Today in History
1 October
257 births · 105 deaths · 94 events recorded
Featured Birthday · Born 1893
Cliff Friend
American songwriter (1893–1974)
Notable Births
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Priah Ferguson
b. 2006
American actress (born 2006)
Livvy Dunne
b. 2002
American gymnast and influencer (born 2002)
Luna Blaise
b. 2001
American actress (born 2001)
Mason Greenwood
b. 2001
English footballer (born 2001)
Kalle Rovanperä
b. 2000
Finnish rally driver (born 2000)
Bonnie and Clyde
b. 1910
American bank robbers in the 1930s
Cliff Friend
b. 1893
American songwriter (1893–1974)
Shizuichi Tanaka
b. 1887
Japanese general
Notable Deaths
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Jane Goodall
d. 2025
English zoologist (1934–2025)
Michael Ancram
d. 2024
British politician and peer (1945–2024)
Tim Wakefield
d. 2023
American baseball player (1966–2023)
Antonio Inoki
d. 2022
Japanese wrestler and politician (1943–2022)
Karel Gott
d. 2019
Czech singer (1939–2019)
Charles Aznavour
d. 2018
French singer and songwriter (1924–2018)
Stephen Paddock
d. 2017
American mass murderer (1953–2017)
Tom Clancy
d. 2013
American author (1947–2013)
On This Day in History
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2024
Israel invaded Southern Lebanon, marking the fifth Israeli invasion of Lebanon since 1978.
Israel
2022
One hundred and thirty-five are killed in a human crush following a football match at Kanjuruhan Stadium in East Java, Indonesia.
Kanjuruhan Stadium disaster
2021
The 2020 World Expo in Dubai begins. Its opening was originally scheduled for 20 October 2020 but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Expo 2020
2019
Kuopio school stabbing: One dies and ten are injured when Joel Marin, armed with a sabre, attacks a school class at Savo Vocational College in Kuopio, Finland.
Kuopio school stabbing
2018
The International Court of Justice rules that Chile is not obliged to negotiate access to the Pacific Ocean with Bolivia.
International Court of Justice
2017
An independence referendum, later declared illegal by the Constitutional Court of Spain, takes place in Catalonia.
2017 Catalan independence referendum
2017
Sixty people are killed and 867 others injured in a mass shooting at a country music festival at the Las Vegas Strip in the United States; the gunman, Stephen Paddock, later commits suicide.
2017 Las Vegas shooting
2016
The leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, Pedro Sánchez, resigns. He would return to the position a year later.
Spanish Socialist Workers' Party