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
- 331 BC –Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela.
- 959 –Edgar the Peaceable becomes king of all England.
- 1189 –Gerard de Ridefort, grandmaster of the Knights Templar since 1184, is killed in the Siege of Acre.
- 1795 –Belgium is conquered by France.
- 1847 –German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens AG & Halske.
- 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.
- 1880 –John Philip Sousa becomes leader of the United States Marine Band.
- 1898 –The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.
- 1918 –World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence, also known as “Lawrence of Arabia” capture Damascus.
- 1931 –The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opens.
- 1936 –Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain.
- 1942 –USS Grouper torpedoes Lisbon Maru not knowing she is carrying British PoWs from Hong Kong
- 1943 –World War II: Naples falls to Allied soldiers.
- 1961 –East and West Cameroon merge to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon.
- 1964 –The Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of University of California, Berkeley.
- 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.
- 1969 –Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
- 1971 –Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida, United States.
- 1975 –The Seychelles gain internal self-government. The Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands and take the name Tuvalu.
- 1991 –The Siege of Dubrovnik begins
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