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Historical Events on October 1

331 BC
Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela.
366
Pope Damasus I is elected.
959
Edgar the Peaceful becomes king of all England.
965
Pope John XIII is elected.
1553
Coronation of Queen Mary I of England.
1588
Coronation of Shah Abbas I of Persia.
1730
Ahmed III is forced to give up the throne.
1787
Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.
1791
First session of the French Legislative Assembly.
1795
The Austrian Netherlands (present-day Belgium) are annexed by Revolutionary France.
1800
Spain cedes Louisiana to France via the Third Treaty of San Ildefonso.
1814
Opening of the Congress of Vienna, intended to redraw Europe's political map after the defeat of Napoleon the previous spring.
1827
Russo-Persian War: The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination of 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.
1832
Texian political delegates convene at San Felipe de Austin to petition for changes in the governance of Mexican Texas.
1843
The News of the World tabloid begins publication in London.
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.
1861
Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management is published, going on to sell 60,000 copies in its first year and remaining in print until the present day
1880
First electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison.
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.
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.
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, killing 21.
1918
World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence, also known as "Lawrence of Arabia", capture Damascus.
1918
Sayid Abdullah becomes last Khan of Khiva.
1920
Sir Percy Cox lands in Basra to assume his responsibilities as High Commissioner in Iraq.
1928
The Soviet Union introduces its first five-year plan.
1931
The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opens.
1931
Spain adopts women's suffrage.
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 Nazi forces enter the city.
1940
The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic.
1942
World War II: USS Grouper torpedoes Lisbon Maru not knowing she is carrying British PoWs from Hong Kong
1943
World War II: Naples falls to Allied soldiers.
1946
Nazi leaders are sentenced at Nuremberg trials.
1946
Daegu October Incident occurs in Allied occupied Korea.
1947
The North American F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.
1949
The People's Republic of China is established and declared by Mao Zedong.
1955
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is established.
1957
First appearance of In God we trust on U.S. paper currency.
1958
NASA is created to replace NACA.
1960
Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1961
The United States Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is formed, becoming the country's first centralized military espionage organization.
1961
East and West Cameroon merge to form the 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
General Suharto puts down an apparent coup attempt by the 30 September Movement in Indonesia.
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.
1968
The Guyanese government takes over the British Guiana Broadcasting Service (BGBS).
1969
Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
1971
Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida, United States.
1971
The first brain-scan using x-ray computed tomography (CT or CAT scan) is performed at Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon, London.
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.
1975
Al Jackson, Jr. (Booker T. & the M.G.'s), is fatally shot five times in the back in his own home.
1978
Tuvalu gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1978
The Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party is founded.
1979
Pope John Paul II begins his first pastoral visit to the United States.
1979
The MTR, the rapid transit railway system in Hong Kong, opens.
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 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 Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) headquarters in Tunis.
1987
The 5.9 Mw Whittier Narrows earthquake shakes the San Gabriel Valley with a Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing eight and injuring 200.
1989
Denmark introduces the world's first legal modern same-sex civil union called "registered partnership".
1991
The Siege of Dubrovnik begins.
1992
Cartoon Network is launched.
1994
Palau gains independence from the United Nations (trusteeship administered by the United States of America).
2001
Militants attack the state legislature building in Srinagar, Kashmir, killing 38.
2009
The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom takes over the judicial functions of the House of Lords.
2012
A ferry collision off the coast of Hong Kong kills 38 people and injures 102 others.
2014
A series of explosions at a gunpowder plant in the village of Gorni Lom in Northwestern Bulgaria completely destroys the factory, killing 15 people.
2015
Umpqua Community College shooting: A gunman kills nine people at a community college in Roseburg, Oregon.
2015
Heavy rains trigger a major landslide in the village of El Cambray Dos within Santa Catarina Pinula, killing 280 people.
2017
An independence referendum, declared illegal by the Constitutional Court of Spain, takes place in Catalonia, Spain.
2017
Fifty-eight people are killed and 546 others injured in a mass shooting on a country music festival at the Las Vegas Strip; the gunman, Stephen Paddock, later commits suicide.

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