Historical Events on October 7

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• 3761 BC The epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar (Proleptic Julian calendar).
• 336 Pope Saint Mark's death ends his reign as Catholic Pope leaving the papacy vacant

• 1513 Battle of La Motta: Spanish troops under Ramón de Cardona defeat the Venetians.
• 1520 1st public burning of books in Netherlands, in Louvain

• 1571 Battle of Lepanto: Holy League of southern European nations destroy Ottoman fleet in significant loss off Western Greece

• 1690 English attack Quebec under Louis de Buade
• 1702 British & Dutch troops under Marlborough occupy Roermond
• 1714 People riot due to beer tax in Alkmaar, Netherlands
• 1737 A cyclone causes 40 foot waves that are believed to have killed 300,000 in Calcutta, India
• 1763 George III of Great Britain issues Proclamation of 1763, closing lands in North America north and west of Alleghenies to white settlement
• 1765 Stamp Act Congress (First Congress of the American Colonies) convenes in New York City to devise a unified protest against new British taxation
• 1777 Americans beat British in Second Battle of Saratoga & Battle of Bemis Heights


• 1780 British defeated by American militia near Kings Mountain, SC
• 1806 Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgwood
• 1816 1st double decked steamboat, Washington, arrives in New Orleans
• 1825 Miramichi Fire - forest fire disaster in New Brunswick
• 1826 Granite Railway (1st chartered railway in US) begins operations
• 1828 The Greek city of Patras is liberated by the French expeditionary force in Peloponnese under General Maison.
• 1840 Willem I resigns as king of Netherlands
• 1856 Cyrus Chambers Jr patents folding machine that folds book & newspapers
• 1864 -Oct 13th) Battle of Darbytown Road, VA
• 1864 Naval Engagement at Bahia Harbor, Brazil - CSS Florida vs USS Wachusett
• 1868 Cornell University (Ithaca NY) opens
• 1870 Leon Gambetta flees Paris in balloon
• 1871 16-hour fire injures 30 of Chicago's 185 firefighters
• 1879 Germany & Austrian-Hungary sign Twofold Covenant
• 1882 1st World Series (game 2), Chicago (NL) beats Cincinnati (AA) 2-0
• 1886 Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba
• 1891 British Open Golf, St Andrews: Hugh Kirkaldy wins by 2 strokes from brother Andrew Kirkaldy and Willie Fernie; last Open contested in a single day over 36 holes
• 1900 The term "orienteering" is first used for an event
• 1904 NY Highlander Jack Chesbro wins record 41st game of season (41-12)

• 1908 Crete revolts against Turkey & aligns with Greece
• 1908 Serbia & Montenegro sign anti-Austria-Hungarian pact
• 1912 The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.

• 1916 The German submarine U-53 arrives off Newport, Rhode Island, and sinks 9 British merchant ships in international waters


• 1919 First London-Amsterdam airline service (British Aerial Transport & KLM)
• 1919 Fritz Kreisler & F Jacobi's "Apple Blossoms" premieres in NYC
• 1919 KLM, Royal Dutch Airlines, established (oldest existing airline)
• 1922 First radio link, WNJ (Newark) & WGY (Senectady) link for World Series
• 1922 Landis insists Game 4 of World Series be played despite heavy rain
• 1922 Oud-burgem of Rotterdam Zimmerman becomes High Comm's of Austria
• 1923 Yankees Everett Scott runs his consecutive-game streak to 1,138
• 1924 Greek government of Dikalekopoulis forms
• 1926 Actress Theo Mann-Master resigns from stage
• 1926 Italian Great Fascist Council forms
• 1927 Yank Herb Pennock retires 1st 22 Pirates in World Series game

• 1928 Race Tafari Makonnen crowned king of Abyssinia

• 1931 1st infra-red photograph, Rochester, NY
• 1933 NY 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
• 1937 Johan Wagenaar's "Feestmars" premieres in Amsterdam
• 1938 Germany requires all Jewish passports be stamped with letter J
• 1940 Reds Bucky Walters is 1st pitcher in 14 years to homer in World Series
• 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 German army occupies Viarma, USSR
• 1942 1 salvo Katjoesja-rocket destroys Nazi battalion in Stalingrad
• 1942 Last camouflaged German raider Komet leaves Flushing (Netherlands)
• 1942 Maxwell Anderson's "Eve of St Mark" premieres in NYC
• 1942 US & UK government announce establishment of United Nations
• 1942 Yvon Robert beats Bill Longson in Montreal to become wrestling champ
• 1943 Weill, Perelman and Nash' musical "One Touch of Venus" premieres in NYC
• 1944 Allies bombs sea dikes at Vlissingen

