1 October

The 1t o October is the 274t day o the year (275t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 91 days bidin.

 Events 
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 
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 
 Naitional Day o the Fowkrepublic o Cheenae an Nigerie
 Armed Forces Day (Sooth Korea)
 Unification Day (Cameroon)
 Teacher's Day (Uzbekistan)

Category:Days o the year