About October 1
October 1, 2021 is the 274th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 91 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 123 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 1
- 1795 –Belgium is conquered by France.
- 1800 –Spain cedes Louisiana to France via the Treaty of San Ildefonso.
- 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.
- 1827 –Russo-Persian War: The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination in Armenia.
- 1880 –John Philip Sousa becomes leader of the United States Marine Band.
- 1887 –Balochistan is conquered by the British Empire.
- 1936 –Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain.
- 1937 –The Japanese city Handa is founded in Aichi Prefecture.
- 1938 –Germany annexes the Sudetenland.
- 1942 –USS Grouper torpedoes Lisbon Maru not knowing she is carrying British PoWs from Hong Kong
- 1946 –Nazi leaders are sentenced at Nuremberg Trials.
- 1947 –The F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.
- 1960 –Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1961 –East and West Cameroon merge to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon.
- 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 –Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a Constructive Vote of No Confidence.
- 1991 –New Zealand’s Resource Management Act 1991 comes into force.
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