Historical Events on October 1

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• 366 St Damasus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
• 704 Aengibald gives away bishop Willibrord estate in Waalre
• 911 During a siege in Constantinople, the Theotokos (Mary, the mother of Jesus) appeared at the church in Blachernae holding her veil over the praying faithful, among them St. Andrew of Constantinople.
• 959 Edgar I, the Peaceful, becomes king of all England
• 965 John XIII Crescentii elected to succeed Pope Leo VIII
• 1189 Gerard de Ridefort, grandmaster of the Knights Templar since 1184, is killed in the Siege of Acre
• 1273 Count Rudolf van Habsburg becomes the first King of the Germans

• 1529 -3] Meeting between Maarten Luther & Huldrych Zwingli

• 1574 -2] Storm breaks Leiden dike; drowns 20,000 Spanish soldiers
• 1606 Spanish troops under Spinola occupies fort Rhine birch
• 1653 Russian parliament accepts annexation of Ukraine

• 1670 -4] Battle at Simbirsk a/d Wolga: Russian army beats Boers
• 1688 Prince William of Orange accepts invitation of take up the British crown
• 1705 Parliament declares Hungary independent, French Rákóczi becomes king

• 1768 British troops under General Thomas Gage land in Boston
• 1787 Russians under Suvorov defeat the Turks at Kinburn
• 1791 1st session of new French legislative assembly
• 1795 Belgium is conquered by France
• 1795 France annexes Southern Netherlands
• 1800 Spain cedes Louisiana to France in a secret treaty
• 1801 Britain & France sign Preliminary of London

• 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.
• 1830 General Trade Journal newspaper begins publishing in Amsterdam
• 1837 "Racer's" Hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico
• 1837 US imposes treaty on Winnebago Indians in Wisconsin
• 1843 News of the World begins publication in London

• 1847 Maria Mitchell discovers a non-naked-eye comet
• 1851 1st Hawaiian stamps issued

• 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.
• 1863 5 Russian warships welcomed in NYC
• 1863 Dutch Breda-Tilburg railway opens
• 1864 Cyclone strikes Calcutta: 70,000 killed
• 1864 John Summerfield Staples is paid $500 as a substitute for US President Abraham Lincoln
• 1866 Dutch Eindhoven-Venlo railway opens

• 1868 1st edition of Maasbode published
• 1868 St Pancras railway station opens in London, largest single span roof in the world (689ft (240m) long, 100ft high (30m) a high point of Victorian Gothic architecture [1]
• 1869 1st postcards are issued in Vienna, Austria
• 1871 General Dutch Werkliedenverbond (ANWV), forms in Utrecht
• 1874 Rotterdam opens drinking water pipes
• 1879 Cincinnati Enquirer publishes first report on Baseball's reserve clause; rights to players retained by team upon the contract's expiration; replaced by free agency

• 1885 Special delivery mail service begins in US
• 1886 US mint at Carson City, Nevada, closes
• 1887 Balochistan (part of modern Pakistan) conquered by the British
• 1888 National Geographic magazine publishes for the 1st time
• 1889 Dutch soccer club HFC Haarlem is founded; National champions 1946; bankrupt in 2010; merge with HFC Kennemerland, new club Haarlem Kennemerland
• 1889 Washington voters adopt state constitution in referendum
• 1890 Germany's anti-socialist laws lapse
• 1890 US Congress creates Weather Bureau
• 1890 US Congress establishes Yosemite National Park (California)

• 1892 University of Chicago opens
• 1894 Civic organization, Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben founded in Omaha, Nebraska
• 1894 First meeting of The Owl Club of Cape Town
• 1895 Romanians in Costantinople massacred
• 1898 Dutch railway Alkmaar-Receiver opens
• 1898 Henry Huntington buys LA Railway
• 1898 Jews are expelled from Kyiv, Ukraine
• 1898 The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.
• 1898 Tsar Nikolay II expels Jews from major Russian cities
• 1904 JB van Heutsz becomes governor general of Dutch East Indies
• 1904 Netherlands and Portugal lay down boundaries splitting the island of Timor in two

