Oct 1st 1994:
In Slovakia, populist leader Vladimir Meciar wins the general election.
Is this good or bad?
Others in Oct 1st of any year:
331 BC – Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela.
Bad - He defeated too many people.
1795 – Belgium is conquered by France.
C'est fantastique!
1869 – Austria issues the world's first postcards.
Postcards are pointless
1880 – First electric lamp factory opened by Thomas Edison.
Electric lamps, just gotta have one
1887 – Balochistan conquered by the British Empire.
Bad, bad, bad, bad.
1943 – World War II: Naples falls to Allied soldiers.
Good
1946 – national socialist leaders sentenced at Nuremberg Trials.
Excellent
1969 – The Concorde supersonic transport plane breaks the sound barrier for the first time.
Yay! Concorde
1978 – The Voltaic Revolutionary Communist Party is founded.1992 – Turkish destroyer TCG Muavenet (DM-357) crippled causing 27 deaths and injuries, by missiles negligently launched by U.S. aircraft carrier USS Saratoga.
Meh
2009 – The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, which acquired the judicial functions of the House of Lords, begins work.
Let's just not do anything wrong...