Today's Holidays in October 1

✡️ Religious Observances

• Jewish: Sukkot VI (CH’’M) סוכות ו׳ (חוה״מ) holiday

🕰️ On This Day in History

• 2017 — An independence referendum, declared illegal by the Constitutional Court of Spain, takes place in Catalonia, Spain. ↗
• 2017 — Fifty-eight people are killed and 546 others injured in a mass shooting on a country music festival at the Las Vegas Strip; the gunman,... ↗
• 2015 — Umpqua Community College shooting: A gunman kills nine people at a community college in Roseburg, Oregon. ↗
• 2015 — Heavy rains trigger a major landslide in the village of El Cambray Dos within Santa Catarina Pinula, killing 280 people. ↗
• 2014 — A series of explosions at a gunpowder plant in the village of Gorni Lom in Northwestern Bulgaria completely destroys the factory,... ↗

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🎂 Notable Births

• 1996 — Melanie Stokke, Norwegian tennis player
• 1995 — Lauren Hill, American basketball player (d. 2015)
• 1992 — Xander Bogaerts, Aruban baseball player
• 1991 — Conor Clifford, Irish footballer
• 1991 — Rain Veideman, Estonian basketball player