Thursday, October 1, 2015

October Month in History Events

On This Day in History, Music and Sport

for Thursday 1st October, 2015

Historical Events



331 BC - Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela.
1814 - Opening of the Congress of Vienna, intended to redraw the Europe's political map after the defeat of Napoléon Bonaparte the previous spring.
1867 - Karl Marx' "Das Kapital" published
1908 - Henry Ford introduces the Model T car (costs $825)
1938 - Germany annexes Sudetenland (1/3 of Czechoslovakia) following the Munich Agreement.
1988 - Mikhail Gorbachev becomes Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet and thus head of state of the Soviet Union


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