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331 BC – Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela.
959 – Edgar the Peaceful becomes king of all England.
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 Orleans.
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.
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.
1868 – The novel Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott, is published,
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.
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1891 – Stanford University opens its doors. Future U.S. President Herbert Hoover is among the first graduating class.
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.
1907 – A downturn in the stock market leads to a run on the dollar. President Theodore Roosevelt calls on financier J. P. Morgan to help manage the crisis.
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, 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.
1931 – Spain adopted women's suffrage.
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, the Wehrmacht entered the city, beginning a lengthy occupation.
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 – Daegu October Incident occurs in Allied occupied Korea.
1946 – Mensa International is founded in the United Kingdom.
1947 – The North American 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 – The United States Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is formed, becoming the country's first centralized military espionage organization.
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 puts down an apparent coup attempt by the 30 September Movement in Indonesia.
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.
1975 – Al Jackson, Jr. (Booker T. & the M.G.'s), was shot fatally five times in the back in his own home.
1978 – Tuvalu gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1978 – The Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party is founded.
1979 – Pope John Paul II begins his first pastoral visit to the United States.
1979 – The MTR, the rapid transit railway system in Hong Kong, opens.
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 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 Palestine Liberation Organization 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 – The Siege of Dubrovnik begins.
1992 – Cartoon Network begins broadcasting.
1994 – Palau gains independence from the United Nations (trusteeship administered by the United States of America).
2009 – The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom takes over the judicial functions of the House of Lords.
2012 – A ferry collision off the coast of Hong Kong kills 38 people and injures 102 others.
2012 – Domestic and International flights of Thai AirAsia transferred all operations from Suvarnabhumi Airport to Don Mueang International Airport.
2013 – The U.S. federal government shuts down non-essential services after it is unable to pass a budget measure.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Remy, Bishop of Rheims, Confessor Semi-double
Contemporary Western
Abai (Syrian Orthodox Church)
Bavo of Ghent
Blessed Edward James
Nicetius (Roman Catholic Church)
Remigius
Thérèse of Lisieux
Blessed Edward James
Nicetius (Roman Catholic Church)
Remigius
Thérèse of Lisieux
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
October 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
The Protection of Our Most Holy Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary,
at the Blachernae church in Constantinople (911)
Saint Ananias of Damascus, Bishop and one of the Seventy Apostles (1st century)
Martyr Domninus of Thessalonica (4th century)
King Mirian III of Iberia and Queen Nana of Mtskheta - Equals-of-the-Apostles,
St. Abiathar of Mtskheta, and St. Sidonia, disciple of St. Nina (4th century)
Venerable Romanos the Melodist, "Sweet-singer" (c. 556)
Monk-Martyrs Michael, Abbot of Zovia Monastery near Sebaste,
and 36 fathers with him (c. 790)
St. Melchizedek, Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia (c. 1030)
Saint Piatus of Tournai, he enlightened the areas around Tournai in Belgium
and Chartres in France (c. 286)
Martyrs Verissimus, Maxima and Julia, in Portugal under Diocletian (c. 302)
Martyrs Aretas, and five-hundred-and-four other martyrs, at Rome
Saint Aladius (Albaud), Bishop of Toul in France. (c. 520)[13]
Saint Bavo of Ghent, penitent and hermit, confessor
and patron of Haarlem in the Netherlands (659)
Saint Dodo, Abbot of Wallers-en-Faigne (750)
Saint Fidharleus, restorer of the monastery of Rathin in Ireland (762)
Martyr-prince Mylor of Brittany (Melorius)
Saint Virila, Abbot of the Monastery of the Saviour in Leyre in Spain (c. 1000)
Saint Gregory the Singer of the Great Lavra of Mount Athos
(Gregory Domesticus) (1355)
Saint John Kukuzelis of Mount Athos (1360)
