October 7
is the 280th day of the year (281st in
leap years). There are 85 days remaining.
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3761 BC - The
epoch (origin) of the modern
Hebrew calendar.
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336 -
Pope Mark ends his reign as
Catholic Pope.
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1492 -
Christopher Columbus misses Florida when he changes course.
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1506 -
Pope Julius II and France occupy
Bologna.
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1513 -
Battle of La Motta:
Spanish troops under
Ramon de Cardona defeat the
Venetians.
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1520 - First public burning of books in
Netherlands, in
Louvain.
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1542 - Explorer
Cabrillo discovered
Catalina Island off California coast.
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1571 - The
Battle of Lepanto is fought, and the
Holy League (Spain and Italy) destroys the Turkish fleet.
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1582 - Due to the implementation of the
Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in
Italy,
Poland,
Portugal and
Spain.
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1637 - Prince
Frederick Henry of Orange occupies
Breda.
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1690 - English attack Quebec under
Louis de Buade.
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1702 - English/Dutch troops under
John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough occupy
Roermond.
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1714 - Beer tax riots in
Alkmaar, Netherlands.
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1737 - 40 foot waves sink 20,000 small craft and kill 300,000 (
Bengal,
India).
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1763 -
George III of
Great Britain issues
British Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing aboriginal lands in
North America north and west of
Alleghenies to white settlements.
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1765 -
Stamp Act Congress convenes in NY.
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1769 - English explorer,
Captain Cook, discovers
New Zealand.
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1776 -
Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries
Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg.
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1777 -
American Revolutionary War: Americans beat the British in the
Battle of Second Saratoga and the
Battle of Bemis Heights.
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1780 -
American Revolutionary War:
Battle of Kings Mountain American Patriot militia defeat
Loyalist irregulars led by
British colonel
Patrick Ferguson in
South Carolina.
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1806 -
Carbon paper patented in London by inventor
Ralph Wedgewood.
*
1816 - The first double-decked
steamboat, the "Washington," arrives in
New Orleans, Louisiana.
*
1826 -
Granite Railway (first chartered railway in the U.S.) begins operations.
*
1828 - The city of
Patras, Greece is liberated by the French expeditionary force in Peloponnese under
General Maison.
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1840 -
Willem II becomes King of the
Netherlands.
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1864 -
Battle of Darbytown Road (
American Civil War): the 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 U.S.S. "Wachusett" — Confederate raider ship while in port in
Bahia,
Brazil.
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1865 - The
Morant Bay Rebellion starts in
Jamaica.
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1868 -
Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial student enrollment is 412, the most at any American university to that date.
*
1870 -
Leon Gambetta flees
Paris in balloon.
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1879 -
Germany and
Austria-Hungary sign the "Twofold Covenant" and create the
Dual Alliance.
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1882 -
Baseball: First
World Series (game 2), Chicago (NL) beats Cincinnati (AA) 2-0.
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1886 -
Spain abolishes
slavery in
Cuba.
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1900 - The term "
orienteering" is first used for an event.
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1904 -
Baseball: New York Highlander
Jack Chesbro wins record 41st game of season (41-12).
*
1907 - France's
Henry Farman flies 30 m in a
double decker plane.
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1908 -
Crete revolts against the
Ottoman Empire and aligns with
Greece.
* 1908 -
Serbia and
Montenegro sign
anti-Austria-Hungarian pact.
*
1912 - The
Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
*
1916 -
Georgia Tech defeats
Cumberland University 222-0 in the most lopsided victory in American college football.
*
1919 -
KLM of the
Netherlands was founded. It is the oldest
airline still operating under its original name.
* 1919 - First London-Amsterdam airline service (Britain Aerial Transport and KLM).
*
1922 - Oud-burgem of Rotterdam Zimmerman becomes High Comm's of Austria.
* 1922 - First radio link,
WNJ (
Newark, New Jersey) and
WGY (
Schenectady) link for World Series.
*
1924 -
Greek government of
Dikalekopoulis forms.
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1928 -
Ras Tafari Makonnen crowned
negus of
Abyssinia by Empress
Zauditu.
* 1928 -
Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10 miles (50:15.0).
*
1929 -
Ramsay MacDonald is the first British premier to address the
U.S. Congress.
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1931 - First
infra-red photograph,
Rochester, New York.
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1938 - Germany demands all Jewish passports stamped with the letter J.
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1940 -
Germany invades
Romania.
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1941 - German army occupies
Viarma,
U.S.S.R.* 1941 -
John Curtin becomes the 14th
Prime Minister of Australia*
1942 - the
McCollum memo conspires to bring the
U.S. to war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.
* 1942 - U.S. and British government announce establishment of
United Nations.
* 1942 -
Maxwell Anderson's "Eve of St. Mark," premieres in New York City.
* 1942 - Salvo Katjoesja-rocket destroys Nazi battalion in
Stalingrad.
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1943 -
Japan executes 100
American civilian prisoners on
Wake Island.
*
1944 - Uprising at
Birkenau concentration camp.
* 1944 - Uprising at
Auschwitz, Jews burn down
crematoriums.
