballer
1983 – Ashley Green , Yorkshire Author/Comic
1984 – Matt Cain , American baseball player
1984 – Daniel Guillén , Spanish footballer
1985 – Ryo Miyamori , Japanese singer
1985 – Nazimuddin Ahmed , Bangladeshi cricketer
1985 – Revazi Zintiridis , Greek judoka
1985 – Dizzee Rascal , English
1985 – Tim Deasy , English footballer
1986 – Justin Westhoff , Australian rules footballer
1986 – Jurnee Smollett , American actress
1986 – Sayaka , Japanese singer
1986 – Ricardo Vaz Tê , Portuguese footballer
1987 – Hiroki Aiba , Japanese actor, singer
1987 – Lionel Ainsworth , English footballer
1988 – Cariba Heine , Australian actress
1990 – Charlie Mcdonnell , English videoblogger
1997 – Sam Verlinden , Child singer and actor
[edit ] Deaths
959 – King Edwy of England
1040 – Alan III, Duke of Brittany (poisoned) (b. 997)
1189 – Gerard de Ridefort , grandmaster of the Knights Templar
1310 – Beatrice of Burgundy , Lady of Bourbon (b. 1257)
1404 – Pope Boniface IX (b. 1356)
1499 – Marsilio Ficino , Italian philosopher (b. 1433)
1500 – John Alcock , English Catholic bishop
1567 – Pietro Carnesecchi , Italian humanist (b. 1508)
1570 – Frans Floris , Flemish painter (b. 1520)
1574 – Marten Jacobszoon Heemskerk van Veen , Dutch painter (b. 1498)
1578 – Don John of Austria , military leader (b. 1547)
1588 – Blessed Edward James , Catholic martyr
1602 – Hernando de Cabezón , Spanish composer (b. 1541)
1609 – Gianmatteo Asola , Italian composer
1684 – Pierre Corneille , French author (b. 1606)
1693 – Pedro Abarca , Spanish theologian (b. 1619)
1708 – John Blow , British composer (b. 1649)
1768 – Robert Simson , Scottish mathematician (b. 1687)
1837 – Robert Clark , American politician (b. 1777)
1838 – Charles Tennant , Scottish chemist and industrialist (b. 1768)
1864 – Rose Greenhow , American Confederate spy (b. 1817)
1876 – James Lick , California land baron (b. 1796)
1885 – John Light Atlee , American physician and surgeon (b. 1799)
1901 – Abdur Rahman Khan , Afghan amir
1913 – Eugene O'Keefe , Canadian businessman and philanthropist (b. 1827)
1919 – Princess Charlotte of Prussia (b. 1860)
1929 – Antoine Bourdelle , French sculptor (b. 1861)
1942 – Ants Piip , Estonian Prime Minister (b. 1884)
1955 – Charles Christie , American film studio owner (b. 1880)
1958 – Robert Falk , Russian painter (b. 1886)
1959 – Enrico de Nicola , 1st President of the Italian Republic (b. 1877)
1970 – Raoul Riganti , Argentine racing driver (b. 1893)
1974 – Spyridon Marinatos , Greek archaeologist (b. 1901)
1975 – Al Jackson, Jr. , American drummer (Booker T. & the M.G.'s ) (b. 1935)
1984 – Walter Alston , American baseball player and manager (b. 1911)
1985 – E. B. White , American author (b. 1899)
1986 – Archie League , generally considered the first air traffic controller (b. 1907)
1988 – Sacheverell Sitwell , English writer (b. 1897)
1990 – Curtis LeMay , American Air Force general (b. 1906)
1992 – Petra Kelly , German politician (b. 1947)
1994 – Paul Lorenzen , German philosopher (b. 1915)
1996 – Pat McGeown , Provisional Irish Republican Army member (b. 1956)
1997 – Jerome H. Lemelson , American inventor (b. 1923)
1998 – Pauline Julien , French Canadian singer (b. 1928)
1999 – Lena Zavaroni , Scottish singer and Child star (b. 1963)
2000 – Robert Allen , American pianist and songwriter (b. 1928)
2000 – Reginald Kray , British gangster (b. 1933)
2001 – Guy Beaulne , French-Canadian actor and theatre director (b. 1921)
2001 – Kathleen Ankers , American scenic designer (b. 1919)
2002 – Walter Annenberg , American publisher and philanthropist (b. 1908)
2004 – Richard Avedon , American photographer (b. 1923)
2004 – Bruce Palmer , Canadian musician (Buffalo Springfield ) (b. 1946)
2006 – Jerald Tanner , American religious activist (b. 1938)
2006 – André Viger , French Canadian wheelchair marathoner (b. 1952)
2007 – Chris Mainwaring , Australian rules footballer (b. 1965)
2007 – Harry Lee , Sheriff of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana (b. 1932)
2007 – Al Oerter , American track and field athlete (b. 1936)
2007 – Ned Sherrin , English broadcaster, author and stage director (b. 1931)
2007 – Ronnie Hazlehurst , English conductor and theme song composer (b. 1928)
2008 – John Biddle , American yachting cinematographer and lecturer (b. 1925)
[edit ] Holidays and observances
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