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October 1: National Day in China (1949); Unification Day in Cameroon (1961); Independence Day in Tuvalu (1978); Defenders Day in Ukraine (2015)
St Pancras railway station
- 1800 – With the signing of the Third Treaty of San Ildefonso, Spain returned the colonial territory of Louisiana to France in return for territories in the Italian region of Tuscany.
- 1868 – St Pancras railway station (pictured) in London, now the terminus of the Channel Tunnel Rail Link, opened to the public.
- 1965 – Seven Indonesian Army officers—including six generals—and a police inspector were murdered at dawn by a rebellious force in Jakarta; the Army then blamed the Communist Party, leading to a mass anti-communist purge that killed up to one million people.
- 1975 – In boxing, Muhammad Ali defeated Joe Frazier in a match known as the "Thrilla in Manila".
- 2018 – The International Court of Justice ruled that Chile was under no obligation to restore Bolivia's access to the Pacific Ocean, which it had lost in the 19th century.
- Pope Boniface IX (d. 1404)
- Stanley Holloway (b. 1890)
- Faik Ali Ozansoy (d. 1950)
- Lucy Li (b. 2002)
More anniversaries:
Did you know?
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Josephine Hall
- ... that musical theatre actress Josephine Hall (pictured) became famous for performing a song that she purposefully sang high and off-key?
- ... that Northwest Marine Iron Works produced the last sternwheel steam tugboat operated in the United States?
- ... that Elias Peleti is said to have been the most forgettable Latin patriarch of Jerusalem in a century?
- ... that the UK's best-selling single of 2013 has been described as a "rape anthem"?
- ... that when Marianne Angermann earned her university entrance, the pronouns on her printed diploma were altered manually?
- ... that the Ostjuden anti-Semitic stereotype was used to describe Jews from Eastern Europe by both non-Jewish Germans and assimilated German Jews?
- ... that a lowly garrison soldier was responsible for relocating the capital of the Western Han dynasty?
- ... that Nigeria's independence on 1 October 1960 was marked by the lowering of the Union Jack and the raising of the country's new flag before 40,000 people at the Lagos Race Course?
- ... that Ida Barber campaigned against corsets in her fashion journalism?