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October 1

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This Day in History

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 2012A collision involving a ferry off Hong Kong's Lamma Island resulted in 39 fatalities and left 92 other people injured.
  5. 2003Hong Kong introduced a levy on the employment of foreign domestic helpers, who at that time numbered in the hundreds of thousands.
  6. 1998Europol, the European Union's law enforcement agency, was established following the ratification of the Europol Convention by every member state.
  7. 1994A tribunal was created to examine constitutional issues in Singapore when referred to it by the president.
  8. 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.
  9. 1990Fifty Rwandan Patriotic Front rebels deserted their positions in the Ugandan Army and crossed into Rwanda from Uganda, initiating the Rwandan Civil War.
  10. 1989Denmark became the first nation to legalise civil unions for same-sex couples.
  11. 1978Tuvalu officially adopted its national flag on the exact day it achieved independence.
  12. 1975Muhammad Ali triumphed over Joe Frazier in a historic boxing match dubbed the "Thrilla in Manila".
  13. 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.
  14. 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.
  15. 1949Chinese Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong publicly declared the creation of the People's Republic of China at Tiananmen Square in Beijing.
  16. 1946Mensa, which is the world's oldest and largest high-IQ society, was founded in the United Kingdom.