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01 October, 2007

Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass is released. Smoking age raised from 16 to 18 in United Kingdom. Oasis releases their first ever digital-only release, "Lord Dont Slow Me Down" video on youtube.

01 October, 2006

Age discrimination in employment is made illegal in the United Kingdom.

01 October, 2005

Bombing kills 23 people in Bali.

01 October, 2004

Baseball: Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki makes his 258th hit of the season, breaking George Sislers 84-year-old single-season record.

01 October, 1998

Vladimir Putin became a permanent member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.

01 October, 1989

Denmark: Worlds first legal modern same-sex civil union called "registered partnership"

01 October, 1987

The Whittier Narrows earthquake shook the San Gabriel Valley, registering as a magnitude 5.9.

01 October, 1985

The Israeli air force bombs PLO Headquarters in Tunis.

01 October, 1982

Helmut Kohl replaces Helmut Schmidt as Chancellor of Germany through a Constructive Vote of No Confidence. EPCOT Center opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States. Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101).

01 October, 1979

The United States returns sovereignty of the Panama canal to Panama.

01 October, 1978

The Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party is founded.

01 October, 1975

The Seychelles gain internal self-government. The Ellice Islands split from Gilbert Islands and take the name Tuvalu. Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines.

01 October, 1971

Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida, United States.

01 October, 1969

The Concorde supersonic transport plane breaks the sound barrier for the first time.

01 October, 1968

The Guyanese government takes over the British Guiana Broadcasting Service (BGBS).

01 October, 1965

Apostasia, a political move in Greece designed by the former King of Greece Constantine II and executed by a group of politicians (led by the later PM of Greece Constantine Mitsotakis) who have betrayed and overthrown the Prime Minister George Papandreou in Greece in favour of the formerly King of Greece. General Suharto crushes an attempted coup in Indonesia.

01 October, 1964

The Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of University of California, Berkeley. Japanese Shinkansen ("bullet trains") begin high-speed rail service from Tokyo to Osaka.

01 October, 1961

East and West Cameroon merge as Federal Republic of Cameroon.

01 October, 1960

Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom.

01 October, 1958

NASA created to replace NACA.

01 October, 1957

First appearance of "In God We Trust" on U.S. paper currency.

01 October, 1949

The Peoples Republic of China is declared by Mao Zedong.

01 October, 1946

Nazi leaders sentenced at Nuremberg Trials.

01 October, 1943

World War II: Naples falls to Allied soldiers.

01 October, 1942

USS Grouper torpedoes Lisbon Maru not knowing she was carrying British PoWs from Hong Kong First flight of the Bell XP-59 "Aircomet".

01 October, 1940

The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic.

01 October, 1939

After a one-month Siege of Warsaw, hostile forces entered the city.

01 October, 1938

Germany annexes the Sudetenland.

01 October, 1936

Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain.

01 October, 1931

The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opens. The second (and current) Waldorf-Astoria Hotel is opened in New York.

01 October, 1928

The Soviet Union introduces its First Five-Year Plan.

01 October, 1926

An oil field accident cost aviator Wiley Post his left eye, but he used the settlement money to buy his first aircraft. Arirang premiers in Seoul.

01 October, 1920

Sir Percy Cox landed in Basra to assume his responsibilities as high commissioner in Iraq.

01 October, 1918

World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence (a/k/a "Lawrence of Arabia") capture Damascus.

01 October, 1910

A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles, California, killing 21.

01 October, 1908

Ford introduces the Model T car.

01 October, 1905

František Pavlík is killed in a demonstration in Prague, inspiring Leoš Janácek to the piano composition 1. X. 1905.

01 October, 1903

Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.

01 October, 1898

Czar Nikolay II expels Jews from major Russian cities. The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.

01 October, 1894

First meeting of The Owl Club of Cape Town.

01 October, 1891

In the U.S. state of California, Stanford University opens its doors.

01 October, 1890

The Yosemite National Park is established by the U.S. Congress.

01 October, 1887

Balochistan conquered by the British Empire.

01 October, 1886

The U.S. mint in Carson City, Nevada, closes.

01 October, 1885

United States begins special-delivery mail service.

01 October, 1880

John Philip Sousa becomes leader of the United States Marine Corps Band. First electric lamp factory opened by Thomas Edison.

01 October, 1869

Austria issues the worlds first postcards.

01 October, 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.

01 October, 1847

German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens AG & Halske.

01 October, 1843

News of the World began publication in London.

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