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What happened in history on this day: October 1?
On October 1 in ...
- 366 - Saint Damasus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
- 1207 - Birth of Henry III king of England (1216-72).
- 1661 - Yachting begins in England; King Charles II beats his brother James.
- 1685 - Birth of Charles VI Holy Roman emperor (1711-40).
- 1760 - Birth of William Beckford British writer (Epsiodes of Vathek).
- 1781 - Birth of James Lawrence; naval hero (War of 1812-"Don't give up the ship!").
- 1791 - First session of the new French legislative assembly.
- 1791 - Birth of Sergey Aksakov in Russia; novelist (Chronicles of a Russian Family).
- 1795 - Belgium is conquered by France.
- 1799 - Birth of Rufus Choate; US lawyer (Hall of Fame).
- 1800 - Spain cedes Louisiana to France in a secret treaty.
- 1832 - Birth of Caroline Lavinia Scott in Oxford, Ohio, USA; spouse of US President Benjamin Harrison.
- 1835 - Birth of William H "Red" Jackson; US Brigadier General (7th Tennessee Cavalry).
- 1837 - Treaty of US with Winnebago Indians is signed.
- 1847 - Maria Mitchell discovers a non-naked-eye comet.
- 1847 - Siemens AG is founded.
- 1856 - First postage stamps are issued for use in Uruguay.
- 1861 - Greece issues its first postage stamps.
- 1865 - Birth of Paul Dukas in Paris, France; composer (Velléda).
- 1869 - Austria issues the world's first postal cards.
- 1877 - The Bureau of Engraving and Printing assumes printing of all US paper currency.
- 1880 - The first electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison, in the USA.
- 1881 - Birth of William Edward Boeing; founded aircraft company (Boeing) (dies 1956).
- 1881 - The first electric power-station providing current for both public and domestic use begins operation. The hydro-electric Central Power Station operates on the River Wey at Godalming, Surrey, England.
- 1885 - Birth of Louis Untermeyer in New York City, New York, USA; poet/critic (Immortal Poems, Story Poems).
- 1885 - Special delivery mail service begins in US.
- 1889 - Washington voters adopt state constitution in referendum.
- 1890 - Birth of Stanley Holloway in London, England; actor (Higgins - Our Man Higgins).
- 1890 - General Grant National Park and Yosemite National Park (1189 square miles) are established in California.
- 1891 - Stanford University is opened, in California.
- 1893 - Third worst hurricane in US history kills 1,800 (Mississippi).
- 1893 - Birth of Faith Baldwin in New Rochelle, New York, USA; author/novelist (They Who Love).
- 1894 - Civic organization Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben is founded in Omaha, Nebraska.
- 1898 - Jews are expelled from Kiev, Russia.
- 1903 - First baseball World Series game, Pittsburgh Pirates versus Boston Americans at Huntington Avenue Baseball Grounds in Boston.
- 1903 - Birth of "Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom in New York City, New York, USA; light-heavyweight boxing champion (1932-34).
- 1904 - Birth of Vladimir Horowitz in Kiev, Ukraine; pianist (Carmen).
- 1906 - Death of Albert J. Adams at age 65 by suicide gunshot in New York; boss of policy gambling game 1880s-1901, multi-millionaire.
- 1907 - Birth of Hiram Fong; American politician (Senator-California).
- 1908 - Henry Ford introduces the Model T car in the US (costs $825).
- 1909 - Birth of Everett Sloane in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Citizen Kane movie).
- 1909 - Birth of Sam Yorty; American politician (Mayor-Los Angeles).
- 1910 - Berkshire Cattle Fair held in Pittsfield, Massachusetts (first US state fair).
- 1911 - Birth of Edward P Boland; American politician (Representative-Democrat-Massachusetts).
- 1911 - Birth of Irwin Kostal in Chicago, Illinois, USA; orchestra leader (Garry Moore Show).
- 1911 - Birth of Richard Torriani; Switzerland, took 1948 Olympic oath.
- 1914 - Birth of Daniel Boorstin; author (1974 Pulitzer Prize).
- 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).
- 1920 - Birth of Lonny Chapman in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA; actor (Investigator, For the People).
- 1920 - Birth of Walter Matthau in New York City, New York, USA; actor (The Odd Couple, The Bad News Bears).
- 1921 - First all New York series to be played entirely in one stadium (the Polo Grounds) and first New York Yankees World Series begins (World Series #18).
- 1921 - Birth of James Whitmore in White Plains, New York, USA; actor (Give 'em Hell Harry).
