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October 1

 * 331 BC – Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela.
 * 1189 – Gerard de Ridefort, grandmaster of the Templars since 1184 is killed in the Siege of Acre.
 * 1827 – The Russian army under Ivan Paskevich storms Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination in Armenia.
 * 1943 – World War II: Naples falls to Allied soldiers.