* 1944 - Fieldmarshal
Erwin Rommel ordered to return to Berlin.
* 1944 -
Allies bombs sea dikes at
Vlissingen.
*
1949 -
German Democratic Republic (East Germany) formed.
* 1949 - One of the earliest television shows, "
Ford Theater" debuts
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1950 -
United States forces cross the
38th parallel.
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1951 -
Malayan Emergency:
Malayan Races Liberation Army (MRLA) ambushes and kills
British High Commissioner Sir Henry Gurney.
* 1951 -
David Ben-Gurion forms
Israeli government.
*
1957 -
Dick Clark's "
American Bandstand" debuts.
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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.
* 1958 - U.S. manned space-flight project renamed
Project Mercury.
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1959 -
Far side of the Moon seen for first time, compliments of U.S.S.R.'s
Luna 3.
*
1960 - Second Kennedy and Nixon debate
Cold War foreign policy in the second of four scheduled debates.
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1962 - U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at
Novaya Zemlya, U.S.S.R.
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1963 -
John F. Kennedy signs ratification for
nuclear test ban treaty.
* 1963 -
Hurricane Flora hits
Haiti and
Dominican Republic, kills 7,190.
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1968 -
Hollywood adopts the movie ratings system.
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1970 -
Richard Nixon announces a new five-point peace proposal to end the
Vietnam War.
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1977 - The adoption of the
Fourth Soviet Constitution.
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1982 -
Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on
September 10,
2000.
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1984 -
NFL running back Walter Payton breaks
Jim Brown's rushing
record.
*
1985 - The "
Achille Lauro" is hijacked by
Palestinian terrorists.
* 1985 - The
Mameyes disaster occurs in
Ponce,
Puerto Rico.
*
1987 - The
Bharati (Indian)
Annexed Punjab, (
East Punjab state) which is
military forcibly and
illegally Occupied by the
Hindu centralist government, is currently
held and proclaimes the Independnece of the
Theocratic nation-state of the
designated 'Sikh Republic' of
Khalistan;
Recognition is not
admitted to the
UN.
*
1996 - The
Fox News Channel, an
American cable news network, is launched.
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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.
*
2002 -
Space Shuttle Atlantis flies mission
STS-112, its last mission before the
Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
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2003 -
California recall:
California governor
Gray Davis is
recalled from office and replaced by
Arnold Schwarzenegger.
*
2004 -
King Norodom Sihanouk of
Cambodia abdicates.
*
1471 - King
Frederick I of Denmark and Norway (d.
1533)
*
1573 -
William Laud,
Archbishop of Canterbury (d.
1645)
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1576 -
John Marston, English writer (d.
1634)
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1697 -
Canaletto, Italian artist (d.
1768)
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1713 -
Granville Elliott, British military officer (d.
1759)
*
1728 -
Caesar Rodney, American lawyer (d.
1784)
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1744 -
Sergey Vyazmitinov], Russian general and statesman (d.
1819)
*
1748 - King
Charles XIII of Sweden (d.
1818)
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1769 -
Solomon Sibley, American politician (d.
1846)
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1835 -
Felix Draeseke, German composer (d.
1913)
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1841 - King
Nicholas I of Montenegro (d.
1921)
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1853 -
James Whitcomb Riley, American poet (d.
1916)
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1881 -
Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general (d.
1918)
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1885 -
Niels Bohr, Danish physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1962)
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1888 -
Henry A. Wallace,
Vice President of the United States (d.
1965)
*
1892 -
Dwain Esper, Director (d.
1982)
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1894 -
Del Lord, American director (d.
1970)
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1897 -
Elijah Muhammad, American Black Muslim leader (d.
1975)
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1900 -
Heinrich Himmler, Nazi official and leader of the SS (d.
1945)
*
1905 -
Andy Devine, American actor (d.
1977)
*
1910 -
Henry P. McIlhenny, American philanthropist (d.
1986)
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1911 -
Vaughn Monroe, American singer (d.
1973)
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1912 -
Fernando Belaúnde Terry, President of Peru (d.
2002)
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1913 -
Simon Carmiggelt, Dutch journalist and writer (d.
1987)
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1914 -
Alfred Drake, American actor (d.
1992)
*
1917 -
June Allyson, American actress (d.
2006)
*
1919 - Sir
Zelman Cowen, 19th
Governor-General of Australia*
1921 -
Raymond Goethals, Belgian football coach (d.
2004)
*
1922 -
Grady Hatton, baseball player
*
1927 -
R. D. Laing, Scottish psychologist
* 1927 -
Al Martino, American singer and actor
* 1927 -
Diana Lynn, American actress (d.
1971)
*
1929 -
Robert Westall, British author (d.
1993)
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1931 -
Cotton Fitzsimmons, American basketball coach (d.
2004)
* 1931 -
Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop and
Nobel Laureate*
1934 -
Amiri Baraka, American playwright and poet
*
1935 -
Thomas Keneally, Australian author
*
1936 -
Charles Dutoit, Swiss conductor
*
1937 -
Maria Szyszkowska, Polish politician
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1939 -
John Hopcroft, American computer scientist
* 1939 -
Harold Kroto, English chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate
* 1939 -
Bill Snyder, American football coach
*
1943 -
Oliver North, U.S. Marine and politician
* 1943 -
José Cardenal, baseball player
*
1944 -
Judee Sill, American musician and songwriter (d.
