October 7

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October 7 is the 280th day of the year (281st in leap years). There are 85 days remaining.

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays
5 External links

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Events

3761 BC - The epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar.
336 - Pope Marcus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1492 - 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 Saint League (Spain and Italy) destroys Turkish fleet.
1579 - English royal marriage of Queen Elizabeth I to duke of Anjou.
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 Frederik Henry occupies Breda.
1690 - English attack Quebec under Louis de Buade.
1702 - English/Dutch troops under Marlborough occupy Roermond.
1714 - People riot due to beer tax in Alkmaar, Neth.
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 - Americans beat the British in the Battle of Second Saratoga and the Battle of Bemis Heights.
1780 - 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.
1840 - Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.
1856 - Cyrus Chambers, Jr. patents folding machine that folds book and newspapers.
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.
1871 - 16-hour fire injures 30 of Chicago's 185 firefighters.
1879 - Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the "Twofold Covenant" and create the Dual Alliance.
1882 - 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 - 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.
1915 - Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University of Lebanon, Tennessee 222-0 in football (record).
1919 - KLM of the Netherlands was founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.
1919 - Fritz Kreisler and F. Jacobi's "Apple Blossoms," premieres in New York City.
1919 - First London-Amsterdam airline service (Britain Aerial Transport and KLM).
1922 - Oud-burgem of Rotterdam Zimmerman becomes High Comm's of Austria.
1922 - Landis insists Game 4 of World Series be played despite heavy rain.
1922 - First radio link, WNJ (Newark) and WGY (Schenectady) link for World Series.
1923 - Yankees Everett Scott runs his consecutive-game streak to 1,138.
1924 - Greek government of Dikalekopoulis forms.
1926 - Italian Great Fascist Council forms.
1926 - Actress Theo Mann-Master resigns from stage.
1927 - Yankee Herb Pennock retires the first 22 Pirates in World Series game.
1928 - Race Tafari Makonnen crowned king of Abyssinia.
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.
1933 - New York Giants beat Washington Senators, 4 games to 1 in 30th World Series.
1935 - Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 32nd World Series.
1936 - 7th-place Brooklyn Dodgers fire manager Casey Stengel.
1938 - Germany demands all Jewish passports stamped with letter J.
1940 - Germany invades Romania.
1941 - German army occupies Viarma, U.S.S.R.
1942 - Yvon Robert beats Bill Longson in Montreal, to become wrestling champ.
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 prisoners on Wake Island.
1944 - Uprising at Birkenau concentration camp.
1944 - Uprising at Auschwitz, Jews burn down crematoriums.
1944 - Fieldmarshal Rommel gets order 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 invade North Korea by crossing the 38th parallel.
1951 - Malayan Emergency: Malay Races Liberation Army (MRLA) ambushes and kills British High Commissioner Sir Henry Gurney.
1951 - David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli government.
1955 - Aircraft carrier U.S.S. Saratoga at Brooklyn launched.
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.
1958 - Potter Stewart appointed to U.S. Supreme Court.
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.
1960 - "Route 66" premieres.
1961 - "Bye Bye Birdie" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 607 performances.
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.
1996 - The Fox News Channel, an American cable news network, is launched.
1998 - Charmed premieres on The WB, a U.S. TV network.
1998 - Gay student Matthew Shepard, beaten the night before, is left tied to a fence and dies in Laramie, Wyoming, United States.
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.