October 1
1800 - Spain ceded Louisiana to France in the secret Treaty of San Ildefonso. Although Napoleon Bonaparte agreed never to alienate Louisiana, he disregarded the treaty and sold Louisana to the United States three years later.
1908 - Henry Ford introduced the first mass-produced automobile to market -- the Model T -- with a price of $825.
1910 - The offices of the Los Angeles Times were destroyed by a bomb explosion and fire; 21 Times employees were killed.
1936 - Gen. Francisco Franco became head of the insurgent Spanish government.
1939 - Winston Churchill described the Soviet Union as "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma" during a radio broadcast.
1949 - A 42-day strike by the United Steelworkers of America began over the issue of retirement benefits.
1957 - The motto "In God We Trust" began appearing on U.S. paper currency.
1962 - Johnny Carson debuted as regular host of NBC's "Tonight Show".
1964 - The Free Speech Movement was launched at the University of California at Berkeley.
1971 - Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, Florida, 16 years after Disneyland debuted in Anaheim, California.
1982 - Sony began selling the first commercial compact disc player in Japan.
1993 - Polly Klaas, age 12, was abducted from her Petaluma, California home during a slumber party and murdered. (Her case inspired California's three-strikes law.)
1996 - A federal grand jury indicted Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski in the 1994 mail bomb slaying of advertising executive Thomas Mosser. (Kaczynski was later sentenced to four life terms plus 30 years.)
1996 - The federal minimum wage rose 50 cents to $4.75 per hour.
2001 - The U.S. Supreme Court suspended former President Bill Clinton from practicing before the high court.
2008 - A $700 billion financial industry bailout won lopsided passage in the Senate, 74-25, after it was loaded with tax breaks and sweeteners.
2015 - A gunman opened fire at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, killing nine people and then himself.
2016 - The New York Times reported that Donald Trump had reported losses of more than $900 million on his 1995 income tax returns that experts said could have allowed him to forgo paying federal income taxes for nearly two decades; Hillary Clinton’s campaign seized upon the report as evidence of “the colossal nature of Donald Trump’s past business failures.”
2017 - A gunman opened fire from a room at the Mandalay Bay casino hotel in Las Vegas on a crowd of 22,000 country music fans at a concert below, leaving 58 people dead and more than 800 injured in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history; the gunman, 64-year-old Stephen Craig Paddock, killed himself before officers arrived.
2019 - Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was diagnosed with a heart attack at a Las Vegas hospital, where he’d been taken after experiencing chest discomfort at a campaign event; doctors inserted two stents to open up a blocked artery.
2019 - A white former Dallas police officer, Amber Guyger, was convicted of murder in the shooting death of her Black neighbor, Botham Jean; Guyger said she had mistaken his apartment for hers.
Birthdays
23 - Danika Yarosh (actress)
24 - Jade Bird (actress/singer)
25 - Shenseea (singer)
25 - Kelsey Merritt (model)
32 - Brie Larson (actress)
33 - Cariba Heine (actress)
35 - Jurnee Smollett (actress)
37 - Beck Bennett (actor/comedian)
39 - Carly Hughes (actress)
41 - Sarah Drew (actress)
43 - Katie Aselton (actress)
47 - Sherri Saum (actress)
47 - Keith Duffy (singer)
52 - Zach Galifianakis (actor)
56 - Cindy Margolis (actress/model)
57 - Christopher Titus (actor)
58 - Mark McGwire (baseball player)
59 - Esai Morales (actor)
66 - Howard Hewett (singer)
71 - Randy Quaid (actor)
71 - Yvette Freeman (actor)
76 - Rod Carew (baseball player)
83 - Stella Stevens (actress)
86 - Julie Andrews (actress/singer)
97 - Jimmy Carter (39th president of the United States)
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Today in Sports History - October 1
1898 - Nebraska opens the season with a 76-0 win over Hastings.
1903 - The visiting Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Boston Americans 7-3 in the first World Series game ever played.
1904 - Nebraska defeats Grinnell 46-0.
1910 - Nebraska opens the season with a 66-0 win over Peru State.
1919 - Eight players for the Chicago White Sox began their conspiracy to lose the World Series to the underdog Cincinnati Reds.
