Post by farmgal on Sept 29, 2012 22:16:24 GMT -5
October 1 is the 275th day of this leap year in the Gregorian calendar.
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331 BC Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela. Alexander turned again to the Persian front in 331 B.C. Darius had collected an enormous army, including the famous heavy cavalry of the Iranian steppe, and many chariots with scythelike knives protruding from the wheels. The Persians smoothed and cleared a vast level plain near Arbela, east of the Tigris River. The Persian cavalry outflanked Alexander's left and captured his camp. But, with a charge which he led himself, Alexander routed Darius, and the Persian Army retired to the east. The battle of Arbela is also known as the Battle of Gaugamela.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gaugamela
959 Edgar the Peaceable becomes king of all England.
1189 Gerard de Ridefort, grandmaster of the Knights Templar since 1184, is killed in the Siege of Acre.
1553 Coronation of Queen Mary I of England.
1800 Spain officially returned the Louisiana territory West of the Mississippi to France by the secret Treaty of San Ildefonso to avoid the continued deficits the colony caused and the growing possibility that Spain might have to fight the restless Americans to retain control of the lands.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Treaty_of_San_Ildefonso
1811 The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River arrives in New Orléans, Louisiana.
1832 Texian political delegates convened at San Felipe de Austin to petition for changes in the governance of Mexican Texas.
1847 Maria Mitchell, the first woman astronomer in the United States discovered a comet. One night in the Autumn of 1847, Maria looked at the sky through the telescope in her homemade observatory at Nantucket, Mass. and saw a star five degrees above the North Star where there had been no star before. She had memorized the sky and was sure of her observation. It occurred to her that this might be a comet. Maria recorded the presumed comet's coordinates. The next night the star moved again. For this discovery, she was awarded a gold medal by the king of Denmark. She became the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Mitchell
1854 The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American system of watch manufacturing.
1879 Cincinnati Enquirer publishes first report on baseball reserve clause. The biggest expense for any team was player salaries, and competition among teams for players kept driving that expense higher. At a meeting in Buffalo on September 29, 1879, owners decided to reduce competition by allowing each team to reserve five players. They agreed that no league team would attempt to sign a player reserved by another team. They also made it more difficult for a player to leave the league entirely by prohibiting NL teams from playing exhibition games against any non-league teams who used a reserved player.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_clause
1880 John Philip Sousa becomes leader of the United States Marine Band. Sousa followed in the footsteps of his father, a musician in the U.S. Marine Corps, and enlisted by the age of 14. While active in the Marines, he composed his first march, "Salutation." Around the age of 16, Sousa began studying harmony with G.F. Benkert, then worked as a pit orchestra conductor at a local theater, followed by jobs as first chair violinist at the Ford Opera House, the Philadelphia Chestnut Street Theater, and later led the U.S. Marine Corps Band (1880-1992).John Philip Sousa became the band's 17th leader. In 1888 he composed "Semper Fidelis", traditionally known as the official march of the Marine Corps.
1880 First electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison.
1883 American churchman A. B. Simpson founded the first school in America to train missionaries, in New York City. Called the Missionary Training Institute in 1894, its name was changed to Nyack College in 1972.
1886 Special delivery mail service begins in US. Special Delivery service was instituted by an Act of Congress on March 3, 1885. The Act limited the service to Post Office's that served populations of 4000 or more until 1886 when they became available in all Post Offices. The United States was the first country to issue postage stamps expressly for this service, also in 1885. The world's first special delivery stamp was a 10¢ blue Running Messenger special delivery stamp. The U.S. stamp is inscribed "Special Postal Delivery" and "Secures Immediate Delivery at a Special Delivery Office. On Oct. 1, 1886, the service was extended to all first-class post offices in the United States.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_delivery_(postal_service)
1891 In the U.S. state of California, Stanford University opens its doors.
1903 Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series. The first modern World Series game, also called "Championship of the United States," is played at Boston's Huntington Street park before 16,242. Deacon Phillippe pitches Pittsburgh to a 7-3 win over Cy Young. Pittsburgh RF Jimmy Sebring hits the first home run and adds three other hits. 3B Tommy Leach has four hits, including two triples for the Pirates and winds up with four three-baggers, a Series record.
1908 Ford puts the Model T car on the market at a price of US 825. In 1908, the Ford Model T car, the first car to be made on an assembly line, was introduced for a price of $825. It was an immediate sensation. Before long, it was the largest selling car in the United States, often accounting for over half the sales in the country. True mass production was born with the Model T. As volumes rose, costs came down. By 1925, a coupe sold for $525 new, while a two-door runabout went for only $260.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_T
1908 Jack Chesbro's final Yankee victory, beats Walter Johnson 2-1. Chesbro retired in 1909, having accumulated a 198-132 career record and been part of two pennant-winning teams (in 1901 and 1902).
1910 Los Angeles Times bombing: A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles, California, killing 21.
1910 Berkshire Cattle Fair held in Pittsfield Mass (first state fair)
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1918 World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence, also known as "Lawrence of Arabia" capture Damascus.
1919 World Series begins as a best of 9 affair (The Black Sox Scandal). Just before the start of the WS, the highly favored White Sox became the betting underdogs. A year later the White Sox will become the Black Sox, and 8 of them--pitchers Eddie Cicotte and Lefty Williams, outfielders Joe Jackson and Happy Felsch, 1B Chick Gandil, SS Swede Risberg, 3B Buck Weaver, and utility infielder Fred McMullin--will be barred from baseball for taking part in throwing the Series. It will take that long for the story to unfold, as most observers at the time see nothing amiss when the Series opens in Cincinnati. Eddie Cicotte, a 29-game winner, is driven to cover in a 5-run 4th. Cincinnati's Dutch Ruether pitches a 6-hitter, and has 3 RBI on 2 triples and a single for a 9-1 win. Reds OF Greasy Neale, the only man to play in a WS, coach a football team in the Rose Bowl, and become a pro football Hall of Fame coach, also has 3 hits. He will top the Reds with .357 for the Series.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1919_World_Series
1921 The Latin American Mission was incorporated in Philadelphia by founders Harry and Susan Strachan. Today, over 125 staff work with LAM in eight Central and South American countries.
www.lam.org/serve/get-started?_kk=latin%20american%20mission&_kt=52e1a076-f09e-475d-a1ba-1bfcb7a127e8&gclid=CPrIh5De3rICFYQ7MgodtiMAOA
1921 First all NY series to be played entirely in 1 stadium. After clinching the pennant with a 5-3 win over Philadelphia in the opener behind Carl Mays' 17th straight win over Philadelphia, the Yankees bring Babe Ruth into pitch in relief in the night cap. Ruth, with just one other pitching appearance all season, takes over in the 8th with New York in the lead 6-0. Ruth quickly allows the A's six runs to tie the score, but then knuckles down to hold them scoreless to the 11th when New York scores a run to win, 7-6. Ruth drives in his 167th run in the game, besting Sam Thompson's mark set in 1884. For Mays, it is his 7th straight win over Philley this season.
