Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 1
This is a list of selected October 1 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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St Pancras railway station
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Beginning of the National Day celebrations in China (1949); | refimprove |
| Cyprus (1960), Nigeria (1960), Palau (1994), and | Cyprus: neutrality issues; Nigeria: refimprove section; Palau: refimprove section |
| Feast day of St. Thérèse of Lisieux (Catholicism); | refimprove sections, external links |
| 331 BC – Alexander the Great of Macedon defeated Darius III of Persia at the Battle of Gaugamela, and was subsequently crowned "King of Asia" in a ceremony in Arbela. | unreferenced section |
| 1850 – The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, was established. | Featured on October 11 |
| 1898 – The Vienna University of Economics and Business, currently the largest university focusing on business and economics in Europe, was founded as k.u.k. Exportakademie. | refimprove |
| 1903 – The first modern World Series, the annual championship series of Major League Baseball, opened. | refimprove section |
| 1910 – A large bomb destroyed the Los Angeles Times building in Los Angeles, killing 21 people. | refimprove section |
| 1936 – Francisco Franco was declared Generalísimo and head of state during the Spanish Civil War. | refimprove section |
| 1946 – Mensa, the largest and oldest high-IQ society in the world, was formed in the United Kingdom. | lots of CN tags (8) |
| 1958 – NASA began operations, replacing the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA). | Featured on July 29 |
| 1961 – Despite strong resistance from the U.S. Armed Forces, the Defense Intelligence Agency was formed, becoming the country's main global military espionage organization. | refimprove section |
| 1964 – The Tōkaidō Shinkansen, the first Shinkansen line of high-speed railways in Japan, opened for service. | refimprove section |
| 1971 – Walt Disney World, the most visited and largest recreational resort in the world, opened near Orlando, Florida. | refimprove section |
| 1971 – The first X-ray computed tomography scan, invented by Godfrey Hounsfield, was performed at Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon, England. | unreferenced section |
| 1975 – In boxing, Muhammad Ali defeated Joe Frazier in a match known as the "Thrilla in Manila". | CN-tagged Legacy section |
| 1991 – New Zealand's Resource Management Act came into effect, regulating access to natural and physical resources such as land, air and water, to ensure their sustainable use. | unreferenced section |
| 2005 – A series of terrorist suicide bombings occurred at two sites in Bali, Indonesia, killing 20 people and injuring more than 120 others. | cn tags, refimprove |
| 2009 – The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, which acquired the judicial functions of the House of Lords, began work. | cleanup, refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1800 – With the signing of the Third Treaty of San Ildefonso, Spain returned the colonial territory of Louisiana to France in return for territories in the Tuscany area of Italy.
- 1832 – The first political gathering of colonists in Mexican Texas convened to seek reforms from the Mexican government in hopes of quelling the widespread belief that settlers in Texas wished to secede from Mexico.
- 1868 – St Pancras railway station in London, which is now the terminus of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, opened to the public.
- 1891 – Stanford University, founded by railroad magnate and California governor Leland Stanford and his wife Jane on their former farm lands in Palo Alto, California, admitted its first students.
- 1918 – First World War: British and Arab troops captured Damascus from the Ottoman Empire.
- 1949 – Chinese Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong publicly proclaimed the establishment of the People's Republic of China, in Beijing's Tiananmen Square.
- 1962 – Amid violent riots, James Meredith became the first African-American to enroll at the University of Mississippi after the intervention of the U.S. government.
- 1964 – The Free Speech Movement was launched the University of California, Berkeley, when a crowd of 3,000 students prevented police from transporting Jack Weinberg away after his arrest.
- 1989 – Denmark became the first country to legalise civil unions between same-sex couples.
- 1991 – Croatian War of Independence: Yugoslav National Army forces invaded the area surrounding Dubrovnik, Croatia, beginning a seven-month siege of the city.
- 2012 – A ferry collision off Lamma Island, Hong Kong, killed 39 people and injured 92 others.
- Born/died: | Henry III of England |b|1207| Yaqub Spata |d|1416| Rose O'Neal Greenhow |d|1864| Helen Mayo |b|1878| Zhu Rongji |b|1928| Duncan Edwards |b|1936| Rod Carew |b|1945| Brie Larson |b|1989| Lucy Li |b|2002
Notes
- Flag of China appears on September 27, so China should not appear in the same year
- Henry IV of England appears on September 30, so Henry III should not appear in the same year
October 1: Mid-Autumn Festival (traditional Chinese, 2020); Unification Day in Cameroon (1961); Independence Day in Tuvalu (1978); Filipino American History Month begins
- 1890 – At the encouragement of preservationist John Muir and writer Robert Underwood Johnson, the United States Congress established Yosemite National Park (pictured) in California.
- 1940 – The first section of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, one of the United States' first long-distance limited-access highways, opened to traffic.
- 1998 – Europol, the EU's law enforcement agency, was formed with the ratification of the Europol Convention by all member states.
- 2018 – The International Court of Justice ruled that Chile was under no obligation to restore Bolivia's access to the Pacific Ocean, which it had lost in the 19th century.
- Frans Floris (d. 1570)
- Ram Nath Kovind (b. 1945)
- Malouma (b. 1960)
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