Browse events, births, deaths and holidays on October 1 throughout history.
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. It is bordered by Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east…
Israel invaded Southern Lebanon, marking the fifth Israeli invasion of Lebanon since 1978.
On 1 October 2022, a fatal crowd crush occurred following an association football match at Kanjuruhan Stadium in Malang Regency, East Java, Indonesia. Following a loss by home sid…
One hundred and thirty-five are killed in a human crush following a football match at Kanjuruhan Stadium in East Java,…
Expo 2020 was a World Expo hosted in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, from 1 October 2021 to 31 March 2022.
The 2020 World Expo in Dubai begins. Its opening was originally scheduled for 20 October 2020 but was delayed due to…
On 1 October 2019, 24-year-old student Joel Otto Aukusti Marin fatally stabbed a female student and wounded 11 others at Savo Vocational College, located in the premises of Herman…
Kuopio school stabbing: One dies and ten are injured when Joel Marin, armed with a sabre, attacks a school class at…
The International Court of Justice, or colloquially the World Court, is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations (UN). It settles legal disputes submitted to it by state…
The International Court of Justice rules that Chile is not obliged to negotiate access to the Pacific Ocean with…
An independence referendum was held on 1 October 2017 in the Spanish autonomous community of Catalonia, passed by the Parliament of Catalonia as the Law on the Referendum on Self-…
An independence referendum, later declared illegal by the Constitutional Court of Spain, takes place in Catalonia.
On October 1, 2017, a mass shooting occurred when 64-year-old Stephen Paddock opened fire on the crowd attending the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Neva…
Sixty people are killed and 867 others injured in a mass shooting at a country music festival at the Las Vegas Strip…
The Spanish Socialist Workers' Party is a social democratic political party in Spain. The PSOE has been in government longer than any other political party in modern democratic Sp…
The leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, Pedro Sánchez, resigns. He would return to the position a year…
On October 1, 2015, a school shooting occurred at the Umpqua Community College campus near Roseburg, Oregon, United States. Christopher Sean Harper-Mercer, a 26-year-old who was e…
A gunman kills nine people at a community college in Oregon.
On October 1, 2015, heavy rains triggered a major landslide in the village of El Cambray Dos within Santa Catarina Pinula, Guatemala—15 km (9.3 mi) east of Guatemala City, killing…
Heavy rains trigger a major landslide in Guatemala, killing 280 people.
SS El Faro was a United States-flagged, combination of roll-on/roll-off and lift-on/lift-off cargo ship crewed by U.S. merchant mariners. Built in 1975 by Sun Shipbuilding & Drydo…
The American cargo vessel SS El Faro sinks with all of its 33 crew after steaming into the eyewall of Hurricane Joaquin.
The 2014 Gorni Lom explosions were a series of explosions that began on the afternoon of October 1, 2014, at 16:59 pm local time at the former Midzhur Ammo Plant in the village of…
A series of explosions at a gunpowder plant in Bulgaria completely destroys the factory, killing 15 people.
The Homs school bombing occurred on 1 October 2014 in Homs, Syria in an Alawite-majority neighborhood during the Syrian civil war. The attack targeted two neighboring elementary s…
A double bombing of an elementary school in Homs, Syria kills over 50 people.
On 1 October 2012, at approximately 20:23 HKT, the passenger ferries Sea Smooth and Lamma IV collided off Yung Shue Wan, Lamma Island, Hong Kong. This occurred on the National Day…
A ferry collision off the coast of Hong Kong kills 38 people and injures 102 others.
The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom is the final court of appeal for all civil cases in the United Kingdom and all criminal cases originating in England, Wales and Northern Ir…
The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom takes over the judicial functions of the House of Lords.
An imageboard is a type of Internet forum that focuses on the posting of images, often alongside text and discussion. The first imageboards were created in Japan as an extension o…
The popular and controversial English-language imageboard 4chan is launched.
On Monday, 1 October 2001, three militants belonging to Jaish-e-Mohammed carried out an attack on the Jammu and Kashmir State Legislative Assembly complex in Srinagar using a Tata…
Militants attack the state legislature building in Kashmir, killing 38.
3G is the third generation of cellular network technology. These networks were rolled out beginning in the early 2000s and represented a significant advancement over the second ge…
3G wireless technology first becomes available when it is adopted by Japanese telecommunications company NTT Docomo.
Israel and the Palestinians are engaged in an ongoing military and political conflict about land and self-determination within the former territory of Mandatory Palestine. Key asp…
Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Palestinians protest the killing of 12-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah by Israeli police in…
Palau, officially the Republic of Palau, is an island country located in the Micronesia subregion of Oceania in the western Pacific Ocean. The Republic of Palau consists of approx…
Palau enters a Compact of Free Association with the United States.