Historical Events on October 7

1492 Christopher Columbus misses Florida when he changes course

1506 Pope Julius II & France occupy Bologna

1542 Explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo discovers Catalina Island off the coast of California

1637 Prince Frederick Henry occupies Breda

1763 George III of Great Britain issues Proclamation of 1763, closing lands in North America north and west of Alleghenies to white settlement

1915 English nurse Edith Cavell sentenced to death along with 34 others by German court martial for running underground network to free Allied soldiers

1916 Georgia Tech, coached by John Heisman, defeats Cumberland, 222-0; most lopsided score in the history of US college football

1928 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10 miles (50:15.0)

1929 Ramsay MacDonald is first British Prime Minister to address US Congress

1935 Himmler, Hess and Heydrich inspect the concentration camp at Dachau

1936 7th-place Brooklyn Dodgers fire manager Casey Stengel

1942 Maxwell Anderson's "Eve of St Mark" premieres in NYC

1944 Field Marshal Erwin Rommel ordered to return to Berlin

1950 Whitey Ford wins his 1st World Series game 5-2

1951 David Ben-Gurion forms 3rd Israeli government

1952 First "Bandstand" broadcast in Philadelphia on WFIL-TV (Dick Clark joins in 1955 as a substitute-host)

1953 Bill Veeck tells Browns stockholders he faces bankruptcy unless they drop their suit to block his move to Baltimore, they comply

1954 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ad Sinarum gentem

1955 Beat poet Allen Ginsberg reads his poem "Howl" for the first time at a poetry reading in San Francisco.

1959 "Pillow Talk" film directed by Michael Gordon and starring Doris Day and Rock Hudson is first released

1960 2nd JFK & Richard Nixon debate

1963 The Rolling Stones record the Lennon-McCartney song "I Wanna Be Your Man" at Kingsway Sound Studio in London

1971 Northern Ireland Prime Minister Brian Faulkner meets with British Prime Minister Edward Heath; they agree to send an additional 1,500 British Army troops to Northern Ireland

1971 "The French Connection" directed by William Friedkin and starring Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider and Fernando Rey premieres in the US (Academy Awards Best Picture 1972)

1975 US decides John Lennon won't be deported due to UK pot conviction

1976 Hua Guofeng succeeds Mao as Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

1979 Frank Mahovlich formally retires from the NHL after a failed comeback attempt with the Detroit Red Wings

1981 Hosni Mubarak becomes acting-president of Egypt

1984 Walter Payton passes Jim Brown as NFL's career rushing leader

1986 Steve Yzerman is named captain of the Detroit Red Wings, a title he would hold for over 1,300 games

1989 Howard Stern's US Open Sores Tennis match

1989 Rickey Henderson steals a record 8 bases in a play off (5 games)

1991 Law Professor Anita Hill accuses Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of making sexually inappropriate comments to her

1993 Nobel prize for literature awarded to American writer Toni Morrison

1996 Rupert Murdoch launches Fox News with Roger Ailes as CEO

2003 American gubernatorial recall election is held in California. Governor Gray Davis is recalled and Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes governor.

2004 King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia abdicates

2007 Senior Players Championship Men's Golf, Baltimore CC: Loren Roberts wins his third of 4 Champions Tour major titles by 6 strokes from Tom Watson

2009 A digital version of psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung's 'Red Book' is published 48 years after his death and contains personal notes on his subconscious during the period in which he developed his principal theories

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

2015 US President Barack Obama apologises to Doctors without Borders President and the President of Afghanistan for the bombing of a hospital in Kunduz