October 7
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- 1968 - Thom Yorke
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- 3761 BC - The epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar.
- 336 - Pope Marcus ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
- 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 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.
- 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 Frederick Henry of Orange occupies Breda.
- 1690 - English attack Quebec under Louis de Buade.
- 1702 - English/Dutch troops under John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough occupy Roermond.
- 1714 - Beer tax riots in Alkmaar, 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, discovers New Zealand.
- 1776 - Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg.
- 1777 - American Revolutionary War: Americans beat the British in the Battle of Second Saratoga and 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, Louisiana.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1879 - Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the "Twofold Covenant" and create the Dual Alliance.
- 1882 - Baseball: 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 - Baseball: 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.
- 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 - Oud-burgem of Rotterdam Zimmerman becomes High Comm's of Austria.
- 1922 - First radio link, WNJ (Newark, New Jersey) and WGY (Schenectady) link for World Series.
- 1924 - Greek government of Dikalekopoulis forms.
- 1928 - Ras Tafari Makonnen crowned negus of Abyssinia by Empress Zauditu.
- 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.
- 1938 - Germany demands all Jewish passports stamped with the letter J.
- 1940 - Germany invades Romania.
- 1941 - German army occupies Viarma, U.S.S.R.
- 1941 - John Curtin becomes the 14th Prime Minister of Australia
- 1942 - the McCollum memo conspires to bring the United States to war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.
- 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 civilian prisoners on Wake Island.
- 1944 - Uprising at Birkenau concentration camp.
- 1944 - Uprising at Auschwitz, Jews burn down crematoriums.
- 1944 - Fieldmarshal Erwin Rommel ordered 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 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2001 - Start of United States war in 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.