- 1922 - Former Chicago Staleys play first NFL game as Chicago Bears, win 6-0.
- 1924 - Birth of Roger Williams; pianist ("Autumn Leaves").
- 1924 - Birth of James Earl Carter; (Democrat) 39th US President (1977-1981).
- 1924 - Birth of William Rehnquist; US Supreme Court (1972-86)/chief justice (1987-) (dies 2005).
- 1927 - Birth of Tom Bosley in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actor (Howard - Happy Days TV show, Murder She Wrote TV show, Father Dowling Mysteries TV show).
- 1928 - Birth of George Peppard in Detroit, Michigan, USA; actor (Banacek, A-Team, Blue Max).
- 1928 - Birth of James Allen Pattison AKA Jimmy Pattison in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada; chairman of The Jim Pattison Group, chairman of Vancouver Expo 86 World's Fair.
- 1928 - Birth of Laurence Harvey; actor (Alamo, Romeo and Juliet).
- 1928 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average is expanded from 20 stocks to 30. A divisor is introduced to adjust for extraneous changes to a stock, such as a split. The initial divisor is 16.67. The index removes American Car & Foundry, American Locomotive, American Telephone & Telegraph, American Tobacco, Paramount Famous Lasky, United Drug, U.S. Rubber, and Western Union, and adds American Tobacco B, Atlantic Refining, Bethlehem Steel, Chrysler, General Railway Signal, Goodrich, International Nickel, Nash Motors, North American, Paramount Publix, Postum Incorporated, Radio Corporation, Standard Oil (N.J.), Texas Gulf Sulphur, Union Carbide, Victor Talking Machine, Westinghouse Electric, and Wright Aeronautical.
- 1930 - Birth of Richard Harris in Ireland; actor (A Man Called Horse), singer ("MacArthur Park").
- 1932 - Babe Ruth's points and hits a home run there, off of Chicago Cubs' Charlie Root.
- 1932 - NHL re-admits Ottawa and drops Pittsburgh.
- 1933 - Green Bay Packers make five first downs, the New York Giants make 0, but still win 10-7.
- 1933 - Washington Senators' coach Nick Altrock plays in a game at age 57.
- 1935 - Birth of Julie Andrews in England; actress/singer (The Sound of Music, Mary Poppins).
- 1936 - Birth of Edward Villella; American ballet dancer (New York City Ballet).
- 1936 - Birth of Stella Stevens in Yazoo City, Mississippi, USA; actress (Girls! Girls!, Manitou, Ben Casey, Flamingo Road).
- 1936 - General Francisco Franco establishes the state of Spain.
- 1937 - Pullman Company formally recognizes Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
- 1938 - British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returns to London, England, to a hero's welcome. Quote on the Munich Agreement: "This is the second time there has come back from Germany to Downing Street peace with honour. I believe it is peace for our time.".
- 1938 - German troops begin occupying the Sudeten area.
- 1938 - Czechoslovakia yields to Polish demand for the Teschen area.
- 1939 - Britain's Winston Chruchill refers to Soviet policy as "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma".
- 1940 - Pennsylvania Turnpike, pioneer toll thruway, opens.
- 1942 - Bell P-59 Airacomet fighter, first US jet, makes maiden flight.
- 1943 - Allied forces capture Naples, Italy.
- 1943 - Birth of Jerry Martini; rock musician (Sly and the Family Stone).
- 1944 - Newspaper editor Alejandro Córdova assassinated in Guatemala.
- 1944 - Saint Louis Browns win their only American League pennant.
- 1945 - Birth of Donny Hathaway in Chicago, Illinois, USA; singer/songwriter ("Where is the Love").
- 1945 - Birth of Rod Carew; baseball slugger (American League Rookie of the Year 1967).
- 1946 - At the Nuremberg Tribunal, public reading of the findings ends, with verdicts and sentences announced. Those sentenced to hanging: Hermann Göring, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Julius Streicher, Fritz Sauckel, Alfred Jodl, Martin Boorman, Arthur Seyss-Inquart. Those sentenced to life imprisonment: Rudolf Hess, Walther Funk, Erich Raeder. Those sentenced to 20 years imprisonment: Baldur von Schirach, Albert Speer. Those sentenced to 15 years imprisonment: Constantin von Neurath. Those sentenced to ten years imprisonment: Karl Dönitz. Those acquitted on all charges: Hjalmar Schacht, Franz von Papen, Hans Fritzsche.
- 1946 - First National League playoffs, Brooklyn Dodgers versus Saint Louis Cardinals (Saint Louis wins two games to 0).
