Today in History
1 October
Charles VI
Vincenzo Cuoco
Charles Cros
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| 1207 Henry III, king of England (1216-72) was born | ||
| 2016 -BC- Origin of Era of Abraham |
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| 1273 Earl Rudolf van Habsburg becomes Roman Catholics-German king | ||
| 1569 Duke of Norfolk arrested | ||
| 1606 Spanish troops under Spinola occupies fort Rhine birch | ||
| 1620 Nicolaes Pietersz Berchem, Dutch landscape painter/etcher was born | ||
| 1632 Battle at Castelnaudary: Duke Henri de Montmorency's rebel army loses | ||
| 1644 Alessandro Stradella, Italian violinist/composer was born | ||
| 1644 Jean Rousseau, composer was born | ||
| 1653 Russian parliament accepts annexation of Ukraine | ||
| 1657 Treaty of Raalte: Willem II no longer viceroy of Overijssel | ||
| 1661 Yachting begins in England; King Charles II beats his brother James | Charles VI |
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| 1685 Charles VI, German emperor/king of Spain (1711-40) was born | ||
| 1688 Prince Willem III accept invitation of English crown to occupy | ||
| 1705 Parliament declares Hungary independently/French R koczi becomes king | ||
| 1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie flees to France | ||
| 1768 English troops under general Gauge lands in Boston | ||
| 1770 Vincenzo Cuoco, Italian historian (Naples Revolution 1799) was born | ||
| 1791 1st session of new French legislative assembly | ||
| 1791 Dutch prince Willem Frederik marries his niece princess Frederika | ||
| 1791 Louise Wilhelmina of Prussia | ||
| 1791 Sergey Aksakov, Russia, novelist (Chronicles of a Russian Family) was born |
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| 1795 France annexes Southern Netherlands | ||
| 1800 Spain cedes Louisiana to France in a secret treaty | ||
| 1801 England & France signs Preliminary of London | ||
| 1830 General Trade Journal newspaper begins publishing in Amsterdam | ||
| 1832 Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison, 1st wife of Benjamin Harrison was born | ||
| 1833 Charles Darwin reaches Rio Tercero Argentina | ||
| 1842 Charles Cros, French mathematician/chemist/poet (Le Hareng Saur) was born | ||
| 1851 1st Hawaiian stamps issued | ||
| 1863 5 Russian warships welcomed in NYC | ||
| 1863 Dutch Breda-Tilburg railway opens | Vincenzo Cuoco |
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| 1864 Cyclone strikes Calcutta: 70,000 killed | ||
| 1864 John S Staples is paid $500 as a substitute for President Lincoln | ||
| 1866 Dutch Eindhoven-Venlo railway opens | ||
| 1868 1st edition of Maasbode published | ||
| 1869 1st postcards are issued (Vienna) | ||
| 1871 General Dutch Werkliedenverbond (ANWV), forms in Utrecht | ||
| 1874 Rotterdam opens drink water pipes | ||
| 1878 Othmar Spann, Austria economist/sociologist (Geschichtsfilosofie) was born | ||
| 1879 Cincinnati Enquirer publishes 1st report on baseball reserve clause | ||
| 1881 William Edward Boeing, founded aircraft co (Boeing) was born | ||
| 1885 Special delivery mail service begins in US | ||
| 1885 Louis Untermeyer, NYC, poet/critic (Immortal Poems, Story Poems) was born | ||
| 1886 US mint at Carson City, Nevada closes | ||
| 1888 National Geographic magazine publishes for 1st time | ||
| 1889 Washington voters adopt state constitution in referendum | ||
| 1890 Yosemite National Park forms | ||
| 1892 University of Chicago opens | ||
| 1893 3rd worst hurricane in US history kills 1,800 (Mississippi) |
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| 1893 Faith Baldwin, New Rochelle NY, author/novelist (They Who Love) was born | ||
| 1895 Romanians in Costantinople massacred | ||