1922 Former Chicago Staleys play first NFL game as Chicago Bears, win 6-0. The Staley's moved to Chicago from Decatur, IL in 1921. Halas, who was given the team and $5000 by Staley to keep the name Staleys for another year, made the move. In the 1921 season, the Chicago Staleys finished first in the league and captured their first league championship. In 1922, Halas changed the team name to the Bears to reflect baseball's Chicago Cubs, the team's host at Wrigley Field.
1928 The Soviet Union introduces its First Five-Year Plan.
1928 Duke Ellington recorded "The Mooche" on the Okeh label. In 1928, Ellington and Irving Mills signed an agreement in which Mills produced and published Ellington's music. Recording companies like Brunswick, Columbia, and Victor came calling. Duke's band became the most sought-after band in the United States and even throughout the world. Some of Ellington's greatest works include "Rockin' in Rhythm," "Satin Doll," "New Orleans," "A Drum is a Women," "Take the 'A' Train," "Happy-Go-Lucky Local," "The Mooche," and "Crescendo in Blue."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Ellington
1931 The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opens.
1932 NHL readmits Ottawa & drops Pittsburgh
1933 Packers make 5 first downs, the Giants make 0, but still win 10-7
1933 Nick Altrock, clowning coach of the Senators, pinch-hits at age 57 in a 3-0 loss to the A's.
1937 Pullman Co formally recognizes Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. A labor union founded by A. Philip Randolph in1925, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) represented African American porters and maids who served the white patrons of Pullman sleeping and dining railroad cars. Threatened by the union, the Pullman Company delayed negotiations until 1935, when the Great Depression and President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal legislation helped force employers into collective bargaining. In 1937 the BSCP settled the first contract between a major U.S. company and a black union.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotherhood_of_Sleeping_Car_Porters
1938 Germany annexes the Sudetenland.
1939 After a one-month Siege of Warsaw, hostile forces enter the city.
1939 Winston Chruchill refers to Soviet policy as "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma"
1940 The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic. Ground breaking ceremonies for the new road were held on October 27, 1938 on a farm in Cumberland County, and 9 months later the entire road was under contract. As spring turned into summer, it was rumored that Franklin Roosevelt would be on hand to open the highway on July 4, but that date came and went without the road being completed due to weather. Nearly three more months would pass before the road opened, and it was done so without ceremony. The Pennsylvania Turnpike opened at 12:01 A.M. on October 1, 1940 with only 12 hours notice.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Turnpike
1942 USS Grouper torpedoes Lisbon Maru not knowing she is carrying British PoWs from Hong Kong
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisbon_Maru
1942 First flight of the Bell XP-59 "Aircomet". Bell's test pilot Robert Stanley was undergoing some high-speed taxiing trials with the XP-59A when the aircraft "inadvertently" became airborne for a short time. It made its first official flight the next day, with a USAAF pilot at the controls. This was remarkably rapid progress, the first flight of the prototype taking place only 13 months after the contract had first been awarded. The XP-59A weighted 7320 pounds empty and 12,562 pounds maximum loaded. Wingspan was 45 feet 6 inches, length was 28 feet 2 inches, height was 12 feet 4 inches, and wing area was 386 square feet.
1943 World War II: Naples falls to Allied soldiers.
1944 St Louis Browns win their only AL pennant. The Browns have their first sellout in 20 years as 37,815 pack Sportsman's Park. St. Louis clinches the flag on the final day of the season by sweeping the Yankees and winning 5-2 on a pair of 2-run HRs by Chet Laabs. Sig Jakucki is the winning pitcher.
1945 Heavyweight champ Joe Louis is discharged from the army.
1946 Nazi leaders are sentenced at Nuremberg Trials.
1946 First NL playoffs, Dodgers vs Cards (St Louis wins 2 games to 0) In the first ever National League playoff before 26,012 at Ebbets Field the Dodgers manage just three hits off Howie Pollet and lose 4-2. Joe Garagiola's three hits pace the Cardinals as they beat Ralph Branca.
1946 Bob Feller 348th strikeout of the season. Manager Lou Boudreau finds plenty of innings for Feller to work as the season comes to an end and statisticians discover an error in the Aug 24th box score that shorted the fireballer one strikeout against the A's. Counting that one, Feller ends with 348. Alas! Waddell's old record of 347 was apparently based on the compilations of George Moreland, an early baseball historian, and listed in Little Red Book. TSN researchers later revise Waddell's total to 349.
1946 World Literature Crusade was founded in Saskatchewan, Canada, by Rev. Jack McAlister (president 1946-79). This mission is engaged primarily in Bible distribution, church planting and Bible correspondence courses.
www.ministrywatch.com/profile/every-home-for-christ.aspx
1946 Mensa International is founded in the United Kingdom.
1947 The F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.
1949 The People's Republic of China is established and declared by Mao Zedong.
1952 Emcee Ralph Edwards began a new TV program on NBC-TV called "This is Your Life" From the outgrowth of an act of good will on "Truth or Consequences," Edwards created, produced, and hosted "This Is Your Life" which began on radio in 1948 and he introduced it to television on NBC in 1952. The show that touched the hearts of millions of viewers surprised guests with the story of their lives by reuniting them with friends and family. "This Is Your Life" profiled some of Hollywood's biggest stars and other notable personalities, including Milton Berle, Joe Frazier, Bette Davis, Roy Rogers, Boris Karloff, Carl Reiner, Ann-Margret, Steve Allen, Dick Van Dyke, and Nat "King" Cole. Also featured were people who Edwards called "the heroic unknowns," often in an effort to aid deserving causes.
1955 "Honeymooners" premieres. "The Honeymooners" is one of network television's most beloved and syndicated series. Although The Honeymooners ran for only one season as a half-hour situation comedy (during the 1955-56 season on CBS), Jackie Gleason presented the sketch numerous times during his various variety series. For the 1955-56 season, Gleason was given one of the largest contracts in show business history to produce "The Honeymooners" as a standard situation comedy. Gleason formed his production company and experimented with the Electronicam technology, which enabled him to film a live show with several cameras, a precursor of three-camera videotape recording. Gleason filmed two shows a week at the Adelphi Theatre in New York, performing to over 1,000 spectators.