• 1907 Plaza Hotel at 5th Avenue & 59th Street opens in New York
• 1908 1st Dutch electric railway in use (Rotterdam-The Hague)

• 1910 Berkshire Cattle Fair held in Pittsfield Mass (1st state fair)
• 1910 Explosion at LA Times kills 21
• 1910 Regina Rugby Club (to become CFL Saskatchewan Roughriders) plays first game, losing to Moose Jaw Tigers, 16-6
• 1911 United Dutch Diamond workers get 8-hr day
• 1914 The first division of Canadian troops, 33,000 sail for Britain; most Canadians are volunteers, anxious to prove their loyalty to the Commonwealth
• 1914 The Prince of Asir, the southern region of Arabia, rises in revolt against the Turks; his actions will inspire other Arab leaders to revolt

• 1920 Dutch law provides for an 8 hour working day
• 1920 Sir Percy Cox landed in Basra to assume his responsibilities as high commissioner in Iraq.
• 1921 WJZ, Newark NJ begins broadcasting
• 1922 Former Chicago Staleys play first NFL game as Chicago Bears; beat Racine Legion, 6-0 at Horlick Field, Racine, Wisconsin

• 1927 Pittsburgh Pirates with a team including 5 future Baseball Hall of Famers clinch NL pennant with 9-6 win v Cincinnati Reds; Pirates' last NL pennant until 1960
• 1928 Finnish distance runner Paavo Nurmi runs 15k world record 46:49.6 and 10 miles 50:15.0 in Berlin, Germany
• 1928 Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) opens in the Westchester section of Los Angeles California
• 1928 USSR launches its first 5-year plan
• 1929 Spanish pianist José Iturbi makes his US debut with Leopold Stokowski and The Philadelphia Orchestra at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia
• 1931 Spanish Cortes accept general female suffrage
• 1931 The second (and current) Waldorf-Astoria Hotel is opened in New York.

• 1933 Washington Senators coach Nick Altrock plays in a MLB game at age 57 as a pinch-hitter; faces Rube Walberg of the Philadelphia A's; goes hitless in 3-0 loss

• 1937 Pullman Co formally recognizes Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters

• 1939 After a one-month Siege of Warsaw, hostile forces entered the city.

• 1940 Pennsylvania Turnpike, pioneer toll thruway, opens

• 1942 Bell P-59 Airacomet fighter, 1st US jet, makes maiden flight
• 1942 Little Golden Books (children's books) begins publishing
• 1943 1st King's Dragoon Guards (Royal Amoured Corps) liberates suburbs of Naples
• 1943 Allied forces captured Naples during WW II
• 1943 Averell Harriman named US ambassador to Moscow
• 1943 Germans attack Jews in Denmark
• 1944 Newspaper editor Alejandro Córdova assassinated in Guatemala
• 1944 St Louis Browns beat New York Yankees 5-2 at Sportsman's Park III to win their only AL pennant; lose World Series 4-2 to neighbour Cardinals
• 1945 US Office of Strategic Services (OSS), precursor to the CIA, disbands

• 1946 12 Nazi war criminals sentenced to death in Nuremberg

• 1946 St. Louis Cardinals beats Brooklyn Dodgers, 4-2 in first MLB play-off game for a league championship (NL); St Louis wins series, 2-0
• 1947 1st helicopter air mail & express service, LA, Ca
• 1947 The F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.
• 1947 US control of Haitian customs & governmental revenue ends
• 1947 William Wister Haines' "Command Decision" premieres in NYC
• 1948 California Supreme Court voids state statute banning interracial marriages, in Perez v. Sharp case
• 1948 Radio Denmark begins transmitting

• 1949 Publication of poetry volume "Annie Allen" by Gwendolyn Books, - 1950 Pulitzer Prize for poetry and first African American recipient of a Pulitzer [1]
• 1949 Republic of China (Taiwan) forms on island of Formosa

