October 1

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on October 1. From 1900 until now. October 1 is under the sign of Libra. Famous birthdays on this day include Theresa May (1956), Julie Andrews (1935) and André Barbault (1921). Several movies were released around October 1 over the years, such as Intersection in 2015 directed by Tim French and The Lost Weekend in 1945 directed by Billy Wilder.
But much more happened on October 1 over the years: find out below

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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: Iran fires six ballistic missiles from its own territory at ISIL targets near the Euphrates river valley in eastern Syria, in response to the Ahvaz military parade attack. (The Independent)
2017 Yemeni Crisis (2011–present): Houthi forces claim to have shot down a U.S. MQ-9 Reaper drone over the Yemeni capital Sana'a. Footage released by Saba News Agency appears to show crowds gathering around the wreckage of an aircraft. (Reuters)
2016 Yemeni Civil War: Houthi forces launch rockets that hit and reportedly destroy HSV-2 Swift, a military vessel belonging to the United Arab Emirates Navy, off the coast of Yemen, near the strategic Red Sea port of Mokha. (Reuters), (Press TV)
2015 Gaza–Israel conflict: In retaliation for the rocket fired on the Israeli city of Ashdod, the Israeli Air Force carries out airstrikes on suspected Hamas positions in Gaza. No casualties are reported. (The News Hub)
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. (CNN)
2013 Syrian civil war:: A team from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons enters Syria to begin work on dismantling the Assad regime's stockpile of chemical weapons. (BBC)
2012 African Union troops enter the Somali port town of Kismayo following the withdrawal of Al-Shabaab Islamist militants during the Battle of Kismayo. (BBC)
2011 2011 Libyan civil war:
2010 Rahm Emanuel resigns as US Chief of Staff.
2009 The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom takes over the judicial functions of the House of Lords.
2008 Russia's supreme court declares the imperial dynasty victims of political repression, marking the official rehabilitation of the house of Romanov. The decision overturns a lower court ruling that classified the killings as plain murder, and exonerates Emperor Nicholas II and his family of the alleged crimes the Bolshevik regime used to justify their killing. (Reuters)
2007 Citigroup and UBS announce writedowns of US$9.3 billion of debt due to the credit crisis.
2006 General elections are held in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BBC)
2005 The Ilamatepec volcano erupts in a coffee-growing area 40 miles (60 km) west of San Salvador, El Salvador, spitting rock and ash into the air. The Salvadoran government evacuates hundreds of people in the region and there are no reported injuries. San Salvador's air quality - already the most polluted in Central America - is significantly worsened by the additional volcanic debris. (Yahoo! news)(Link dead as of 22:37, 14 January 2007 (UTC))
2004 The University of Manchester, the largest university in the United Kingdom outside London, is created by the merger of the Victoria University of Manchester and UMIST. (BBC)
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 Incorporation of Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited & Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited 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 (114 vs. Pakistan, Karachi)
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 (WJFK-AM)
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 (Amsterdam to Batavia)
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 (Rotterdam-The Hague)
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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