7 fun historical facts from

october 1

Walt Disney World Resort Opens in Orlando Florida, the resort opened with the Magic Kingdom theme park featuring the Cinderella Castle at it's center and has since added Epcot and the otherstext

 Ford Model T was introduced to the public and was the first car that was affordable and reliable for the ordinary citizen of the United States

Julie Andrews is award-winning English actress, singer and who is now Dame Julie Elizabeth Andrews. She is well known for a number of roles but possibly the most famous being Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music.

The Shinkansen (Bullet Train) network of high-speed railway lines in Japan opens to coincide with the Tokyo Olympics with the first trains traveling at 210 km/h (130 mph). The current models can achieve speeds in excess of 300 MPH.

Alexander the great of Macedonia defeated Darius III of Persia at the Battle of Gaugamela, spelling the end of the Persian empire.

 Boeing Airplane Company became one of the signature corporations of Seattle and the Pacific Northwest and dominated the regional economy for most of the twentieth century. William Edward Boeing was born on October 1, 1881, in Detroit, Michigan,

Jimmy Carter (James Earl Carter, Jr.), thirty-ninth president of the United States, was born October 1, 1924, in the small farming town of Plains, Georgia, and grew up in the nearby community of Archery.