October 01

Saturday 01, 2005:

Another bombing happens in Bali, almost three years to the anniversary of a similar event which occurred in 2002.

Friday 01, 2004:

Baseball: Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki makes his 258th hit of the season, breaking George Sisler's 84-year-old single-season record.

Thursday 01, 1998:

ICANN assumes responsibility for selling top-level domain names for the Internet.

Saturday 01, 1988:

Mikhail Gorbachev is named head of the Supreme Soviet.

Tuesday 01, 1985:

The Israeli air force bombs PLO Headquarters in Tunis.

Friday 01, 1982:

The EPCOT Center opens at Walt Disney World in Florida, United States.

Monday 01, 1979:

The United States returns sovereignty of the Panama canal to Panama.

Sunday 01, 1978:

The Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party is founded.

Saturday 01, 1977:

Brazilian soccer star Pelé retires.

Wednesday 01, 1975:

Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Phillipines.

Tuesday 01, 1974:

The Watergate trial begins

Friday 01, 1971:

Walt Disney World opens in Orlando, Florida, United States.

Wednesday 01, 1969:

The Concorde supersonic transport plane breaks the sound barrier for the first time.

Tuesday 01, 1968:

The Guyanese government takes over the British Guiana Broadcasting Service (BGBS).

Friday 01, 1965:

General Suharto crushes an attempted coup in Indonesia.

Thursday 01, 1964:

Japanese Shinkansen (or, "bullet trains") begin high-speed rail service from Tokyo to Osaka.

Tuesday 01, 1963:

California State Board of Education created.

Sunday 01, 1961:

Baseball: Roger Maris sets new record for most home runs in a single season with 61, surpassing Babe Ruth's previous mark of 60.

Saturday 01, 1960:

Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom.

Wednesday 01, 1958:

NASA created to replace NACA.

Tuesday 01, 1957:

First appearance of "In God We Trust" on U.S. paper currency.

Saturday 01, 1949:

1949 - First rectangular television tubes manufactured by Kimble Glass.

Tuesday 01, 1946:

Nazi leaders sentenced at Nuremberg Trials.

Friday 01, 1943:

World War II: Naples falls to Allied soldiers.

Tuesday 01, 1940:

The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic.

Saturday 01, 1938:

Germany annexes the Sudetenland.

Thursday 01, 1936:

Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain.

Thursday 01, 1931:

The original Waldorf-Astoria Hotel is opened in New York.

Monday 01, 1928:

The Soviet Union introduces its first Five-Year Plan.

Tuesday 01, 1918:

World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence (aka "Lawrence of Arabia") capture Damascus.

Saturday 01, 1910:

A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles, California, killing 20.

Thursday 01, 1908:

Ford introduces the Model T car.

Thursday 01, 1903:

Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.

Saturday 01, 1898:

The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.

Thursday 01, 1891:

In the U.S. state of California, Stanford University opens its doors.

Wednesday 01, 1890:

The Yosemite National Park is established by the U.S. Congress.

Saturday 01, 1887:

Baluchistan conquered by the British Empire.

Friday 01, 1886:

The U.S. mint in Carson City, Nevada, closes.

Thursday 01, 1885:

1885 - United States begins special-delivery mail service.

Friday 01, 1880:

1880 - First electric lamp factory opened by Thomas Edison.

Friday 01, 1869:

Austria issues the world's first postcards.

Sunday 01, 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.

Friday 01, 1847:

German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens AG & Halske.

Sunday 01, 1843:

News of the World began publication in London.

Thursday 01, 1829:

South African College is founded in Cape Town, South Africa; later to become the University of Cape Town.

Saturday 01, 1814:

Opening of the Congress of Vienna, intended to redraw the Europe's political map after the defeat of Napoleon the previous spring.

Tuesday 01, 1811:

The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River arrives in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Wednesday 01, 1800:

Spain cedes Louisiana to France via the Treaty of San Ildefonso.

Thursday 01, 1795:

Belgium is conquered by France.

Saturday 01, 1791:

First session of the French Legislative Assembly.

Wednesday 01, 1788:

Nguyen Hue declares himself emperor of Viet Nam.

Tuesday 01, 965:

John XIII becomes Pope.

Monday 01, 959:

Edgar the Peaceable becomes king of all England.

Friday 01, -331:

Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela.

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