1st october anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1207
  • Great Britain
  • "Henry III of England born 1207 (reigned from 1216, died 1272). His reign was the third longest after Victoria and George III. A pious man who preferred peace, he was drawn into struggles with the powerful barons."
• event
  • 1792
  • Introduction of Money Orders in Britain
  • 1843
  • News of the World first published
  • 1881
  • Foundation of the Red Cross
  • 1908
  • Henry Ford’s ‘Model T’ cars went on sale for $825 each .
  • 1918
  • Arab forces under Lawrence of Arabia capture Damascus
  • 1928
  • The Soviet Union introduced its first Five-Year Plan for economic growth .
  • 1938
  • "German forces entered Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia, which Hitler had annexed under the Munich Agreement."
  • 1949
  • "The Peoples Republic of China was proclaimed, led by Mao Zedong"
  • 1958
  • "NASA began operations, replacing the NACA ."
  • 1969
  • Concorde broke the sound barrier for the first time during a test flight in France
  • 1974
  • 1st McDonalds opens in London
  • 1979
  • "The Panama Canal Zone ceased to exist. (The area remained under joint US-Panama control until 1999, and was then fully returned to Panama)"
  • 1988
  • Mikhail Gorbachev was elected President of the USSR .
• Death
  • 1708
  • "Death of John Blow, British composer and organist 300."