What happend on 1st October

30.09
02.10
1943

World War II: Naples falls to Allied soldiers.

1940

The Pennsylvania Turnpike, often considered the first superhighway in the United States, opens to traffic.

1938

Germany annexes the Sudetenland.

1936

Francisco Franco is named head of the Nationalist government of Spain.

1931

The original Waldorf-Astoria Hotel is opened in New York.

1931

The George Washington Bridge linking New Jersey and New York opens.

1928

The Soviet Union introduces its first Five-Year Plan.

1918

World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence (aka "Lawrence of Arabia") capture Damascus.

1910

A large bomb destroys the Los Angeles Times building in downtown Los Angeles, California, killing 21.

1908

Ford introduces the Model T car.