SomeFacts | October 1

On this day - October 1

Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of ...

366 — Pope Damasus I is consecrated.

959 — Edgar the Peaceful becomes king of all England, in succession ...

965 — Pope John XIII is consecrated.

1553 — The coronation of Queen Mary I of England is held at ...

1588 — The coronation of Shah Abbas I of Persia occurs.

1730 — Ahmed III is forced to abdicate as the Ottoman sultan.

1779 — The city of Tampere, Finland (belonging to Sweden at this ...

1787 — Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.

1791 — First session of the French Legislative Assembly.

1795 — More than a year after the Battle of Sprimont, the Austrian ...

1800 — Via the Third Treaty of San Ildefonso, Spain cedes Louisiana ...

1814 — The Congress of Vienna opens with the intention of redrawing ...

1827 — Russo-Persian War: The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich ...

1829 — The South African College is founded in Cape Town, later ...

1832 — Texian political delegates convene at San Felipe de Austin to ...

1861 — Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management is published, ...

1887 — Balochistan is conquered by the British Empire.

1890 — Yosemite National Park is established by the U.S. Congress.

1891 — Stanford University opens its doors in California, United ...

1898 — The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration ...

1903 — Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in ...

1908 — Ford Model T automobiles are offered for sale at a price of ...

1910 — A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building, killing ...

1915 — The Metamorphosis written by Franz Kafka is published in the ...

1918 — Sayid Abdullah becomes the last Khan of Khiva.

1918 — World War I: The Egyptian Expeditionary Force captures ...

1923 — Georges Carpentier knocked out former British heavyweight ...

1923 — The 1923 Imperial Conference opened in London.

1928 — Newark Liberty International Airport opens, becoming the first ...

1928 — The Soviet Union introduces its first five-year plan.

1931 — Clara Campoamor persuades the Constituent Cortes to ...

1931 — The George Washington Bridge in the United States is opened, ...

1936 — Spanish Civil War: The Central Committee of Antifascist ...

1936 — Spanish Civil War: Francisco Franco is named head of the ...

1938 — Pursuant to the Munich Agreement signed the day before, Nazi ...

1939 — World War II: After a one-month siege, German troops occupy ...

1940 — The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first ...

1942 — World War II: USS Grouper torpedoes Lisbon Maru, not knowing ...

1943 — World War II: After the Four Days of Naples, Allied troops ...

1946 — The Daegu October incident occurs in Allied-occupied Korea.

1946 — Nazi leaders are sentenced at the Nuremberg trials.

1947 — The North American F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.

1949 — The People's Republic of China is established.

1953 — A United States-South Korea mutual defense treaty is concluded ...

1953 — Andhra State is formed, consisting of a Telugu-speaking area ...

1955 — The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is established.

1957 — The motto In God We Trust first appears on U.S. paper currency.

1958 — The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics is replaced by ...

1960 — Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom.

1961 — The CTV Television Network, Canada's first private ...

1961 — East and West Cameroon merge to form the Federal Republic of ...

1961 — The United States Defense Intelligence Agency is formed, ...

1962 — James Meredith becomes the first African American student to ...

1963 — On its third anniversary as an independent nation, Nigeria ...

1964 — Japanese Shinkansen ("bullet trains") begin ...

1964 — The Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of the ...

1965 — At dawn, seven Indonesian Army officers and a police inspector ...

1966 — West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with no survivors in ...

1968 — Guyana nationalizes the British Guiana Broadcasting Service, ...

1969 — Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.

1971 — The first practical CT scanner is used to diagnose a patient.

1971 — Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida.

1975 — Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, ...

1978 — Tuvalu gains independence from the United Kingdom.

1979 — The MTR, Hong Kong's rapid transit railway system, opens.

1979 — Pope John Paul II begins his first pastoral visit to the ...

1982 — Sony and Phillips launch the compact disc in Japan; on the ...

1982 — EPCOT Center (Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow) ...

1982 — Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany ...

1985 — Israel-Palestinian conflict: Israel attacks the Palestine ...

1987 — The 5.9 Mw Whittier Narrows earthquake shakes the San Gabriel ...

1989 — Denmark introduces the world's first legal same-sex ...

1991 — Croatian War of Independence: The Siege of Dubrovnik begins.

1994 — Palau enters a Compact of Free Association with the United ...

2000 — Israel-Palestinian conflict: Palestinians protest the killing ...

2001 — 3G wireless technology first becomes available when it is ...

2001 — Militants attack the state legislature building in Kashmir, ...

2003 — The popular and controversial English-language imageboard ...

2009 — The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom takes over the ...

2012 — A ferry collision off the coast of Hong Kong kills 38 people ...

2014 — A double bombing of an elementary school in Homs, Syria kills ...

2014 — A series of explosions at a gunpowder plant in Bulgaria ...

2015 — The American cargo vessel SS El Faro sinks with all of its 33 ...

2015 — Heavy rains trigger a major landslide in Guatemala, killing ...

2015 — A gunman kills nine people at a community college in Oregon.

2016 — The leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, Pedro ...

2017 — Sixty people are killed and 867 others injured in a mass ...

2017 — An independence referendum, later declared illegal by the ...

2018 — The International Court of Justice rules that Chile is not ...

2019 — Kuopio school stabbing: One dies and ten are injured when Joel ...

2021 — The 2020 World Expo in Dubai begins. Its opening was ...

2022 — One hundred and thirty-five are killed in a human crush ...

2024 — Israel invaded Southern Lebanon, marking the fifth Israeli ...