October 1: Zodiac, Trivia, Birthdays and Holidays

October 1st marks the 274th day of the Gregorian calendar year (or the 275th in case of leap years). There are 91 days remaining until the end of the year. People born on this day are under the sign of Libra. Famous birthdays on this day include Jimmy Carter (1924), Theresa May (1956) and Julie Andrews (1935). Holidays and observances around the world include: International Day of Older Persons.
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Holidays

Singapore - Children's Day
Also see October 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
World Vegetarian Day
French Republican Calendar - Cuve (Barrel) Day, tenth day in the Month of VendTmiaire
Tuvalu - Independence Day (from Gilbert Islands (Kiribati), 1975)
San Marino - two Captains Regent, elected by parliament, take office for six months.
Nigeria - Independence Day (from Britain, 1960)
People's Republic of China - National Day (1949)
RC Church - Feast days of Saint ThTrFse de Lisieux; formerly of Saint Bavo and Saint Remigius
Republic of Cyprus - Independence Day (from Britain, 1960)
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Events

2018 2018 Eastern Euphrates missile strike by Iran: Iran launches six ballistic missiles from its territory at ISIL targets in eastern Syria near the Euphrates River valley. This is in response to the Ahvaz military parade.
2017 Yemeni Crisis (2011-present: Houthi forces claim that they have taken down an American MQ-9 Reaper drone above the Yemeni capital Sana'a. Saba News Agency footage appears to show people gathered around the aircraft's wreckage.
2016 Yemeni Civil War: Houthi Forces launch rockets that reportedly hit HSV-2 Swift, which is a military vessel belonging the United Arab Emirates Navy. It was reportedly destroyed off the coast Yemen near the strategically important port of Mokha in the Red Sea. (Reuters),
2015 Gaza-Israel conflict. In retaliation to the rocket that was fired on Ashdod in Israel, the Israeli Air Force launched airstrikes against Hamas positions in Gaza. There are no casualties.
2014 War in Donbass:: At least 12 people are killed when shells hit a school and, in a separate shelling, a bus station in the separatist-controlled city of Donetsk.
2013 Syrian civil war: An Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons team enters Syria to start work on dismantling the Assad regime’s chemical weapons stockpile.
2012 After the Battle of Kismayo, Al-Shabaab Islamist militants were evacuated by the African Union, troops from the African Union enter Kismayo, a Somali port.
2011 2011 Libyan Civil War:
2010 Rahm Emanuel is resigning as Chief of Staff for the United States.
2009 The House of Lords is overthrown by the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom.
2008 Russia's supreme court has declared the imperial dynasty victims under political repression. This marks the official rehabilitation of the house Romanov. This decision reverses a lower court ruling which classified the killings plain murder and exonerates Emperor Nicholas 2 and his family from the alleged crimes that the Bolshevik regime used as justification for their execution.
2007 UBS and Citigroup announce US$9.3 Billion in debt writedowns due to the credit crisis.
2006 In Bosnia and Herzegovina, general elections are held
2005 The volcano Ilamatepec erupts in a coffee-growing region 40 miles (60km) west of San Salvador. It spews rock and ash into surrounding air. The Salvadoran government evacuates hundreds from the area and reports no injuries. The additional volcanic debris has significantly worsened San Salvador's already poor air quality. (Yahoo! news (Link dead at 22:37 on 14 January 2007 (UTC).
2004 The merger of UMIST and Victoria University of Manchester created the University of Manchester. It is the UK's largest university outside of London.
2003 South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun reiterates offer to the United States to consider a request for South Korean participation in Multi-National Force - Iraq in exchange for ampquotpositiveampquot movement to resolve the standoff over North Korea's nuclear weapons program.
2000 Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited were incorporated under the Indian Companies Act 1956.
1998 Vladimir Putin becomes a permanent member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
1997 Carolina Hurricanes 1st game vs. Tampa Bay Lightning
1996 Yasser Arafat and Benjamin Netanyahu meet with US President Bill Clinton in Washington DC.
1995 Bermuda begins using new area code 441
1994 Boon completes his 19th Test century
1993 Lennox Lewis TKOs Frank Bruno in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
1992 Cartoon Cable Network premieres
1991 Howard Stern adds Baltimore to his radio network