1957 First appearance of In God We Trust on U.S. paper currency.
1957 B-52 bombers begin full-time flying alert in case of USSR attack
1957 Representatives from 49 churches met in Roseville, MI, to begin organizing the Baptist State Convention of Michigan. The organization officially came into being the following month.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptist_State_Convention_of_Michigan
1958 NASA is created to replace NACA. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration was created on October 1, 1958, "to provide for research into the problems of flight within and outside the Earth's atmosphere and for other purposes."
1958 Vanguard Project transferred from military to NASA. In late 1958, with responsibility for Project Vanguard having been transferred to NASA, the nucleus of the Goddard Space Flight Center was formed. The surprise launch of Sputnik I on October 4, 1957 shocked the U.S. and led to the start of a parallel crash program by the U.S. Army, that eventually launched the first U.S. satellite, Explorer I.
1959 The first episode of Rod Sterling's "Twlight Zone" was registered. "The Twilight Zone" was a television series created by Rod Serling. The original series ran for five seasons on CBS from 1959 to 1964. Serling thought that behind a television series with robots, aliens and other supernatural occurrences, he could also express his political views in a more subtle fashion.
1960 "My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own" by Connie Francis topped the charts.
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.
1966 West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with eighteen fatalities and no survivors 5.5 miles south of Wemme, Oregon. This accident marks the first loss of a DC-9.
1969 Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
1971 Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida, United States.
1971 The first brain-scan using x-ray computed tomography (CT or CAT scan) is performed at Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon, London.
1975 Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines.
1979 The United States returns sovereignty of the Panama canal to Panama.
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.
1987 The Whittier Narrows earthquake shakes the San Gabriel Valley, registering as magnitude 5.9.
1994 – Palau gains independence from the United Nations (trusteeship administered by the United States of America).
1998 Vladimir Putin becomes a permanent member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
1540 Johann Jakob Grynaeus, Swiss Protestant clergyman (d. 1617)
1577 Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Swiss friar and saint (d. 1622)
1730 Richard Stockton, American attorney and signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1781)
1808 Mary Anna Custis Lee, American plantation owner and wife of Robert E. Lee (d. 1873)
1832 Henry Clay Work, American composer (d. 1884)
1846 Nectarios of Aegina, Greek Orthodox saint (d. 1920)
1847 Annie Besant, British theosophist and feminist (d. 1933)
1870 Josiah Edward Spurr, American geologist (d. 1950)
1881 William Boeing, American engineer (d. 1956)
1885 Louis Untermeyer, American author (d. 1977)
1888 Charles Jordan, American magician (d. 1944)
1889 Ralph W. Sockman, American scholar and devotional writer. His best-remembered poem begins: "I met God in the morning, when my day was at its best...."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_W._Sockman
1893 Cliff Friend, American songwriter (d. 1974)
1896 Ted Healy, American actor and comedian (d. 1937)
1899 Ernest Haycox, American writer (d. 1950)
1903 Vladimir Horowitz, Ukrainian-born American pianist (d. 1989)
1904 Otto Robert Frisch, Austrian-born physicist (d. 1979)
1908 Herman David Koppel, composer and pianist (d. 1998)
1909 Sam Yorty, American politician (d. 1998)
1910 Bonnie Parker, American outlaw (d. 1934)
1910 Rabbi Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg, Israeli posek and Gadol HaDor (d. 2012)
1913 Harry Lookofsky, American jazz violinist (d. 1998)
1914 Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian and Librarian of Congress (d. 2004)
1915 Jerome Bruner, American cognitive psychologist
1917 Cahal Daly, Irish Roman Catholic Archbishop (d. 2009)
1920 Walter Matthau, American actor (d. 2000)
1921 James Whitmore, American actor (d. 2009)
1924 Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1924 William Rehnquist, 16th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 2005)
1924 Roger Williams, American piano player (d. 2011)
1925 Bob Boyd, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1927 Tom Bosley, American actor (d. 2010)
1927 Sherman Glenn Finesilver, American federal judge (d. 2006)
1928 Laurence Harvey, Lithuanian-born actor (d. 1973)
1928 George Peppard, American actor (d. 1994)
1929 Bonnie Owens, country music singer (d. 2006)
1929 Grady Chapman, doo wop singer
1930 Richard Harris, Irish actor, singer-songwriter, theatrical producer, film director and writer (d 2002)
1931 Alan Wagner, American opera critic
1932 Albert Collins, American guitarist (d. 1993)
1936 Stella Stevens, American actress
1939 George Archer, American golfer (d. 2005)
1940 Marc Savoy, American musician and instrument builder of the Cajun Accordion
1942 Herb Fame, American soul/pop singer (Peaches & Herb)
1943 Jerry Martini, American saxophonist (Sly & the Family Stone)
1945 Rod Carew, Panamanian-born baseball player
1945 Donny Hathaway, American soul musician and composer (d. 1979)
1945 Ellen McIlwaine, American singer/songwriter
1945 Spider Sabich, American skier (d. 1976)
1946 Tim O'Brien, American writer
1947 Dave Arneson, American game designer (d. 2009)
1947 Buzz Capra, American baseball player
1947 Stephen Collins, American actor
1948 Cub Koda, American singer (Brownsville Station) (d. 2000)
1949 Isaac Bonewits, American author (d. 2010)
1950 Randy Quaid, American actor
1950 Jeane Manson, American singer and actress
1950 Mark Helias, American jazz double bass player and composer
1952 Bob Myrick, American baseball player (d. 2012)