• 1944 Riots in Amersfoort/Utrecht/Strugle
• 1944 Uprising at Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, Jews burn down crematoriums
• 1945 Dutch author A M de Jong's murderer Ton van Gog escapes
• 1946 Charles Ives' 2nd string quartet premieres
• 1947 Larry MacPhail resigns as Yank GM after final game of World Series
• 1949 German Democratic Republic formed from Russian occupation zone (National Day). Wilhelm Pieck becomes 1st president, Otto Greatwohl becomes 1st premier
• 1950 NY Yankees sweep Philadelphia Phillies in 47th World Series
• 1950 US forces invade North Korea by crossing 38th parallel
• 1950 Walter Bedell Smith replaces Roscoe H Hillenkoetter as 4th CIA head

• 1950 William H Jackson becomes deputy director of CIA
• 1950 World Series Baseball: New York Yankees beat Philadelphia Phillies, 5-2 at Yankee Stadium to sweep series, 4-0 for 13th WS Championship

• 1952 NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 3 in 49th World Series

• 1952 Yankees tie their own record of 4 consecutive World Series wins
• 1953 Bill Veeck tells Browns stockholders he faces bankruptcy unless they drop their suit to block his move to Baltimore, they comply
• 1954 Hassan el Hodeiby, leader of the Muslim Brothership, arrested in Egypt
• 1954 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ad Sinarum gentem
• 1955 Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga launched at Brooklyn

• 1957 KOAC TV channel 7 in Corvallis, OR (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1958 Potter Stewart appointed to US Supreme Court
• 1958 US manned space-flight project renamed Project Mercury
• 1959 "Happy Town" opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 5 performances

• 1960 TV series "Route 66" premieres on CBS

• 1961 "Bye Bye Birdie" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 607 performances
• 1961 15th NHL All-Star Game, Chicago Stadium: All-Stars beat Chicago Black Hawks, 3-1
• 1962 8th LPGA Championship won by Judy Kimball
• 1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
• 1963 Bobby Baker resigns as Senate Democratic secretary
• 1963 Hurricane Flora hits Haiti & Dominican Republic, kills 7,190

• 1964 NY Yankees make 14th appearance in last 16 & 29th in 61 World Series
• 1965 Charles Linster does 6,006 consecutive push-ups


• 1965 50 mph gust helps Robert Mitera ace 447-yd 10th hole at Miracle Hills, Omaha, Nebr to score world's longest straight hole-in-one
• 1967 Beatles turn down $1 million NY concert offer by Sid Berstein
• 1967 Rolf Hochhuth's "Soldaten" premieres in West Berlin
• 1968 Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system
• 1968 Rioting continues in Derry, Northern Ireland after Royal Ulster Constabulary put down civil rights march two days earlier
• 1969 WJMN TV channel 3 in Escanaba, MI (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1971 T McNally's "Where has Tommy Flowers gone?" premieres in NYC

• 1972 1st season game at Nassau Coliseum, Flames-3, Islanders-2
• 1973 Iraq nationalizes Exxon and Mobil shares in Basrah Petroleum Company representing 23.75 percent equity in the company.
• 1973 Scotsman Jackie Stewart wins his 3rd Formula 1 World Drivers Championship despite withdrawing from the season ending US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen; wins title by 16 points from Emerson Fittipaldi
• 1974 German Democratic Republic amends constitution
• 1975 Players' Association files a suit on behalf of Dodgers' Andy Messersmith

• 1975 MLB National League Championship: Cincinnati Reds beat Pittsburgh Pirates, 3 games to 0
• 1975 MLB American League Championship: Boston Red Sox beat Oakland Athletics, 3 games to 0

• 1977 Guitarist Steve Hackett quits Genesis
• 1977 USSR adoption of the Fourth Soviet Constitution.
• 1978 LA Dodgers win the pennant
• 1978 USSR performs nuclear test
• 1978 MLB National League Championship: Los Angeles Dodgers beat Philadelphia Phillies, 3 games to 1
• 1978 MLB American League Championship: New York Yankees beat Kansas City Royals, 3 games to 1
• 1979 "1940s Radio Hour" opens at St James Theater NYC for 105 performances
• 1979 "Eubie!" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 439 performances
• 1979 Cleveland Browns' Dino Hall sets club records with 9 kickoff returns
• 1979 USSR performs underground nuclear test

