October 1<\/p>\n
331 BC \u2013 Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia for the second, and last time, in the Battle of Gaugamela, near modern-day Erbil, Iraq, conquering Babylon.<\/p>\n
1787 \u2013 Russian troops under Alexander Suvorov defeat invading Turks under Serben A\u011fa at Ochakiv in Mykolaiv Oblast\u00a0near modern Kherson, Ukraine<\/p>\n
1800 \u2013 Via the Third Treaty of San Ildefonso<\/em>, Spain cedes Louisiana to France.<\/p>\n 1827 \u2013\u00a0 A Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storm and retake Yerevan, ending a millennium of moslem domination of Armenia.<\/p>\n 1832 \u2013 Texian political delegates convene at San Felipe de Austin to petition for changes in the governance of Mexican Texas.<\/p>\n 1890 \u2013 Yosemite National Park is established by Congress.<\/p>\n 1903 \u2013 The American League Boston Americans<\/em> play the National League Pittsburgh Pirates<\/em> in the first game of the modern World Series with Pittsburgh winning the first game at Boston’s Huntington Avenue Grounds, 7-3, but ultimately loosing the pennant.<\/p>\n 1908 \u2013 The Ford Motor Company offer its\u00a0 Model T automobiles for sale at the price of $825 (about $23,000 today)<\/p>\n 1910 \u2013 A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building, killing 21 people.<\/p>\n 1918 \u2013 During World War I, the Allied Egyptian Expeditionary Force captures Damascus.<\/p>\n 1931 \u2013 The George Washington Bridge in the United States, linking New Jersey and New York, is opened.<\/p>\n 1936 \u2013 During the Spanish Civil War, Francisco Franco is promoted Generalissimo and named head of the Nationalist government of Spain.<\/p>\n 1942 \u2013 On her second combat patrol, Lt Commander C. E. Duke commanding USS Grouper<\/em> torpedoes the Lisbon Maru<\/em>, not knowing that she is carrying British prisoners of war from Hong Kong.<\/p>\n 1946 \u2013 Nazi leaders are sentenced, most to be hanged like common criminals, at the Nuremberg trials.<\/p>\n 1947 \u2013 The North American F-86 Sabre<\/em> flies for the first time.<\/p>\n 1957 \u2013 The U.S. Treasury beings printing In God we trust <\/em>on paper currency<\/p>\n 1958 \u2013 The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) is replaced by The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)<\/p>\n 1961 \u2013 The United States Defense Intelligence Agency is formed<\/p>\n 1966 \u2013 West Coast Airlines Flight 956, a Douglas DC-9, crashes in Clackamas County, Oregon, with no survivors of the 18 passengers and crew aboard. This accident marks the first loss of a DC-9.<\/p>\n 1969 \u2013 The\u00a0A\u00e9rospatiale\/BAC Concorde<\/em> flies supersonic for the first time.<\/p>\n 1971 \u2013 Walt Disney World opens near Orlando, Florida.<\/p>\n 1982 \u2013 EPCOT (Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow) opens at Walt Disney World in Florida.<\/p>\n 1987 \u2013 A 5.9 Mw\u202f earthquake shakes the San Gabriel Valley in California, killing 8 people and injuring 200.<\/p>\n 2015 \u2013 A student at Umpqua Community College near Roseburg, Oregon shoots and kills 9 faculty and students and wounds 8 more, then engages police officers in a gunfight before committing suicide after being wounded.<\/p>\n 2017 \u2013 A man shooting from a room on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel kills 59 people and injures another 869, 2 of which later die of complications of their wounds, at a country music festival at the Las Vegas Strip before committing suicide.<\/p>\n 2018 \u2013 The International Court of Justice rules that Chile is not obliged to negotiate access to the Pacific Ocean with Bolivia.<\/p>\n 2019 \u2013 1 student is killed died and 10 injured when Joel Marin, armed only with a sword, attacks a school class at Savo Vocational School in Kuopio, Finland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" October 1 331 BC \u2013 Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia for the second, and last time, in the Battle of Gaugamela, near modern-day Erbil, Iraq, conquering Babylon. 1787 \u2013 Russian troops under Alexander Suvorov defeat invading Turks under Serben A\u011fa at Ochakiv in Mykolaiv Oblast\u00a0near modern Kherson, Ukraine 1800 \u2013 Via the … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60227"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96412,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60227\/revisions\/96412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}