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What happened in history on this day: October 1?
On October 1 in ...
- 1804 - An Act of Congress creates the District of Louisiana.
- 1837 - Treaty of US with Winnebago Indians is signed.
- 1852 - The USA sets postage cost at 1 cent up to 3 ounces anywhere in the USA, and an additional 1 cent per ounce above the first 3 ounces.
- 1877 - The Bureau of Engraving and Printing assumes printing of all US paper currency.
- 1880 - The first electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison, in the USA.
- 1883 - Domestic letter rate in USA set to 2 cents per 1/2 ounce.
- 1885 - Special delivery mail service begins in US.
- 1889 - Washington voters adopt state constitution in referendum.
- 1890 - General Grant National Park and Yosemite National Park (1189 square miles) are established in California.
- 1891 - Stanford University is opened, in California.
- 1893 - Third worst hurricane in US history kills 1,800 (Mississippi).
- 1894 - Civic organization Knights of Ak-Sar-Ben is founded in Omaha, Nebraska.
- 1908 - Henry Ford introduces the Model T car in the US (costs $825).
- 1908 - Postage cost between USA and Great Britain reduced to 2 cents or 1 penny per ounce.
- 1910 - Berkshire Cattle Fair held in Pittsfield, Massachusetts (first US state fair).
- 1919 - World Series #16 begins as a best of 9 affair, Chicago White Sox intentionally throw this series to satisfy gamblers (The Black Sox Scandal).
- 1928 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average is expanded from 20 stocks to 30. A divisor is introduced to adjust for extraneous changes to a stock, such as a split. The initial divisor is 16.67. The index removes American Car & Foundry, American Locomotive, American Telephone & Telegraph, American Tobacco, Paramount Famous Lasky, United Drug, U.S. Rubber, and Western Union, and adds American Tobacco B, Atlantic Refining, Bethlehem Steel, Chrysler, General Railway Signal, Goodrich, International Nickel, Nash Motors, North American, Paramount Publix, Postum Incorporated, Radio Corporation, Standard Oil (N.J.), Texas Gulf Sulphur, Union Carbide, Victor Talking Machine, Westinghouse Electric, and Wright Aeronautical.
- 1937 - Pullman Company formally recognizes Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters.
- 1940 - Pennsylvania Turnpike, pioneer toll thruway, opens.
- 1942 - Bell P-59 Airacomet fighter, first US jet, makes maiden flight.
- 1947 - First helicopter air mail and express service, Los Angeles, California.
- 1947 - US relinquishes control of Haitian customs and governmental revenue.
- 1948 - California Supreme Court voids state statute banning interracial marriages.
- 1949 - The US suspends diplomatic relations with China.
- 1951 - 24th Infantry Regiment, last American all-black military unit, deactivated.
- 1952 - The world's first Ultra High Frequency (UHF) TV station offically begind broadcasting, KPTV in Portland, Oregon, USA.
- 1957 - "In God We Trust" first appears on U.S. paper currency.
- 1957 - B-52 bombers begin full-time flying alert in case of USSR attack.
- 1958 - US National Aeronautics and Space Administration begins operations, taking over duties of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.
- 1958 - Vanguard Project transferred from military to NASA.
- 1962 - US National Radio Astronomy Observatory gets a 300-foot (91-metre) radio telescope.
- 1964 - Free Speech Movement launched at University of California, Berkley.
- 1964 - San Francisco cable cars declared a US national landmark.
- 1968 - Horror film Night of the Living Dead premieres in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
- 1971 - The Magic Kingdom park at Walt Disney World Resort opens in Orlando, Florida. Similar to Disneyland, seven themed areas are Main Street, Adventureland, Bear Country, Fantasyland, Frontierland, Liberty Square, and Tomorrowland. Attendance on opening day is 10,000. First guest to enter the park is William Windsor, Junior. Cost of creating the theme park was US$400 million.
- 1979 - Treaty between Panama and the USA over the Panama Canal goes into effect. Panama assumes jurisdiction over the Canal Zone, with operation of the canal replaced by board of 9 directors, 4 of them Panamanian. Treaty to expire December 31, 1999, when the canal will be turned over to Panama.
- 1982 - EPCOT Center opens, at Walt Disney World in Florida. It has two main sections, Future World, and World Showcase. It cost more than US$1.2 billion to build.
- 1984 - Gary Trudeau's Doonesbury comic strip resumes after two-year hiatus.
- 1985 - Nintendo releases the Super Mario Bros. video game for the Nintendo Entertainment System in the US.
- 1986 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs the Goldwater-Nichols Act into law, making official the largest reorganization of the United States Department of Defense since the Air Force was made a separate branch of service in 1947.
