October 1 Historical Events
The following events took place on October 1. The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 80 events. Showing 31 - 60.
- 1937The Japanese city Handa is founded in Aichi Prefecture.
- 1938Germany annexes the Sudetenland.
- 1939After a one-month Siege of Warsaw, hostile Nazi forces enter the city.
- 1940The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic.
- 1942USS Grouper torpedoes Lisbon Maru not knowing she is carrying British PoWs from Hong Kong
- 1942First flight of the Bell XP-59 “Aircomet”.
- 1943World War II: Naples falls to Allied soldiers.
- 1946Nazi leaders are sentenced at Nuremberg trials.
- 1946Daegu October Incident occurs in Allied occupied Korea.
- 1946Mensa International is founded in the UK.
- 1947The North American F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.
- 1949The People’s Republic of China is established and declared by Mao Zedong.
- 1955The Honeymooners premiered on American television.
- 1957First appearance of In God we trust on U.S. paper currency.
- 1958NASA is created to replace NACA.
- 1960Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1961The United States Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) is formed, becoming the country’s first centralized military espionage organization.
- 1961East and West Cameroon merge to form the Federal Republic of Cameroon.
- 1962First broadcast of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
- 1964The Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of University of California, Berkeley.
- 1964Japanese Shinkansen (“bullet trains”) begin high-speed rail service from Tokyo to Osaka.
- 1965General Suharto puts down an apparent coup attempt by the 30 September Movement in Indonesia.
- 1966West 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.
- 1968The Guyanese government takes over the British Guiana Broadcasting Service (BGBS).
- 1969Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
- 1971Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida, United States.
- 1971The first brain-scan using x-ray computed tomography (CT or CAT scan) is performed at Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon, London.
- 1975The Seychelles gain internal self-government. The Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands and take the name Tuvalu.
- 1975Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines.
- 1975Al Jackson, Jr. (Booker T. & the M.G.'s), was shot fatally five times in the back in his own home.
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