• 1950 Philadelphia Phillies clinch NL pennant on Dick Sisler's 3-run home run in a season ending 4-1 win v Brooklyn Dodgers; Phillies first pennant since 1913
• 1950 South Korean troops cross the 38th parallel into North Korea
• 1951 1st treaty signed by woman ambassador-Eugenie Anderson (US ambassador to Denmark)
• 1951 24th Infantry Regiment, last all-black US military unit, deactivated
• 1952 1st ultra high frequency (UHF) television station, Portland Or
• 1952 Liberal Party wins Japanese elections
• 1952 Monte Bello-Island (Great Britain 1st atom bomb explosion)
• 1953 Indian state of Andhra Pradesh partitioned from Madras
• 1953 KJEO TV channel 47 in Fresno, CA (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1953 KYTV TV channel 3 in Springfield, MO (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1953 WATE TV channel 6 in Knoxville, TN (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1953 WREX TV channel 13 in Rockford, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1954 British colony of Nigeria becomes a federation
• 1955 Baltimore Colts fullback Alan Ameche becomes the first rookie in NFL history to top 100 yards rushing in his first 2 games; totals 153 against Detroit Lions after 194 yards in debut v Chicago Bears

• 1955 Piet Lieftinck becomes director v/h IMF (World bank)
• 1955 WORA TV channel 5 in Mayaguez, PR (TCI) begins broadcasting
• 1956 American jockey Johnny Heckmann becomes first to ride 7 winners at Hawthorne Race Course at Stickney/Cicero near Chicago, Illinois
• 1956 Zestienhoven airport at Rotterdam official opens
• 1957 B-52 bombers begin full-time flying alert in case of USSR attack
• 1957 First appearance of "In God We Trust" on U.S. paper currency.
• 1958 Britain transfers Christmas Island (south of Java) to Australia
• 1958 US space agency NASA begins operations incorporating earlier National Advisory Council on Aeronautics and other bodies
• 1960 KCBY TV channel 11 in Coos Bay, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting
• 1960 Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom (National Day) and becomes the 99th member of the United Nations

• 1961 A volcanco believed to be extinct erupts in Tristan da Cunha
• 1961 East & West Cameroon merge as Federal Republic of Cameroon
• 1961 KGIN TV channel 11 in Grand Island, NB (CBS) begins broadcasting

• 1961 Premiere of Dmitri Shostakovich's 12nd Symphony
• 1961 The Beach Boys record their debut single "Surfin", introducing a new musical style
• 1961 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1961 WOLO TV channel 25 in Columbia, SC (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1961 WYAH TV channel 27 in Portsmouth, VA (IND) begins broadcasting
• 1962 "The Lucy Show" premieres on CBS

• 1962 James Meredith enrolls for classes at University of Mississippi, desegregating the college

• 1962 UN gives Netherlands control of New Guinea
• 1962 US National Radio Astronomy Observatory installs a 300' (91m) radio telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia
• 1962 WEDH TV channel 24 in Hartford, Connecticut (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1963 Nigeria enacts a new constitution and becomes a republic
• 1964 1st official broadcast of Trans World Radio on Bonaire
• 1964 2nd Dutch televisienet begins broadcastings
• 1964 Free Speech Movement launched at University of California, Berkley
• 1964 San Francisco cable cars declared a national landmark
• 1964 WSJU TV channel 18 in Carolina, PR begins broadcasting
• 1964 WTSJ TV channel 18 in San Juan, PR (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1964 WWAY TV channel 3 in Wilmington, NC (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1965 Failed coup under lt col Untung in Indonesia
• 1965 France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
• 1966 Newspaper magnate Thomson purchases "The Times"
• 1966 WAEO (now WJFW) TV channel 12 in Rhinelander, WI (NBC) begins
• 1966 West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with eighteen fatal injuries and no survivors 5.5 miles south of Wemme, Oregon. This accident marks the first loss of a DC-9.
• 1967 KBFI (now KDAF) TV channel 33 in Dallas-Fort Worth, TX (IND) begins

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