On this day in History - Oct 07

3761 BCE - The epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar.
0336 - Pope Marcus dies

0929 - Death of Charles III "the Simple" ( France).
1072 - Sancho II de Castela, rei de Castela e Leão

1425 - Treaty of Saumur.
1471 - King Frederick I of Denmark and Norway, was born (d. 1533)
1513 - Battle of La Motta — Spanish troops under Ramon de Cardona defeat the Venetians.
1553 - Cristóbal de Morales dies. Spanish composer

1542 - João Rodrigues Cabrilho discovers Catalina Island, off California.
1571 - Battle of Lepanto occurs. (Turkish fleet defeated by Don Juan of Austria). Miguel de Cervantes is injured in this battle.
1573 - William Laud, Archbishop of Canterbury was born (d. 1645)
1576 - John Marston was born (d. 1634). English writer

1577 - George Gascoigne dies. English poet and dramatist.
1582 - Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1620 - Stanisław Żółkiewski dies (b. 1547). Polish military leader.
1637 - Victor Amadeus I, Duke of Savoy dies (b. 1587)
1651 - Jacques Sirmond dies (b. 1559). French Jesuit scholar.
1653 - Fausto Poli dies (b. 1581). Italian Catholic priest.
1697 - Canaletto was born (d.1768). Italian artist.
1708 - Guru Gobind Singh dies (b. 1666). Tenth and last Sikh Guru.
1748 - King Charles XIII was born (d. 1818)

1763 - British Royal Proclamation of 1763 lays down rules for settling aboriginal lands in North America.
1769 - Solomon Sibley was born (d. 1846). American politician.
1776 - Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg.
1777 - Battle of Second Saratoga occurs.
1780 - Battle of Kings Mountain: American Patriot militia defeat Loyalist irregulars led by British colonel Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina.
1792 - George Mason dies (b. 1725). American patriot.

1793 - Fundação da cidade de Rosario, em Santa Fe, Argentina.
1796 -Thomas Reid dies (b. 1710). Eminent Scottish metaphysician and philosopher.
1816 - First double-decked steamboat, the "Washington", arrives in New Orleans
1835 - Felix Draeseke was born (d. 1913). German composer
1840 - Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.
1841- King Nicholas I of Montenegro was born (d. 1921) .
1844 - Manuel Menéndez assume (pela 3º vez) a presidência do Peru.
1849 - Edgar Allan Poe dies (b. 1809). American writer.
1853 - James Whitcomb Riley was born (d. 1916). American poet.
1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Darbytown Road (Johnson's Farm) - Confederate forces attempt to regain ground that had been lost around Richmond is thwarted.
1864 - American Civil War: Capture of the C.S.S. Florida — Union Warship captures the Confederate raider ship while in port in Bahia, Brazil.
1865 - Morant Bay Rebellion starts in Jamaica.

1875 - Portugal : É inaugurada a via-férrea que liga a Póvoa de Varzim ao Porto
1879 - Germany and Austria-Hungary create the Dual Alliance.
1885 - Niels Bohr was born (d. 18 Nov 1962). Danish physicist. He is best known for investigations of atomic structure and also for work on radiation, which won him the 1922 Nobel Prize for Physics.

1886 - Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba.
1888 - Henry A. Wallace was born (d. 1965). Vice President of the United States.
1894 - Del Lord was born (d. 1970). American director.
1894 - Oliver Wendell Holmes dies (b. 1809). American poet.

1897 - Elijah Muhammad was born (d. 1975). American Black Muslim leader.
1900 - Heinrich Himmler was born (d. 1945). Nazi official and leader of the SS.
1901 - Carlos Mastroiani was born in Gualeguay, Entre Ríos. Argentine poet ("Tierra amanecida", "Luz de provincia", "Conocimiento de la noche").
1903 - Rudolf Lipschitz dies (b. 1832). German mathematician.
1904 - Henrique de Barros was born in Coimbra (d. 20 Aug 2000). Portuguese politician.
1905- Andy Devine was born (d. 1977). American actor.
1908 - Crete revolts against the Ottoman Empire and aligns with Greece.
1911 - Vaughn Monroe was born (d. 1973). American singer.
1912 - The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
1912 - Fernando Belaúnde Terry was born. President of Peru (1963-1968 , 1980-1985)
1913 - Henry Ford introduces the assembly line.
1914 - Alfred Drake was born (d. 1992). American actor.
1917 - June Allyson was born. American actress
1919 - KLM of Netherlands was founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.
1919- Alfred Deakin dies (b. 1856). Second Prime Minister of Australia.
1921- Raymond Goethals was born (d. 2004). Belgian football coach.
1925 - Christy Mathewson dies (b. 1880). Baseball player.
1926 - Emil Kraepelin dies (b. 1856). German psychologist.
1931 - Cotton Fitzsimmons was born (d. 2004). American basketball coach.
1931 - Desmond Tutu was born. South African Anglican archbishop and anti-apartheid activist. He received in 1984 the Nobel Prize for Peace for his role in the opposition to apartheid in South Africa.
1934 - Amiri Baraka was born. American playwright and poet
1935 - Thomas Keneally was born. Australian author
1936 - Charles Dutoit was born. Swiss conductor
1939 - John Hopcroft was born. American computer scientist
1939 - Harold Kroto was born. British chemist
1939 - Bill Snyder was born. American football coach
1940 - Germany invades Romania.
1943 - Japan executes 100 American prisoners on Wake Island.
1943 - Oliver North, United States Marine and politician
1943 - Eugeniusz Bodo dies (b. 1899). Polish actor.
1943 - Radclyffe Hall dies (b. 1880). British author.
1944 - Judee Sill was born (d. 1979). American musician and songwriter
1944 - Claudio Tozzi was born. Brazilian painter.

