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Wednesday October 1, 2014 This is the 274th day of the year, with 91 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: lakes Four-fifths of lake waters occur in a small number of lakes, perhaps 40 in all.
Holidays China, Nigeria, Cyprus, Palau, Tuvalu: National Day/Independence Day.
Feast day of St. Romanus the Melodist, St. Melorus or Mylor, St. Bavo or Allowin, St. ThérÈse of Lisieux.
Events 331 B.C.E. - Alexander the Great defeated Darius III at Arbela.
1273 - Rudolf of Hapsburg was elected emperor in Germany.
1791 - The National Legislative Assembly of France held its first meeting
1795 - Belgium became part of the French Republic.
1800 - Spain ceded Louisiana to France in a secret Treaty of San Ildefonso.
1843 - "The News of the World," Britain's most popular Sunday newspaper, was first published.
1878 - General Lew Wallace was sworn in as governor of New Mexico Territory.
1885 - Special Delivery mail service began in the United States.
1890 - Yosemite National Park was dedicated in California.
1896 - Rural Free Delivery mail service began in the United States.
1903 - The Boston Americans (eventually Boston Red Sox) played the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first game of the modern World Series.
1908 - Henry Ford introduced the Model T automobile. It cost $825.
1918 - Lawrence of Arabia captured Damascus from the Turks with combined Arab and British forces.
1936 - General Francisco Franco was named leader of Spain's fascist party, Falange, making him head of the Nationalist government.
1938 - German forces entered Czechoslovakia and seized control of the Sudetenland.
1940 - The first section of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, 160 miles long, was opened.
1943 - Allied forces captured Naples in World War II.
1946 - Twelve Nazi war criminals were sentenced to be hanged at Nuremberg trials: Karl Donitz, Hermann Goring, Alfred Jodl, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Wilhelm Keitel, Joachin von Ribbentrop, Fritz Saukel, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Julius Streicher, and Alfred Rosenberg.
1961 - Roger Maris of the New York Yankees hit his 61st home run during a 162-game season, compared to Babe Ruth's 60 home runs during a 154-game season.
1962 - Johnny Carson succeeded Jack Paar as regular host of NBC's "Tonight Show"
1962 - "The Merv Griffin Show" premiered on TV.
1964 - The Free Speech Movement was launched at the University of California, Berkeley.
1965 - A coup against the Indonesian president was crushed by army chief of staff General Suharto. By 1967, Suharto assumed full power in the country.
1971 - Walt Disney World, the world's largest amusement resort, opened in Florida.
1972 - "Kung Fu." debuted on TV.
1982 - Helmut Kohl became federal chancellor of West Germany, succeeding Helmut Schmidt.
1988 - Mikhail Gorbachev was elected president of USSR by Supreme Soviet.
1989 - Thousands of East Germans were welcomed into West Germany when the Communist government allowed them to flee to the west.
1990 - U.S. President Bush condemns Iraq's takeover of Kuwait before the United Nations.
1994 - National Hockey League team owners began a 103-day lockout of their players.
2001 - The Supreme Court suspended former President Bill Clinton from practicing before the high court.
2005 - Suicide bombers strike three restaurants in two tourist areas on Bali, killing 22 and injuring more than 50 others.
2006 - Age discrimination in employment is made illegal in the United Kingdom.
Births 1881 - William Boeing, American engineer.
1910 - Bonnie Parker, American bank robber.
1920 - Walter Matthau, American actor.
1924 - Jimmy Carter 39th President of the United States of America (1977-1981).
1933 - Richard Harris, Irish actor.
1935 - Julie Andrews, English actress and singer.
1950 - Houston, Texas-born Randy Quaid, film actor and comedian.
1963 - Mark McGwire, American baseball player.
Deaths 1838 - Charles Tennant, Scottish chemist and industrialist.
1972 - Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey, Kenyan-born English archaeologist and anthropologist.
1985 - E. B. White (born Elwyn Brooks White), a leading American essayist, author, humorist, poet and literary stylist.
1990 - Curtis LeMay, United States Air Force General.
1997 - Jerome H. Lemelson, American inventor and patent holder.
2002 - Walter Annenberg, publisher and philanthropist, born in in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
2004 - Bruce Palmer, Canadian musician most famous for playing bass guitar in the influential folk-rock band Buffalo Springfield.
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