Venerable Sabbas, abbot of Vishera in Novgorod, the Wonderworker (1461)
Saint Domna Slipchenko, Fool-for-Christ, native of Poltava (1872)
New Hieromartyr Alexis Stavrovsky, priest (1918)
New Hieromartyr Michael (Vologodsky), priest of Krasnoyarsk (1920)
New Hieromartyr George (Archangelsky), priest (1937)
New Hieromartyrs Alexander Agafonikov, Gregory, Nicholas Kuligina, priests (1937)
Martyr John Artemov (1937)
New Hieromartyr Archpriest Ismael (Rozhdestvensky)
of Strelna, St. Petersburg (1938)
New Hieromartyr Theodore (1940)
Commemoration of the Apparition of the Pillar over the Robe
of the Lord at Mtskheta, Georgia (c. 330)
Translation of the relics of Saint Remigius of Rheims, Apostle to the Franks (533)
Synaxis of the Most-Holy Theotokos Gorgoepikoos ("She who is quick to hear"),
at the Dochiariou monastery on Mount Athos (1664)[25]
Repose of Hiero-schemamonk Euthemius of Valaam (1829)[8]
Glorification (2008) of Petro Kalnyshevsky (1803),
Koshovey-Commander of the Zaporozhian Cossacks
(glorified by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Kyivan Patriarchate)
Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “Pokrov” (Pskov-Protection Icon
of the Most Holy Theotokos) (1581)
Icon of the Theotokos of Brayiliv-Pochaiv (Brailovska) at Brayiliv near Vinnitsa
Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos Lublin (Liublinsk)[8]
Transfer of the Terebovlya Icon of the Most Holy Mother of God
from Terebovlya to Lvov (1672)
Icon of the Mother of God of Gerbovets (Herbovetska) (1790, 1859)[29]
Icon of the Mother of God of Kasperov (Kasperivska),
defended the city of Odessa during the Crimean War (1853-1855)
Icon of the Mother of God of Barsk (Barska) (1887)
The Protection of Our Most Holy Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary,
at the Blachernae church in Constantinople (911)
Saint Ananias of Damascus, Bishop and one of the Seventy Apostles (1st century)
Martyr Domninus of Thessalonica (4th century)
King Mirian III of Iberia and Queen Nana of Mtskheta - Equals-of-the-Apostles,
St. Abiathar of Mtskheta, and St. Sidonia, disciple of St. Nina (4th century)
Venerable Romanos the Melodist, "Sweet-singer" (c. 556)
Monk-Martyrs Michael, Abbot of Zovia Monastery near Sebaste,
and 36 fathers with him (c. 790)
St. Melchizedek, Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia (c. 1030)
Saint Piatus of Tournai, he enlightened the areas around Tournai in Belgium
and Chartres in France (c. 286)
Martyrs Verissimus, Maxima and Julia, in Portugal under Diocletian (c. 302)
Martyrs Aretas, and five-hundred-and-four other martyrs, at Rome
Saint Aladius (Albaud), Bishop of Toul in France. (c. 520)[13]
Saint Bavo of Ghent, penitent and hermit, confessor
and patron of Haarlem in the Netherlands (659)
Saint Dodo, Abbot of Wallers-en-Faigne (750)
Saint Fidharleus, restorer of the monastery of Rathin in Ireland (762)
Martyr-prince Mylor of Brittany (Melorius)
Saint Virila, Abbot of the Monastery of the Saviour in Leyre in Spain (c. 1000)
Saint Gregory the Singer of the Great Lavra of Mount Athos
(Gregory Domesticus) (1355)
Saint John Kukuzelis of Mount Athos (1360)
Venerable Sabbas, abbot of Vishera in Novgorod, the Wonderworker (1461)
Saint Domna Slipchenko, Fool-for-Christ, native of Poltava (1872)
New Hieromartyr Alexis Stavrovsky, priest (1918)
New Hieromartyr Michael (Vologodsky), priest of Krasnoyarsk (1920)
New Hieromartyr George (Archangelsky), priest (1937)
New Hieromartyrs Alexander Agafonikov, Gregory, Nicholas Kuligina, priests (1937)
Martyr John Artemov (1937)
New Hieromartyr Archpriest Ismael (Rozhdestvensky)
of Strelna, St. Petersburg (1938)
New Hieromartyr Theodore (1940)
Commemoration of the Apparition of the Pillar over the Robe
of the Lord at Mtskheta, Georgia (c. 330)
Translation of the relics of Saint Remigius of Rheims, Apostle to the Franks (533)
Synaxis of the Most-Holy Theotokos Gorgoepikoos ("She who is quick to hear"),
at the Dochiariou monastery on Mount Athos (1664)[25]
Repose of Hiero-schemamonk Euthemius of Valaam (1829)[8]
Glorification (2008) of Petro Kalnyshevsky (1803),
Koshovey-Commander of the Zaporozhian Cossacks
(glorified by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Kyivan Patriarchate)
Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “Pokrov” (Pskov-Protection Icon
of the Most Holy Theotokos) (1581)
Icon of the Theotokos of Brayiliv-Pochaiv (Brailovska) at Brayiliv near Vinnitsa
Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos Lublin (Liublinsk)[8]
Transfer of the Terebovlya Icon of the Most Holy Mother of God
from Terebovlya to Lvov (1672)
Icon of the Mother of God of Gerbovets (Herbovetska) (1790, 1859)[29]
Icon of the Mother of God of Kasperov (Kasperivska),
defended the city of Odessa during the Crimean War (1853-1855)
Icon of the Mother of God of Barsk (Barska) (1887)
Coptic Orthodox
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