1990 10,000 Uganda RPF rebels move into Rwanda
1989 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Konica San Jose Golf Classic
1988 Bradley Center in Milwaukee opens
1987 Roza opens at Royale Theater NYC for 12 performances
1986 U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Goldwater-Nichols Act into law, making official the largest reorganization of the United States Department of Defense since the Air Force was made a separate branch of service in 1947.
1985 Israeli air raid on PLO-headquarter at Tunis, 68 killed
1984 Peter Ueberroth replaces Bowie Kuhn as 6th commissioner of baseball.
1983 Denise Wallace, 18, of Virginia crowned Miss Teen of America
1982 Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101).
1981 Iranian plane crash
1980 Cosmonauts Ryumin and Popov break space endurance record of 176 days.
1979 Nigeria adopts constitution, Alhaji Shagari becomes President
1978 Comoros adopts constitution
1977 Department Of Energy established
1976 1st Dutch casino opens
1975 Heavyweight Muhammad Ali KOs Joe Frazier in Manilla
1974 Watergate cover-up trial opens in Washington DC
1973 USSR-West Germany gas tunnel opens
1972 3rd NYC Marathon won by Sheldon Karlin in 2:27:52
1971 Joseph Luns becomes Secretary General of NATO
1970 63 arrest in riot to buy Rolling Stone tickets in Milano Italy
1969 Concorde 001 test flight breaks sound barrier
1968 Night of the Living Dead premieres in Pittsburgh
1967 KBFI (now KDAF) TV channel 33 in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (IND) begins
1966 Newspaper magnate Thomson purchases The Times
1965 Failed coup under lt col Untung in Indonesia
1964 1st official broadcast of Trans World Radio on Bonaire
1963 1st time since 1910 no AL player, played in every game
1962 Barbra Streisand signs her 1st recording contract (with Columbia)
1961 KGIN TV channel 11 in Grand Island, NB (CBS) begins broadcasting
1960 14th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 2-1 at Montreal
1959 1st World Series since 1948 not to feature a New York team (LA vs. Chic)
1958 Inauguration of NASA
1957 B-52 bombers begin full-time flying alert in case of the USSR attack
1956 Zestienhoven airport at Rotterdam official opens
1955 Honeymooners premieres
1954 British colony of Nigeria becomes a federation.
1953 KJEO TV channel 47 in Fresno, CA (CBS / ABC) begins broadcasting
1952 Liberal Party wins Japanese elections
1951 1st Giant-Dodgers playoff game, Giants win 3-1
1950 Browns lose to Giants, setting club record for fewest points scored by both teams (tied in 1979), New York 6, Cleveland 0
1949 The US suspends diplomatic relations with China.
1948 California Supreme Court voids state statute banning interracial marriages.
1947 US control of Haitian customs and governmental revenue ends.
1946 12 war criminals sentenced to death in Nuremberg
1945 Heavyweight champ Joe Louis is discharged from army
1943 Allied forces captured Naples during WWII
1942 Little Golden Books (children books) begins publishing
1941 D Sjostakovitch plane evacuated in Moscow
1940 Pennsylvania Turnpike, pioneer toll thruway, opens.
1939 Churchill calls Soviets riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma
1938 Cubs clinch NL pennant
1937 Pullman Company formally recognizes Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
1936 Generalissimo Francisco Franco establishes state of Spain
1934 Adolph Hitler expands German army and navy and creates an air force, violating Treaty of Versailles
1933 Antwerp Sports arena opens
1932 Oswald Mosley forms British Union of Fascists
1931 Spanish Cortes accept general female suffrage
1930 Soccer team WHC forms
1928 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 15m (46:49.6)
1927 Pirates clinch NL pennant with a 9-6 win over Reds
1925 Mount Rushmore is dedicated.
1924 Fokker F-7 1st flight
1922 Former Chicago Staleys play first NFL game as Chicago Bears, win 6-0.
1921 WJZ, Newark New Jersey begins broadcasting
1920 Dutch law provides for an 8 hour working day
1919 World Series #16 begins as a best of 9 affair, Chicago White Sox intentionally throw this series to satisfy gamblers (The Black Sox Scandal).
1918 World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence (a/k/a ''Lawrence of Arabia'') capture Damascus.
1913 Mexican Revolution: Pancho Villa's troops take Torreón after a 3-day battle, when government troops retreat.
1911 United Dutch Diamond workers get 8-hr day
1910 Explosion at LA Times kills 21
1908 1st Dutch electric railway in use
1907 Plaza Hotel (5th Av & 59th Str, NY) opens
1906 Hugh Jennings resigns as Baltimore Manager to take over at Detroit in 1907
1905 Frantisek Pavlik is killed in a demonstration in Prague, inspiring Leos Janacek to the piano composition 1. X. 1905.
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