1953 Pete Falcone, American baseball player
1955 Howard Hewett, American singer
1955 Jeff Reardon, American baseball player
1959 Brian P. Cleary, American Author
1961 Rico Constantino, American professional wrestler
1962 Esai Morales, American actor
1963 Mark McGwire, American baseball player
1964 Christopher Titus, American actor and comedian
1965 Cindy Margolis, American model and spokesmodel
1965 Ted King, American actor
1967 Scott Young, American ice hockey player
1967 Mike Pringle, American football player
1968 Jon Guenther, American author
1968 Kevin Griffin, American musician, singer, and songwriter Better Than Ezra
1968 Jay Underwood, American actor
1969 Zach Galifianakis, American comedian and actor
1973 John Mackey, American composer
1973 John Thomson, American baseball player
1974 Christian Borle, American actor
1974 Sherri Saum, American actress
1976 Antonio Roybal, American painter and sculptor
1976 Kona Carmack, American model
1978 Leticia Cline, American model
1978 – Nicole Atkins, American singer-songwriter
1979 Rudi Johnson, American football player
1979 Michael McGillicutty, American wrestler
1979 Ryan Pontbriand, American football player
1981 David Yelldell, American soccer player
1984 Matt Cain, American baseball player
1985 Porcelain Black, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1986 Jurnee Smollett, American actress
1986 Matthew Gonzalez,American Figure Skater
1189 Gerard de Ridefort, grandmaster of the Knights Templar
1404 Pope Boniface IX (b. 1356)
1500 John Alcock, English Catholic bishop
1588 Blessed Edward James, Catholic martyr
1837 Robert Clark, American politician (b. 1777)
1864 Rose Greenhow, American Confederate spy (b. 1817)
1876 James Lick, California land baron (b. 1796)
1885 John Light Atlee, American physician and surgeon (b. 1799)
1955 Charles Christie, American film studio owner (b. 1880)
1972 Louis Leakey, British archaeologist (b. 1903)
1975 Al Jackson, Jr., American drummer (Booker T. & the M.G.'s) (b. 1935)
1984 Walter Alston, American baseball player and manager (b. 1911)
1985 E. B. White, American author (b. 1899)
1986 Archie League, generally considered the first air traffic controller (b. 1907)
1990 Curtis LeMay, American Air Force general (b. 1906)
1997 Jerome H. Lemelson, American inventor (b. 1923)
2000 Robert Allen, American pianist and songwriter (b. 1928)
2001 Kathleen Ankers, American scenic designer (b. 1919)
2002 Walter Annenberg, American publisher and philanthropist (b. 1908)
2004 Richard Avedon, American photographer (b. 1923)
2006 Fawaz al-Rabeiee, Saudi Arabian terrorist (b. 1979)
2006 Jerald Tanner, American religious activist (b. 1938)
2007 Harry Lee, Sheriff of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana (b. 1932)
2007 Al Oerter, American track and field athlete (b. 1936)
2008 John Biddle, American yachting cinematographer and lecturer (b. 1925)
2008 Nick Reynolds, American folk musician (The Kingston Trio) (b. 1933)
Holidays and observances
Christian Feast Day:
Abai (Syrian Orthodox Church)
Bavo of Ghent
Blessed Edward James
Nicetius (Roman Catholic Church)
Remigius
Thérèse de Lisieux
Protection/Patronage of the Theotokos (Eastern Catholic Churches)
October 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Feasts
The Protection of Our Most Holy Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary, at the Blachernae church in Constantinople (911)[1][2][note 1]
Saints
Saint Ananias of Damascus, Bishop and one of the Seventy Apostles (1st c.)
Martyr Domninus of Thessalonica (4th c.)
King Mirian III of Iberia and Queen Nana of Mtskheta - Equals-of-the-Apostles, St. Abiathar of Mtskheta, and St. Sidonia, disciple of St. Nina (4th c.)
Venerable Romanos the Melodist, "Sweet-singer" (ca.556)
Monk-Martyrs Michael, Abbot of Zovia Monastery near Sebaste, and 36 fathers with him (ca.790)
St. Melchizedek, Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia (ca.1030)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Piatus of Tournai, he enlightened the areas around Tournai in Belgium and Chartres in France (ca.286)
Martyrs Verissimus, Maxima and Julia, in Portugal under Diocletian (ca.302)
Martyrs Aretas, and five-hundred-and-four other martyrs, at Rome.
Saint Aladius (Albaud), Bishop of Toul in France. (ca.520)
Saint Bavo of Ghent, penitent and hermit, patron of Haarlem in the Netherlands (659)
Saint Dodo, Abbot of Wallers-en-Faigne (750)
Saint Fidharleus, restorer of the monastery of Rathin in Ireland (762)
Martyr-prince Mylor of Brittany (Melorius).
Saint Virila, Abbot of the Monastery of the Saviour in Leyre in Spain (ca. 1000)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Saint Gregory the Singer of the Great Lavra of Mount Athos (Gregory Domesticus) (1355)
Saint John Kukuzelis of Mount Athos (1360)
Venerable Sabbas, abbot of Vishera in Novgorod, the Wonderworker (1461)
Saint Domna Slipchenko, Fool-for-Christ, native of Poltava (1872)
New Martys and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Alexis, priest (1918)
New Hieromartyr Michael (Vologodsky), priest of Krasnoyarsk (1920).[14][21]
New Hieromartyr George (Archangelsky), priest (1937)[21][note 3]
New Hieromartyrs Alexander, Gregory, Nicholas, priests (1937)[14]
Martyr John (1937)
New Hieromartyr Archpriest Ismael (Rozhdestvensky) of Strelna (St. Petersburg) (1938)
New Hieromartyr Theodore (1940)
Other Commemorations
Commemoration of the Apparition of the Pillar over the Robe of the Lord at Mtskheta, Georgia (ca.330)
Translation of the relics of Saint Remigius of Rheims, Apostle to the Franks (533)
Synaxis of the of the Most-Holy Theotokos Gorgoepikoos ("She who is quick to hear"), at the Dochiariou monastery on Mount Athos (1664)
Repose of Hiero-schemamonk Euthemius of Valaam (1829)[7]
Glorification (2008) of Petro Kalnyshevsky (1803), Koshovey-Commander of the Zaporozhian Cossacks (glorified by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Kyivan Patriarchate)
Icons
Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “Pokrov” (Pskov-Protection Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos) (1581)
Icon of the Theotokos of Brayiliv-Pochaiv (Brailovska) at Brayiliv near Vinnitsa.
Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos Lublin (Liublinsk)
Transfer of the Terebovlya Icon of the Most Holy Mother of God from Terebovlya to Lvov (1672)
Icon of the Mother of God of Gerbovets (Herbovetska) (1790, 1859)
Icon of the Mother of God of Kasperov (Kasperivska), defended the city of Odessa during the Crimean War (1853-1855)
Icon of the Mother of God of Barsk (Barska) (1887)
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_1
www.daysuntil.com/Election-Day/index.html
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www.lutheranhistory.org/history/tih1001.htm
www.christianity.com/churchhistory/
www.amug.org/~jpaul/oct01.html
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331 BC Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela. Alexander turned again to the Persian front in 331 B.C. Darius had collected an enormous army, including the famous heavy cavalry of the Iranian steppe, and many chariots with scythelike knives protruding from the wheels. The Persians smoothed and cleared a vast level plain near Arbela, east of the Tigris River. The Persian cavalry outflanked Alexander's left and captured his camp. But, with a charge which he led himself, Alexander routed Darius, and the Persian Army retired to the east. The battle of Arbela is also known as the Battle of Gaugamela.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gaugamela
959 Edgar the Peaceable becomes king of all England.
1189 Gerard de Ridefort, grandmaster of the Knights Templar since 1184, is killed in the Siege of Acre.
1553 Coronation of Queen Mary I of England.
1800 Spain officially returned the Louisiana territory West of the Mississippi to France by the secret Treaty of San Ildefonso to avoid the continued deficits the colony caused and the growing possibility that Spain might have to fight the restless Americans to retain control of the lands.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Treaty_of_San_Ildefonso
1811 The first steamboat to sail the Mississippi River arrives in New Orléans, Louisiana.
1832 Texian political delegates convened at San Felipe de Austin to petition for changes in the governance of Mexican Texas.
1847 Maria Mitchell, the first woman astronomer in the United States discovered a comet. One night in the Autumn of 1847, Maria looked at the sky through the telescope in her homemade observatory at Nantucket, Mass. and saw a star five degrees above the North Star where there had been no star before. She had memorized the sky and was sure of her observation. It occurred to her that this might be a comet. Maria recorded the presumed comet's coordinates. The next night the star moved again. For this discovery, she was awarded a gold medal by the king of Denmark. She became the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Mitchell
1854 The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American system of watch manufacturing.
1879 Cincinnati Enquirer publishes first report on baseball reserve clause. The biggest expense for any team was player salaries, and competition among teams for players kept driving that expense higher. At a meeting in Buffalo on September 29, 1879, owners decided to reduce competition by allowing each team to reserve five players. They agreed that no league team would attempt to sign a player reserved by another team. They also made it more difficult for a player to leave the league entirely by prohibiting NL teams from playing exhibition games against any non-league teams who used a reserved player.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reserve_clause
1880 John Philip Sousa becomes leader of the United States Marine Band. Sousa followed in the footsteps of his father, a musician in the U.S. Marine Corps, and enlisted by the age of 14. While active in the Marines, he composed his first march, "Salutation." Around the age of 16, Sousa began studying harmony with G.F. Benkert, then worked as a pit orchestra conductor at a local theater, followed by jobs as first chair violinist at the Ford Opera House, the Philadelphia Chestnut Street Theater, and later led the U.S. Marine Corps Band (1880-1992).John Philip Sousa became the band's 17th leader. In 1888 he composed "Semper Fidelis", traditionally known as the official march of the Marine Corps.
1880 First electric lamp factory is opened by Thomas Edison.
1883 American churchman A. B. Simpson founded the first school in America to train missionaries, in New York City. Called the Missionary Training Institute in 1894, its name was changed to Nyack College in 1972.
1886 Special delivery mail service begins in US. Special Delivery service was instituted by an Act of Congress on March 3, 1885. The Act limited the service to Post Office's that served populations of 4000 or more until 1886 when they became available in all Post Offices. The United States was the first country to issue postage stamps expressly for this service, also in 1885. The world's first special delivery stamp was a 10¢ blue Running Messenger special delivery stamp. The U.S. stamp is inscribed "Special Postal Delivery" and "Secures Immediate Delivery at a Special Delivery Office. On Oct. 1, 1886, the service was extended to all first-class post offices in the United States.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_delivery_(postal_service)
1891 In the U.S. state of California, Stanford University opens its doors.
1903 Baseball: The Boston Americans play the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series. The first modern World Series game, also called "Championship of the United States," is played at Boston's Huntington Street park before 16,242. Deacon Phillippe pitches Pittsburgh to a 7-3 win over Cy Young. Pittsburgh RF Jimmy Sebring hits the first home run and adds three other hits. 3B Tommy Leach has four hits, including two triples for the Pirates and winds up with four three-baggers, a Series record.
1908 Ford puts the Model T car on the market at a price of US 825. In 1908, the Ford Model T car, the first car to be made on an assembly line, was introduced for a price of $825. It was an immediate sensation. Before long, it was the largest selling car in the United States, often accounting for over half the sales in the country. True mass production was born with the Model T. As volumes rose, costs came down. By 1925, a coupe sold for $525 new, while a two-door runabout went for only $260.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_T
1908 Jack Chesbro's final Yankee victory, beats Walter Johnson 2-1. Chesbro retired in 1909, having accumulated a 198-132 career record and been part of two pennant-winning teams (in 1901 and 1902).
1910 Los Angeles Times bombing: A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles, California, killing 21.
1910 Berkshire Cattle Fair held in Pittsfield Mass (first state fair)
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1918 World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence, also known as "Lawrence of Arabia" capture Damascus.
1919 World Series begins as a best of 9 affair (The Black Sox Scandal). Just before the start of the WS, the highly favored White Sox became the betting underdogs. A year later the White Sox will become the Black Sox, and 8 of them--pitchers Eddie Cicotte and Lefty Williams, outfielders Joe Jackson and Happy Felsch, 1B Chick Gandil, SS Swede Risberg, 3B Buck Weaver, and utility infielder Fred McMullin--will be barred from baseball for taking part in throwing the Series. It will take that long for the story to unfold, as most observers at the time see nothing amiss when the Series opens in Cincinnati. Eddie Cicotte, a 29-game winner, is driven to cover in a 5-run 4th. Cincinnati's Dutch Ruether pitches a 6-hitter, and has 3 RBI on 2 triples and a single for a 9-1 win. Reds OF Greasy Neale, the only man to play in a WS, coach a football team in the Rose Bowl, and become a pro football Hall of Fame coach, also has 3 hits. He will top the Reds with .357 for the Series.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1919_World_Series
1921 The Latin American Mission was incorporated in Philadelphia by founders Harry and Susan Strachan. Today, over 125 staff work with LAM in eight Central and South American countries.
www.lam.org/serve/get-started?_kk=latin%20american%20mission&_kt=52e1a076-f09e-475d-a1ba-1bfcb7a127e8&gclid=CPrIh5De3rICFYQ7MgodtiMAOA
1921 First all NY series to be played entirely in 1 stadium. After clinching the pennant with a 5-3 win over Philadelphia in the opener behind Carl Mays' 17th straight win over Philadelphia, the Yankees bring Babe Ruth into pitch in relief in the night cap. Ruth, with just one other pitching appearance all season, takes over in the 8th with New York in the lead 6-0. Ruth quickly allows the A's six runs to tie the score, but then knuckles down to hold them scoreless to the 11th when New York scores a run to win, 7-6. Ruth drives in his 167th run in the game, besting Sam Thompson's mark set in 1884. For Mays, it is his 7th straight win over Philley this season.
