October
7
Events
October 7
3761 BC
– The epoch reference date epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew
calendar (Proleptic Julian calendar).
1477 – Uppsala University is inaugurated after receiving its
corporate rights from Pope Sixtus IV in February the same year.
1513 – Battle of La Motta: Spanish troops under Ramón de Cardona
defeat the Venetians.
1542 – Explorer Cabrillo discovers Santa Catalina Island off
the California coast.
1571 – The Battle of Lepanto is fought, and the Holy League
(Spain and Italy) destroys the Turkish fleet.
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar,
this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1691 – The English royal charter for the Province of Massachusetts
Bay is issued.
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.
1776 – Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Marie Dorothea
of Württemberg.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: The Americans defeat the
British in the Second Battle of Saratoga, also known as 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.
1800 – French corsair Robert Surcouf, commander of the 18-gun
ship La Confiance, captures the British 38-gun Kent inspiring
the traditional French song Le Trente-et-un du mois d'août.
1826 – The Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered
railway in the U.S.
1828 – The city of Patras, Greece, is liberated by the French
expeditionary force in the Peloponnese under General Maison.
1840 – Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.
1849 – Death of Edgar Allan Poe
1862 – Royal Columbian Hospital (RCH) opens as the first hospital
in the Canadian province of British Columbia
1864 – American Civil War: USS Wachusett captures the CSS Florida
Confederate raider while in port in Bahia, Brazil.
1868 – Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial
student enrollment is 412, the highest at any American university
to that date.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War – Siege of Paris: Leon Gambetta flees
Paris in a balloon.
1879 – Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the "Twofold Covenant"
and create the Dual Alliance.
1912 – The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
1916 – Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222-0 in the
most lopsided college football game in American history.
1919 – KLM, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, is founded.
It is the oldest airline still operating under its original
name.
1924 – Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes Prime Minister of Greece
for a short period of time.
1929 – Photios II becomes Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
1933 – Air France is inaugurated, after being formed by a merger
of 5 French airlines.
1940 – World War II: the McCollum memo proposes bringing the
United States into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese
to attack the United States.
1942 – World War II: The October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal
begins as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial
Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River.
1944 – World War II: Uprising at Birkenau concentration camp,
Jewish prisoners burn down the crematoria.
1949 – The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) is formed.
1955 – American poet Allen Ginsberg performs his poem Howl for
the first time at the Six Gallery in San Francisco.
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 – The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project
Mercury.
1959 – U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits the first ever photographs
of the far side of the Moon.
1960 – Nigeria joins the United Nations.
1963 – John F. Kennedy signs the ratification of the Partial
Test Ban Treaty.
1971 – Oman joins the United Nations.
1976 – Hua Guofeng becomes Mao Zedong's successor as chairman
of Communist Party of China.
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.
1985 – The Achille Lauro is hijacked by Palestine Liberation
Organization.
1985 – The Mameyes landslide kills close to 300 in the worst
landslide in North American history.
1991 – Bombing of Banski dvori in Zagreb.
1993 – The Great Flood of 1993 ends at St. Louis, Missouri,
103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River falls below
flood stage.
1998 – Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming,
is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two
young adults in Laramie, Wyoming.
2001 – The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault
and covert operations on the ground.
2004 – King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia abdicates, replaced
by his son Norodom Sihamoni a week later.
2006 – Russian journalist and human rights activist Anna Politkovskaya
is shot and killed outside her home in Moscow.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Justina of Padua (former)
Osgyth
Our Lady of the Rosary
Pope Mark
Sergius and Bacchus
October 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
The first day of Nagasaki Kunchi (Nagasaki)
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