October 7

is the 280th day of the year (281st in leap years). There are 85 days remaining.

Events

3761 BC - The epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar.
336 - Pope Mark ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
1492 - Christopher Columbus misses Florida when he changes course.
1506 - Pope Julius II and France occupy Bologna.
1513 - Battle of La Motta: Spanish troops under Ramon de Cardona defeat the Venetians.
1520 - First public burning of books in Netherlands, in Louvain.
1542 - Explorer Cabrillo discovered Catalina Island off California coast.
1571 - The Battle of Lepanto is fought, and the Holy League (Spain and Italy) destroys the Turkish fleet.
1582 - Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1637 - Prince Frederick Henry of Orange occupies Breda.
1690 - English attack Quebec under Louis de Buade.
1702 - English/Dutch troops under John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough occupy Roermond.
1714 - Beer tax riots in Alkmaar, Netherlands.
1737 - 40 foot waves sink 20,000 small craft and kill 300,000 (Bengal, India).
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.
1765 - Stamp Act Congress convenes in NY.
1769 - English explorer, Captain Cook, discovers New Zealand.
1776 - Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg.
1777 - American Revolutionary War: Americans beat the British in the Battle of Second Saratoga and the Battle of Bemis Heights.
1780 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Kings Mountain American Patriot militia defeat Loyalist irregulars led by British colonel Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina.
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.
1840 - Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.
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.
1865 - The Morant Bay Rebellion starts in Jamaica.
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.
1879 - Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the "Twofold Covenant" and create the Dual Alliance.
1882 - Baseball: First World Series (game 2), Chicago (NL) beats Cincinnati (AA) 2-0.
1886 - Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba.
1900 - The term "orienteering" is first used for an event.
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.
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.
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.
1931 - First infra-red photograph, Rochester, New York.
1938 - Germany demands all Jewish passports stamped with the letter J.
1940 - Germany invades Romania.
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.
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
1950 - United States forces cross the 38th parallel.
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.
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.
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.
1962 - U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, U.S.S.R.
1963 - John F. Kennedy signs ratification for nuclear test ban treaty.
1963 - Hurricane Flora hits Haiti and Dominican Republic, kills 7,190.
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 before closing on September 10, 2000.
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 Thecratic nation-state of the 'Sikh Republic' of Khalistan; Recognition is not admitted to the UN.
1996 - The Fox News Channel, an American cable news network, is launched.
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.
2003 - California recall: California governor Gray Davis is recalled from office and replaced by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
2004 - King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia abdicates.

Births

1471 - King Frederick I of Denmark and Norway (d. 1533)
1573 - William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1645)
1576 - John Marston, English writer (d. 1634)
1697 - Canaletto, Italian artist (d. 1768)
1713 - Granville Elliott, British military officer (d. 1759)
1728 - Caesar Rodney, American lawyer (d. 1784)
1744 - Sergey Vyazmitinov], Russian general and statesman (d. 1819)
1748 - King Charles XIII of Sweden (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, American poet (d. 1916)
1881 - Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general (d. 1918)
1885 - Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d.1962)
1888 - Henry A. Wallace, Vice President of the United States (d. 1965)
1892 - Dwain Esper, Director (d. 1982)
1894 - Del Lord, American 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)
1910 - Henry P. McIlhenny, American philanthropist (d. 1986)
1911 - Vaughn Monroe, American singer (d. 1973)
1912 - Fernando Belaúnde Terry, President of Peru (d. 2002)
1913 - Simon Carmiggelt, Dutch journalist and writer (d. 1987)
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)
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)
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
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
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
1955 - Yo-Yo Ma, French-born cellist
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
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

Deaths

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
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)
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)

Holidays

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

External links

BBC: On This Day

October 6 - October 8 - September 7 - November 7 — listing of all days

Gourt Home::Gourt :: October 7

Events

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Holidays

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