October 1st Events |
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| October 1st, 2007 (October 01 2007) | Event | Most of the Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006 came into force in the United Kingdom. | |
| October 1st, 2005 (October 01 2005) | Event | Bombing kills 23 people in Bali. | |
| October 1st, 2004 (October 01 2004) | Event | Baseball: Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki gets his 258th hit of the season, breaking George Sisler s 84-year-old single-season record. | |
| October 1st, 1998 (October 01 1998) | Event | Vladimir Putin became a permanent member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. | Vladimir Putin Quotes |
| October 1st, 1994 (October 01 1994) | Event | Palau gains independence from the United Nations trusteeship administered by the United States of America. | |
| October 1st, 1991 (October 01 1991) | Event | New Zealand s Resource Management Act 1991 commences. | |
| October 1st, 1989 (October 01 1989) | Event | Denmark: World s first legal modern same-sex civil union called "registered partnership" | |
| October 1st, 1987 (October 01 1987) | Event | The Whittier Narrows earthquake shook the San Gabriel Valley, registering as a magnitude 5.9. | |
| October 1st, 1985 (October 01 1985) | Event | The Israeli air force bombs PLO Headquarters in Tunis. | |
| October 1st, 1982 (October 01 1982) | Event | Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a Constructive Vote of No Confidence. | |
| October 1st, 1982 (October 01 1982) | Event | EPCOT Center opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States. | Walt Disney Quotes |
| October 1st, 1982 (October 01 1982) | Event | Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101). | |
| October 1st, 1979 (October 01 1979) | Event | The United States returns sovereignty of the Panama canal to Panama. | |
| October 1st, 1978 (October 01 1978) | Event | Tuvalu gains independence from the United Kingdom. | |
| October 1st, 1978 (October 01 1978) | Event | The Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party is founded. | |
| October 1st, 1975 (October 01 1975) | Event | The Seychelles gain internal self-government. The Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands and take the name Tuvalu. | |
| October 1st, 1975 (October 01 1975) | Event | Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines. | Muhammad Ali Quotes |
| October 1st, 1971 (October 01 1971) | Event | Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida, United States. | Walt Disney Quotes |
| October 1st, 1969 (October 01 1969) | Event | The Concorde supersonic transport plane breaks the sound barrier for the first time. | |
| October 1st, 1968 (October 01 1968) | Event | The Guyanese government takes over the British Guiana Broadcasting Service (BGBS). | |
| October 1st, 1966 (October 01 1966) | Event | 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. | |
| October 1st, 1965 (October 01 1965) | Event | Apostasia of 1965, a political move in Greece designed to overthrow the Prime Minister, George Papandreou. | |
| October 1st, 1965 (October 01 1965) | Event | General Suharto crushes an attempted coup in Indonesia. | |
| October 1st, 1964 (October 01 1964) | Event | The Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of University of California, Berkeley. | |
| October 1st, 1964 (October 01 1964) | Event | Japanese Shinkansen ("bullet trains") begin high-speed rail service from Tokyo to Osaka. | |
| October 1st, 1961 (October 01 1961) | Event | East and West Cameroon merge as Federal Republic of Cameroon. | |
| October 1st, 1961 (October 01 1961) | Event | Baseball: Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle of the New York Yankees engage in an epic battle to break Babe Ruth s single season home run record of 60 in 1927. Maris ends up hitting his 61st against the Boston Red Sox, passing Ruth | Babe Ruth Quotes |
| October 1st, 1960 (October 01 1960) | Event | Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom. | |
| October 1st, 1958 (October 01 1958) | Event | NASA created to replace NACA. | |
| October 1st, 1957 (October 01 1957) | Event | First appearance of "In God We Trust" on U.S. paper currency. | |
| October 1st, 1949 (October 01 1949) | Event | The People s Republic of China is declared by Mao Zedong. | Mao Zedong Quotes |
| October 1st, 1947 (October 01 1947) | Event | The F-86 Sabre flies for the first time. | |
| October 1st, 1946 (October 01 1946) | Event | Nazi leaders sentenced at Nuremberg Trials. | |
| October 1st, 1946 (October 01 1946) | Event | Mensa International is founded in the United Kingdom. | |
| October 1st, 1943 (October 01 1943) | Event | World War II: Naples falls to Allied soldiers. | |
| October 1st, 1942 (October 01 1942) | Event | USS Grouper torpedoes Lisbon Maru not knowing she was carrying British PoWs from Hong Kong | |
