About October 1
October 1, 2025 is the 274th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 91 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Libra is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 139 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 1
- 1791 –First session of the French Legislative Assembly.
- 1811 –The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River arrives in New Orléans, Louisiana.
- 1814 –Opening of the Congress of Vienna, intended to redraw Europe’s political map after the defeat of Napoléon the previous spring.
- 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.
- 1880 –First electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison.
- 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.
- 1946 –Mensa International is founded in the United Kingdom.
- 1957 –First appearance of In God We Trust on U.S. paper currency.
- 1962 –First broadcast of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
- 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.
- 1965 –General Suharto rises to power after a coup that alleged to the Communist Party of Indonesia. In response, Suharto and his army massacre over a million Indonesians suspected of being communists. The killings of 7 army officers happened in the early hours of 1 October 1965.
- 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).
- 1979 –The United States returns sovereignty of the Panama canal to Panama.
- 1982 –EPCOT Center 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.
- 1982 –Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101).
- 1987 –The Whittier Narrows earthquake shakes the San Gabriel Valley, registering as magnitude 5.9.
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