October 7 is the 280th day of the year (281st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 85 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Wednesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Monday or Tuesday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Thursday or Saturday (56).
NATIONAL LED LIGHT DAY
NATIONAL LED LIGHT DAY
336 – Pope Saint Mark's death ends his reign as Catholic Pope leaving the papacy vacant.
1854 – A Confederate attempt to regain ground that had been lost around Richmond, Virginia, is thwarted when Union troops turn back General Robert E. Lee's assault at the Battle of Darbytown Road (Johnson's Farm).
1963 – JFK signs the ratified nuclear test ban treaty.
1968 – Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system.
1985 – On October 7, 1985, four members of the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) took control of the liner, MS Achille Lauro, off Egypt as she was sailing from Alexandria to Port Said. Holding the passengers and crew hostage, they directed the vessel to sail to Tartus, Syria, and demanded the release of 50 Palestinians then in Israeli prisons. After being refused permission to dock at Tartus, the hijackers killed disabled Jewish-American passenger Leon Klinghoffer and then threw his body overboard.
1993 – The great flood of '93 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River falls below flood stage.
2001 – Less than a month after al-Qaida terrorists flew commercial jets into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, President George W. Bush announces that American troops are on the offensive in Afghanistan.
2008 – Asteroid 2008 TC3 disintegrates 23 miles above the Earth and impacts in the Nubian desert in the Sudan. Some 600 meteorites, weighing a total of 23.1 lbs, were recovered; many of these belonged to a rare type known asureilites, which contain, among other minerals, nanodiamonds.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1849 – James Whitcomb Riley, American poet and author (d. 1916)
1866 – Wlodimir Ledóchowski, Polish-Austrian religious leader, 26th Superior-General of the Society of Jesus, the Jesuits, (d. 1942)
1870 – Uncle Dave Macon, American old-time country banjo player, singer-songwriter, and comedian (d. 1952)
1885 – Niels Bohr, Danish physicist and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
1897 – Elijah Muhammad, American religious leader (d. 1975)
1919 – Henriette Avram, American computer scientist and academic (d. 2006)
1931 – Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop and activist, Nobel Prize laureate
1951 – John Mellencamp, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
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1780– Patriot militia under Colonel William Campbell defeat Loyalist militia under Major Patrick Ferguson at the Battle of King's Mountain in North Carolina near the border with Blacksburg, South Carolina, on this day in 1780.
1854 – A Confederate attempt to regain ground that had been lost around Richmond, Virginia, is thwarted when Union troops turn back General Robert E. Lee's assault at the Battle of Darbytown Road (Johnson's Farm).
1913 – For the first time, Henry Ford's entire Highland Park, Michigan automobile factory is run on a continuously moving assembly line when the chassis—the automobile's frame—is assembled using the revolutionary industrial technique.
1914 – In WWI advancing German forces bombard the Belgian city of Antwerp, as Belgian troops and their British allies struggle to resist the onslaught.
1916 – Georgia Tech, coached by John Heisman, defeated Cumberland 222-0, the most lopsided score in the history of college football.
1914 – In WWI advancing German forces bombard the Belgian city of Antwerp, as Belgian troops and their British allies struggle to resist the onslaught.
1916 – Georgia Tech, coached by John Heisman, defeated Cumberland 222-0, the most lopsided score in the history of college football.
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.
1943 – Rear Adm. Shigematsu Sakaibara, commander of the Japanese garrison on Wake Island , orders the execution of 96 Americans POWs, claiming they were trying to make radio contact with U.S. forces. He was executed on June 18, 1947 for this war crime.
1949 – Less than five months after Great Britain, the United States, and France established the Federal Republic of Germany in West Germany, the Democratic Republic of Germany (GDR) is proclaimed within the Soviet occupation zone. Criticized by the West as an non-autonomous Soviet creation, Wilhelm Pieck was named East Germany's first president, with Otto Grotewohl as prime minister.
1950 – Mother Teresa (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Albanian) builds an order called Missionaries of Charity.
1949 – Less than five months after Great Britain, the United States, and France established the Federal Republic of Germany in West Germany, the Democratic Republic of Germany (GDR) is proclaimed within the Soviet occupation zone. Criticized by the West as an non-autonomous Soviet creation, Wilhelm Pieck was named East Germany's first president, with Otto Grotewohl as prime minister.
1950 – Mother Teresa (born Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu, Albanian) builds an order called Missionaries of Charity.
1963 – JFK signs the ratified nuclear test ban treaty.
1968 – Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system.
1985 – On October 7, 1985, four members of the Palestine Liberation Front (PLF) took control of the liner, MS Achille Lauro, off Egypt as she was sailing from Alexandria to Port Said. Holding the passengers and crew hostage, they directed the vessel to sail to Tartus, Syria, and demanded the release of 50 Palestinians then in Israeli prisons. After being refused permission to dock at Tartus, the hijackers killed disabled Jewish-American passenger Leon Klinghoffer and then threw his body overboard.
1993 – The great flood of '93 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River falls below flood stage.
2001 – Less than a month after al-Qaida terrorists flew commercial jets into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, President George W. Bush announces that American troops are on the offensive in Afghanistan.
2008 – Asteroid 2008 TC3 disintegrates 23 miles above the Earth and impacts in the Nubian desert in the Sudan. Some 600 meteorites, weighing a total of 23.1 lbs, were recovered; many of these belonged to a rare type known asureilites, which contain, among other minerals, nanodiamonds.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1849 – James Whitcomb Riley, American poet and author (d. 1916)
1866 – Wlodimir Ledóchowski, Polish-Austrian religious leader, 26th Superior-General of the Society of Jesus, the Jesuits, (d. 1942)
1870 – Uncle Dave Macon, American old-time country banjo player, singer-songwriter, and comedian (d. 1952)
1885 – Niels Bohr, Danish physicist and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
1897 – Elijah Muhammad, American religious leader (d. 1975)
1919 – Henriette Avram, American computer scientist and academic (d. 2006)
1931 – Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop and activist, Nobel Prize laureate
1951 – John Mellencamp, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
From Wikipedia and Google, except as noted.
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