About October 7
October 7, 2024 is the 281st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 85 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Libra is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 114 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 7
- 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.
- 1582 –Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
- 1777 –American Revolutionary War: The Americans defeat the British in the Second Battle of Saratoga, also known as the Battle of Bemis Heights.
- 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.
- 1864 –American Civil War: USS Wachusett captures the Ship CSS Confederate raider while in port in Bahia, Brazil.
- 1912 –The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
- 1924 –Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes Prime Minister of Greece for a short period of time.
- 1929 –Photios II becomes Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
- 1933 –Air France is inaugurated, after being formed by a merger of 5 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.
- 1949 –The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) is formed.
- 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 –Nigeria joins the United Nations.
- 1982 –Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.
- 1985 –The Mameyes landslide kills close to 300 in the worst landslide in North American history.
- 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.
- 2004 –King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia abdicates, replaced by his son Norodom Sihamoni a week later.
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