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

  • 331 BC –
    Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela.
  • 959 –
    Edgar the Peaceable becomes king of all England.
  • 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.
  • 1847 –
    German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens AG & Halske.
  • 1903 –
    Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
  • 1918 –
    World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence, also known as “Lawrence of Arabia” capture Damascus.
  • 1920 –
    Sir Percy Cox lands in Basra to assume his responsibilities as high commissioner in Iraq.
  • 1939 –
    After a one-month Siege of Warsaw, hostile forces enter the city.
  • 1942 –
    First flight of the Bell XP-59 “Aircomet”.
  • 1942 –
    USS Grouper torpedoes Lisbon Maru not knowing she is carrying British PoWs from Hong Kong
  • 1947 –
    The F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.
  • 1949 –
    The People’s Republic of China is established and declared by Mao Zedong.
  • 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.
  • 1979 –
    The United States returns sovereignty of the Panama canal to Panama.
  • 1985 –
    The Israeli air force bombs PLO Headquarters in Tunis.
  • 1989 –
    Denmark introduces the world’s first legal modern same-sex civil union called “registered partnership”.
  • 1991 –
    New Zealand’s Resource Management Act 1991 comes into force.
  • 1991 –
    The Siege of Dubrovnik begins

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