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.
- 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.
- 1582 –Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
- 1776 –Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg.
- 1826 –The Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the U.S.
- 1840 –Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1963 –John F. Kennedy signs the ratification of the Partial Test Ban Treaty.
- 1985 –The Achille Lauro is hijacked by Palestine Liberation Organization.
- 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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