- 1946 - Birth of Eva Klobukowska in Poland; relay (Olympic-gold-1964).
- 1946 - Bob Feller is 348th strikeout of the season.
- 1947 - First helicopter air mail and express service, Los Angeles, California.
- 1947 - Birth of Stephen Collins in Des Moines, Iowa, USA; actor (Star Trek - The Motion Picture, The Tattingers, 7th Heaven).
- 1947 - NHL Pension Society founded.
- 1947 - US relinquishes control of Haitian customs and governmental revenue.
- 1948 - Birth of Ellen McIlwaine in Nashville, Tennessee, USA; blues singer ("Honky Tonky Angel").
- 1948 - California Supreme Court voids state statute banning interracial marriages.
- 1948 - Radio Denmark begins transmitting.
- 1949 - Chairman Mao Tse-tung proclaims the founding of the People's Republic of China.
- 1949 - Republic of China (Taiwan) forms on the island of Formosa.
- 1949 - The US suspends diplomatic relations with China.
- 1949 - Death of Buddy Clark at age 38 in a private plane crash on Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, USA; singer ("Linda, You're Breaking My Heart", Your Hit Parade radio show (1936-38)).
- 1950 - Birth of Randy Quaid in Houston, Texas, USA; actor (Midnight Express, Vacation, Saturday Night Live, The Grubbs, Davis Rules).
- 1950 - Philadelphia Phillies win National League pennant on last day of season (10th inning home run).
- 1951 - 24th Infantry Regiment, last American all-black military unit, deactivated.
- 1952 - The world's first Ultra High Frequency (UHF) TV station offically begind broadcasting, KPTV in Portland, Oregon, USA.
- 1953 - Birth of Greta Waitz in Norway; marathon runner (New York City).
- 1953 - Indian state of Andhra Pradesh partitioned from Madras.
- 1954 - British colony of Nigeria becomes a federation.
- 1954 - Birth of Richard Schlesinger; CBS correspondent (48 Hours TV show).
- 1955 - CBS premieres the Honeymooners comedy half-hour TV show.
- 1956 - Johnny Heckmann rides seven winners at Chicago Hawthorne Horse track.
- 1957 - "In God We Trust" first appears on U.S. paper currency.
- 1957 - B-52 bombers begin full-time flying alert in case of USSR attack.
- 1957 - Birth of Yvette Freeman; actress (ER TV show, Working).
- 1958 - Britain transfers Christmas Island (south of Java) to Australia.
- 1958 - US National Aeronautics and Space Administration begins operations, taking over duties of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
- 1958 - Vanguard Project transferred from military to NASA.
- 1959 - First World Series (World Series #56) since 1948 not to feature a New York team (Los Angeles Dodgers versus Chicago White Sox).
- 1960 - Nigeria gains independence from Great Britain.
- 1960 - Independent Federation of Nigeria issues its first postage stamps.
- 1961 - CBS premieres The Lucy Show 30-minute comedy TV show.
- 1961 - A believed-extinct volcano erupts in Tristan da Cunha.
- 1961 - Donald Cook, actor (Too Young To Go Steady), dies at age 60.
- 1961 - East and West Cameroon merge as Federal Republic of Cameroon.
- 1961 - New York Yankees' Roger Maris sets record of 61 home runs, last off of Tracy Stallard.
- 1962 - Birth of Esai Morales; actor (Vanished TV show, NYPD Blue TV show).
- 1962 - Birth of Trevor Baxter; record holder for high jumping with a skateboard.
- 1962 - Brian Epstein signs a contract to manage The Beatles through 1977.
- 1962 - The United Nations Temporary Executive Authority assumes administrative control over the territory formely known as Netherlands New Guinea.
- 1962 - Johnny Carson first hosts NBC's Tonight Show.
- 1962 - US National Radio Astronomy Observatory gets a 300-foot (91-metre) radio telescope.
- 1963 - Birth of Beth Chamberlin in Danville, Vermont, USA; actress (Beth Spaulding - Guiding Light).
- 1963 - Birth of Mark McGwire; Oakland Athletics baseball player (American League rookie of year 1988).
- 1963 - Nigeria becomes a republic within the British Commonwealth.
- 1964 - Birth of Christopher Titus; actor (Titus).
- 1964 - Free Speech Movement launched at University of California, Berkley.
- 1964 - San Francisco cable cars declared a US national landmark.
- 1965 - Birth of Cindy Margolis; model/actress (Cindy Margolis Show TV show).
