On This Day: October 1st

Israel invaded Southern Lebanon, marking the fifth Israeli invasion of Lebanon since 1978.

One hundred and thirty-five are killed in a human crush following a football match at Kanjuruhan Stadium in East Java, Indonesia.

The 2020 World Expo in Dubai begins. Its opening was originally scheduled for 20 October 2020 but was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Kuopio school stabbing: One dies and ten are injured when Joel Marin, armed with a sabre, attacks a school class at Savo Vocational College in Kuopio, Finland.

The International Court of Justice rules that Chile is not obliged to negotiate access to the Pacific Ocean with Bolivia.

An independence referendum, later declared illegal by the Constitutional Court of Spain, takes place in Catalonia.

Sixty people are killed and 867 others injured in a mass shooting at a country music festival at the Las Vegas Strip in the United States; the gunman, Stephen Paddock, later commits suicide.

The leader of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, Pedro Sánchez, resigns. He would return to the position a year later.

A gunman kills nine people at a community college in Oregon.

Heavy rains trigger a major landslide in Guatemala, killing 280 people.