1922 Former Chicago Staleys play first NFL game as Chicago Bears, win 6-0. The Staley's moved to Chicago from Decatur, IL in 1921. Halas, who was given the team and $5000 by Staley to keep the name Staleys for another year, made the move. In the 1921 season, the Chicago Staleys finished first in the league and captured their first league championship. In 1922, Halas changed the team name to the Bears to reflect baseball's Chicago Cubs, the team's host at Wrigley Field.
1928 The Soviet Union introduces its First Five-Year Plan.
1928 Duke Ellington recorded "The Mooche" on the Okeh label. In 1928, Ellington and Irving Mills signed an agreement in which Mills produced and published Ellington's music. Recording companies like Brunswick, Columbia, and Victor came calling. Duke's band became the most sought-after band in the United States and even throughout the world. Some of Ellington's greatest works include "Rockin' in Rhythm," "Satin Doll," "New Orleans," "A Drum is a Women," "Take the 'A' Train," "Happy-Go-Lucky Local," "The Mooche," and "Crescendo in Blue."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Ellington
1931 The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opens.
1932 NHL readmits Ottawa & drops Pittsburgh
1933 Packers make 5 first downs, the Giants make 0, but still win 10-7
1933 Nick Altrock, clowning coach of the Senators, pinch-hits at age 57 in a 3-0 loss to the A's.
1937 Pullman Co formally recognizes Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters. A labor union founded by A. Philip Randolph in1925, the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters (BSCP) represented African American porters and maids who served the white patrons of Pullman sleeping and dining railroad cars. Threatened by the union, the Pullman Company delayed negotiations until 1935, when the Great Depression and President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal legislation helped force employers into collective bargaining. In 1937 the BSCP settled the first contract between a major U.S. company and a black union.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brotherhood_of_Sleeping_Car_Porters
1938 Germany annexes the Sudetenland.
1939 After a one-month Siege of Warsaw, hostile forces enter the city.
1939 Winston Chruchill refers to Soviet policy as "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma"
1940 The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic. Ground breaking ceremonies for the new road were held on October 27, 1938 on a farm in Cumberland County, and 9 months later the entire road was under contract. As spring turned into summer, it was rumored that Franklin Roosevelt would be on hand to open the highway on July 4, but that date came and went without the road being completed due to weather. Nearly three more months would pass before the road opened, and it was done so without ceremony. The Pennsylvania Turnpike opened at 12:01 A.M. on October 1, 1940 with only 12 hours notice.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Turnpike
1942 USS Grouper torpedoes Lisbon Maru not knowing she is carrying British PoWs from Hong Kong
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lisbon_Maru
1942 First flight of the Bell XP-59 "Aircomet". Bell's test pilot Robert Stanley was undergoing some high-speed taxiing trials with the XP-59A when the aircraft "inadvertently" became airborne for a short time. It made its first official flight the next day, with a USAAF pilot at the controls. This was remarkably rapid progress, the first flight of the prototype taking place only 13 months after the contract had first been awarded. The XP-59A weighted 7320 pounds empty and 12,562 pounds maximum loaded. Wingspan was 45 feet 6 inches, length was 28 feet 2 inches, height was 12 feet 4 inches, and wing area was 386 square feet.
1943 World War II: Naples falls to Allied soldiers.
1944 St Louis Browns win their only AL pennant. The Browns have their first sellout in 20 years as 37,815 pack Sportsman's Park. St. Louis clinches the flag on the final day of the season by sweeping the Yankees and winning 5-2 on a pair of 2-run HRs by Chet Laabs. Sig Jakucki is the winning pitcher.
1945 Heavyweight champ Joe Louis is discharged from the army.
1946 Nazi leaders are sentenced at Nuremberg Trials.
1946 First NL playoffs, Dodgers vs Cards (St Louis wins 2 games to 0) In the first ever National League playoff before 26,012 at Ebbets Field the Dodgers manage just three hits off Howie Pollet and lose 4-2. Joe Garagiola's three hits pace the Cardinals as they beat Ralph Branca.
1946 Bob Feller 348th strikeout of the season. Manager Lou Boudreau finds plenty of innings for Feller to work as the season comes to an end and statisticians discover an error in the Aug 24th box score that shorted the fireballer one strikeout against the A's. Counting that one, Feller ends with 348. Alas! Waddell's old record of 347 was apparently based on the compilations of George Moreland, an early baseball historian, and listed in Little Red Book. TSN researchers later revise Waddell's total to 349.
1946 World Literature Crusade was founded in Saskatchewan, Canada, by Rev. Jack McAlister (president 1946-79). This mission is engaged primarily in Bible distribution, church planting and Bible correspondence courses.
www.ministrywatch.com/profile/every-home-for-christ.aspx
1946 Mensa International is founded in the United Kingdom.
1947 The F-86 Sabre flies for the first time.
1949 The People's Republic of China is established and declared by Mao Zedong.
1952 Emcee Ralph Edwards began a new TV program on NBC-TV called "This is Your Life" From the outgrowth of an act of good will on "Truth or Consequences," Edwards created, produced, and hosted "This Is Your Life" which began on radio in 1948 and he introduced it to television on NBC in 1952. The show that touched the hearts of millions of viewers surprised guests with the story of their lives by reuniting them with friends and family. "This Is Your Life" profiled some of Hollywood's biggest stars and other notable personalities, including Milton Berle, Joe Frazier, Bette Davis, Roy Rogers, Boris Karloff, Carl Reiner, Ann-Margret, Steve Allen, Dick Van Dyke, and Nat "King" Cole. Also featured were people who Edwards called "the heroic unknowns," often in an effort to aid deserving causes.
1955 "Honeymooners" premieres. "The Honeymooners" is one of network television's most beloved and syndicated series. Although The Honeymooners ran for only one season as a half-hour situation comedy (during the 1955-56 season on CBS), Jackie Gleason presented the sketch numerous times during his various variety series. For the 1955-56 season, Gleason was given one of the largest contracts in show business history to produce "The Honeymooners" as a standard situation comedy. Gleason formed his production company and experimented with the Electronicam technology, which enabled him to film a live show with several cameras, a precursor of three-camera videotape recording. Gleason filmed two shows a week at the Adelphi Theatre in New York, performing to over 1,000 spectators.
