Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 7
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File:Hua Guofeng-1.jpg|Hua Guofeng
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File:Mameyes.jpg|Landslide in Mameyes, Puerto Rico
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| 1542 – Spanish explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo became the first European to set foot on Santa Catalina Island, off the coast of California.
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| 1691 – The North American crown colony Province of Massachusetts Bay received its royal charter from King William and Queen Mary.
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| 1868 – Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, was established, with an initial enrollment of 412 men the next day.
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| 1912 – The Helsinki Stock Exchange, located in Helsinki, Finland, saw its first transaction.
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| 1913 – The Highland Park Ford Plant in the Detroit area of Michigan became the world's first car factory to implement a moving assembly line (pictured), eventually reducing Ford Model T production time from {{nowrap|12 hours}} to {{nowrap|93 minutes}}.
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| 1919 – KLM, the Dutch flag-carrier airline, was founded by Albert Plesman and seven others.
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| 1933 – Five French airline companies merged to form Air France.
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| 1949 – East Berlin and the Soviet zone of Occupied Germany became the German Democratic Republic.
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| 1958 – Attempting to control the political instability in Pakistan, President Iskander Mirza suspended the 1956 constitution, imposed martial law, and dissolved the National Assembly.
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| 1959 – Soviet spacecraft Luna 3 captured the first photographs of the far side of the Moon.
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| 1976 – Hua Guofeng succeeded Mao Zedong as Chairman of the Communist Party of China.
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| 1985 – The Mediterranean ocean liner {{ship|MS|Achille Lauro}} was hijacked by Palestine Liberation Front terrorists while sailing from Alexandria to Port Said within Egypt.
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| 1993 – The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood came to an end after 103 days, as the Mississippi River at St. Louis finally dropped below flood stage.
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| 2001 – War on Terrorism: The War in Afghanistan began with an aerial bombing campaign targeting Taliban and Al-Qaeda forces.
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| 2003 – Californians voted to recall governor Gray Davis from office and elected Arnold Schwarzenegger from a list of 135 candidates.
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- 1513 – War of the League of Cambrai: A Venetian army under Bartolomeo d'Alviano was decisively defeated by the Spanish army commanded by Ramón de Cardona and Fernando d'Ávalos.
- 1571 – Ottoman–Habsburg wars: The Battle of Lepanto was fought near the Gulf of Corinth, a significant setback for the Ottoman Empire and the last major naval battle fought entirely with galleys.
- 1780 – American Revolutionary War: Patriots and Loyalist militias engaged each other at the Battle of Kings Mountain in South Carolina.
- 1800 – The French privateer Robert Surcouf led a 150-man crew to capture the 40-gun, 437-man East Indiaman Kent.
- 1840 – William II became King of the Netherlands after his father William I abdicated the throne.
- 1868 – Ōdate, the last castle of the Satake clan in Japan's Tōhoku region, was captured during the Boshin War.
- 1878 – The state funeral of Mindon Min (pictured), who ruled Myanmar for 25 years, took place; his death was reportedly preceded by strange omens, and his senior princes were unable to attend as they had all been arrested.
- 1916 – Georgia Tech defeated Cumberland University {{nowrap|222–0}} in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
- 1985 – During severe floods in Puerto Rico, about 130 people died as a result of the deadliest single landslide on record in North America.
- 1988 – Near Point Barrow in Alaska, an Iñupiat hunter discovered three gray whales trapped in pack ice, which resulted in an international effort to free them.
- 1991 – Croatian War of Independence: The Yugoslav People's Army conducted an air strike on Banski Dvori, the official residence of the president of Croatia in Zagreb.
- 2008 – 2008 TC3 exploded above the Nubian Desert in Sudan, in the first time that an asteroid impact had been predicted prior to atmospheric entry.
- 2023 - Palestinian nationalist groups launched armed incursions into the Gaza Strip Envelope, starting the Israel–Hamas war.
- Born/died: |Pierre Le Muet |b|1591| Stanisław Żółkiewski |d|1620| Charles XIII |b|1748|Uncle Dave Macon |b|1870| Niels Bohr |b|1885 Masumi Mitsui|d|1887|Marie Lloyd |d|1922| Mariano Gagnon |b|1929| Michelle Alexander |b|1967|Thom Yorke |b|1968| Beatrice Hutton |d|1990
Notes
- Edgar Allan Poe appears on January 19 (his birthday), so his death should not appear in the same year
- Ford Piquette Avenue Plant appears on September 27, so Highland Park Ford Plant should not appear in the same year
- Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo appears on September 28, so Santa Catalina Island should not appear in the same year
- Guru Har Rai appears on October 6, so Guru Gobind Singh should not appear in the same year
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- 1763 – King George III issued a royal proclamation that forbade British settlement of much of newly acquired French territory in North America, reserving the land for indigenous peoples.
- 1849 – American writer Edgar Allan Poe died under mysterious circumstances at Washington Medical College four days after being found on the streets of Baltimore, Maryland, in a delirious and incoherent state.
- 1914 – Japan captured Pohnpei from Germany, eventually leading to large-scale Japanese immigration to Micronesia.
- 1944 – The Holocaust: Sonderkommando work-unit members in Auschwitz concentration camp revolted upon learning that they were due to be killed; although a few managed to escape, most were massacred on the same day.
- 2006 – Anna Politkovskaya (pictured), a Russian journalist and human-rights activist, was assassinated in the elevator of her apartment block in Moscow.
{{Born and died list| Guru Gobind Singh |d|1708|Harold Geiger |b|1884|Helmut Lent |d|1944| Charlotte Perrelli |b|1974|}}
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