• Coop NKL opened Norway's first self serve food store on October 1, 1947?

Facts on topics related to October 1

January 1

• a new free trade agreement called the Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership between Brunei, Chile, New Zealand and Singapore will come into effect on 1 January 2006?
• before 1 January 2008, milk with a fat content of 1 or 2% could not be labelled as milk in the United Kingdom?
• in the history of transportation in Los Angeles, the first California freeway "traffic jam" occurred on January 1, 1940?
• many Russians celebrate the new year twice: once on the January 1 New Year of the Gregorian calendar and again on the Julian calendar Old New Year in mid-January?

March 4

• on March 4, 1839, William F. Harnden became the first person to send an express freight shipment by rail?
  

January 22

• after the Mendiola massacre on January 22, 1987, the Filipino Government banned all public demonstrations on Mendiola Street in Manila?

March 3

• former world chess champion Garry Kasparov helped to organise the Saint Petersburg March of the Discontented (pictured) on 3 March 2007?

March 18

• Andreas Joseph Hofmann proclaimed the first republican state in Germany on March 18, 1793?