October 7
October 7 is the 280th day of the year (281st in leap years ). There are 85 days remaining.
Events
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 .
Births
1573 - William Laud , Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1645 )
1748 - King Charles XIII / Carl II of Sweden-Norway (d. 1818 )
1769 - Solomon Sibley , Delegate, Michigan Territory , 1820 -1823 (d. 1846 )
1835 - Felix Draeseke , German composer (d. 1913 )
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 Muhammad , 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
1921 - Raymond Goethals , Belgian National Soccer Trainer (d. 2004 )
1931 - Cotton Fitzsimmons , NBA basketball coach (d. 2004)
1931 - Desmond Tutu , South African archbishop and anti-apartheid activist
1934 - Amiri Baraka , playwright, poet (born LeRoi Jones)
1935 - Thomas Keneally , Australian author
1936 - Charles Dutoit , Swiss conductor
1939 - John Hopcroft , American theoretical computer scientist
1939 - Harold Kroto , British chemist
1939 - Bill Snyder , football coach at Kansas State University
1943 - Oliver North , United States Marine involved in Iran-Contra affair
1947 - France Gall , French singer, Eurovision Song Contest winner
1950 - Jakaya Kikwete , foreign minister of Tanzania
1951 - John Cougar Mellencamp , singer
1952 - Vladimir Putin , Russian politician and president
1954 - Kenneth Atchley , composer and noise artist
1955 - Yo-Yo Ma , cellist
1957 - Jayne Torvill , figure skater
1959 - Simon Cowell , Pop Idol and American Idol judge
1960 - Viktor Lazlo , French singer
1960 - Kyosuke Himuro , Japanese rock singer
1968 - Thom Yorke , singer
1975 - Terry Gerin (Rhyno), professional wrestler
1977 - Meighan Desmond , actress
1979 - Simona Amânar , Romanian gymnast
1989 - Marisa Lorion , world record-holder for number of pastries consumed in five minutes
Deaths
336 - Pope Marcus
1708 - Guru Gobind Singh (b. 1666 )
1792 - George Mason , American patriot
1849 - Edgar Allan Poe , American writer (b. 1809 )
1894 - Oliver Wendell Holmes , American poet
1919 - Alfred Deakin , second Prime Minister of Australia
1925 - Christy Mathewson , baseball player
1926 - Emil Kraepelin , German psychologist
1943 - Eugeniusz Bodo , Polish actor
1943 - Radclyffe Hall , British author
1959 - Mario Lanza , American singer
1981 - Albert Cohen , Swiss novelist
1991 - Leo Durocher , baseball player and manager
1992 - Tevfik Esenc , last speaker of the Ubykh language
Holidays
External links
October 6 - October 8 - September 7 - November 7 — listing of all days
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