What are the important events that happened on October 1? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
October 1: Facts & Myths About This Day
October 1 is the 274th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 91 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 18, 2025 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 488,688 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectaheptacontatetragon’ day.
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Libra is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 139 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,667 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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October 1 Historical Events
- 1800 –Spain cedes Louisiana to France via the Treaty of San Ildefonso.
- 1827 –Russo-Persian War: The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination in Armenia.
- 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.
- 1880 –First electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison.
- 1880 –John Philip Sousa becomes leader of the United States Marine Band.
- 1937 –The Japanese city Handa is founded in Aichi Prefecture.
- 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.
- 1989 –Denmark introduces the world’s first legal modern same-sex civil union called “registered partnership”.
- 1991 –The Siege of Dubrovnik begins
Who were born on October 1?
- 1924 –Roger Williams, American piano player (d. 2011)
- 1928 –George Peppard, American actor (d. 1994)
- 1928 –Laurence Harvey, Lithuanian-born actor (d. 1973)
- 1943 –Jean-Jacques Annaud, French film director
- 1947 –Buzz Capra, American baseball player
- 1947 –Stephen Collins, American actor
- 1961 –Gary Ablett, Australian rules footballer
- 1969 –Zach Galifianakis, American comedian and actor
- 1970 –Simon Davey, Welsh football manager
- 1985 –Ryo Miyamori, Japanese singer
Who died on October 1?
- 1404 –Pope Boniface IX (b. 1356)
- 1500 –John Alcock, English Catholic bishop
- 1602 –Hernando de Cabezón, Spanish composer (b. 1541)
- 1609 –Gianmatteo Asola, Italian composer
- 1876 –James Lick, California land baron (b. 1796)
- 1994 –Paul Lorenzen, German philosopher (b. 1915)
- 1999 –Lena Zavaroni, Scottish singer and Child star (b. 1963)
- 2004 –Richard Avedon, American photographer (b. 1923)
- 2008 –John Biddle, American yachting cinematographer and lecturer (b. 1925)
- 2010 –Ian Buxton, English footballer and cricketer (b. 1938)
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