October 7th Events |
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| October 7th, 3761 (October 07 3761) | Event | The epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar (Proleptic Julian calendar). | Julian Quotes |
| October 7th, 2004 (October 07 2004) | Event | King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia abdicates. | |
| October 7th, 2003 (October 07 2003) | Event | 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. | |
| October 7th, 2002 (October 07 2002) | Event | 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. | |
| October 7th, 2001 (October 07 2001) | Event | The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan starts with an air assault and covert operations on the ground. | |
| October 7th, 2000 (October 07 2000) | Event | 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. | |
| October 7th, 1998 (October 07 1998) | Event | Gay University of Wyoming student, Matthew Shepard, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming. | |
| October 7th, 1993 (October 07 1993) | Event | The Great Flood of 1993 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River falls below flood stage. | |
| October 7th, 1985 (October 07 1985) | Event | The "Achille Lauro" is hijacked by Palestinian terrorists. | |
| October 7th, 1982 (October 07 1982) | Event | Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000. | |
| October 7th, 1977 (October 07 1977) | Event | The adoption of the Fourth Soviet Constitution. | |
| October 7th, 1975 (October 07 1975) | Event | Gerald R. Ford signs a legislation allowing women to apply for admission to the U.S. military academies, effective in 1976. | Gerald Ford Quotes |
| October 7th, 1970 (October 07 1970) | Event | Richard Nixon announces a new five-point peace proposal to end the Vietnam War. | |
| October 7th, 1968 (October 07 1968) | Event | Hollywood adopts the movie ratings system. | |
| October 7th, 1963 (October 07 1963) | Event | John F. Kennedy signs ratification for Partial Test Ban Treaty. | John F. Kennedy Quotes |
| October 7th, 1963 (October 07 1963) | Event | Hurricane Flora hits Haiti and Dominican Republic, kills 7,190. | |
| October 7th, 1962 (October 07 1962) | Event | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya, U.S.S.R. | |
| October 7th, 1960 (October 07 1960) | Event | Second Kennedy and Nixon debate Cold War foreign policy in the second of four scheduled debates. | |
| October 7th, 1959 (October 07 1959) | Event | U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits first ever photographs of the Far side of the Moon. | |
| October 7th, 1958 (October 07 1958) | Event | 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. | Martial Quotes |
| October 7th, 1958 (October 07 1958) | Event | U.S. manned space-flight project renamed Project Mercury. | |
| October 7th, 1955 (October 07 1955) | Event | Beat poet Allen Ginsberg reads his poem "Howl" for the first time at a poetry reading in San Francisco. | |
| October 7th, 1952 (October 07 1952) | Event | "American Bandstand" debuts on a local Philadelphia station. | |
| October 7th, 1951 (October 07 1951) | Event | Malayan Emergency: Malayan Races Liberation Army (MRLA) ambushes and kills British High Commissioner Sir Henry Gurney. | |
| October 7th, 1951 (October 07 1951) | Event | David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli government. | |
| October 7th, 1950 (October 07 1950) | Event | Annexation of Tibet by China. | |
| October 7th, 1950 (October 07 1950) | Event | United States forces cross the 38th parallel. | |
| October 7th, 1949 (October 07 1949) | Event | German Democratic Republic (East Germany) formed. | |
| October 7th, 1949 (October 07 1949) | Event | One of the earliest television shows, "Ford Theater" debuts | |
| October 7th, 1944 (October 07 1944) | Event | World War II: Uprising at Birkenau concentration camp. | |
| October 7th, 1944 (October 07 1944) | Event | World War II: Uprising at Auschwitz, Jews burn down crematoria. | |
| October 7th, 1944 (October 07 1944) | Event | World War II: Fieldmarshal Erwin Rommel ordered to return to Berlin. | Erwin Rommel Quotes |
| October 7th, 1944 (October 07 1944) | Event | World War II: Allies bomb sea dikes at Vlissingen. | |
| October 7th, 1943 (October 07 1943) | Event | World War II: Japan executes 100 American civilian prisoners on Wake Island. | |
| October 7th, 1942 (October 07 1942) | Event | U.S. and British government announce establishment of United Nations. | |
| October 7th, 1942 (October 07 1942) | Event | World War II: A salvo of Katyusha rockets destroys a German battalion in Stalingrad. | |
| October 7th, 1942 (October 07 1942) | Event | The October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River. | |
| October 7th, 1941 (October 07 1941) | Event | World War II: German army occupies Viazma, U.S.S.R. | |
| October 7th, 1940 (October 07 1940) | Event | World War II: Germany invades Romania. | |
| October 7th, 1940 (October 07 1940) | Event | 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. | |
| October 7th, 1938 (October 07 1938) | Event | Germany demands all Jewish passports stamped with the letter J. | |
| October 7th, 1931 (October 07 1931) | Event | First infrared photograph, Rochester, New York. | |
| October 7th, 1929 (October 07 1929) | Event | Ramsay MacDonald is the first British premier to address the U.S. Congress. | |
| October 7th, 1928 (October 07 1928) | Event | Ras Tafari Makonnen crowned negus of Abyssinia by Empress Zauditu. | |
| October 7th, 1922 (October 07 1922) | Event | Former mayor of Rotterdam Alfred Zimmerman is appointed to represent The Netherlands in the League of Nations. | |
