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 &ndash; Alexander the Great defeats Darius III o Persie in the Battle o Gaugamela.
* 959 &ndash; Edgar the Peaceable becomes king o aw Ingland.
*1553 &ndash; Coronation o Queen Mary I o Ingland.
*1800 &ndash; Spain cedes Louisiana tae Fraunce.
*1814 &ndash; The Congress o Vienna stairts.
*1890 &ndash; The Japanese ceety o Nagoya is foondit.
*1890 &ndash; The Yosemite Naitional Pairk is creatit in Californie bi an act o Unitit States Congress.
*1931 &ndash; Spain allows weemen tae vote.
*1936 &ndash; Francisco Franco is declarit Heid o the Naitionalist Govrenment in Spain.
*1946 &ndash; The Nuremberg Trials o leadin Nazis conclude.
*1949 &ndash; The Fowkrepublic o Cheenae is established an declared bi Mao Zedong.
*1960 &ndash; Nigerie gains unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick.
*1961 &ndash; Inglis-speakin an French-speakin Cameroon merge intae a single kintra.
*1975 &ndash; The Ellice Islands (nou Tuvalu) split frae the Gilbert Islands (nou Kiribati).
*1975 &ndash; Boxer Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in the "Thrilla in Manila".
*1977 &ndash; Brazilian fitbawer Pelé ends his playin career.
*1978 &ndash; Tuvalu gains unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick.
*1982 &ndash; Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor o Wast Germany.
*1988 &ndash; German tennis player Steffi Graf manages tae win aw 4 Grand Slams an Olympic Gowd (in the singles) tae complete a "Gowden Slam".
*1989 &ndash; Denmark becomes the first kintra tae introduce ceevil pairtnerships for same-sex couples.
*1994 &ndash; Palau gains unthirldom frae the Unitit Naitions (trusteeship admeenistered bi the US).
*1995 &ndash; A yirdquauk in Dinar, Turkey, kills 100 fowk.
*2000 &ndash; The 2000 Simmer Olympics in Sydney, Australie, end.
*2001 &ndash; Militants storm the state legislatur in Srinagar, Kashmir, killin 36 fowk.
*2005 &ndash; Bomb attacks in Bali kill 26 fowk.
*2009 &ndash; The Supreme Coort o the Unitit Kinrick taks ower the justicial pouers o the Hoose o Lairds.
*2012 &ndash; A ferry collision in Hong Kong kills 38 fowk.
*2014 &ndash; Jens Stoltenberg becomes Secretar-General o NATO.
*2017 &ndash; The first same-sex marriages in Germany tak place.
*2017 &ndash; A ban on face coverins enters intae force in Austrick.
*2017 &ndash; Catalonie, in northeast Spain, haulds a disputit referendum on unthirldom; Figurs suggest 90% o voters, on a 42% turnoot, votit for unthirldom.
*2017 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Alexander Severus, Roman Emperor (d. 234)
*1207 &ndash; Henry III o Ingland (d. 1272)
*1541 &ndash; El Greco, Greek-Spainyie penter (d. 1614)
*1685 &ndash; Charles VI, Haly Roman Emperor (d. 1740)
*1843 &ndash; George Strath, Scots gowfer (d. 1919)
*1890 &ndash; Stanley Holloway, Inglis actor (d. 1982)
*1895 &ndash; Liaquat Ali Khan, Prime meenister o Pakistan (d. 1951)
*1903 &ndash; Vladimir Horowitz, Ukrainian-born American pianist (d. 1989)
*1920 &ndash; Walter Matthau, American actor (d. 2000)
*1922 &ndash; Chen-Ning Yang, Cheenese pheesicist
*1924 &ndash; Jimmy Carter, 39nt Preses o the Unitit States
*1928 &ndash; George Peppard, American actor (d. 1994)
*1930 &ndash; Richard Harris, Erse actor (d. 2002)
*1935 &ndash; Julie Andrews, Inglis actress an sangster
*1945 &ndash; Ram Nath Kovind, Indie politeecian, Preses o Indie
*1950 &ndash; Randy Quaid, American actor
*1953 &ndash; Klaus Wowereit, umwhile Mayor o Berlin
*1956 &ndash; Andrus Ansip, Estonie politeecian, umwhile Prime meenister o Estonie
*1956 &ndash; Theresa May, Inglis politeecian, umwhile Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick
*1959 &ndash; Youssou N'Dour, Senegalese muisicker an politeecian
*1963 &ndash; Eric Black, Scots fitbawer
*1966 &ndash; George Weah, Liberie fitbawer an politeecian, Preses o Liberie
*1985 &ndash; Gerry Cinnamon, Scots sangster-sangwriter an guitarist
*1986 &ndash; Sayaka Kanda, Japanese actress an sangster
*1989 &ndash; Brie Larson, American actress

## Daiths
*1404 &ndash; Pape Boniface IX (b. 1350)
*1684 &ndash; Pierre Corneille, French dramatist (b. 1606)
*1708 &ndash; John Blow, Inglis componer (b. 1649)
*1838 &ndash; Charles Tennant, Scots chemist an industrialist (b. 1768)
*1868 &ndash; Mongkut, King o Siam (b. 1804)
*1972 &ndash; Louis Leakey, Kenyan anthropologist (b. 1903)
*1985 &ndash; E. B. White, American writer (b. 1899)
*1992 &ndash; Petra Kelly, German politeecian (b. 1947)
*2012 &ndash; Eric Hobsbawm, Egyptian-Inglish historian an author (b. 1917)
*2013 &ndash; Tom Clancy, American writer (b. 1947)
*2018 &ndash; 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)