Historical Events -  October 1

1837 : The first Indian Post Office was established.

1880  : The Edison Lamp Works began operations in New Jersey to manufacture the first electric light bulb.

1891 : Stanford University was established in California.

1946 : Mensa International was founded in the United Kingdom.

1949 : China has been proclaimed a People’s Republic of China under the leadership of Mao Tse-tung, as a chairman, and Chou-En-Lai, as Prime Minister. 

1958 : Decimal (metric) system introduced in India.

1959 : Bhuvnesh Prasad Sinha became the 6th Chief Justice of India.

1960 : Nigeria gained independence from the United Kingdom.

1967 : Tourism Development Corporation of India established.

1971 : Walt Disney World opened in the United States.

1982 : Sony released the first compact disc (CD), player.

1992 : Cartoon Network launched.

1971  The first practical CT scanner used to diagnose a patient.

2002 : India received the first gold medal in snooker competition at the Asian Games.

 

Famous Birthdays   – October 1  

1847: Annie Besant, English social reformer, theosophist, and Indian freedom fighter who together with radical atheist Charles Bradlaugh promoted birth control, for which they were prosecuted.

1881: William Edward Boeing, an American aviation pioneer who founded The Boeing Company in 1916.

1895: Liaquat Ali Khan, the first Prime Minister of Pakistan.

1906: Sachin Dev Burman, Indian musician, and singer.

1919: G. D. Madgulkar, Indian Lyricist, poet, writer, screenwriter, actor.

1919: Majruh Sultanpuri, Dadasaheb Phalke Award-winning Indian lyricist and poet.

1924: Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, winner of the Nobel Prize.

1928: Vizupuram Chinnaya (Shivaji Ganesan), south Indian actors.

1930: Jayadevappa Halappa (J. H. Patel), the 15th Chief Minister of Karnataka, India.

1945: Ram Nath Kovind, Indian Politician, and 14th President of India.

1955: Dilip Shanghvi is an Indian billionaire businessman and one of the country’s richest people. He founded Sun Pharmaceuticals. 

 

Death Anniversaries   – October 1

1627: Khanzada Mirza Khan Abdul Rahim Khan-e-Khana, also known as Rahim, an Indian poet who lived during the rule of Mughal emperor Akbar.

1972: Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey, British paleoanthropologist and archaeologist.

1985: Elwyn Brooks White, an American writer. He was the author of several highly popular books for children, including Stuart Little.

1990: John Stewart Bell, a physicist from Northern Ireland and the originator of Bell’s theorem, an important theorem in quantum physics regarding hidden variable theories.

1995: Aditya Vikram Birla, was an Indian industrialist. Born into one of the largest business families of India.

2012: Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm, a British historian of the rise of industrial capitalism, socialism, and nationalism.