October 1

Events

331 BC - Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela.
1800 - Spain cedes Louisiana to France via the Treaty of San Ildefonso.
1898 - Czar Nikolay II expels Jews from major Russian cities.
1910 - Los Angeles Times bombing: A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles, California, killing 21.
1918 - World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence (a/k/a "Lawrence of Arabia") capture Damascus.
1932 - British Union of Fascists is formed by Sir Oswald Mosley
1936 - Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain.
1938 - Germany annexes the Sudetenland.
1946 - NSDAP leaders sentenced at Nuremberg Trials.
1946 - Mensa International is founded in the United Kingdom.
1949 - The People's Republic of China is declared by Mao Zedong.
1957 - First appearance of "In God We Trust" on U.S. paper currency.
1958 - NASA created to replace NACA.
1960 - Nigeria gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1961 - East and West Cameroon merge as Federal Republic of Cameroon.
1964 - The Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of University of California, Berkeley.
1978 - Tuvalu gains independence from the United Kingdom.
1979 - The United States returns sovereignty of the Panama canal to Panama.
1985 - The Israeli air force bombs PLO Headquarters in Tunis.
2007 - The Slovak section of Metapedia is launched [1]