October 7
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October 7 is the 280th day of the year (281st in leap years). There are 85 days remaining.
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Events
- 3761 BCE - The epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar.
- 1513 - Battle of La Motta — Spanish troops under Ramon de Cardona defeat the Venetians.
- 1571 - Battle of Lepanto occurs.
- 1582 - Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
- 1763 - British Royal Proclamation of 1763 lays down rules for settling aboriginal lands in North America.
- 1776 - Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg.
- 1777 - Battle of Second Saratoga occurs.
- 1780 - Battle of Kings Mountain: American Patriot militia defeat Loyalist irregulars led by British colonel Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina.
- 1816 - First double-decked steamboat, the "Washington", arrives in New Orleans
- 1840 - Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.
- 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Darbytown Road (Johnson's Farm) - Confederate forces attempt to regain ground that had been lost around Richmond is thwarted.
- 1864 - American Civil War: Capture of the C.S.S. Florida — Union Warship captures the Confederate raider ship while in port in Bahia, Brazil.
- 1865 - Morant Bay Rebellion starts in Jamaica.
- 1879 - Germany and Austria-Hungary create the Dual Alliance.
- 1886 - Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba.
- 1908 - Crete revolts against the Ottoman Empire and aligns with Greece.
- 1912 - The Helsinki Stock Exchange saw its first transaction.
- 1913 - Henry Ford introduces the assembly line.
- 1919 - KLM of Netherlands was founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.
- 1940 - Germany invades Romania.
- 1943 - Japan executes 100 American prisoners on Wake Island.
- 1949 - German Democratic Republic (East Germany) formed.
- 1949 - One of the earliest television shows, Ford Theater debuts
- 1950 - United States forces invade Korea by crossing the 38th parallel.
- 1951 - Malayan Emergency: Malay Races Liberation Army (MRLA) ambushes and kills British High Commissioner Sir Henry Gurney.
- 1957 - Dick Clark's American Bandstand debuts.
- 1957 - A fire in the Windscale plutonium production reactor, north of Liverpool, England, cause the release of radioactive material, which is later blamed for 39 cancer deaths.
- 1958 - President of Pakistan Iskander Mirza, with the support of General Ayub Khan and the army, suspends the 1956 constitution, imposes martial law, and cancels the elections scheduled for January 1959.
- 1960 - Kennedy & Nixon debate Cold War foreign policy - Second of four scheduled debates.
- 1968 - Hollywood adopts the Movie ratings system.
- 1970 Richard Nixon announces a new five point peace proposal to end the Vietnam War.
- 1977 - The adoption of the Fourth Soviet Constitution.
- 1982 - Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years. The show eventually closes on September 10th, 2000.
- 1984 - Running Back Walter Payton breaks Jim Brown's rushing record.
- 1985 - Achille Lauro hijacked by Palestinian terrorists.
- 1996 - American cable news network Foxnews is launched.
- 1998 - Matthew Shepard, beaten the night before, is left tied to a fence and dies in Laramie, Wyoming.
- 2001 - Start of U.S. invasion of Afghanistan with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
- 2002 - Maher Arar is deported by the US government to Syria, where he is tortured and held without charge for a year before being returned home to Canada.
- 2003 - California recall: California governor Gray Davis is recalled from office and replaced by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
- 2004 - King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia abdicates.
Births
- 1573 - William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1645)
- 1576 - John Marston, English writer (d. 1634)
- 1697 - Canaletto, Italian artist (d. 1768)
- 1748 - King Charles XIII (d. 1818)
- 1769 - Solomon Sibley, American politician (d. 1846)
- 1835 - Felix Draeseke, German composer (d. 1913)
- 1841 - King Nicholas I of Montenegro (d. 1921)
- 1853 - James Whitcomb Riley, poet (d. 1916)
- 1885 - Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (d.1962)
- 1888 - Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States (d. 1965)
- 1894 - Del Lord, pioneer Hollywood director (d. 1970)
- 1897 - Elijah Muhammad, American Black Muslim leader (d. 1975)
- 1900 - Heinrich Himmler, Nazi official and leader of the SS (d. 1945)
- 1905 - Andy Devine, American actor (d. 1977)
- 1911 - Vaughn Monroe, American singer (d. 1973)
- 1914 - Alfred Drake, American actor (d. 1992)
- 1917 - June Allyson, American actress
- 1921 - Raymond Goethals, Belgian football coach (d. 2004)
- 1931 - Cotton Fitzsimmons, American basketball coach (d. 2004)
- 1931 - Desmond Tutu, South African Anglican archbishop and anti-apartheid activist
- 1934 - Amiri Baraka, playwright and poet
- 1935 - Thomas Keneally, Australian author
- 1936 - Charles Dutoit, Swiss conductor
- 1939 - John Hopcroft, American computer scientist
- 1939 - Harold Kroto, British chemist
- 1939 - Bill Snyder, American football coach
- 1943 - Oliver North, United States Marine involved in Iran-Contra affair
- 1944 - Judee Sill, American musician and songwriter (d. 1979)
- 1947 - France Gall, French singer, Eurovision Song Contest winner
- 1950 - Jakaya Kikwete, Tanzania politician
- 1951 - John Cougar Mellencamp, singer
- 1952 - Vladimir Putin, President of Russia
- 1954 - Kenneth Atchley, composer and noise artist
- 1955 - Yo-Yo Ma, French-born cellist
- 1957 - Jayne Torvill, figure skater
- 1959 - Simon Cowell, Pop Idol and American Idol judge
- 1960 - Viktor Lazlo, French singer
- 1960 - Kyosuke Himuro, Japanese singer
- 1968 - Thom Yorke, singer
- 1973 - Sami Hyypia, Finnish footballer
- 1975 - Terry Gerin, professional wrestler
- 1977 - Meighan Desmond, actress
- 1979 - Simona Amânar, Romanian gymnast
Deaths
- 336 - Pope Marcus
- 1708 - Guru Gobind Singh (b. 1666)
- 1792 - George Mason, American patriot
- 1849 - Edgar Allan Poe, American writer (b. 1809)
- 1894 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, American poet
- 1903 - Rudolf Lipschitz, mathematician (b. 1832)
- 1919 - Alfred Deakin, second Prime Minister of Australia
- 1925 - Christy Mathewson, baseball player
- 1926 - Emil Kraepelin, German psychologist
- 1943 - Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor
- 1943 - Radclyffe Hall, British author
- 1959 - Mario Lanza, American singer
- 1981 - Albert Cohen, Swiss novelist
- 1991 - Leo Durocher, baseball player and manager
- 1992 - Tevfik Esenç, last speaker of the Ubykh language
Holidays
- UN - Universal Children's Day
- Feast day of Saint Osyth
- East Germany - Republic Day
External links
- BBC: On This Day (http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/7)
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