About October 7
October 7, 2022 is the 280th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 85 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 107 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.
- 1542 –Explorer Cabrillo discovers Santa Catalina Island off the California coast.
- 1571 –The Battle of Lepanto is fought, and the Holy League (Spain and Italy) destroys the Turkish fleet.
- 1776 –Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg.
- 1777 –American Revolutionary War: The Americans defeat the British in the Second Battle of Saratoga, also known as the Battle of Bemis Heights.
- 1780 –American Revolutionary War: Battle of Kings Mountain American Patriot militia defeat Loyalist irregulars led by British colonel Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina.
- 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.
- 1868 –Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial student enrollment is 412, the highest at any American university to that date.
- 1912 –The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
- 1919 –KLM, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, is founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.
- 1933 –Air France is inaugurated, after being formed by a merger of 5 French airlines.
- 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.
- 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 Achille Lauro is hijacked by Palestine Liberation Organization.
- 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.
- 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.
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