About October 7
October 7, 2021 is the 280th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 85 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 117 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.
- 1571 –The Battle of Lepanto is fought, and the Holy League (Spain and Italy) destroys the Turkish fleet.
- 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.
- 1828 –The city of Patras, Greece, is liberated by the French expeditionary force in the Peloponnese under General Maison.
- 1864 –American Civil War: USS Wachusett captures the Ship CSS Confederate raider while in port in Bahia, Brazil.
- 1868 –Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial student enrollment is 412, the highest at any American university to that date.
- 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.
- 1971 –Oman joins the United Nations.
- 1977 –The adoption of the Fourth Soviet Constitution.
- 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.
- 2001 –The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
- 2006 –Russian journalist and human rights activist Anna Politkovskaya is shot and killed outside her home in Moscow.
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