October 7

October 7 is the 280th day of the year (281st in leap years). There are 85 days remaining.

Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays

Events

• 1571 - Battle of Lepanto occurs.
• 1777 - Battle of Second Saratoga occurs.
• 1780 - Battle of King's Mountain American irregulars defeat British forces in South Carolina.
• 1879 - Germany and Austria-Hungary create the Dual Alliance.
• 1886 - Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba.
• 1908 - Crete revolts against the Ottoman Empire and aligns with Greece.
• 1913 - Henry Ford introduces the assembly line.
• 1940 - Germany invades Romania.
• 1943 - Japan executes 100 American prisoners on Wake Island.
• 1949 - German Democratic Republic (East Germany) formed.
• 1950 - United States forces invade Korea by crossing the 38th parallel.
• 1957 - Dick Clark's American Bandstand debuts.
• 1957 - A fire in the Windscale plutonium production reactor, north of Liverpool, England, cause the release of radioactive material, which is later blamed for 39 cancer deaths
• 1985 - Achille Lauro hijacked by Palestinian terrorists.
• 1998 - Matthew Shepard is beaten and left tied to a fence in Laramie, Wyoming.
• 2001 - Start of U.S. invasion of Afghanistan.
• 2003 - 2003 California recall: California governor Gray Davis is recalled from office and replaced by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Births

• 1841 - King Nicholas I of Montenegro († 1921)
• 1853 - James Whitcomb Riley, poet († 1916)
• 1885 - Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (†1962)
• 1888 - Henry A. Wallace, American politician and Vice President of the United States († 1965)
• 1894 - Del Lord, pioneer Hollywood director († 1970)
• 1897 - Elijah Mohammed, Black Muslim leader († 1975)
• 1900 - Heinrich Himmler, Nazi official and leader of the SS († 1945)
• 1905 - Andy Devine, actor († 1977)
• 1911 - Vaughn Monroe, singer († 1973)
• 1914 - Alfred Drake, actor († 1992)
• 1917 - June Allyson, actress
• 1931 - Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop and anti-apartheid activist
• 1934 - Amiri Baraka, playwright, poet (born LeRoi Jones)
• 1935 - Thomas Keneally, Australian author
• 1939 - Harold Kroto, British chemist
• 1943 - Oliver North, United States Marine involved in Iran-Contra affair
• 1951 - John Cougar Mellencamp, singer
• 1952 - Vladimir Putin, Russian politician and president
• 1955 - Yo-Yo Ma, cellist
• 1957 - Jayne Torvill, figure skater
• 1979 - Simona Amanar, Romanian gymnast

Deaths

• 336 - Pope Marcus
• 1792 - George Mason, U.S. patriot, "Father of the United States Bill of Rights"
• 1849 - Edgar Allen Poe, American writer
• 1894 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, poet
• 1925 - Christy Mathewson, baseball star
• 1926 - Emil Kraepelin, German psychologist
• 1959 - Mario Lanza, singer
• 1992 - Tevfik Esenc, last speaker of the Ubykh language

Holidays

• UN - Universal Children's Day

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See Also:

October 6 - October 8 - September 7 - November 7 -- listing of all days

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