Events
331 BC -
Alexander the Great defeats
Darius III of Persia in the
Battle of Gaugamela.911 - During a siege in
Constantinople, the
Theotokos appeared at the church in
Blachernae holding her veil over the praying faithful, among them St. Andrew of Constantinople.959 -
Edgar the Peaceable becomes king of all
England.1189 -
Gerard de Ridefort, grandmaster of the
Knights Templar since 1184, is killed in the
Siege of Acre.
1787 - Russians under
Suvorov defeat the Turks
at Kinburn.
1788 - Nguyen Hue declares himself emperor of
Vietnam.
1791 - First session of the
French Legislative Assembly.
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 the
Europe's political map after the defeat of
Napoléon the previous spring.
1827 - The Russian army under
Ivan Paskevich storms
Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination in
Armenia.
1829 -
South African College is founded in
Cape Town,
South Africa; later to separate into the
University of Cape Town and the
South African College Schools.
1843 -
News of the World began publication in
London.
1847 -
German inventor and industrialist
Werner von Siemens founds
Siemens AG & Halske.
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.
1869 -
Austria issues the world's first
postcards.
1880 -
John Philip Sousa becomes leader of the
United States Marine Corps Band.1880 - First electric lamp factory opened by
Thomas Edison.
1885 - United States begins special-delivery mail service.
1886 - The U.S. mint in
Carson City, Nevada, closes.
1887 -
Balochistan conquered by the
British Empire.
1890 - The
Yosemite National Park is established by the
U.S. Congress.
1891 - In the
U.S. state of
California,
Stanford University opens its doors.
1894 - First meeting of
The Owl Club of
Cape Town.
1898 -
Czar Nikolay II expels
Jews from major
Russian cities.1898 - The
Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.
1903 -
Baseball: The
Boston Americans play the
Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern
World Series.
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 (a/k/a "Lawrence of Arabia") capture
Damascus.
1920 -
Sir Percy Cox landed in
Basra to assume his responsibilities as
high commissioner in
Iraq.
1926 - An oil field accident cost aviator
Wiley Post his left eye, but he used the settlement money to buy his first aircraft.1926 -
Arirang premiers in
Seoul.
1928 - The
Soviet Union introduces its
First Five-Year Plan.
1931 - The
George Washington Bridge linking
New Jersey and
New York opens.1931 - The second (and current)
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel is opened in
New York.
1936 -
Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of
Spain.
1938 -
Germany annexes the
Sudetenland.
1939 - After a one-month
Siege of Warsaw, hostile forces entered the city.
1940 - The
Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first
superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic.
1942 -
USS Grouper torpedoes
Lisbon Maru not knowing she was carrying British
PoWs from
Hong Kong1942 - First flight of the
Bell XP-59 "Aircomet".
1943 -
World War II:
Naples falls to
Allied soldiers.
1946 -
Nazi leaders sentenced at
Nuremberg Trials.
1947 - The
F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.
1949 - The
People's Republic of China is declared by
Mao Zedong.
1957 - First appearance of "
In God We Trust" on U.S. paper currency.
1958 -
NASA created to replace
NACA.
1960 -
Nigeria gains independence from the
United Kingdom.
1961 - East and West Cameroon merge as Federal Republic of
Cameroon.
1964 - The
Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of
University of California, Berkeley.1964 -
Japanese Shinkansen ("bullet trains") begin high-speed rail service from
Tokyo to
Osaka.
1965 -
Apostasia of 1965, a political move in Greece designed to overthrow the Prime Minister,
George Papandreou.1965 - General
Suharto crushes an attempted
coup in
Indonesia.
1968 - The
Guyanese government takes over the British Guiana Broadcasting Service (BGBS).
1969 - The
Concorde supersonic transport plane breaks the
sound barrier for the first time.
1971 -
Walt Disney World opens near
Orlando, Florida,
United States.
1975 - The
Seychelles gain internal self-government. The
Ellice Islands split from
Gilbert Islands and take the name
Tuvalu. 1975 -
Thrilla in Manila:
Muhammad Ali defeats
Joe Frazier in a
boxing match in
Manila,
Philippines.
1978 -
Tuvalu gains independence from the
United Kingdom.
1978 - The
Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party is founded.
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.1982 -
EPCOT Center opens at
Walt Disney World near
Orlando, Florida,
United States.1982 -
Sony launches the first consumer
compact disc player (model CDP-101).
1985 - The
Israeli air force bombs
PLO Headquarters in
Tunis.
1987 - The
Whittier Narrows earthquake shook the
San Gabriel Valley, registering as a
magnitude 5.9.
1989 -
Denmark: World's first legal modern same-sex civil union called "registered partnership"
1992 -
National Council of the Slovak Republic is arose
1994 -
Palau gains independence from the
United Nations trusteeship administered by the
United States of America.
1998 -
Vladimir Putin became a permanent member of the
Security Council of the Russian Federation.
2004 -
Baseball:
Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki makes his 258th hit of the season, breaking
George Sisler's 84-year-old single-season record.
2005 -
Bombing kills 23 people in
Bali.
2006 -
Age discrimination in employment is made illegal in the
United Kingdom.
See more at Wikipedia.org...
1. Oktober
Free Download Now!
