Independence
day
China
Cyprus
Nigeria
Palau
Tuvalu
UN
Day
International
Day of Older Persons
Events
of the day
Past Observances
2009 - Celebrating the 10th Anniversary fo the International
Year of Older Persons: Towards a Society for All
Ages
2008 - Rights of Older Persons
2007 - Addressing the Challenges and Opportunities
of Ageing
2006 - Improving the Quality of Life for Older Persons:
Advancing UN Global Strategies
2005 - Ageing in the new millennium. Focus on poverty,
older women and development
2004 - Older persons in an intergenerational society
2009 - Celebrating the 10th Anniversary fo the International
Year of Older Persons: Towards a Society for All
Ages
2008 - Rights of Older Persons
2007 - Addressing the Challenges and Opportunities
of Ageing
2006 - Improving the Quality of Life for Older Persons:
Advancing UN Global Strategies
2005 - Ageing in the new millennium. Focus on poverty,
older women and development
2004 - Older persons in an intergenerational society
Events
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BC – Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia
in the Battle of Gaugamela.
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.
1553 – Coronation of Queen Mary I of England.
1787 – Russians under Alexander 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 Europe's political map after the defeat
of Napoléon the previous spring.
1827 – Russo-Persian War: 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; it will later separate into
the University of Cape Town and the South African
College Schools.
1832 – Texian political delegates convened at San
Felipe de Austin to petition for changes in the
governance of Mexican Texas.
1843 – The News of the World tabloid begins 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.
1880 – John Philip Sousa becomes leader of the United
States Marine Band.
1880 – First electric lamp factory is opened by
Thomas Edison.
1887 – Balochistan is conquered by the British Empire.
1890 – Yosemite National Park is established by
the U.S. Congress.
1891 – In the U.S. state of California, Stanford
University opens its doors.
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,
also known as "Lawrence of Arabia" capture
Damascus.
1920 – Sir Percy Cox lands in Basra to assume his
responsibilities as high commissioner in Iraq.
1928 – The Soviet Union introduces its First Five-Year
Plan.
1931 – The George Washington Bridge linking New
Jersey and New York opens.
1936 – Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist
government of Spain.
1937 – The Japanese city Handa is founded in Aichi
Prefecture.
1938 – Germany annexes the Sudetenland.
1939 – After a one-month Siege of Warsaw, hostile
forces enter 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 is 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 are 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 established
and declared by Mao Zedong.
1957 – First appearance of In God We Trust on U.S.
paper currency.
1958 – NASA is created to replace NACA.
1960 – Nigeria gains independence from the United
Kingdom.
1961 – East and West Cameroon merge to form the
Federal Republic of Cameroon.
1962 – First broadcast of The Tonight Show Starring
Johnny Carson.
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 – General Suharto rises to power after a coup
that alleged to the Communist Party of Indonesia.
In response, Suharto and his army massacre over
a million Indonesians suspected of being communists.
The killings of 7 army officers happened in the
early hours of 1 October 1965.
1966 – West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with
eighteen fatalities 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 – Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the
first time.
1971 – Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida,
United States.
1971 – The first brain-scan using x-ray computed
tomography (CT or CAT scan) is performed at Atkinson
Morley Hospital in Wimbledon, London.
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 shakes the
San Gabriel Valley, registering as magnitude 5.9.
1989 – Denmark introduces the world's first legal
modern same-sex civil union called "registered
partnership".
1991 – New Zealand's Resource Management Act 1991
comes into force.
1991 – The Siege of Dubrovnik begins.
1994 – Palau gains independence from the United
Nations (trusteeship administered by the United
States of America).
1998 – Vladimir Putin becomes a permanent member
of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
2009 – The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom takes
over the judicial functions of the House of Lords.
Holidays
and observances
Armed
Forces Day (South Korea)
Christian Feast Day:
Abai (Syrian Orthodox Church)
Bavo of Ghent
Blessed Edward James
Nicetius (Roman Catholic Church)
Remigius
Thérèse de Lisieux
Protection/Patronage of the Theotokos (Eastern Catholic
Churches)
October 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Children's Day (Singapore)
Earliest day on which World Habitat Day can fall,
while October 7 is the latest; celebrated on the
first Monday of October. (International)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of
Cyprus from United Kingdom in 1960.
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of
Nigeria from United Kingdom in 1960.
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of
Palau from the UN Trust Territory status in 1994.
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of
Tuvalu from United Kingdom in 1978.
International Day of Older Persons
National Day of the People's Republic of China (China)
Pancasila Sanctity Day (Indonesia)
Teacher's Day (Uzbekistan)
Unification Day (Cameroon)
World Vegetarian Day (from North American Vegetarian
Society)
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