Cities around the world keep their histories on dates. Here is what happened on October 1 across the 2 editorial events Pyflo has so far catalogued for this date.
the Union Pacific Railroad chose the location for the Salt Lake City-to-Los Angeles main line; the city was incorporated in 1911. Nevada legalized gambling in 1931 — partly to capture revenue lost to Depression-era unemployment, partly explicitly anticipating the Hoover Dam…
is the world's largest urban agglomeration — about 37 million people across the integrated metropolitan zone including Tokyo (the 23 special wards, the western Tama region, and various islands), Yokohama (Kanagawa Prefecture's capital), Saitama, Chiba, and the surrounding…
Drawn from the Pyflo Atlas — an interactive timeline of 1,601 editorial events reaching back to 2100 BCE, each pin a deep link into a city's full story. Watch history play out on the map →