Historical Events on October 1.

1. International Day of Older Persons & International Coffee Day

2. 1542, 1st October: Mariam-uz-Zamani, wife of the Mughal emperor Akbar. She was to become the mother of Akbar’s eldest surviving son and eventual successor, Jahangir.

3. 1791, 1st October: The first session of the French Parliament began.

4. 1837, 1st October: The first Indian Post Office was established.

5. 1880, 1st October: The Edison Lamp Works began operations in New Jersey to manufacture the first electric light bulb.

6. 1891, 1st October: Stanford University was established in California.

7. 1946, 1st October: Mensa International was founded in the United Kingdom.

8. 1949, 1st October: 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. 

9. 1958, 1st October: Decimal (metric) system introduced in India.

10. 1959, 1st October: Bhuvnesh Prasad Sinha became the 6th Chief Justice of India.

11. 1960, 1st October: Nigeria gained independence from the United Kingdom.

12. 1967, 1st October: Tourism Development Corporation of India established.

13. 1971, 1st October: Walt Disney World opened in the United States.

14. 1982, 1st October: Sony released the first compact disc (CD), player.

15. 1992, 1st October: Cartoon Network launched.

16. 1971, 1st October: The first practical CT scanner used to diagnose a patient.

17. 2002, 1st October: India received the first gold medal in snooker competition at the Asian Games.

Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on October 1.

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.

2. 1881: William Edward Boeing, an American aviation pioneer who founded The Boeing Company in 1916.

3. 1895: Liaquat Ali Khan, the first Prime Minister of Pakistan.

4. 1906: Sachin Dev Burman, Indian musician, and singer.

5. 1919: G. D. Madgulkar, Indian Lyricist, poet, writer, screenwriter, actor.

6. 1919: Majruh Sultanpuri, Dadasaheb Phalke Award-winning Indian lyricist and poet.

7. 1924: Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, winner of the Nobel Prize.

8. 1928: Vizupuram Chinnaya (Shivaji Ganesan), south Indian actors.

9. 1930: Jayadevappa Halappa (J. H. Patel), the 15th Chief Minister of Karnataka, India.

10. 1945: Ram Nath Kovind, Indian Politician, and 14th President of India.

11. 1955: Dilip Shanghvi is an Indian billionaire businessman and one of the country’s richest people. He founded Sun Pharmaceuticals. 

Death Anniversaries of famous people on October 1.

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.

2. 1972: Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey, British paleoanthropologist and archaeologist.

3. 1985: Elwyn Brooks White, an American writer. He was the author of several highly popular books for children, including Stuart Little.

4. 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.

5. 1995: Aditya Vikram Birla, was an Indian industrialist. Born into one of the largest business families of India.

6. 2012: Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm, a British historian of the rise of industrial capitalism, socialism, and nationalism.