1957 First appearance of In God We Trust on U.S. paper currency.
1957 B-52 bombers begin full-time flying alert in case of USSR attack
1957 Representatives from 49 churches met in Roseville, MI, to begin organizing the Baptist State Convention of Michigan. The organization officially came into being the following month.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptist_State_Convention_of_Michigan
1958 NASA is created to replace NACA. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration was created on October 1, 1958, "to provide for research into the problems of flight within and outside the Earth's atmosphere and for other purposes."
1958 Vanguard Project transferred from military to NASA. In late 1958, with responsibility for Project Vanguard having been transferred to NASA, the nucleus of the Goddard Space Flight Center was formed. The surprise launch of Sputnik I on October 4, 1957 shocked the U.S. and led to the start of a parallel crash program by the U.S. Army, that eventually launched the first U.S. satellite, Explorer I.
1959 The first episode of Rod Sterling's "Twlight Zone" was registered. "The Twilight Zone" was a television series created by Rod Serling. The original series ran for five seasons on CBS from 1959 to 1964. Serling thought that behind a television series with robots, aliens and other supernatural occurrences, he could also express his political views in a more subtle fashion.
1960 "My Heart Has a Mind of Its Own" by Connie Francis topped the charts.
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.
1966 West Coast Airlines Flight 956 crashes with eighteen fatalities and no survivors 5.5 miles south of Wemme, Oregon. This accident marks the first loss of a DC-9.
1969 Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
1971 Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida, United States.
1971 The first brain-scan using x-ray computed tomography (CT or CAT scan) is performed at Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon, London.
1975 Thrilla in Manila: Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in a boxing match in Manila, Philippines.
1979 The United States returns sovereignty of the Panama canal to Panama.
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.
1987 The Whittier Narrows earthquake shakes the San Gabriel Valley, registering as magnitude 5.9.
1994 – Palau gains independence from the United Nations (trusteeship administered by the United States of America).
1998 Vladimir Putin becomes a permanent member of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Births~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1540 Johann Jakob Grynaeus, Swiss Protestant clergyman (d. 1617)
1577 Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Swiss friar and saint (d. 1622)
1730 Richard Stockton, American attorney and signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1781)
1808 Mary Anna Custis Lee, American plantation owner and wife of Robert E. Lee (d. 1873)
1832 Henry Clay Work, American composer (d. 1884)
1846 Nectarios of Aegina, Greek Orthodox saint (d. 1920)
1847 Annie Besant, British theosophist and feminist (d. 1933)
1870 Josiah Edward Spurr, American geologist (d. 1950)
1881 William Boeing, American engineer (d. 1956)
1885 Louis Untermeyer, American author (d. 1977)
1888 Charles Jordan, American magician (d. 1944)
1889 Ralph W. Sockman, American scholar and devotional writer. His best-remembered poem begins: "I met God in the morning, when my day was at its best...."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_W._Sockman
1893 Cliff Friend, American songwriter (d. 1974)
1896 Ted Healy, American actor and comedian (d. 1937)
1899 Ernest Haycox, American writer (d. 1950)
1903 Vladimir Horowitz, Ukrainian-born American pianist (d. 1989)
1904 Otto Robert Frisch, Austrian-born physicist (d. 1979)
1908 Herman David Koppel, composer and pianist (d. 1998)
1909 Sam Yorty, American politician (d. 1998)
1910 Bonnie Parker, American outlaw (d. 1934)
1910 Rabbi Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg, Israeli posek and Gadol HaDor (d. 2012)
1913 Harry Lookofsky, American jazz violinist (d. 1998)
1914 Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian and Librarian of Congress (d. 2004)
1915 Jerome Bruner, American cognitive psychologist
1917 Cahal Daly, Irish Roman Catholic Archbishop (d. 2009)
1920 Walter Matthau, American actor (d. 2000)
1921 James Whitmore, American actor (d. 2009)
1924 Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
1924 William Rehnquist, 16th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 2005)
1924 Roger Williams, American piano player (d. 2011)
1925 Bob Boyd, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1927 Tom Bosley, American actor (d. 2010)
1927 Sherman Glenn Finesilver, American federal judge (d. 2006)
1928 Laurence Harvey, Lithuanian-born actor (d. 1973)
1928 George Peppard, American actor (d. 1994)
1929 Bonnie Owens, country music singer (d. 2006)
1929 Grady Chapman, doo wop singer
1930 Richard Harris, Irish actor, singer-songwriter, theatrical producer, film director and writer (d 2002)
1931 Alan Wagner, American opera critic
1932 Albert Collins, American guitarist (d. 1993)
1936 Stella Stevens, American actress
1939 George Archer, American golfer (d. 2005)
1940 Marc Savoy, American musician and instrument builder of the Cajun Accordion
1942 Herb Fame, American soul/pop singer (Peaches & Herb)
1943 Jerry Martini, American saxophonist (Sly & the Family Stone)
1945 Rod Carew, Panamanian-born baseball player
1945 Donny Hathaway, American soul musician and composer (d. 1979)
1945 Ellen McIlwaine, American singer/songwriter
1945 Spider Sabich, American skier (d. 1976)
1946 Tim O'Brien, American writer
1947 Dave Arneson, American game designer (d. 2009)
1947 Buzz Capra, American baseball player
1947 Stephen Collins, American actor
1948 Cub Koda, American singer (Brownsville Station) (d. 2000)
1949 Isaac Bonewits, American author (d. 2010)
1950 Randy Quaid, American actor
1950 Jeane Manson, American singer and actress
1950 Mark Helias, American jazz double bass player and composer
1952 Bob Myrick, American baseball player (d. 2012)
1953 Pete Falcone, American baseball player
1955 Howard Hewett, American singer
1955 Jeff Reardon, American baseball player
1959 Brian P. Cleary, American Author
1961 Rico Constantino, American professional wrestler
1962 Esai Morales, American actor
1963 Mark McGwire, American baseball player
1964 Christopher Titus, American actor and comedian