- 1986 - US President Jimmy Carter's presidential library/museum dedicated in Atlanta, Georgia.
- 1987 - In Pasadena, California, a magnitude 5.9-6.1 earthquake occurs. Eight people killed, 100+ injured, about 2,200 homeless and more than 10,400 buildings damaged. Felt strongly in much of southern California.
- 1990 - President George Bush at the United Nations, condemns Iraq's takeover of Kuwait.
- 1990 - The agreement is signed whereby the Allies of World War II return full sovereignty to Germany as of the agreed-to unification date of October 3.
- 1992 - H. Ross Perot re-enters the 1992 U.S. presidential campaign.
- 1992 - Pittsburgh International Airport's new facility is opened in Findlay Township, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The new terminal is built as an expansion for USAir and an upgrade from the older Pittsburgh International Airport facility.
- 1995 - Ten people are convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in 1993.
- 1997 - Luke Woodham walks into Pearl High School in Pearl, Mississippi and opens fire, killing two girls, after killing his mother earlier that morning.
- 2007 - Citigroup and UBS announce writedowns of US$9.3 billion of debt due to the credit crisis.
- 2010 - Rahm Emanuel resigns as US Chief of Staff.
- 2017 - Fifty-eight people are killed and 851 injured when Stephen Paddock opens fire on a crowd in Las Vegas as the deadliest mass shooting perpetrated by a lone gunman in U.S. history.
Births on October 1
- 1832 - Birth of Caroline Lavinia Scott in Oxford, Ohio, USA; spouse of US President Benjamin Harrison.
- 1885 - Birth of Louis Untermeyer in New York City, New York, USA; poet/critic (Immortal Poems, Story Poems).
- 1893 - Birth of Faith Baldwin in New Rochelle, New York, USA; author/novelist (They Who Love).
- 1903 - Birth of "Slapsie" Maxie Rosenbloom in New York City, New York, USA; light-heavyweight boxing champion (1932-34).
- 1911 - Birth of Irwin Kostal in Chicago, Illinois, USA; orchestra leader (Garry Moore Show).
- 1920 - Birth of Lonny Chapman in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA; actor (Investigator, For the People).
- 1920 - Birth of Walter Matthau in New York City, New York, USA; actor (The Odd Couple, The Bad News Bears).
- 1921 - Birth of James Whitmore in White Plains, New York, USA; actor (Give 'em Hell Harry).
- 1927 - Birth of Tom Bosley in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actor (Howard - Happy Days TV show, Murder She Wrote TV show, Father Dowling Mysteries TV show).
- 1928 - Birth of George Peppard in Detroit, Michigan, USA; actor (Banacek, A-Team, Blue Max).
- 1936 - Birth of Stella Stevens in Yazoo City, Mississippi, USA; actress (Girls! Girls!, Manitou, Ben Casey, Flamingo Road).
- 1945 - Birth of Donny Hathaway in Chicago, Illinois, USA; singer/songwriter ("Where is the Love").
- 1947 - Birth of Stephen Collins in Des Moines, Iowa, USA; actor (Star Trek - The Motion Picture, The Tattingers, 7th Heaven).
- 1948 - Birth of Ellen McIlwaine in Nashville, Tennessee, USA; blues singer ("Honky Tonky Angel").
- 1950 - Birth of Randy Quaid in Houston, Texas, USA; actor (Midnight Express, Vacation, Saturday Night Live, The Grubbs, Davis Rules).
- 1963 - Birth of Beth Chamberlin in Danville, Vermont, USA; actress (Beth Spaulding - Guiding Light).
Deaths on October 1
- 1906 - Death of Albert J. Adams at age 65 by suicide gunshot in New York; boss of policy gambling game 1880s-1901, multi-millionaire.
- 1949 - Death of Buddy Clark at age 38 in a private plane crash on Beverly Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, USA; singer ("Linda, You're Breaking My Heart", Your Hit Parade radio show (1936-38)).
- 1975 - Death of Al Jackson Junior at age 39, shot and killed by wife as an intruder at his home in Memphis, Tennessee, USA; drummer (Booker T. and the M-G's - "Green Onions" (1962), Willie Mitchell Band).
- 1990 - Curtis E LeMay, US Air Force General, dies at age 83.
- 1990 - Death of Larry Volk, shot dead at age 49 at home in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; was programmer for American Coin Machine Company; had admitted to Nevada State Gaming Control Board that he had altered software used in video poler and keno machines, preventing awarding of some jackpots and increasing others, allowing estimated $10-20 million to be illegally won from 1986 to 1989.
- 2001 - Death of Elvira Clain-Stenanelli, Smithsonian Institution numismatic curator.
- 2013 - Death of Tom Clancy, American writer (born 1947).
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