1921 - Nebraska opens the season under new coach Fred Dawson with a 55-0 win over Nebraska Wesleyan.
1922 - The former Chicago Staleys play their first NFL game as the Chicago Bears, defeating Racine 6-0.
1924 - MLB Commissioner Kenesaw Landis bans NY Giants outfielder Jimmy O'Connell & coach Cozy Dolan from World Series after they attempt to bribe Phillies shortstop Heinie Sand.
1927 - Nebraska opens the season with a 6-0 win over Iowa State.
1932 - Babe Ruth makes his legendary call of a home run; In Game 3 of the World Series against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field, Ruth points to center field before homering to the same spot in the 5th inning of a 7-5 win for the New York Yankees.
1933 - The New York Giants record no first downs, but are still able to defeat the Green Bay Packers 10-7.
1933 - Babe Ruth made his final pitching appearance. He pitched all nine innings and hit a home run in the 5th inning.
1938 - Nebraska opens the season with a 16-7 loss to Minnesota.
1946 - The first baseball play-off game for a league championship was played. The St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers, 4-2.
1946 - Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians claims his MLB record 348th strikeout of the season, a record that would stand for 19 years.
1949 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 28-6.
1950 - Connie Mack appears in his final game as manager for the Philadelphia Athletics, serving in that role for 50 years -- the longest serving manager in MLB history.
1955 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 16-0.
1960 - Iowa State defeats Nebraska 10-7.
1961 - Roger Maris of the New York Yankees hit his 61st home run of the season, breaking Babe Ruth's single-season record of 60 set in 1927.
1966 - #6 Nebraska defeats Iowa State 12-6.
1967 - Richard Petty wins an unprecedented 10th consecutive NASCAR race.
1975 - At "The Thrilla in Manila" Muhammad Ali stops Joe Frazier in 14 rounds in Quezon City, Philippines to retain his WBCA/WBA heavyweight championship titles.
1977 - #11 Nebraska defeats Indiana 31-13.
1983 - #1 Nebraska defeats Syracuse 63-7.
1984 - Peter Ueberroth replaces Bowie Kuhn as the sixth commissioner of MLB.
1988 - #9 Nebraska defeats UNLV 48-6.
1994 - #2 Nebraska defeats Wyoming 42-32.
1994 - National Hockey League team owners began a 103-day lockout of their players.
1995 - The Cleveland Indians end the regular season with a 100-44 record to set a record 30-game margin over the second-place Kansas City Royals in the final AL Central standings.
1995 - The New York Yankees (AL) and Colorado Rockies (NL) become the first wild-card teams in the new MLB playoff system.
1995 - In the fifth game of the season, the Jacksonville Jaguars celebrate their first regular season NFL win in franchise history, a 17-16 victory over the Houston Oilers.
1997 - The Carolina Hurricanes make their NHL debut with a 4-2 loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning.
1997 - Minnesota Timberwolves forward Kevin Garnett, just two years removed from high school, signs a record 6-year, $123 million contract extension.
1999 - In a blockbuster trade, the Houston Rockets send Scottie Pippen to the Portland Trailblazers for Kelvin Cato, Stacey Augmon, Walt Williams, Carlos Rogers, Ed Gray and Brian Shaw.
1999 - The Edmonton Oilers retire Wayne Gretzky's #99 in a pre-game ceremony before taking on the New York Rangers; it would be Gretzky's final NHL appearance as a player.
2000 - The U.S. men's basketball team defeats France 85-75 to win the gold medal at the Summer Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia.
2004 - Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki gets his 258th hit of the season, breaking George Sisler's 84-year-old MLB single-season record; Ichiro would end the year with 262.
2005 - Nebraska upsets #23 Iowa State 27-20 in double overtime.
2006 - Albert Haynesworth (Tennessee Titans) kicked off the helmet of Andre Gurode (Dallas Cowboys) and then scraped his cleat across his head. Gurode required 30 stitches and suffered blurry vision from the attack. The NFL suspended Haynesworth for 5 games without pay. This was the worst suspension for onfield behaviour to date.
2011 - In Nebraska's debut Big Ten Conference game, #7 Wisconsin defeats #8 Nebraska in Madison, 48-17.
2016 - #15 Nebraska defeats Illinois 31-16.
