October 7 in recent years
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2007 (Sunday)
2006 (Saturday)
2005 (Friday)
2004 (Thursday)
2003 (Tuesday)
2002 (Monday)
2001 (Sunday)
2000 (Saturday)
October 7 is the 281st day of the year (282nd in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 84 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events [ ]
3761 BC - The epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar (Proleptic Julian calendar ).
336 - Pope Mark dies, leaving the papacy vacant .
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 Ramón de Cardona defeat the Venetians .
1520 - First public burning of books in Flanders , in Leuven .
1542 - Explorer Cabrillo discovered Santa Catalina Island off 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 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 occupy Roermond .
1714 - Beer tax riots in Alkmaar, the 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 , sails to New Zealand .
1776 - Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg .
1777 - American Revolutionary War : Americans beat 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 .
1806 - Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgewood .
1816 - The first double-decked steamboat , the "Washington," arrives in New Orleans .
1825 - Miramichi Fire , disaster in New Brunswick
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 .
1849 - Edgar Allan Poe dies at 5:00 A.M. four days after being found in a Baltimore gutter.
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 : U.S.S. "Wachusett" captures the C.S.S. "Florida" 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 a balloon.
1879 - Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the "Twofold Covenant" and create the Dual Alliance .
1882 - Baseball : In Game 2 of the first exhibiton series between the Champions of the National League and the American Association, 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 biplane .
1908 - Crete revolts against the Ottoman Empire and aligns with Greece .
1912 - The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
1914 - The Marriage of Rose Fitzgerald to Joseph Patrick Kennedy
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 - Former mayor of Rotterdam Alfred Zimmerman is appointed to represent The Netherlands in the League of Nations .
1922 - First radio link, WNJ (Newark ) and WGY (Schenectady ) link for World Series.
1928 - Ras Tafari Makonnen crowned negus of Abyssinia by Empress Zauditu .
1929 - Ramsay MacDonald is the first British premier to address the U.S. Congress .
1931 - First infrared photograph , Rochester .
1938 - Germany demands all Jewish passports stamped with the letter J.
1940 - World War II : Germany invades Romania .
1940 - World War II: the McCollum memo proposes bringing the U.S. into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.
1941 - World War II: German army occupies Viazma , U.S.S.R.
1941 - John Curtin becomes the 14th Prime Minister of Australia
1942 - U.S. and British government announce establishment of United Nations .
1942 - World War II: A salvo of Katyusha rockets destroys a German battalion in Stalingrad .
1942 - The October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River .
1943 - World War II: Japan executes 100 American civilian prisoners on Wake Island .
1944 - World War II: Uprising at Birkenau concentration camp.
1944 - World War II: Uprising at Auschwitz , Jews burn down crematoria .
1944 - World War II: Fieldmarshal Erwin Rommel ordered to return to Berlin.
1944 - World War II: Allies bombs sea dikes at Vlissingen .
1949 - German Democratic Republic (East Germany) formed.
1949 - One of the earliest television shows, "Ford Theater " debuts
1950 - Annexation of Tibet by China .
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.
1952 - "American Bandstand " debuts on a local Philadelphia station.
1955 - Beat poet Allen Ginsberg reads his poem "Howl " for the first time at a poetry reading 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 - U.S. manned space-flight project renamed Project Mercury .
1959 - U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits first ever photographs of the Far side of the Moon .
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 Partial 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 .
1975 - Gerald R. Ford signs a legislation allowing women to apply for admission to the U.S. military academies , effective in 1976.
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 Palestinian terrorists .
1998 - Gay University of Wyoming student, Matthew Shepard , is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie .
2000 - The last ever competitive match at Wembley Stadium is a 1-0 defeat of England to Germany and the last goal was scored by Liverpool 's Dietmar Hammann . The match was Tony Adams ' 60th at Wembley setting the record for most appearances at the stadium.
2001 - The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan starts with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
2001 - British national railway infrastructure company Railtrack put into railway administration in controversial circumstances.
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 - Gray Davis is recalled as Governor of California , three years before the official end of his office term. Film star Arnold Schwarzenegger is elected Governor.
