About October 1
October 1, 2023 is the 274th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 91 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 132 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 1
- 1787 –Russians under Alexander Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn.
- 1791 –First session of the French Legislative Assembly.
- 1847 –German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens AG & Halske.
- 1880 –John Philip Sousa becomes leader of the United States Marine Band.
- 1905 –František Pavlík is killed in a demonstration in Prague, inspiring Leoš Janáček to the piano composition 1. X. 1905.
- 1910 –Los Angeles Times bombing: A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles, California, killing 21.
- 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.
- 1960 –Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1962 –First broadcast of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
- 1969 –Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
- 1971 –The first brain-scan using x-ray computed tomography (CT or CAT scan) is performed at Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon, London.
- 1978 –The Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party is founded.
- 1978 –Tuvalu gains independence from the United Kingdom.
- 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).
- 1998 –Vladimir Putin becomes a permanent member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
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