- 1966 - Albert Speer, German armaments minister under Adolf Hitler, is released from Spandau prison.
- 1967 - CBC TV debuts TV show Man Alive, with host Roy Bonisteel.
- 1968 - Horror film Night of the Living Dead premieres in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
- 1968 - Birth of Jay Underwood; actor (The Boy Who Could Fly).
- 1968 - Birth of Kevin Griffin; rock singer-musician (Better Than Ezra).
- 1969 - In Central Peru, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake occurs, completely razing villages of Lampa and Chilifruta, killing at least 136 and injuring at least 216.
- 1969 - The Concorde supersonic transport plane breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
- 1970 - The Philadelphia Phillies beat the Montreal Expos in final game to be played at Connie Mack Stadium in Philadelphia, 2-1. After the game, fans swarm onto the field and destroy it.
- 1970 - ABC airs the 200th episode of the Bewitched TV show.
- 1971 - The Magic Kingdom park at Walt Disney World Resort opens in Orlando, Florida. Similar to Disneyland, seven themed areas are Main Street, Adventureland, Bear Country, Fantasyland, Frontierland, Liberty Square, and Tomorrowland. Attendance on opening day is 10,000. First guest to enter the park is William Windsor, Junior. Cost of creating the theme park was US$400 million.
- 1972 - First games of the World Hockey Association.
- 1973 - Joe Devlin, actor (Sam - Dick Tracy), dies at age 74.
- 1973 - Leo Durocher resigns as Houston Astros' manager.
- 1975 - Death of Al Jackson Junior at age 39, shot and killed by wife as an intruder at his home in Memphis, Tennessee, USA; drummer (Booker T. and the M-G's - "Green Onions" (1962), Willie Mitchell Band).
- 1975 - Britain grants internal self-government to Seychelles.
- 1975 - Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands, take name "Tuvalu".
- 1975 - Reunion Island stops printing postage stamps, France takes over production.
- 1977 - Brazilian soccer great Pele retires with 1,281 goals in 1,363 games.
- 1977 - New York Yankees win second consecutive American League East title.
- 1977 - Japanese government makes deal with skyjackers, paying US$6 million and freeing six imprisoned terrorists, in exchange for 59 hostages.
- 1978 - Vietnam attacks Cambodia.
- 1978 - New York Yankees lose 9-2 to Cleveland Indians forcing a playoff game with Boston Red Sox.
- 1978 - Tuvalu becomes independent from the United Kingdom.
- 1979 - Treaty between Panama and the USA over the Panama Canal goes into effect. Panama assumes jurisdiction over the Canal Zone, with operation of the canal replaced by board of 9 directors, 4 of them Panamanian. Treaty to expire December 31, 1999, when the canal will be turned over to Panama.
- 1979 - Nigeria terminates military rule, and the Nigerian Second Republic is established.
- 1980 - Cosmonauts Ryumin and Popov break space endurance record of 176 days.
- 1980 - Associated Newspapers announces that The Evening News would close and merge with the Evening Standard.
- 1982 - Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101).
- 1982 - EPCOT Center opens, at Walt Disney World in Florida. It has two main sections, Future World, and World Showcase. It cost more than US$1.2 billion to build.
- 1982 - Helmut Kohl becomes the German Bundeskanzler. His political party is the CDU.
- 1982 - NBC airs the first episode of TV show Remington Steele.
- 1984 - Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury comic strip resumes after two-year hiatus.
- 1984 - Peter Ueberroth replaces Bowie Kuhn as 6th commissioner of baseball.
- 1985 - Nintendo releases the Super Mario Bros. video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System in the US.
- 1985 - The Israeli air force bombs Palestinian Liberation Organization Headquarters near Tunis, Tunisia.
- 1986 - Birth of Jurnee Smollett; American actress (Wanda at Large, Cosby).
- 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.
- 1986 - US President Jimmy Carter's presidential library/museum dedicated in Atlanta, Georgia.
- 1987 - In Pasadena, California, a magnitude 5.9-6.1 earthquake occurs. Eight people killed, 100+ injured, about 2,200 homeless and more than 10,400 buildings damaged. Felt strongly in much of southern California.
- 1988 - Lowest batting average for National League champion (Tony Gwynn .313).
- 1989 - Dallas Cowboys' Ed "Too Tall" Jones records his 1,000th NFL tackle.
- 1989 - Thousands of East Germans flee to Federal Republic of Germany.
- 1990 - Birth of Brie Larson; actress (Raising Dad).
- 1990 - Curtis E LeMay, US Air Force General, dies at age 83.