| October 7th, 1922 (October 07 1922) | Event | First radio link, WNJ (Newark, New Jersey) and WGY (Schenectady) link for World Series. | |
| October 7th, 1919 (October 07 1919) | Event | KLM of the Netherlands was foundedied in It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name. | |
| October 7th, 1919 (October 07 1919) | Event | First London-Amsterdam airline service (Britain Aerial Transport and KLM). | |
| October 7th, 1916 (October 07 1916) | Event | Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222-0 in the most lopsided victory in American college football. | |
| October 7th, 1914 (October 07 1914) | Event | The Marriage of Rose Fitzgerald to Joseph Patrick Kennedy | Patrick Fitzgerald Quotes |
| October 7th, 1912 (October 07 1912) | Event | The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction. | |
| October 7th, 1908 (October 07 1908) | Event | Crete revolts against the Ottoman Empire and aligns with Greece. | |
| October 7th, 1907 (October 07 1907) | Event | France s Henry Farman flies 30 m in a biplane. | |
| October 7th, 1904 (October 07 1904) | Event | Baseball: New York Highlander Jack Chesbro wins record 41st game of season (41-12). | |
| October 7th, 1900 (October 07 1900) | Event | The term "orienteering" is first used for an event. | |
| October 7th, 1886 (October 07 1886) | Event | Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba. | |
| October 7th, 1882 (October 07 1882) | Event | Baseball: In Game 2 of the first exhibition series between the Champions of the National League and the American Association, Chicago (NL) beats Cincinnati (AA) 2-0. | |
| October 7th, 1879 (October 07 1879) | Event | Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the "Twofold Covenant" and create the Dual Alliance. | |
| October 7th, 1870 (October 07 1870) | Event | Leon Gambetta flees Paris in a balloon. | |
| October 7th, 1868 (October 07 1868) | Event | Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial student enrollment is 412, the most at any American university to that date. | |
| October 7th, 1865 (October 07 1865) | Event | The Morant Bay Rebellion starts in Jamaica. | |
| October 7th, 1864 (October 07 1864) | Event | Battle of Darbytown Road (American Civil War): the Confederate forces attempt to regain ground that had been lost around Richmond is thwarted. | |
| October 7th, 1864 (October 07 1864) | Event | American Civil War: U.S.S. "Wachusett" captures the C.S.S. "Florida" Confederate raider ship while in port in Bahia, Brazil. | |
| October 7th, 1840 (October 07 1840) | Event | Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands. | |
| October 7th, 1828 (October 07 1828) | Event | The city of Patras, Greece is liberated by the French expeditionary force in Peloponnese under General Maison. | |
| October 7th, 1826 (October 07 1826) | Event | Granite Railway (first chartered railway in the U.S.) begins operations. | |
| October 7th, 1825 (October 07 1825) | Event | Miramichi Fire, disaster in New Brunswick | |
| October 7th, 1816 (October 07 1816) | Event | The first double-decked steamboat, the "Washington," arrives in New Orleans, Louisiana. | |
| October 7th, 1780 (October 07 1780) | Event | American Revolutionary War: Battle of Kings Mountain American Patriot militia defeat Loyalist irregulars led by British colonel Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina. | |
| October 7th, 1777 (October 07 1777) | Event | American Revolutionary War: Americans beat the British in the Second Battle of Saratoga, also known as the Battle of Bemis Heights. | |
| October 7th, 1776 (October 07 1776) | Event | Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Marie Dorothea of Wurttemberg. | |
| October 7th, 1769 (October 07 1769) | Event | English explorer, Captain Cook, sails to New Zealand. | |
| October 7th, 1765 (October 07 1765) | Event | Stamp Act Congress convenes in NY. | |
| October 7th, 1763 (October 07 1763) | Event | 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. | |
| October 7th, 1737 (October 07 1737) | Event | 40-foot (12 m) waves sink 20,000 small craft and kill 300,000 (Bengal, India). | |
| October 7th, 1714 (October 07 1714) | Event | Beer tax riots in Alkmaar, the Netherlands. | |
| October 7th, 1702 (October 07 1702) | Event | English/Dutch troops under John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough occupy Roermond. | |
| October 7th, 1690 (October 07 1690) | Event | English attack Quebec under Louis de Buade. | |
| October 7th, 1637 (October 07 1637) | Event | Prince Frederick Henry of Orange occupies Breda. | |
| October 7th, 1582 (October 07 1582) | Event | Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. | |
| October 7th, 1571 (October 07 1571) | Event | The Battle of Lepanto is fought, and the Holy League (Spain and Italy) destroys the Turkish fleet. | Roy Turk Quotes |
| October 7th, 1542 (October 07 1542) | Event | Explorer Cabrillo discovered Santa Catalina Island off California coast. | |
| October 7th, 1520 (October 07 1520) | Event | First public burning of books in Flanders, in Leuven. | |
| October 7th, 1513 (October 07 1513) | Event | Battle of La Motta: Spanish troops under Ramon de Cardona defeat the Venetians. | |
| October 7th, 1506 (October 07 1506) | Event | Pope Julius II and France occupy Bologna. | |
| October 7th, 1492 (October 07 1492) | Event | Christopher Columbus misses Florida when he changes course. | Christopher Columbus Quotes |
| October 7th, 0336 (October 07 0336) | Event | Pope Mark dies, leaving the papacy vacant. | |
