About October 7
October 7, 2025 is the 280th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 85 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 133 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 7
- 1513 –Battle of La Motta: Spanish troops under Ramón de Cardona defeat the Venetians.
- 1691 –The English royal charter for the Province of Massachusetts Bay is issued.
- 1763 –George III of Great Britain issues British Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing aboriginal lands in North America north and west of Alleghenies to white settlements.
- 1776 –Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg.
- 1828 –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 Canadian province of British Columbia
- 1864 –American Civil War: USS Wachusett captures the Ship CSS Confederate raider while in port in Bahia, Brazil.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1949 –The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) is formed.
- 1959 –U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits the first ever photographs of the far side of the Moon.
- 1960 –Nigeria joins the United Nations.
- 1976 –Hua Guofeng becomes Mao Zedong’s successor as chairman of Communist Party of China.
- 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.
- 1991 –Bombing of Banski dvori in Zagreb.
- 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 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
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