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| Independence Day in Uganda (1962); | refimprove/unreferenced sections, needs expansion |
| 1237 – James I of Aragon entered Valencia and established the Kingdom of Valencia. | refimprove, date not in article |
| 1635 – Roger Williams was banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he spoke out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away Native American land. | Need to verify date, needs more footnotes |
| 1701 – The Collegiate School of Connecticut, later renamed Yale University, was chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, US. | refimprove section |
| 1942 – World War II: American forces defeated the Japanese at the Third Battle of the Matanikau in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, avenging the Japanese victory a couple of weeks earlier. | appeared as TFA on September 23, 2015 |
| 1986 – The Phantom of the Opera, a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber currently the longest-running Broadway show in history, opened in London's West End. | unreferenced section |
Eligible
- 1446 – Scholars in the court of Sejong the Great promulgated the new Korean alphabet, now known as Hangul.
- 1514 – Mary Tudor, sister of Henry VIII of England, became queen consort of France.
- 1708 – Great Northern War: Russia defeated Sweden at the Battle of Lesnaya on the Russian–Polish border in present-day Belarus.
- 1831 – Ioannis Kapodistrias, the Greek head of state, was assassinated in Nafplion.
- 1874 – The Universal Postal Union, then known as the General Postal Union, was established with the signing of the Treaty of Bern to unify disparate postal services and regulations so that international mail could be exchanged freely.
- 1888 – The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., at the time the world's tallest building, officially opened to the general public.
- 1913 – The ocean liner SS Volturno caught fire in the middle of a gale in the North Atlantic, burned, and sank, resulting in about 130 deaths.
- 1919 – In Major League Baseball, the Cincinnati Reds won the World Series, five games to three, over the Chicago White Sox, whose players were later found to have lost intentionally.
- 1963 – A landslide displaced large amounts of water from the Vajont Dam in northern Italy, causing waves and floods that quickly swept away several villages and killed almost 2,000 people.
- 1983 – South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan survived an assassination attempt in Rangoon, Burma.
- 2006 – North Korea conducted a nuclear test, reportedly near Kilchu, with an explosive force of less than one kiloton, that was condemned and denounced by many countries and the United Nations Security Council.
Notes
- 1903 World Series appears on October 1, so Black Sox Scandal should not appear in the same year
October 9: Hangul Day in South Korea (1446); Leif Erikson Day in the United States
- 1594 – Sinhalese–Portuguese War: Portugal had almost conquered the island of Sri Lanka when its army was completely annihilated, ending the Campaign of Danture.
- 1845 – Anglican priest John Henry Newman, who wished to return the Church of England to many Catholic beliefs, was formally received into the Roman Catholic Church.
- 1914 – World War I: Belgian troops in Antwerp surrendered, allowing the German army to capture the city.
- 1970 – The Khmer Republic, headed by General Lon Nol and Prince Sisowath Sirik Matak, was proclaimed in Cambodia.
- 2012 – Pakistani activist Malala Yousafzai (pictured) was shot by a Taliban gunman in a failed assassination attempt.