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On this day October 01

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.

2017


An independence referendum, declared illegal by the Constitutional Court of Spain, takes place in Catalonia, Spain.

2015


Heavy rains trigger a major landslide in the village of El Cambray Dos within Santa Catarina Pinula, killing 280 people.

2015


Umpqua Community College shooting: A gunman kills nine people at a community college in Roseburg, Oregon.

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.

2012


A ferry collision off the coast of Hong Kong kills 38 people and injures 102 others.

2009


The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom takes over the judicial functions of the House of Lords.

2001


Militants attack the state legislature building in Srinagar, Kashmir, killing 38.

1994


Palau gains independence from the United Nations (trusteeship administered by the United States of America).

1992


Cartoon Network is launched.

1991


The Siege of Dubrovnik begins.

1989


Denmark introduces the world's first legal modern same-sex civil union called "registered partnership".

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.

1985


The Israeli Air Force bombs Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) headquarters in Tunis.

1982


Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101).

1982


Epcot opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.

1982


Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a constructive vote of no confidence.

1979


The United States returns sovereignty of the Panama Canal to Panama.

1979


The MTR, the rapid transit railway system in Hong Kong, opens.

1979


Pope John Paul II begins his first pastoral visit to the United States.

1978


The Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party is founded.

1978


Tuvalu gains independence from the United Kingdom.

1975


Al Jackson, Jr. (Booker T. & the M.G.'s), is fatally shot five times in the back in his own home.

1975


Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines.

1975


The Seychelles gain internal self-government. The Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands and take the name Tuvalu.

1971


The first brain-scan using x-ray computed tomography (CT or CAT scan) is performed at Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon, London.

1971


Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida, United States.

1969


Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.

1968


The Guyanese government takes over the British Guiana Broadcasting Service (BGBS).

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.

1965


General Suharto puts down an apparent coup attempt by the 30 September Movement in Indonesia.

1964


Japanese Shinkansen ("bullet trains") begin high-speed rail service from Tokyo to Osaka.

1964


The Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of University of California, Berkeley.

1962


First broadcast of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

1961


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

1961


The United States Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is formed, becoming the country's first centralized military espionage organization.

1960


Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom.

1958


NASA is created to replace NACA.

1957


First appearance of In God we trust on U.S. paper currency.

1955


Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region is established.

1949


The People's Republic of China is established and declared by Mao Zedong.

1947


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

1946


Daegu October Incident occurs in Allied occupied Korea.

1946


Nazi leaders are sentenced at Nuremberg trials.

1943


World War II: Naples falls to Allied soldiers.

1942


World War II: USS Grouper torpedoes Lisbon Maru not knowing she is carrying British PoWs from Hong Kong

1940


The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic.

1939


After a one-month Siege of Warsaw, hostile Nazi forces enter the city.

1938


Germany annexes the Sudetenland.

1937


The Japanese city Handa is founded in Aichi Prefecture.

1936


Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain.

1931


Spain adopts women's suffrage.

1931


The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opens.

1928


The Soviet Union introduces its first five-year plan.

1920


Sir Percy Cox lands in Basra to assume his responsibilities as High Commissioner in Iraq.

1918


Sayid Abdullah becomes last Khan of Khiva.

1918


World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence, also known as "Lawrence of Arabia", capture Damascus.

1910


Los Angeles Times bombing: A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles, killing 21.

1908


Ford puts the Model T car on the market at a price of US$825.

1903


Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.

1898


The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.

1891


Stanford University opens its doors in California.

1890


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

1887


Balochistan is conquered by the British Empire.

1880


First electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison.

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

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.

1843


The News of the World tabloid begins publication in London.

1832


Texian political delegates convene at San Felipe de Austin to petition for changes in the governance of Mexican Texas.

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.

1827


Russo-Persian War: The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination of Armenia.

1814


Opening of the Congress of Vienna, intended to redraw Europe's political map after the defeat of Napoleon the previous spring.

1800


Spain cedes Louisiana to France via the Third Treaty of San Ildefonso.

1795


The Austrian Netherlands (present-day Belgium) are annexed by Revolutionary France.

1791


First session of the French Legislative Assembly.

1787


Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.

1730


Ahmed III is forced to give up the throne.

1588


Coronation of Shah Abbas I of Persia.

1553


Coronation of Queen Mary I of England.

965


Pope John XIII is elected.

959


Edgar the Peaceful becomes king of all England.

366


Pope Damasus I is elected.

331 BC


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

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