UN
Day
World
Cotton Day
Events
of the day
3761 BC β The epoch reference
date epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew
calendar (Proleptic Julian calendar).
1477 β Uppsala University is inaugurated
after receiving its corporate rights from
Pope Sixtus IV in February the same year.
1513 β Battle of La Motta: Spanish troops
under RamΓ³n de Cardona defeat the Venetians.
1542 β Explorer Cabrillo discovers Santa
Catalina Island off the California coast.
1571 β The Battle of Lepanto is fought,
and the Holy League (Spain and Italy) destroys
the Turkish fleet.
1582 β Because of the implementation of
the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped
in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1691 β The English royal charter for the
Province of Massachusetts Bay is issued.
1763 β 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 β Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries
Sophie Marie Dorothea of WΓΌrttemberg.
1777 β American Revolutionary War: The Americans
defeat the British in the Second Battle
of Saratoga, also known as the Battle of
Bemis Heights.
1780 β American Revolutionary War: Battle
of Kings Mountain American Patriot militia
defeat Loyalist irregulars led by British
colonel Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina.
1800 β 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'aoΓ»t.
1826 β The Granite Railway begins operations
as the first chartered railway in the U.S.
1828 β The city of Patras, Greece, is liberated
by the French expeditionary force in the
Peloponnese under General Maison.
1840 β Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.
1849 β Death of Edgar Allan Poe
1862 β Royal Columbian Hospital (RCH) opens
as the first hospital in the Canadian province
of British Columbia
1864 β American Civil War: USS Wachusett
captures the CSS Florida Confederate raider
while in port in Bahia, Brazil.
1868 β Cornell University holds opening
day ceremonies; initial student enrollment
is 412, the highest at any American university
to that date.
1870 β Franco-Prussian War β Siege of Paris:
Leon Gambetta flees Paris in a balloon.
1879 β Germany and Austria-Hungary sign
the "Twofold Covenant" and create
the Dual Alliance.
1912 β The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees
its first transaction.
1916 β Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University
222-0 in the most lopsided college football
game in American history.
1919 β KLM, the flag carrier of the Netherlands,
is founded. It is the oldest airline still
operating under its original name.
1924 β Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes Prime
Minister of Greece for a short period of
time.
1929 β Photios II becomes Ecumenical Patriarch
of Constantinople.
1933 β Air France is inaugurated, after
being formed by a merger of 5 French airlines.
1940 β 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 β 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 β World War II: Uprising at Birkenau
concentration camp, Jewish prisoners burn
down the crematoria.
1949 β The German Democratic Republic (East
Germany) is formed.
1955 β American poet Allen Ginsberg performs
his poem Howl for the first time at the
Six Gallery in San Francisco.
1958 β 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 β The U.S. manned space-flight project
is renamed Project Mercury.
1959 β U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits the
first ever photographs of the far side of
the Moon.
1960 β Nigeria joins the United Nations.
1963 β John F. Kennedy signs the ratification
of the Partial Test Ban Treaty.
1971 β Oman joins the United Nations.
1976 β Hua Guofeng becomes Mao Zedong's
successor as chairman of Communist Party
of China.
1977 β The adoption of the Fourth Soviet
Constitution.
1982 β Cats opens on Broadway and runs for
nearly 18 years before closing on September
10, 2000.
1985 β The Achille Lauro is hijacked by
Palestine Liberation Organization.
1985 β The Mameyes landslide kills close
to 300 in the worst landslide in North American
history.
1991 β Bombing of Banski dvori in Zagreb.
1993 β The Great Flood of 1993 ends at St.
Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began,
as the Mississippi River falls below flood
stage.
1998 β 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 β The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan
begins with an air assault and covert operations
on the ground.
2004 β King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia
abdicates, replaced by his son Norodom Sihamoni
a week later.
2006 β 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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