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.
- 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.
- 1780 –American Revolutionary War: Battle of Kings Mountain American Patriot militia defeat Loyalist irregulars led by British colonel Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina.
- 1828 –The city of Patras, Greece, is liberated by the French expeditionary force in the Peloponnese under General Maison.
- 1868 –Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial student enrollment is 412, the highest at any American university to that date.
- 1870 –Franco-Prussian War – Siege of Paris: Leon Gambetta flees Paris in a balloon.
- 1916 –Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222-0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
- 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.
- 1944 –World War II: Uprising at Birkenau concentration camp, Jewish prisoners burn down the crematoria.
- 1949 –The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) is formed.
- 1958 –The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury.
- 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.
- 1971 –Oman joins the United Nations.
- 1985 –The Mameyes landslide kills close to 300 in the worst landslide in North American history.
- 1991 –Bombing of Banski dvori in Zagreb.
- 1993 –The Great Flood of 1993 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River falls below flood stage.
- 2004 –King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia abdicates, replaced by his son Norodom Sihamoni a week later.
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