1979)
* 1944 -
Donald Tsang, the current
Chief executive of
Hong Kong*
1950 -
Jakaya Kikwete, Tanzanian politician
*
1951 -
John Cougar Mellencamp, American singer
*
1952 -
Vladimir Putin, 2nd President of
Russia* 1952 -
Graham Yallop, Australian cricketer
*
1954 -
Kenneth Atchley, American composer
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1955 -
Yo-Yo Ma, French-born cellist
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1956 -
Tico Torres, American percussionist
*
1957 -
Jayne Torvill, British figure skater
* 1957 -
Michael W. Smith, American singer
*
1959 -
Lourdes Flores,
peruvian politician.
* 1959 -
Simon Cowell, English recording executive
* 1959 -
Dylan Baker, American character actor
*
1960 -
Kyosuke Himuro, Japanese singer
* 1960 -
Viktor Lazlo, French singer
*
1962 -
Dave Bronconnier, Mayor of
Calgary*
1968 -
Toni Braxton, American singer
* 1968 -
Thom Yorke, English singer (
Radiohead)
*
1970 -
Serena Altschul, American reporter
*
1973 -
Sami Hyypia, Finnish football player
* 1973 -
Dida, Brazilian football player
*
1974 -
Charlotte Nilsson, Swedish singer
*
1975 -
Terry Gerin, American professional wrestler
*
1976 -
Rachel McAdams, Canadian actress
* 1976 -
Gilberto Silva, Brazilian footballer
*
1977 -
Meighan Desmond, New Zealand actress
*
1978 -
Zaheer Khan, Indian cricketer
*
1978 -
Alesha Dixon, Pop singer, member of
Mis-Teeq*
1979 -
Simona Amânar, Romanian gymnast
* 1979 -
Shawn Ashmore, Canadian actor
* 1979 -
Aaron Ashmore, Canadian actor
*
1982 -
Robby Ginepri, American tennis player
*
1991 -
Chauncey Matthews,
American Juniors singer
*
336 -
Pope Mark*
1368 -
Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, son of
Edward III of England (b.
1338)
*
1553 -
Cristóbal de Morales, Spanish composer (bc.
1500)
*
1555 -
Louis of Praet, Habsburg diplomat (b.
1488)
*
1577 -
George Gascoigne, English poet
*
1620 -
Stanisław Żółkiewski, Polish military leader (b.
1547)
*
1637 -
Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy (b.
1587)
*
1651 -
Jacques Sirmond, French Jesuit scholar (b.
1559)
*
1653 -
Fausto Poli, Italian Catholic priest (b.
1581)
*
1708 -
Guru Gobind Singh, tenth and last Sikh Guru (b.
1666)
*
1772 -
John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist (b.
1720)
*
1787 -
Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church (b.
1711)
*
1792 -
George Mason, American patriot (b.
1725)
*
1793 -
Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, English politician (b.
1718)
*
1796 -
Thomas Reid, Scottish philosopher (b.
1710)
*
1849 -
Edgar Allan Poe, American writer (b.
1809)
*
1903 -
Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (b.
1832)
*
1911 -
John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (b.
1835)
*
1919 -
Alfred Deakin, second
Prime Minister of Australia (b.
1856)
*
1925 -
Christy Mathewson, baseball player (b.
1880)
*
1926 -
Emil Kraepelin, German psychologist (b.
1856)
*
1943 -
Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor (b.
1899)
* 1943 -
Radclyffe Hall, British author (b.
1880)
*
1956 -
Clarence Birdseye, American inventor (b.
1886)
*
1959 -
Mario Lanza, American tenor (b.
1921)
*
1967 -
Norman Angell, British politician and
Nobel Laureate (b.
1872)
*
1969 -
Léon Scieur, Belgian cyclist (b. [1888]])
*
1981 -
Albert Cohen, Greek-born novelist (b.
1895)
*
1991 -
Leo Durocher, baseball player and manager (b.
1905)
*
1992 -
Tevfik Esenç, last known speaker of Ubykh (b.
1904)
*
1994 -
Niels Kaj Jerne, English-born immunologist, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1911)
*
1998 -
Arnold Jacobs, Tuba player a.k.a. Song and Wind (b.
1915)
*
2001 -
Christopher Adams, British-born pro wrestler and judoka (b.
1955)
* 2001 -
Herbert Block, American cartoonist (b.
1909)
*
2003 -
Wally George, American conservative TV commentator (b.
1931)
*
RC Saints - Memorial of Our Lady of the
Rosary; formerly Saint Justina,
Saint Osyth* Saints Sergius and Bacchus; Also see
October 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)*
East Germany - Republic Day
*
French Republican Calendar -
Belle de nuit (Beautiful of Night, a flower) Day, sixteenth day in the
Month of Vendémiaire*
Composer Day in
Brazil*
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