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 )
1589 - Maria Magdalena of Austria , Grand Duchess of Tuscany (d. 1631 )
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 )
1786 - Louis-Joseph Papineau , Canadian lawyer and politician (d. 1871 )
1835 - Felix Draeseke , German composer (d. 1913 )
1841 - King Nicholas I of Montenegro (d. 1921 )
1849 - James Whitcomb Riley , American poet (d. 1916 )
1866 - Wlodimir Ledochowski , Polish-Austrian director of the Society of Jesus (d. 1942 )
1881 - Mikhail Drozdovsky , Russian general (d. 1918 )
1884 - Major Harold Geiger , U.S. Army aviation pioneer (d. 1927 )
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 (d. 1945 )
1905 - Andy Devine , American actor (d. 1977 )
1907 - Víctor Paz Estenssoro , President of Bolivia (d. 2001 )
1910 - Henry P. McIlhenny , American philanthropist (d. 1986 )
1911 - Vaughn Monroe , American singer (d. 1973 )
1911 - Shura Cherkassky , Ukrainian classical pianist (d. 1995 )
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 )
1914 - Sarah Churchill , British actress (d. 1982 )
1917 - June Allyson , American actress (d. 2006 )
1919 - Sir Zelman Cowen , Australian politician
1921 - Raymond Goethals , Belgian football coach (d. 2004 )
1922 - Grady Hatton , American baseball player
1923 - Jean-Paul Riopelle , Québécois member of Les Automatistes (d. 2002 )
1923 - Irma Grese , Supervisor at Nazi concentration camps
1926 - Diana Lynn , American actress (d. 1971 )
1927 - R. D. Laing , Scottish psychologist (d. 1989 )
1927 - Al Martino , American singer and actor
1928 - Sohrab Sepehri , Persian poet and painter (d. 1980 )
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 writer
1934 - Ulrike Meinhof , German terrorist (d. 1976 )
1935 - Thomas Keneally , Australian author
1936 - Charles Dutoit , Swiss conductor
1937 - Maria Szyszkowska , Polish politician
1939 - John Hopcroft , American computer scientist
1939 - Clive James , Australian TV presenter and writer
1939 - Harold Kroto , English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1939 - Bill Snyder , American football coach
1940 - Bruce Vento , U.S. Congressman from Minnesota (d. 2000 )
1943 - Joy Behar , American co-host of The View
1943 - José Cardenal , Cuban baseball player
1943 - Oliver North , U.S. Marine and politician
1944 - Judee Sill , American musician (d. 1979 )
1944 - Donald Tsang , current Chief executive of Hong Kong
1945 - Kevin Godley , British musician (10cc )
1946 - Bernard Lavilliers , French singer
1946 - Pengiran Anak Saleha , Queen of Brunei
1948 - Diane Ackerman , American poet and essayist
1949 - Dave Hope , American musician (Kansas )
1950 - Jakaya Kikwete , Tanzanian politician
1951 - John Mellencamp , American singer
1951 - David J. Halberstam , American radio executive
1952 - Mary Badham , American actress
1952 - Vladimir Putin , Russian politician
1952 - Jacques Richard , Canadian ice hockey player (d.2002 )
1952 - Graham Yallop , Australian cricketer
1953 - Tico Torres , Drummer (Bon Jovi )
1954 - Kenneth Atchley , American composer
1955 - Yo-Yo Ma , French-born cellist
1957 - Michael W. Smith , American singer
1957 - Jayne Torvill , British figure skater
1958 - Judy Landers , American actress
1959 - Dylan Baker , American character actor
1959 - Simon Cowell , English recording executive
1959 - Lourdes Flores , Peruvian politician
1959 - Jean-Marc Fournier , French-Canadian politician
1960 - Kyosuke Himuro , Japanese singer
1960 - Viktor Lazlo , Belgian singer
1961 - Matthew Roloff , American actor and reality star
1962 - Dave Bronconnier , Canadian politician
1964 - Sam Brown , Singer-songwriter
1965 - Genji Hashimoto , Japanese racing driver
1966 - Toni Braxton , American singer
1966 - Marco Beltrami , Italian-American film composer
1967 - Luke Haines , English musician (The Auteurs , Black Box Recorder )
1968 - Thom Yorke , English singer (Radiohead )
1969 - Malia Hosaka , Hawaiian professional wrestler
1969 - Javier Álvarez , Spanish singer-songwriter
1970 - Nicole Ari Parker , American actress
1971 - Daniel Boucher , Quebecois musician
1972 - Ben Younger , American screenwriter and film director
