Day in History: October 1
1867 Karl Marx' "Das Kapital" published
1908 Henry Ford introduces the Model T car
1574 -Storm breaks Leiden dike; drowns 20,000 Spanish soldiers
1893 3rd worst hurricane in US history kills 1,800 (Mississippi)
1910 Explosion at LA Times kills 21
1946 12 Nazi war criminals sentenced to death in Nuremberg
1957 B-52 bombers begin full-time flying alert
in case of USSR attack
1958 US space agency NASA begins operations incorporating earlier National Advisory Council on Aeronautics/other bodies
1961 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site