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Born on October 1
This Day in History
- 2022Around 3,000 Arema supporters invaded the stadium pitch after losing a home league match to local rivals Persebaya Surabaya, encountering police resistance that triggered a stampede resulting in 135 deaths.
- 2018The International Court of Justice ruled that Chile had no obligation to grant Bolivia access to the Pacific Ocean, an access point Bolivia had lost during the 19th century.
- 2017A lone gunman shot over 1,000 rounds from his hotel suite into a crowd at the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip, leaving 60 people dead and 867 injured.
- 2012A collision involving a ferry off Hong Kong's Lamma Island resulted in 39 fatalities and left 92 other people injured.
- 2003Hong Kong introduced a levy on the employment of foreign domestic helpers, who at that time numbered in the hundreds of thousands.
- 1998Europol, the European Union's law enforcement agency, was established following the ratification of the Europol Convention by every member state.
- 1994A tribunal was created to examine constitutional issues in Singapore when referred to it by the president.
- 1991During the Croatian War of Independence, Yugoslav People's Army forces entered the area around Dubrovnik, Croatia, initiating a seven-month siege of the city.
- 1990Fifty Rwandan Patriotic Front rebels deserted their positions in the Ugandan Army and crossed into Rwanda from Uganda, initiating the Rwandan Civil War.
- 1989Denmark became the first nation to legalise civil unions for same-sex couples.
- 1978Tuvalu officially adopted its national flag on the exact day it achieved independence.
- 1975Muhammad Ali triumphed over Joe Frazier in a historic boxing match dubbed the "Thrilla in Manila".
- 1965Rebel forces in Jakarta murdered seven Indonesian National Armed Forces officers, including six generals, at dawn; the Army blamed the Communist Party, triggering anti-communist purges that killed up to one million people.
- 1964The Free Speech Movement began at the University of California, Berkeley, after 3,000 students surrounded a police vehicle to stop officers from taking away the arrested Jack Weinberg.
- 1949Chinese Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong publicly declared the creation of the People's Republic of China at Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
- 1946Mensa, which is the world's oldest and largest high-IQ society, was founded in the United Kingdom.