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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!.
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!.
1887 - Balochistan conquered by the British Empire!.
1890 - The Yosemite National Park and the Yellowstone National Park are 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 - Franti?ek Pavlík is killed in a demonstration in Prague, inspiring Leo? Janá?ek 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!.
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 Kong
1942 - First flight of the Bell XP-59 "Aircomet"!.
1943 - World War II: Naples falls to Allied soldiers!.
1946 - Nazi leaders sentenced at Nuremberg Trials!.
1946 - Mensa International is founded in the United Kingdom!.
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!.
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!.
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"
1991 - New Zealand's Resource Management Act 1991 commences!.
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 gets 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!.
2007 - Most of the Racial and Religious Hatred Act 2006 came into force in the United Kingdom!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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October 1, 1971 Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida, United States!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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Everything that happened on October 1st in history is listed below!.Www@QuestionHome@Com