- 1990 - President George Bush at the United Nations, condemns Iraq's takeover of Kuwait.
- 1990 - The agreement is signed whereby the Allies of World War II return full sovereignty to Germany as of the agreed-to unification date of October 3.
- 1990 - Death of Larry Volk, shot dead at age 49 at home in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; was programmer for American Coin Machine Company; had admitted to Nevada State Gaming Control Board that he had altered software used in video poler and keno machines, preventing awarding of some jackpots and increasing others, allowing estimated $10-20 million to be illegally won from 1986 to 1989.
- 1992 - H. Ross Perot re-enters the 1992 U.S. presidential campaign.
- 1992 - Pittsburgh International Airport's new facility is opened in Findlay Township, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The new terminal is built as an expansion for USAir and an upgrade from the older Pittsburgh International Airport facility.
- 1993 - Panasonic releases the FZ-1 REAL 3DO Interactive Multiplayer game system in the US. It features 32-bit processor, 3 MB RAM, 16-million colors, double speed CD-ROM drive, up to eight controllers, audio CD playback. Price is US$699.95, including the game Crash 'n Burn by Crystal Dynamics. The systems are manufactured by Matsushita in Japan.
- 1994 - The name of Euro Disneyland is officially changed to Disneyland Paris.
- 1995 - Ten people are convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in 1993.
- 1995 - In Turkey, a magnitude 6.3 earthquake occurs. One hundred one people killed, 348 injured, 50,000 homeless and 4,500 houses and buildings damaged or destroyed in the Dinar area. About 600 buildings were destroyed at Evciler.
- 1995 - The Disney Channel U.K. begins television broadcasting in the British Isles, as a subscription-only channel.
- 1995 - The Fox TV network begins airing the series Misery Loves Company.
- 1996 - Death of Pat McGeown, Provisional Irish Republican Army member (born 1956).
- 1997 - Luke Woodham walks into Pearl High School in Pearl, Mississippi and opens fire, killing two girls, after killing his mother earlier that morning.
- 1997 - The 10th season of TV show Murphy Brown begins.
- 1998 - Sky Digital television service launches in the United Kingdom.
- 1999 - Pudong International Airport opens in Shanghai, China, taking over all international flights to Hongqiao.
- 2000 - Closing ceremony of Games of the XXVII Olympiad in Sydney, Australia.
- 2001 - Death of Elvira Clain-Stenanelli, Smithsonian Institution numismatic curator.
- 2004 - Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners breaks the major league record for hits in a single season, with hit number 258.
- 2004 - Death of Bruce Palmer, Canadian musician (Buffalo Springfield) (born 1946).
- 2005 - The 2005 Bali bombings kill 26 people and injure more than 100.
- 2005 - The world's largest bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, is formed by the merger of two Japanese banking conglomerates.
- 2006 - Brisbane Broncos beat Melbourne Storm in the controversial 2006 National Rugby League Grand Final at Telstra Stadium in Sydney, Australia.
- 2006 - In general elections in Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva receives 48.6 percent of the presidential popular vote, with Geraldo Alckmin receiving 41.6 percent, forcing a run-off election on October 29.
- 2007 - Russian President Vladimir Putin announces he will head the United Russia party's list in the December general election, and he is likely to become Prime Minister in March.
- 2007 - Norwegian Cruise Line's Norwegian Gem cruise ship (93,502 gross tons, 2384 passengers) enters service in New York.
- 2007 - The minimum age for purchasing tobacco products is raised from 16 to 18 across England and Wales.
- 2007 - Citigroup and UBS announce writedowns of US$9.3 billion of debt due to the credit crisis.
- 2009 - The new Supreme Court begins operation in Great Britain.
- 2010 - David Johnson is sworn in as the 28th Governor General of Canada.
- 2017 - Fifty-eight people are killed and 851 injured when Stephen Paddock opens fire on a crowd in Las Vegas as the deadliest mass shooting perpetrated by a lone gunman in U.S. history.
- 2019 - The Nanfang'ao Bridge, the only steel single-arch bridge in Taiwan, collapses, killing six people and injuring more than twenty others.
- 2020 - Tokyo, Japan, stock exchange has full-day outage, first time in over 20 years, due to malfunctioning data device.
- 2021 - The 2020 World Expo in Dubai begins. Its opening was originally scheduled for October 20, 2020 but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- 2022 - A stampede at a soccer game in Indonesia leads to over 120 deaths.
- 2022 - Death of Antonio Inoki at age 79; Japanese professional wrestler, lawmaker.
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