| October 1st, 1942 (October 01 1942) | Event | First flight of the Bell XP-59 "Aircomet". | |
| October 1st, 1940 (October 01 1940) | Event | The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic. | |
| October 1st, 1939 (October 01 1939) | Event | After a one-month Siege of Warsaw, hostile forces entered the city. | |
| October 1st, 1938 (October 01 1938) | Event | Germany annexes the Sudetenland. | |
| October 1st, 1936 (October 01 1936) | Event | Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain. | |
| October 1st, 1931 (October 01 1931) | Event | The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opens. | George Washington Quotes |
| October 1st, 1931 (October 01 1931) | Event | The second (and current) Waldorf-Astoria Hotel is opened in New York. | |
| October 1st, 1928 (October 01 1928) | Event | The Soviet Union introduces its First Five-Year Plan. | |
| October 1st, 1926 (October 01 1926) | Event | An oil field accident cost aviator Wiley Post his left eye, but he used the settlement money to buy his first aircraft. | |
| October 1st, 1920 (October 01 1920) | Event | Sir Percy Cox landed in Basra to assume his responsibilities as high commissioner in Iraq. | |
| October 1st, 1918 (October 01 1918) | Event | World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence (a/k/a "Lawrence of Arabia") capture Damascus. | |
| October 1st, 1910 (October 01 1910) | Event | Los Angeles Times bombing: A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles, California, killing 21. | |
| October 1st, 1908 (October 01 1908) | Event | Ford puts the Model T car on the market at a price of US$825. | |
| October 1st, 1905 (October 01 1905) | Event | Frantisek Pavlik is killed in a demonstration in Prague, inspiring Leos Janacek to the piano composition 1. X. 1905. | Leos Janacek Quotes |
| October 1st, 1903 (October 01 1903) | Event | Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series. | |
| October 1st, 1898 (October 01 1898) | Event | Czar Nikolay II expels Jews from major Russian cities. | |
| October 1st, 1898 (October 01 1898) | Event | The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie. | |
| October 1st, 1894 (October 01 1894) | Event | First meeting of The Owl Club of Cape Town. | |
| October 1st, 1891 (October 01 1891) | Event | In the U.S. state of California, Stanford University opens its doors. | |
| October 1st, 1890 (October 01 1890) | Event | The Yosemite National Park and the Yellowstone National Park are established by the U.S. Congress. | |
| October 1st, 1887 (October 01 1887) | Event | Balochistan conquered by the British Empire. | |
| October 1st, 1880 (October 01 1880) | Event | John Philip Sousa becomes leader of the United States Marine Corps Band. | |
| October 1st, 1880 (October 01 1880) | Event | First electric lamp factory opened by Thomas Edison. | |
| October 1st, 1869 (October 01 1869) | Event | Austria issues the world s first postcards. | |
| October 1st, 1854 (October 01 1854) | Event | 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. | |
| October 1st, 1847 (October 01 1847) | Event | German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens AG & Halske. | |
| October 1st, 1843 (October 01 1843) | Event | News of the World began publication in London. | |
| October 1st, 1829 (October 01 1829) | Event | South African College is founded in Cape Town, South Africa; later to separate into the University of Cape Town and the South African College Schools. | |
| October 1st, 1827 (October 01 1827) | Event | The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination in Armenia. | |
| October 1st, 1814 (October 01 1814) | Event | Opening of the Congress of Vienna, intended to redraw the Europe s political map after the defeat of Napoleon the previous spring. | |
| October 1st, 1811 (October 01 1811) | Event | The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River arrives in New Orleans, Louisiana. | |
| October 1st, 1800 (October 01 1800) | Event | Spain cedes Louisiana to France via the Treaty of San Ildefonso. | |
| October 1st, 1795 (October 01 1795) | Event | Belgium is conquered by France. | |
| October 1st, 1791 (October 01 1791) | Event | First session of the French Legislative Assembly. | |
| October 1st, 1787 (October 01 1787) | Event | Russians under Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn. | |
| October 1st, 1189 (October 01 1189) | Event | Gerard de Ridefort, grandmaster of the Knights Templar since 1184, is killed in the Siege of Acre. | |
| October 1st, 0959 (October 01 0959) | Event | Edgar the Peaceable becomes king of all England. | |
| October 1st, 0911 (October 01 0911) | Event | During a siege in Constantinople, the Theotokos appeared at the church in Blachernae holding her veil over the praying faithful, among them St. Andrew of Constantinople. | |
| October 1st, 0331 (October 01 0331) | Event | Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela. | Alexander the Great Quotes |
