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Historical Events on October 7

3761 BC
The epoch reference date epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar (Proleptic Julian calendar).
1403
Battle of Modon: Genoese fleet under Jean Le Maingre (Marshal Boucicaut) is defeated by the Republic of Venice at Modon in the Peloponnese.
1406
French troops comprising 1,000 men at arms landed on Jersey and fought a battle against 3,000 defenders.
1477
Uppsala University is inaugurated after receiving its corporate rights from Pope Sixtus IV in February the same year.
1513
Battle of La Motta: Spanish troops under Ramón de Cardona defeat the Venetians.
1542
Explorer Cabrillo discovers Santa Catalina Island off of the California coast.
1571
The Battle of Lepanto is fought, and the Ottoman Navy suffers its first defeat.
1582
Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1691
The English royal charter for the Province of Massachusetts Bay is issued.
1763
King George III of the United Kingdom issues the Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing aboriginal lands in North America north and west of the Alleghenies to white settlements.
1777
American Revolutionary War: The Americans defeat the British in the Second Battle of Saratoga, also known as the Battle of Bemis Heights.
1780
American Revolutionary War: Battle of Kings Mountain: American Patriot militia defeat Loyalist irregulars led by British major Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina.
1800
French corsair Robert Surcouf, commander of the 18-gun ship La Confiance, captures the British 38-gun Kent inspiring the traditional French song Le Trente-et-un du mois d'août.
1826
The Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the U.S.
1828
Morea expedition: The city of Patras, Greece, is liberated by the French expeditionary force in the Peloponnese under General Maison.
1840
Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.
1862
Royal Columbian Hospital (RCH) opens as the first hospital in the Colony of British Columbia
1864
American Civil War: Bahia incident: USS Wachusett illegally captures the CSS Florida Confederate raider while in port in Bahia, Brazil in violation of Brazilian neutrality.
1868
Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial student enrollment is 412, the highest at any American university to that date.
1870
Franco-Prussian War: Siege of Paris: Léon Gambetta flees Paris in a hot-air balloon.
1879
Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the "Twofold Covenant" and create the Dual Alliance.
1912
The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
1916
Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222-0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
1918
The Regency Council of the Kingdom of Poland declares independence from the German Empire and forms the Republic of Poland.
1919
KLM, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, is founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.
1924
Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes Prime Minister of Greece for a short period of time.
1929
Photius II becomes Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
1933
Air France is inaugurated, after being formed by a merger of five French airlines.
1940
World War II: The McCollum memo proposes bringing the United States into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.
1942
World War II: The October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River.
1944
World War II: During an uprising at Birkenau concentration camp, Jewish prisoners burn down Crematorium IV.
1949
The communist German Democratic Republic (East Germany) is formed.
1950
Mother Teresa establishes the Missionaries of Charity.
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.
1958
The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury.
1959
U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits the first ever photographs of the far side of the Moon.
1963
John F. Kennedy signs the ratification of the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
1977
The adoption of the Fourth Soviet Constitution.
1985
The Mameyes landslide kills almost 200 people in Puerto Rico.
1987
Sikh nationalists declares the independence of Khalistan from India; it is not internationally recognized.
1988
An Iñupiat hunter discovers three gray whales trapped under the ice in Barrow, Alaska, US; the situation becomes a multinational effort to free the whales.
1991
Croatian War of Independence: Bombing of Banski dvori in Zagreb, Croatia.
1993
The flood of '93 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River falls below flood stage.
1996
Fox News Channel begins broadcasting.
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.
2001
The Global War on Terrorism begins as a result of the September 11 attacks. The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan initiates with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
2003
The governor of California, Gray Davis, is recalled in favor of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
2008
Asteroid 2008 TC3 impacts the Earth over Sudan, the first time an asteroid impact is detected prior to its entry into earth's atmosphere.
2016
In the wake of Hurricane Matthew, the death toll rises to 800.

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