1800 - Spain ceded Louisiana to France in the secret Treaty of San Ildefonso. Although Napoleon Bonaparte agreed never to alienate Louisiana, he disregarded the treaty and sold Louisana to the United States three years later.
1908 - Henry Ford introduced the first mass-produced automobile to market -- the Model T -- with a price of $825.
1910 - The offices of the Los Angeles Times were destroyed by a bomb explosion and fire; 21 Times employees were killed.
1936 - Gen. Francisco Franco became head of the insurgent Spanish government.
1939 - Winston Churchill described the Soviet Union as "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma" during a radio broadcast.
1949 - A 42-day strike by the United Steelworkers of America began over the issue of retirement benefits.
1957 - The motto "In God We Trust" began appearing on U.S. paper currency.
1962 - Johnny Carson debuted as regular host of NBC's "Tonight Show".
1964 - The Free Speech Movement was launched at the University of California at Berkeley.
1971 - Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, Florida, 16 years after Disneyland debuted in Anaheim, California.
1982 - Sony began selling the first commercial compact disc player in Japan.
1993 - Polly Klaas, age 12, was abducted from her Petaluma, California home during a slumber party and murdered. (Her case inspired California's three-strikes law.)
1996 - A federal grand jury indicted Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski in the 1994 mail bomb slaying of advertising executive Thomas Mosser. (Kaczynski was later sentenced to four life terms plus 30 years.)
1996 - The federal minimum wage rose 50 cents to $4.75 per hour.
2001 - The U.S. Supreme Court suspended former President Bill Clinton from practicing before the high court.
2008 - A $700 billion financial industry bailout won lopsided passage in the Senate, 74-25, after it was loaded with tax breaks and sweeteners.
2015 - A gunman opened fire at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, killing nine people and then himself.
2016 - The New York Times reported that Donald Trump had reported losses of more than $900 million on his 1995 income tax returns that experts said could have allowed him to forgo paying federal income taxes for nearly two decades; Hillary Clinton’s campaign seized upon the report as evidence of “the colossal nature of Donald Trump’s past business failures.”
2017 - A gunman opened fire from a room at the Mandalay Bay casino hotel in Las Vegas on a crowd of 22,000 country music fans at a concert below, leaving 58 people dead and more than 800 injured in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history; the gunman, 64-year-old Stephen Craig Paddock, killed himself before officers arrived.
2019 - Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was diagnosed with a heart attack at a Las Vegas hospital, where he’d been taken after experiencing chest discomfort at a campaign event; doctors inserted two stents to open up a blocked artery.
2019 - A white former Dallas police officer, Amber Guyger, was convicted of murder in the shooting death of her Black neighbor, Botham Jean; Guyger said she had mistaken his apartment for hers.
Birthdays
23 - Danika Yarosh (actress)
24 - Jade Bird (actress/singer)
25 - Shenseea (singer)
25 - Kelsey Merritt (model)
32 - Brie Larson (actress)
33 - Cariba Heine (actress)
35 - Jurnee Smollett (actress)
37 - Beck Bennett (actor/comedian)
39 - Carly Hughes (actress)
41 - Sarah Drew (actress)
43 - Katie Aselton (actress)
47 - Sherri Saum (actress)
47 - Keith Duffy (singer)
52 - Zach Galifianakis (actor)
56 - Cindy Margolis (actress/model)
57 - Christopher Titus (actor)
58 - Mark McGwire (baseball player)
59 - Esai Morales (actor)
66 - Howard Hewett (singer)
71 - Randy Quaid (actor)
71 - Yvette Freeman (actor)
76 - Rod Carew (baseball player)
83 - Stella Stevens (actress)
86 - Julie Andrews (actress/singer)
97 - Jimmy Carter (39th president of the United States)
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Today in Sports History - October 1
1898 - Nebraska opens the season with a 76-0 win over Hastings.
1903 - The visiting Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Boston Americans 7-3 in the first World Series game ever played.
1904 - Nebraska defeats Grinnell 46-0.
1910 - Nebraska opens the season with a 66-0 win over Peru State.
1919 - Eight players for the Chicago White Sox began their conspiracy to lose the World Series to the underdog Cincinnati Reds.
1921 - Nebraska opens the season under new coach Fred Dawson with a 55-0 win over Nebraska Wesleyan.
