On October 1st...

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1207 King Henry III of England was born.

1754 Tsar Paul I of Russia was born.

1781 American naval hero James Lawrence was born.

1800 Spain ceded Louisiana to France.

1814 The Congress of Vienna opened.

1832 Caroline Lavinia Scott, future wife of President Benjamin Harrison, was born.

1867 Karl Marx published Das Kapital.

1881 William Boeing, the founder of Boeing Aircraft Company, was born.

1888 The first issue of National Geographic was published.

1890 The U. S. Weather Service was created by Congress.
1890 Yosemite National Park was created.

1891 Stanford University opened its doors.

1892 The University of Chicago opened its doors.

1896 Free rural mail delivery of mail began in the United States.

1903 The first baseball World Series game was played.
1903 Pianist Vladiir Horowitz was born.

1907 Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Selfridge, and three others formed the Aerial Experiment Association in order to further research into manned flight.

1908 The first "Model T" Ford went on the market.

1910 Criminal Bonnie Parker was born.

1914 Historian Daniel Boorstin was born.

1918 Arab and British forces commanded by Lawrence of Arabia captured Damascus from Turkish forces.

1920 Actor Walter Matthau was born.

1921 Actor James Whitmore was born.

1924 James Earl Carter, 39th President of the United States, was born.
1924 William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the U. S. Supreme Court, was born.

1927 Actor Tom Bosley was born.

1928 Actor Laurence Harvey was born.
1928 Actor George Peppard was born.

1935 Singer Julie Andrews was born.

1936 General Francisco Franco was named head of the rebel Nationalist government in Spain.

1939 Golfer George Archer was born.

1940 The first toll road in the U.S., the Pennsylvania Turnpike, opened.

1942 The Little Golden Books series began publication.

1945 The U. S. Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was disbanded.
1945 Baseball player Rod Carew was born.

1946 The final verdicts in the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials were released.
1946 Mensa was created by Roland Berrill and Dr. Lancelot Ware.

1947 Actor Stephen Collins was born.

1949 The People's Republic of China was proclaimed.

1950 Actor Randy Quaid was born.

1955 "Honeymooners" premiered.

1957 The International Atomic Energy Agency's first general conference opened in Vienna.

1958 Australia "took possession of" Christmas Island.
1958 The Arab League voted to admit Tunisia and Morocco.
1958 An explosion and rockslide in the Podvis Mine near Belgrade, Yugoslavia, killed 61 miners.

1960 Nigeria became independent of Great Britain.

1962 Johnny Carson began his "reign" as host of "The Tonight Show."

1963 Baseball player Mark McGwire was born.

1965 Actor Sean Patrick Flanery was born.

1967 Pink Floyd began its first U. S. tour.

1969 The Concorde made its first supersonic flight.
1969 Actor Zach Galifianakis was born.

1971 Walt Disney World opened.

1972 Anthropologist Louis S. B. Leakey died.

1977 The U. S. Department of Energy was created.

1978 The Ellice Islands became the independent nation of Tuvalu.

1979 The United States formally returned control over the Panama Canal Zone to Panama.

1982 EPCOT Center opened in Orlando, Florida.

1985 The last Apple Macintosh computer was produced.
1985 Author E. B. White died.

1990 U. S. Air Force General Curtis LeMay died.

1995 The New York Yankees won the first baseball wildcard game ever played.

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