1965 Cindy Margolis, American model and spokesmodel
1965 Ted King, American actor
1967 Scott Young, American ice hockey player
1967 Mike Pringle, American football player
1968 Jon Guenther, American author
1968 Kevin Griffin, American musician, singer, and songwriter Better Than Ezra
1968 Jay Underwood, American actor
1969 Zach Galifianakis, American comedian and actor
1973 John Mackey, American composer
1973 John Thomson, American baseball player
1974 Christian Borle, American actor
1974 Sherri Saum, American actress
1976 Antonio Roybal, American painter and sculptor
1976 Kona Carmack, American model
1978 Leticia Cline, American model
1978 – Nicole Atkins, American singer-songwriter
1979 Rudi Johnson, American football player
1979 Michael McGillicutty, American wrestler
1979 Ryan Pontbriand, American football player
1981 David Yelldell, American soccer player
1984 Matt Cain, American baseball player
1985 Porcelain Black, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
1986 Jurnee Smollett, American actress
1986 Matthew Gonzalez,American Figure Skater
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1189 Gerard de Ridefort, grandmaster of the Knights Templar
1404 Pope Boniface IX (b. 1356)
1500 John Alcock, English Catholic bishop
1588 Blessed Edward James, Catholic martyr
1837 Robert Clark, American politician (b. 1777)
1864 Rose Greenhow, American Confederate spy (b. 1817)
1876 James Lick, California land baron (b. 1796)
1885 John Light Atlee, American physician and surgeon (b. 1799)
1955 Charles Christie, American film studio owner (b. 1880)
1972 Louis Leakey, British archaeologist (b. 1903)
1975 Al Jackson, Jr., American drummer (Booker T. & the M.G.'s) (b. 1935)
1984 Walter Alston, American baseball player and manager (b. 1911)
1985 E. B. White, American author (b. 1899)
1986 Archie League, generally considered the first air traffic controller (b. 1907)
1990 Curtis LeMay, American Air Force general (b. 1906)
1997 Jerome H. Lemelson, American inventor (b. 1923)
2000 Robert Allen, American pianist and songwriter (b. 1928)
2001 Kathleen Ankers, American scenic designer (b. 1919)
2002 Walter Annenberg, American publisher and philanthropist (b. 1908)
2004 Richard Avedon, American photographer (b. 1923)
2006 Fawaz al-Rabeiee, Saudi Arabian terrorist (b. 1979)
2006 Jerald Tanner, American religious activist (b. 1938)
2007 Harry Lee, Sheriff of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana (b. 1932)
2007 Al Oerter, American track and field athlete (b. 1936)
2008 John Biddle, American yachting cinematographer and lecturer (b. 1925)
2008 Nick Reynolds, American folk musician (The Kingston Trio) (b. 1933)
Holidays and observances
Christian Feast Day:
Abai (Syrian Orthodox Church)
Bavo of Ghent
Blessed Edward James
Nicetius (Roman Catholic Church)
Remigius
Thérèse de Lisieux
Protection/Patronage of the Theotokos (Eastern Catholic Churches)
October 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Feasts
The Protection of Our Most Holy Lady Theotokos and Ever-Virgin Mary, at the Blachernae church in Constantinople (911)[1][2][note 1]
Saints
Saint Ananias of Damascus, Bishop and one of the Seventy Apostles (1st c.)
Martyr Domninus of Thessalonica (4th c.)
King Mirian III of Iberia and Queen Nana of Mtskheta - Equals-of-the-Apostles, St. Abiathar of Mtskheta, and St. Sidonia, disciple of St. Nina (4th c.)
Venerable Romanos the Melodist, "Sweet-singer" (ca.556)
Monk-Martyrs Michael, Abbot of Zovia Monastery near Sebaste, and 36 fathers with him (ca.790)
St. Melchizedek, Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia (ca.1030)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Piatus of Tournai, he enlightened the areas around Tournai in Belgium and Chartres in France (ca.286)
Martyrs Verissimus, Maxima and Julia, in Portugal under Diocletian (ca.302)
Martyrs Aretas, and five-hundred-and-four other martyrs, at Rome.
Saint Aladius (Albaud), Bishop of Toul in France. (ca.520)
Saint Bavo of Ghent, penitent and hermit, patron of Haarlem in the Netherlands (659)
Saint Dodo, Abbot of Wallers-en-Faigne (750)
Saint Fidharleus, restorer of the monastery of Rathin in Ireland (762)
Martyr-prince Mylor of Brittany (Melorius).
Saint Virila, Abbot of the Monastery of the Saviour in Leyre in Spain (ca. 1000)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
Saint Gregory the Singer of the Great Lavra of Mount Athos (Gregory Domesticus) (1355)
Saint John Kukuzelis of Mount Athos (1360)
Venerable Sabbas, abbot of Vishera in Novgorod, the Wonderworker (1461)
Saint Domna Slipchenko, Fool-for-Christ, native of Poltava (1872)
New Martys and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Alexis, priest (1918)
New Hieromartyr Michael (Vologodsky), priest of Krasnoyarsk (1920).[14][21]
New Hieromartyr George (Archangelsky), priest (1937)[21][note 3]
New Hieromartyrs Alexander, Gregory, Nicholas, priests (1937)[14]
Martyr John (1937)
New Hieromartyr Archpriest Ismael (Rozhdestvensky) of Strelna (St. Petersburg) (1938)
New Hieromartyr Theodore (1940)
Other Commemorations
Commemoration of the Apparition of the Pillar over the Robe of the Lord at Mtskheta, Georgia (ca.330)
Translation of the relics of Saint Remigius of Rheims, Apostle to the Franks (533)
Synaxis of the of the Most-Holy Theotokos Gorgoepikoos ("She who is quick to hear"), at the Dochiariou monastery on Mount Athos (1664)
Repose of Hiero-schemamonk Euthemius of Valaam (1829)[7]
Glorification (2008) of Petro Kalnyshevsky (1803), Koshovey-Commander of the Zaporozhian Cossacks (glorified by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Kyivan Patriarchate)
Icons
Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos “Pokrov” (Pskov-Protection Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos) (1581)
Icon of the Theotokos of Brayiliv-Pochaiv (Brailovska) at Brayiliv near Vinnitsa.
Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos Lublin (Liublinsk)
Transfer of the Terebovlya Icon of the Most Holy Mother of God from Terebovlya to Lvov (1672)
Icon of the Mother of God of Gerbovets (Herbovetska) (1790, 1859)
Icon of the Mother of God of Kasperov (Kasperivska), defended the city of Odessa during the Crimean War (1853-1855)
Icon of the Mother of God of Barsk (Barska) (1887)
www.scopesys.com/cgi-bin/today2.cgi
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_1
www.daysuntil.com/Election-Day/index.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_1_(Eastern_Orthodox_liturgics)
www.lutheranhistory.org/history/tih1001.htm
www.christianity.com/churchhistory/
www.amug.org/~jpaul/oct01.html