Following are some of the major events to have occurred on Oct 01
Reuters
1908 - Henry Ford's Model T Ford car went on sale.
1918 - Arab forces aided by the British under T. E. Lawrence -- Lawrence of Arabia -- captured Damascus from the Turks.
1946 - The International War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremburg sentenced 12 Nazi leaders to death -- the first war criminals to be convicted of crimes against humanity.
1949 - The People's Republic of China was formed with Mao Zedong as its leader.
1960 - Nigeria achieved independence from Britain. On this day in 1963 it became a federal republic.
1993 - Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres shakes hands with Jordan's Crown Prince Hassan during a meeting at the White House.
1995 - A U.S. federal jury found Egyptian cleric Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman and nine others guilty of plotting to blow up the World Trade Center, bomb the United Nations, kill Egypt's president and destroy vital highway tunnels in New York.
1999 - Indonesia convened its first democratically elected parliament since 1955.
2004 – American photographer Richard Avedon, who turned fashion and portrait photography into art forms with images of the world's most famous figures, died aged 81.
2005 - Three bomb blasts ripped through popular tourist areas on the Indonesian resort island of Bali, killing 23 people, including three suicide bombers.
2008 - The U.S. Congress approved a landmark deal ending a three-decade ban on U.S. nuclear trade with India, handing a victory to President George W. Bush on one of his top foreign policy priorities.
