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Notable anniversaries in history for today: October 1
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of Roger Williams; pianist ("Autumn Leaves").
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of James Earl Carter; (Democrat) 39th US President (1977-1981).
- 100th: 1924 - Birth of William Rehnquist; US Supreme Court (1972-86)/chief justice (1987-) (dies 2005).
- 80th: 1944 - Newspaper editor Alejandro Córdova assassinated in Guatemala.
- 80th: 1944 - Saint Louis Browns win their only American League pennant.
- 70th: 1954 - British colony of Nigeria becomes a federation.
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Richard Schlesinger; CBS correspondent (48 Hours TV show).
- 60th: 1964 - Birth of Christopher Titus; actor (Titus).
- 60th: 1964 - Free Speech Movement launched at University of California, Berkley.
- 60th: 1964 - San Francisco cable cars declared a US national landmark.
- 40th: 1984 - Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury comic strip resumes after two-year hiatus.
- 40th: 1984 - Peter Ueberroth replaces Bowie Kuhn as 6th commissioner of baseball.
- 30th: 1994 - The name of Euro Disneyland is officially changed to Disneyland Paris.
- 25th: 1999 - Pudong International Airport opens in Shanghai, China, taking over all international flights to Hongqiao.
- 20th: 2004 - Ichiro Suzuki of the Seattle Mariners breaks the major league record for hits in a single season, with hit number 258.
- 20th: 2004 - Death of Bruce Palmer, Canadian musician (Buffalo Springfield) (born 1946).
- 15th: 2009 - The new Supreme Court begins operation in Great Britain.
- 5th: 2019 - The Nanfang'ao Bridge, the only steel single-arch bridge in Taiwan, collapses, killing six people and injuring more than twenty others.
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