October 7

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

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1 Events

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 with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
2003 - California recall: California governor Gray Davis is recalled from office and replaced by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

1748 - King Charles XIII / Carl II of Sweden-Norway (d. 1818)
1841 - King Nicholas I of Montenegro (d. 1921)
1853 - James Whitcomb Riley, poet (d. 1916)
1885 - Niels Bohr, Danish physicist (d.1962)
1888 - Henry A. Wallace, American politician and Vice President of the United States (d. 1965)
1894 - Del Lord, pioneer Hollywood director (d. 1970)
1897 - Elijah Mohammed, Black Muslim leader (d. 1975)
1900 - Heinrich Himmler, Nazi official and leader of the SS (d. 1945)
1905 - Andy Devine, actor (d. 1977)
1911 - Vaughn Monroe, singer (d. 1973)
1914 - Alfred Drake, actor (d. 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 - John Hopcroft, American theoretical computer scientist
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
1959 - Simon Cowell, American Idol judge
1975 - Erik Perkins, raconteur
1979 - Simona Amanar, Romanian gymnast