Notable Historical Events on October 7th
October 7th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
3761 |
The epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar (Proleptic Julian calendar). |
BC AD | |
336 |
Pope Saint Mark's death ends his reign as Catholic Pope leaving the papacy vacant |
1492 |
Columbus misses Florida when he changes course |
1506 |
Pope Julius II & France occupy Bologna |
1513 |
Battle of La Motta: Spanish troops under Ramón de Cardona defeat the Venetians. |
1520 |
1st public burning of books in Netherlands, in Louvain |
1542 |
Explorer Cabrillo discovered Catalina Island off California coast |
1571 |
Battle of Lepanto: Holy League of southern European nations destroys Ottoman fleet in significant loss off Western Greece |
1637 |
Prince Frederik Henry occupies Breda |
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 Neth |
1737 |
40 foot waves sink 20,000 small craft & kill 300,000 (Bengal, India) |
1763 |
George III of Great Britain issues Proclamation of 1763, closing lands in North America north & west of Alleghenies to white settlement |
1765 |
Stamp Act Congress convenes in NY |
1777 |
Americans beat British in 2nd 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 Wedgewood |
1816 |
1st double decked steamboat, Washington, arrives in New Orleans |
1825 |
Miramichi 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 |
1900 |
The term "orienteering" is first used for an event |
1904 |
NY Highlander Jack Chesbro wins record 41st game of season (41-12) |
1907 |
France's Henri Farman flies 30m in a biplane |
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. |
1913 |
Henry Ford institutes moving assembly line |
1916 |
Georgia Tech, coached by John Heisman, defeat Cumberland 222-0, the most lopsided score in the history of college football |
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 Ducth 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 |
Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10 miles (50:15.0) |
1928 |
Race Tafari Makonnen crowned king of Abyssinia |
1929 |
Ramsay MacDonald is first British premier to address US Congress |
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 |
1935 |
Himmler/Hess/Heydrich inspect the concentration camp at Dachau |
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 harbor (Neth) |
1942 |
Maxwell Andersons "Eve of St Mark" premieres in NYC |
1942 |
US & British government announce establishment of United Nations |
1942 |
Yvon Robert beats Bill Longson in Montreal, to become wrestling champ |
1943 |
Weill/Perelman/Nash' musical "One Touch of Venus" premieres in NYC |
1944 |
Allies bombs sea dikes at Vlissingen |
1944 |
Field Marshal Erwin Rommel ordered to return to Berlin |
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 Korea by crossing 38th parallel |
1950 |
Walter Bedell Smith replaces Roscoe H Hillenkoetter as 4th CIA head |
1950 |
Whitey Ford wins his 1st World Series game 5-2 |
1950 |
William H Jackson becomes deputy director of CIA |
1950 |
Yanks win 13th world championship sweeping Phillies |
1951 |
David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli government |
1952 |
NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 3 in 49th World Series |
1952 |
First "Bandstand" broadcast in Philadelphia on WFIL-TV (Dick Clark joins in 1955 as a substitute-host) |
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 Moslem brothership, arrested in Egypt |
1954 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ad Sinarum gentem |
1955 |
Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga launched at Brooklyn |
1955 |
Beat poet Allen Ginsberg reads his poem "Howl" for the first time at a poetry reading in San Francisco. |
1956 |
Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Open |
1957 |
KOAC TV channel 7 in Corvallis, OR (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1957 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Invitational |
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 |
1959 |
Far side of Moon seen for 1st time, compliments of USSR's Luna 3 |
1960 |
"Route 66" premieres |
1960 |
2nd JFK & Richard Nixon debate |
1961 |
"Bye Bye Birdie" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 607 perfs |
1961 |
15th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Chicago 3-1 at Chicago |
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 |
1963 |
JFK signs ratification for nuclear test ban treaty |
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 |
Disney World opens in Orlando, Florida |
1971 |
T McNally's "Where has Tommy Flowers gone?" premieres in NYC |
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 |
1972 |
1st season game at Nassau Coliseum, Flames-3, Islanders-2 |
1973 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open |
1973 |
Iraq nationalizes Exxon and Mobil shares in Basrah Petroleum Company representing 23.75 percent equity in the company. |
1974 |
German Democratic Republic amends constitution |
1975 |
Players' Association files a suit on behalf of Dodgers' Andy Messersmith |
1975 |
US decides John Lennon won't be deported due to UK pot conviction |
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 |
1979 |
"1940's 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 |
Debbie Massey wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic |
1979 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1979 |
Frank Mahovlich formally retires from the NHL after a failed comeback attempt with the Detroit Red Wings |
1980 |
Belgium 3rd government of Martens resigns |
1981 |
Hosni Mubarak becomes acting-president of Egypt |
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, SD Padres win pennant |
1984 |
Walter Payton passes Jim Brown as NFL's career rushing leader |
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 on Harlem Globetrotters |
1985 |
PLO terrorists sieze Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro |
1986 |
First edition of new British newspaper "Independent" published |
1986 |
Steve Yzerman is named captain of the Detroit Red Wings, a title he would hold for over 1,300 games |
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) |
1989 |
Howard Stern's US Open Sores Tennis match |
1989 |
Rickey Henderson steals a record 8 bases in a play off (5 games) |
1990 |
Beth Daniel wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic |
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 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 Moslem demonstrate in Xining China PR, 12 killed |
1993 |
Nobel prize for literature awarded to 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 |
The last ever competitive soccer match at Wembley Stadium is a 1-0 defeat of England by 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. |
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 |
2003 |
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. |
2004 |
King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia abdicates. |
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 |
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 |
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 |
2016 |
Hurricane Matthew: At least 100 people killed in Haiti devastation |
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