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Events
of the day
World
Cerebral Palsy Day
World Cerebral Palsy Day is observed annually
on the first Wednesday of October. Managed
by a group of nonprofit Cerebral Palsy (CP)
organizations called the World Cerebral
Palsy Initiative, the day raises awareness
about CP and brings attention to the specific
needs of those living with this complex
physical condition.
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– The Visigoths under king Theodoric II,
acting on orders of the Roman emperor Avitus,
invade Spain with an army of Burgundians,
Franks and Goths, led by the kings Chilperic
I and Gondioc. They defeat the Suebi under
king Rechiar on the river Urbicus near Astorga
(Gallaecia).
610 – Coronation of Byzantine Emperor Heraclius.
869 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople
is convened to decide about what to do about
patriarch Photius of Constantinople.
1143 – King Alfonso VII of León recognises
Portugal as a Kingdom.
1450 – Jews are expelled from Lower Bavaria
by order of Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria.
1550 – Foundation of Concepción, city in
Chile.
1582 – Because of the implementation of
the Gregorian calendar this day does not
exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal
and Spain.
1665 – The University of Kiel is founded.
1789 – French Revolution: Women of Paris
march to Versailles in the March on Versailles
to confront Louis XVI about his refusal
to promulgate the decrees on the abolition
of feudalism, demand bread, and have the
King and his court moved to Paris.
1793 – French Revolution: Christianity is
disestablished in France.
1813 – Battle of Thames in Canada; Americans
defeat British.
1857 – The City of Anaheim is founded.
1864 – The Indian city of Calcutta is almost
totally destroyed by a cyclone; 60,000 die.
1869 – The Saxby Gale devastates the Bay
of Fundy region of Maritime Canada. The
storm had been predicted over a year before
by a British naval officer.
1877 – Chief Joseph surrenders his Nez Perce
band to General Nelson A. Miles.
1895 – The first individual time trial for
racing cyclists is held on a 50-mile course
north of London.
1903 – Sir Samuel Griffith is appointed
the first Chief Justice of Australia and
Sir Edmund Barton and Richard O'Connor are
appointed as foundation justices.
1905 – Wilbur Wright pilots Wright Flyer
III in a flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes,
a world record that stood until 1908.
1910 – In a revolution in Portugal the monarchy
is overthrown and a republic is declared
.
1914 – World War I: first aerial combat
resulting in an intentional fatality.
1915 – Bulgaria enters World War I as one
of the Central Powers.
1921 – Baseball: The World Series is broadcast
on the radio for the first time.
1930 – British Airship R101 crashes in France
en-route to India on its maiden voyage.
1936 – The Jarrow March sets off for London.
1943 – 98 American POW's executed by Japanese
forces on Wake Island.
1944 – Royal Canadian Air Force pilots shoot
down the first German jet fighter over France.
1944 – Suffrage is extended to women in
France.
1945 – Hollywood Black Friday: A six-month
strike by Hollywood set decorators turns
into a bloody riot at the gates of Warner
Brothers' studios.
1947 – The first televised White House address
is given by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
1948 – The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake kills
110,000.
1953 – The first documented recovery meeting
of Narcotics Anonymous is held.
1955 – Disneyland Hotel opens to the public
in Anaheim, California.
1962 – Dr. No, the first in the James Bond
film series, is released.
1966 – Near Detroit, Michigan, there is
a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi
demonstration nuclear breeder reactor.
1968 – Police baton civil rights demonstrators
in Derry, Northern Ireland – considered
to mark the beginning of The Troubles.
1969 – The first episode of Monty Python's
Flying Circus airs on BBC.
1970 – The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
is founded.
1970 – Montreal, Quebec: British Trade Commissioner
James Cross is kidnapped by members of the
FLQ terrorist group, triggering the October
Crisis.
1973 – Signature of the European Patent
Convention.
1974 – Guildford pub bombings: bombs planted
by the Provisional Irish Republican Army
(IRA) kill four British soldiers and one
civilian.
1982 – Chicago Tylenol murders: Johnson
& Johnson initiates a nationwide product
recall in the United States for all products
in its Tylenol brand after several bottles
in Chicago are found to have been laced
with cyanide, resulting in seven deaths.
1984 – Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian
in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.
1986 – Israeli secret nuclear weapons are
revealed. The British newspaper The Sunday
Times runs Mordechai Vanunu's story on its
front page under the headline: "Revealed
— the secrets of Israel's nuclear arsenal".
1988 – The Chilean opposition coalition
Concertación (center-left) defeats Augusto
Pinochet in his re-election attempt and
a general election is called the following
year.
1988 – The Brazilian Constitution is ratified
by Constituent Assembly.
1990 – After one hundred and fifty years
The Herald broadsheet newspaper in Melbourne,
Australia, is published for the last time
as a separate newspaper.
1991 – An Indonesian military transport
crashes after takeoff from Jakarta killing
137.
1991 – The first official version of the
Linux kernel, version 0.02, is released.
1999 – The Ladbroke Grove rail crash in
west London kills 31 people.
2000 – Mass demonstrations in Belgrade lead
to resignation of Serbian strongman Slobodan
Milošević. These demonstrations are often
called the Bulldozer Revolution.
Holidays
and observances
Armed
Forces Day (Indonesia)
Christian Feast Day:
Faustyna Kowalska
Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos (Roman Catholic
Church)
Thraseas
Hor and Susia (Coptic Church)
Placid and Maurus
Placidus (martyr)
October 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Constitution Day (Vanuatu)
One of the three Mundus patet (Roman Empire)
Republic Day (Portugal)
Stara Zagora (Bulgaria)
Teacher's Day (Pakistan)
World Teachers' Day (International)
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