About October 1
October 1, 2024 is the 275th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 91 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 120 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 1
- 1553 –Coronation of Queen Mary I of England
- 1800 –Spain cedes Louisiana to France via the Treaty of San Ildefonso.
- 1827 –Russo-Persian War: The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination in Armenia.
- 1847 –German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens AG & Halske.
- 1880 –First electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison.
- 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.
- 1908 –Ford puts the Model T car on the market at a price of US$825.
- 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.
- 1938 –Germany annexes the Sudetenland.
- 1942 –USS Grouper torpedoes Lisbon Maru not knowing she is carrying British PoWs from Hong Kong
- 1946 –Mensa International is founded in the United Kingdom.
- 1968 –The Guyanese government takes over the British Guiana Broadcasting Service (BGBS).
- 1971 –Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida, United States.
- 1975 –Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines.
- 1982 –Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a Constructive Vote of No Confidence.
- 1985 –The Israeli air force bombs PLO Headquarters in Tunis.
- 1987 –The Whittier Narrows earthquake shakes the San Gabriel Valley, registering as magnitude 5.9.
- 1991 –The Siege of Dubrovnik begins
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