| 1895 Liaquat Al Khan, attorney/premier of Pakistan (1947-51) was born | ||
| 1896 The Post Office established Rural Free Delivery, with the first routes in West Virginia | ||
| 1896 Yosemite becomes a National Park | ||
| 1898 Jews are expelled from Kiev Russia | ||
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| 1903 George Coulouris, Manchester England, actor (Runaway Bus) was born | ||
| 1904 Netherlands & Portugal lay down bounderies splitting Timor | ||
| 1904 Vladimir Horowitz, Kiev Ukraine, pianist (Carmen) was born | ||
| 1908 1st Dutch electric railway in use (Rotterdam-The Hague) | ||
| 1908 Henry Ford introduced the Model T automobile to the market. | ||
| 1910 Explosion at LA Times (bomb/gas?), kills 21 | ||
| 1924 Fokker F-7 1st flight (Amsterdam to Batavia) | Charles Cros |
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| 1932 Oswald Mosley forms British Union of Fascists | ||
| 1934 Adolph Hitler expands German army & navy & creates an air force, violating Treaty of Versailles | ||
| 1935 Julie Andrews, England, actress/singer (Sound of Music, Mary Poppins) was born | ||
| 1936 General Francisco Franco was proclaimed the head of an insurgent Spanish state | ||
| 1938 Germany annexes Sudetenland (1/3 of Czechoslovakia) | ||
| 1943 Allied forces captured Naples during WW II | ||
| 1943 Averell Harriman named US ambassador to Moscow | ||
| 1943 Germans attack Jews in Denmark | ||
| 1945 US Office of Strategic Serbia (OSS) disbands | ||
| 1946 12 war criminals sentenced to death in Nuremberg | ||
| 1949 Communist Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung raised the first flag of the People's Republic of China during a ceremony in Beijing | ||
| 1949 Republic of China (Taiwan) forms on island of Formosa | ||
| 1950 South Korean troops exceed 38ø latitude | ||
| 1954 British colony of Nigeria becomes a federation | ||
| 1958 Britain transfers Christmas Island (south of Java) to Australia | ||
| 1958 Inauguration of NASA |
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| 1960 Nigeria gains independence from Britain (National Day) | ||
| 1960 South Korean troops cross 38th parallel into North Korea | ||
| 1961 A believed extinct volcanco erupts in Tristan da Cunha | ||
| 1961 East & West Cameroon merge as Federal Republic of Cameroon | ||
| 1961 Roger Maris of the New York Yankees hit his 61st home run of the season, breaking Babe Ruth's record of 60 set in 1927 | ||
| 1962 Johnny Carson succeeded Jack Paar as regular host of NBC's "Tonight" show. | ||
| 1962 UN gives Netherlands control of New-Guinea | ||
| 1963 Nigeria becomes a republic within Commonwealth | ||
| 1969 Concorde 001 test flight breaks sound barrier | ||
| 1969 Guernsey & Jersey begin issuing their own postage stamps | ||
| 1971 Joseph Luns becomes secretary-general of NATO | ||
| 1971 Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, Florida. | ||
| 1973 USSR-West Germany gas tunnel opens | ||
| 1975 Britain grants internal self-government to Seychelles | ||
| 1978 Comoros adopts constitution | ||
| 1978 Tuvalu (formerly Ellice Islands) declares independence from UK | ||
| 1979 Nigeria adopts constitution, Alhaji Shagari becomes president | ||
| 1985 Israeli air raid on PLO-headquarter at Tunis, 68 killed | ||
| 1987 6 killed by an earthquake measuring 6.1 in LA | ||
| 1988 Mikhail Gorbachev became president of Soviet Union | ||
| 1989 Thousands of East Germans received a triumphal welcome in West Germany after the communist government agreed to let them flee to the West | ||
| 1990 10,000 Uganda RPF rebels move into Rwanda | ||
| 1990 Meteorite explode above Pacific Ocean | ||
| 1990 Serbs in Croatia proclaim autonomy | ||
| 1994 Stanley Betrian sworn in as leader of Curacao | ||
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