• 1979 Ferrari driver Jody Scheckter retires with tyre trouble in US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen; becomes first South African to claim Formula 1 World Drivers Championship; wins by 4 points from race winner Gilles Villeneuve
• 1980 Belgium 3rd government of Martens resigns

• 1981 In 1st Eastern Division championship Yanks beat Brewers 5-3
• 1982 Olof Palme forms Swedish government
• 1982 Musical "Cats" opens at Winter Garden Theater on Broadway NYC and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.
• 1984 Striking umps return for Game 5 of NLCS, San Diego Padres win pennant

• 1984 MLB National League Championship: San Diego Padres beat Chicago Cubs, 3 games to 2
• 1985 21st Space Shuttle Mission (51-J)-Atlantis 1 lands at Edwards AFB
• 1985 KHQ-AM in Spokane Wash's final transmission


• 1985 Lynette Woodward chosen as 1st woman in Harlem Globetrotters
• 1985 PLO terrorists seize Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro
• 1986 First edition of new British newspaper "Independent" published

• 1988 Jim Fregosi is fired as manager of White Sox
• 1988 Latvian flag raised in Riga for first time since annexation by USSR
• 1988 Lou Piniella is fired as manager of Yankees for 2nd time
• 1988 WNBC 660 final transmission, WFAN moves from 1050 to 660 & WUKQ begins on 1050 at 5:30 PM (NYC radio)

• 1990 Israel begins handing out gas masks to its citizens
• 1991 Child star Adam Rich arrested for stealing hypodermics
• 1991 Scorecard Harry, Space Appeal & Cafe Lex in 9th race at Belmont, creating 2nd triple dead heat in NY thoroughbred racing history
• 1991 Law Professor Anita Hill accuses Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of making sexually inappropriate comments to her
• 1992 Tampa Bay Lightning become 1st NHL expansion team to win opener (7-2)
• 1993 "Les Miserables" opens at Meralco Theatre, Philippines
• 1993 "She Loves Me" opens at Atkinson Theater NYC for 294 performances
• 1993 Massive Muslim demonstration in Xining, China, 12 killed
• 1993 Nobel prize for literature awarded to American Toni Morrison
• 1994 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
• 1994 Faud Guliyev appointed premier of Azerbijan
• 1994 Ingvar Carlsson forms Swedish government
• 1994 Lu Bin swims female 200m medley world record (2:11.57)
• 1995 Boston's Fleet Center opens, NY Islanders & Boston Bruins tie at 4-4
• 1995 Mariners rally from 5-0 to force Game 5 of Division Series vs Yankees

• 1998 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.
• 2000 Last ever competitive soccer match at Wembley Stadium, England defeated 1-0 by Germany, last goal scored by Liverpool's Dietmar Hammann. Match is Tony Adams' 60th at Wembley, 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 Crude oil resumes flowing through the trans-Alaska pipeline after workers welded shut a bullet hole that caused 260,000 US gallons of oil to spill out

• 2008 Music, podcast, and video streaming service Spotify is launched by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon

• 2012 13 people are killed after a Sudanese military aeroplane crashes near Khartoum
• 2012 Sébastien Loeb wins the World Rally Championship for the ninth consecutive year
• 2012 New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees breaks Johnny Unitas' NFL record for consecutive games with a TD pass (48) when he connects with Devery Henderson in Saints 31-24 win over San Diego at the SuperDome
• 2012 ICC Women's Cricket T20 World Cup, Colombo: Jess Cameron's 45 from 34 balls leads Australia to 142/4; beat England 138/9 to win by 4 runs to retain WC
• 2013 Mulatu Teshome becomes president of Ethiopia
• 2013 James Rothman, Randy Schekman and  Thomas C. Südhof win the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on transport systems in cells
• 2014 Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura win the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing blue light emitting diodes
• 2014 Spanish nurse diagnosed with Ebola, the first case outside west Africa

• 2015 Nobel prize in Chemistry awarded to Tomas Lindahl (Sweden), Paul Modrich (US) and Aziz Sancar (Turkey) for work on cells DNA repair
• 2016 Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos wins the Nobel Peace Prize for attempts to end conflict with FARC

• 2017 Rapper Nelly arrested for rape in Auburn, Washington
• 2017 New Zealand clinch their 5th Rugby Championship with 25-24 win over South Africa at Cape Town; All Blacks undefeated in 6 games
• 2018 Romanian referendum to ban same sex marriage fails with only 20.4% voting

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