1973 - Dida , Brazilian footballer
1973 - Sami Hyypiä , Finnish footballer
1973 - Priest Holmes , American Football Running Back
1974 - Charlotte Nilsson , Swedish singer
1974 - Alexander Polinsky , American actor
1975 - Terry Gerin , American professional wrestler
1975 - Damian Kulash , American musician (OK Go )
1976 - Taylor Hicks , American musician
1976 - Rachel McAdams , Canadian actress
1976 - Santiago Solari , Argentinian footballer
1976 - Gilberto Silva , Brazilian footballer
1976 - Charles Woodson , American football player
1976 - Marc Coma , Spanish motorcycle racer
1977 - Brandon Quinn , American actor
1977 - Meighan Desmond , New Zealand actress
1978 - Alesha Dixon , British pop singer (Mis-Teeq )
1978 - Zaheer Khan , Indian cricketer
1979 - Simona Amânar , Romanian gymnast
1979 - Aaron Ashmore , Candian actor
1979 - Shawn Ashmore , Canadian actor
1979 - Susan Eldridge , American supermodel
1980 - Edison Chen , Canadian-born actor
1982 - Jermain Defoe , English footballer
1982 - Robby Ginepri , American tennis player
1984 - Ikuta Toma , Japanese Singer/Actor
1986 - Gunnar Nielsen , Faroese footballer
1987 - Jeremy Brockie , Australian footballer
1988 - Stacy DuPree , American musician (Eisley )
2001 - Princess Senate Seeiso , daughter of King Letsie III of Lesotho
Deaths [ ]
336 - Pope Mark
929 - Charles the Simple , King of France (b. 879 )
1368 - Lionel of Antwerp , 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
1612 - Giovanni Battista Guarini , Italian poet, dramatist, and diplomat, (b. 1538 )
1620 - Stanisław Żółkiewski , Polish military leader (b. 1547 )
1637 - Victor Amadeus I (b. 1587 )
1651 - Jacques Sirmond , French Jesuit scholar (b. 1559 )
1653 - Fausto Poli , Italian Catholic priest (b. 1581 )
1708 - Guru Gobind Singh , tenth 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 , English politician (b. 1718 )
1796 - Thomas Reid , Scottish philosopher (b. 1710 )
1849 - Edgar Allan Poe , American writer (b. 1809 )
1894 - Oliver Wendell Holmes , American writer (b. 1809 )
1903 - Rudolf Lipschitz , German mathematician (b. 1832 )
1906 - Honoré Beaugrand , Canadian journalist and politician, mayor of Montreal (b. 1848 )
1911 - John Hughlings Jackson , English neurologist (b. 1835 )
1919 - Alfred Deakin , second Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1856 )
1925 - Christy Mathewson , American 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 )
1966 - Smiley Lewis , American musician (b. 1913 )
1967 - Norman Angell , British politician and Nobel Laureate (b. 1872 )
1969 - Léon Scieur , Belgian cyclist (b. 1888 )
1981 - Albert Cohen , Greek-born Swiss novelist (b. 1895 )
1991 - Leo Durocher , American baseball player and manager (b. 1905 )
1992 - Allan Bloom , American philosopher and educator (b. 1930 )
1992 - Tevfik Esenç , last known speaker of Ubykh (b. 1904 )
1993 - Cyril Cusack , Irish actor (b. 1910 )
1994 - Niels Kaj Jerne , English-born Danish immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1911 )
1996 - Grigoris Asikis , Greek hero and God. A singer and songwriter. (b. 1890 )
1998 - Arnold Jacobs , American tuba player a.k.a. Song and Wind (b. 1915 )
2001 - Christopher Adams , British-born pro wrestler and judoka (b. 1955 )
2001 - Herblock , American cartoonist (b. 1909 )
2001 - Roger Gaudry , French Canadian chemist, businessman and corporate director (b. 1913 )
2003 - Izzy Asper , Canadian tax lawyer (b. 1932 )
2003 - Arthur Berger , American composer (b. 1912 )
2003 - Wally George , American conservative TV commentator (b. 1931 )
2004 - Ken Bigley , British civil engineer, kidnapped and murdered in Iraq (b. 1942 )
2005 - Charles Rocket , American actor (b. 1949 )
2006 - Anna Politkovskaya , Russian journalist (b. 1958 )
2007 - Norifumi Abe , Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1975 )
2007 - George E. Sangmeister , American politician (b. 1931 )
Holidays and observances [ ]
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121 Familypedia people were born on October 7
144 Familypedia people died on October 7
101 Familypedia people were first married on October 7