1922 - The former Chicago Staleys play their first NFL game as the Chicago Bears, defeating Racine 6-0.
1924 - MLB Commissioner Kenesaw Landis bans NY Giants outfielder Jimmy O'Connell & coach Cozy Dolan from World Series after they attempt to bribe Phillies shortstop Heinie Sand.
1927 - Nebraska opens the season with a 6-0 win over Iowa State.
1932 - Babe Ruth makes his legendary call of a home run; In Game 3 of the World Series against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field, Ruth points to center field before homering to the same spot in the 5th inning of a 7-5 win for the New York Yankees.
1933 - The New York Giants record no first downs, but are still able to defeat the Green Bay Packers 10-7.
1933 - Babe Ruth made his final pitching appearance. He pitched all nine innings and hit a home run in the 5th inning.
1938 - Nebraska opens the season with a 16-7 loss to Minnesota.
1946 - The first baseball play-off game for a league championship was played. The St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers, 4-2.
1946 - Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians claims his MLB record 348th strikeout of the season, a record that would stand for 19 years.
1949 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 28-6.
1950 - Connie Mack appears in his final game as manager for the Philadelphia Athletics, serving in that role for 50 years -- the longest serving manager in MLB history.
1955 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 16-0.
1960 - Iowa State defeats Nebraska 10-7.
1961 - Roger Maris of the New York Yankees hit his 61st home run of the season, breaking Babe Ruth's single-season record of 60 set in 1927.
1966 - #6 Nebraska defeats Iowa State 12-6.
1967 - Richard Petty wins an unprecedented 10th consecutive NASCAR race.
1975 - At "The Thrilla in Manila" Muhammad Ali stops Joe Frazier in 14 rounds in Quezon City, Philippines to retain his WBCA/WBA heavyweight championship titles.
1977 - #11 Nebraska defeats Indiana 31-13.
1983 - #1 Nebraska defeats Syracuse 63-7.
1984 - Peter Ueberroth replaces Bowie Kuhn as the sixth commissioner of MLB.
1988 - #9 Nebraska defeats UNLV 48-6.
1994 - #2 Nebraska defeats Wyoming 42-32.
1994 - National Hockey League team owners began a 103-day lockout of their players.
1995 - The Cleveland Indians end the regular season with a 100-44 record to set a record 30-game margin over the second-place Kansas City Royals in the final AL Central standings.
1995 - The New York Yankees (AL) and Colorado Rockies (NL) become the first wild-card teams in the new MLB playoff system.
1995 - In the fifth game of the season, the Jacksonville Jaguars celebrate their first regular season NFL win in franchise history, a 17-16 victory over the Houston Oilers.
1997 - The Carolina Hurricanes make their NHL debut with a 4-2 loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning.
1997 - Minnesota Timberwolves forward Kevin Garnett, just two years removed from high school, signs a record 6-year, $123 million contract extension.
1999 - In a blockbuster trade, the Houston Rockets send Scottie Pippen to the Portland Trailblazers for Kelvin Cato, Stacey Augmon, Walt Williams, Carlos Rogers, Ed Gray and Brian Shaw.
1999 - The Edmonton Oilers retire Wayne Gretzky's #99 in a pre-game ceremony before taking on the New York Rangers; it would be Gretzky's final NHL appearance as a player.
2000 - The U.S. men's basketball team defeats France 85-75 to win the gold medal at the Summer Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia.
2004 - Seattle Mariners outfielder Ichiro Suzuki gets his 258th hit of the season, breaking George Sisler's 84-year-old MLB single-season record; Ichiro would end the year with 262.
2005 - Nebraska upsets #23 Iowa State 27-20 in double overtime.
2006 - Albert Haynesworth (Tennessee Titans) kicked off the helmet of Andre Gurode (Dallas Cowboys) and then scraped his cleat across his head. Gurode required 30 stitches and suffered blurry vision from the attack. The NFL suspended Haynesworth for 5 games without pay. This was the worst suspension for onfield behaviour to date.
2011 - In Nebraska's debut Big Ten Conference game, #7 Wisconsin defeats #8 Nebraska in Madison, 48-17.
2016 - #15 Nebraska defeats Illinois 31-16.
