The Ultimate October 7 - American History Information Guide and Reference

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

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Events

3761 BCE - The epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar.
1513 - Battle of La Motta — Spanish troops under Ramon de Cardona defeat the Venetians.
1571 - Battle of Lepanto occurs.
1582 - Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1763 - British Royal Proclamation of 1763 lays down rules for settling aboriginal lands in North America.
1776 - Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg.
1777 - Battle of Second Saratoga occurs.
1780 - Battle of King's Mountain American irregulars defeat British forces in South Carolina.
1816 - First double-decked steamboat, the "Washington", arrives in New Orleans
1840 - Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.
1864 - Battle of Darbytown Road (Johnson's Farm) United States Civil War - Confederate forces attempt to regain ground that had been lost around Richmond is thwarted.
1864 - Capture of the C.S.S. Florida — Union Warship captures the Confederate raider Florida while in port in Bahia, Brazil.
1865 - Morant Bay Rebellion starts in Jamaica.
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.
1912 - The Helsinki Stock Exchange saw its first transaction.
1913 - Henry Ford introduces the assembly line.
1919 - KLM of Netherlands was founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.
1940 - Germany invades Romania.
1943 - Japan executes 100 American prisoners on Wake Island.
1949 - German Democratic Republic (East Germany) formed.
1949 - One of the earliest television shows, Ford Theater debuts
1950 - United States forces invade Korea by crossing the 38th parallel.
1951 - Malayan Emergency: Malay Races Liberation Army (MRLA) ambushes and kills British High Commissioner Sir Henry Gurney.
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.
1958 - President of Pakistan Iskander Mirza, with the support of General Ayub Khan and the army, suspends the 1956 constitution, imposes martial law, and cancels the elections scheduled for January 1959.
1960 - Kennedy & Nixon debate Cold War foreign policy - Second of four scheduled debates.
1968 - Hollywood adopts the Movie ratings system.
1970 Richard Nixon announces a new five point peace proposal to end the Vietnam War.
1977 - The adoption of the Fourth Soviet Constitution.
1982 - Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years. The show closed on September 10th, 2000
1984 - Running Back Walter Payton breaks Jim Brown's rushing record.
1985 - Achille Lauro hijacked by Palestinian terrorists.
1992 - Tevfik Esenç, the last fluent speaker of the Ubykh language, died in his sleep.
1998 - Matthew Shepard, beaten the night before, is left tied to a fence and dies in Laramie, Wyoming.