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This Day In History – October 1
1553 – Coronation of Queen Mary I of England.
1811 – The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River arrives in New Orléans, Louisiana.
1814 – Opening of the Congress of Vienna, intended to redraw Europe’s political map after the defeat of Napoléon the previous spring.
1843 – The News of the World tabloid begins publication in London.
1880 – First electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison.
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, also known as “Lawrence of Arabia” capture Damascus.
1924 – Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize was born.
1940 – The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic.
1949 – The People’s Republic of China is established and declared by Mao Zedong.
1957 – First appearance of In God We Trust on U.S. paper currency.
1958 – NASA is created to replace NACA.
1962 – First broadcast of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
1964 – The Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of University of California, Berkeley.
1964 – Japanese Shinkansen (“bullet trains”) begin high-speed rail service from Tokyo to Osaka.
1965 – General Suharto rises to power after a coup that alleged to the Communist Party of Indonesia. In response, Suharto and his army massacre over a million Indonesians suspected of being communists. The killings of 7 army officers happened in the early hours of 1 October 1965.
1971 – Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida, United States.
1982 – EPCOT Center opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
1982 – Sony launches the first consumer compact disc player (model CDP-101).
1985 – The Israeli air force bombs PLO Headquarters in Tunis.
1998 – Vladimir Putin becomes a permanent member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
2012-09-30 21:45:03
Source: http://deadlinelive.info/2012/09/30/this-day-in-history-october-1/
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