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1 October 2024

Holidays, observances, history and sky information for this date.

Holidays

No listed India public holiday for this date.

Observances

United Nations

International Day of Older Persons

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Selected anniversaries

Anniversary

2022 - After losing a league home match to local rivals Persebaya Surabaya, some 3,000 Arema supporters invaded the stadium's pitch and met with police resistance, causing a stampede that killed 135.

Football league season

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2018 - The International Court of Justice ruled that Chile was under no obligation to restore Bolivia's access to the Pacific Ocean, which it had lost in the 19th century.

Judicial organ of the United Nations

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2017 - A lone gunman fired more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition from his hotel suite on a crowd attending the Route 91 Harvest music festival on the Las Vegas Strip, resulting in 60 deaths and 867 injuries.

American mass murderer (1953–2017)

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2012 - A ferry collision off Lamma Island, Hong Kong, killed 39 people and injured 92 others.

Maritime disaster in Hong Kong

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2003 - A levy was imposed on the hiring of foreign domestic helpers in Hong Kong, who numbered in the hundreds of thousands at the time.

Domestic helpers in Hong Kong from other countries

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