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The 1t o October is the 274t day o the year (275t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 91 days bidin.
Events
1890: Yosemite Naitional Pairk
1949: Banner o the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae
1960: Banner o Nigerie
1975 an 1978: Banner o Tuvalu
- 331 BC – Alexander the Great defeats Darius III o Persie in the Battle o Gaugamela.
- 959 – Edgar the Peaceable becomes king o aw Ingland.
- 1553 – Coronation o Queen Mary I o Ingland.
- 1800 – Spain cedes Louisiana tae Fraunce.
- 1814 – The Congress o Vienna stairts.
- 1890 – The Japanese ceety o Nagoya is foondit.
- 1890 – The Yosemite Naitional Pairk is creatit in Californie bi an act o Unitit States Congress.
- 1931 – Spain allows weemen tae vote.
- 1936 – Francisco Franco is declarit Heid o the Naitionalist Govrenment in Spain.
- 1946 – The Nuremberg Trials o leadin Nazis conclude.
- 1949 – The Fowkrepublic o Cheenae is established an declared bi Mao Zedong.
- 1960 – Nigerie gains unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick.
- 1961 – Inglis-speakin an French-speakin Cameroon merge intae a single kintra.
- 1975 – The Ellice Islands (nou Tuvalu) split frae the Gilbert Islands (nou Kiribati).
- 1975 – Boxer Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in the "Thrilla in Manila".
- 1977 – Brazilian fitbawer Pelé ends his playin career.
- 1978 – Tuvalu gains unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick.
- 1982 – Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor o Wast Germany.
- 1988 – German tennis player Steffi Graf manages tae win aw 4 Grand Slams an Olympic Gowd (in the singles) tae complete a "Gowden Slam".
- 1989 – Denmark becomes the first kintra tae introduce ceevil pairtnerships for same-sex couples.
- 1994 – Palau gains unthirldom frae the Unitit Naitions (trusteeship admeenistered bi the US).
- 1995 – A yirdquauk in Dinar, Turkey, kills 100 fowk.
- 2000 – The 2000 Simmer Olympics in Sydney, Australie, end.
- 2001 – Militants storm the state legislatur in Srinagar, Kashmir, killin 36 fowk.
- 2005 – Bomb attacks in Bali kill 26 fowk.
- 2009 – The Supreme Coort o the Unitit Kinrick taks ower the justicial pouers o the Hoose o Lairds.
- 2012 – A ferry collision in Hong Kong kills 38 fowk.
- 2014 – Jens Stoltenberg becomes Secretar-General o NATO.
- 2017 – The first same-sex marriages in Germany tak place.
- 2017 – A ban on face coverins enters intae force in Austrick.
- 2017 – Catalonie, in northeast Spain, haulds a disputit referendum on unthirldom; Figurs suggest 90% o voters, on a 42% turnoot, votit for unthirldom.
- 2017 – 2017 Las Vegas Strip shuitin: 64-year-auld Stephen Paddock carries oot the deadliest mass shuitin bi a seengle gunman in recent Unitit States histerie in Las Vegas, Nevada, killin 59 fowk an injurin ower 500.
Births
Jimmy Carter
Theresa May
- 208 – Alexander Severus, Roman Emperor (d. 234)
- 1207 – Henry III o Ingland (d. 1272)
- 1541 – El Greco, Greek-Spainyie penter (d. 1614)
- 1685 – Charles VI, Haly Roman Emperor (d. 1740)
- 1843 – George Strath, Scots gowfer (d. 1919)
- 1890 – Stanley Holloway, Inglis actor (d. 1982)
- 1895 – Liaquat Ali Khan, Prime meenister o Pakistan (d. 1951)
- 1903 – Vladimir Horowitz, Ukrainian-born American pianist (d. 1989)
- 1920 – Walter Matthau, American actor (d. 2000)
- 1922 – Chen-Ning Yang, Cheenese pheesicist
- 1924 – Jimmy Carter, 39nt Preses o the Unitit States
- 1928 – George Peppard, American actor (d. 1994)
- 1930 – Richard Harris, Erse actor (d. 2002)
- 1935 – Julie Andrews, Inglis actress an sangster
- 1945 – Ram Nath Kovind, Indie politeecian, Preses o Indie
- 1950 – Randy Quaid, American actor
- 1953 – Klaus Wowereit, umwhile Mayor o Berlin
- 1956 – Andrus Ansip, Estonie politeecian, umwhile Prime meenister o Estonie
- 1956 – Theresa May, Inglis politeecian, umwhile Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick
- 1959 – Youssou N'Dour, Senegalese muisicker an politeecian
- 1963 – Eric Black, Scots fitbawer
- 1966 – George Weah, Liberie fitbawer an politeecian, Preses o Liberie
- 1985 – Gerry Cinnamon, Scots sangster-sangwriter an guitarist
- 1986 – Sayaka Kanda, Japanese actress an sangster
- 1989 – Brie Larson, American actress
Daiths
- 1404 – Pape Boniface IX (b. 1350)
- 1684 – Pierre Corneille, French dramatist (b. 1606)
- 1708 – John Blow, Inglis componer (b. 1649)
- 1838 – Charles Tennant, Scots chemist an industrialist (b. 1768)
- 1868 – Mongkut, King o Siam (b. 1804)
- 1972 – Louis Leakey, Kenyan anthropologist (b. 1903)
- 1985 – E. B. White, American writer (b. 1899)
- 1992 – Petra Kelly, German politeecian (b. 1947)
- 2012 – Eric Hobsbawm, Egyptian-Inglish historian an author (b. 1917)
- 2013 – Tom Clancy, American writer (b. 1947)
- 2018 – Charles Aznavour, French-Armenian sangster, actor an diplomat (b. 1924)
Halidays
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