1945 - Felix Salten dies in Zurich (b. 6 Sep 1869). Austrian writer ( Bambi )
1946 - Bernard Lavilliers was born. French singer.
1947 - France Gall was born. French singer
1949 - German Democratic Republic (East Germany) formed.
1949 - One of the earliest television shows, Ford Theater debuts
1950 - United States forces invade North Korea by crossing the 38th parallel.
1950 - Jakaya Kikwete was born. Tanzanian politician
1951 - John Cougar Mellencamp was born. American singer
1951 - Malayan Emergency: Malay Races Liberation Army (MRLA) ambushes and kills British High Commissioner Sir Henry Gurney.
1951 - Líbia adopts a new Constituition.
1952 - Vladimir Putin was born. President of Russia
1954 - Kenneth Atchley was born. American composer
1955 - Yo-Yo Ma was born. French-born cellist
1956 - Beatificação do Papa Inocêncio XI
1957 - Dick Clark's American Bandstand debuts.
1957 - A fire in the Windscale plutonium production reactor, north of Liverpool, England, cause the release of radioactive material, which is later blamed for 39 cancer deaths.
1957 - Jayne Torvill was born. British figure skater
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.
1959 - Simon Cowell was born. English recording executive and television judge
1959 - Mario Lanza dies (b. 1921). American tenor.
1960 - Viktor Lazlo was born. French singer
1960 - Kyosuke Himuro was born. Japanese singer
1960 - Kennedy & Nixon debate Cold War foreign policy in the second of four scheduled debates.
1960 - Nigéria é admitida como Estado-Membro da ONU
1963 - Gustaf Gründgens dies (b. 1899). German actor
1967 - Norman Angell dies (b. 1872). British politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1933 1968 - Hollywood adopts the movie ratings system.
1968 - Toni Braxton was born. American R&B singer
1968 - Thom Yorke was born. English singer (Radiohead)
1970 - Serena Altschul was born. American reporter
1970 - Richard Nixon announces a new five-point peace proposal to end the Vietnam War.
1971- Omã é admitida como Estado-Membro da ONU
1973 - Sami Hyypia was born. Finnish footballer.
1973 - Nélson de Jesus Silva (Dida) was born. Brazilian football player (goalkeeper)
1975 - Terry Gerin was born. American professional wrestler
1976 - Rachel McAdams was born. Canadian actress
1976 - Gilberto Silva was born. Brazilian football player.
1977 - Meighan Desmond was born. New Zealand actress
1977 - The adoption of the Fourth Soviet Constitution.
1978 - Charlotte Rampling / Jean-Michel Jarre wedding.
1979 - Simona Amânar was born. Romanian gymnast
1981 - Albert Cohen dies (b. 1895). Greek-born novelist.
1982 - Alejandro Núñez Alonso dies. Spanish journalist and novelist. National Prize in Literature in 1957.
1982 - Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years. The show eventually closes on September 10th, 2000.
1984 - NFL running back Walter Payton breaks Jim Brown's rushing record.
1985 - Achille Lauro hijacked by Palestinian terrorists.
1991 - Leo Durocher dies (b. 1905). Baseball player and manager

1993 - Benazir Bhutto's party wins plurality (but not the absolute majority) in Pakistan's Assembly
1996 - The Fox News Channel, an American cable news network, is launched.
1998 - Charmed Premieres on The WB, an American TV Station
1998 - Matthew Shepard, beaten the night before, is left tied to a fence and dies in Laramie, Wyoming.
2001 - Start of U.S. invasion of Afghanistan with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
2002 - Maher Arar is deported by the US government to Syria, where he is tortured and held without charge for a year before being returned home to Canada.

2002 - The Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet decides to award The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 2002 jointly to Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz and John E. Sulston for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death, by the study of 1-mm-long worm Caenorhabditis elegans
2003 - California recall: California governor Gray Davis is recalled from office and replaced by Arnold Schwarzenegger.

2003 - The 2003 Nobel Prize for Physics is announced to go to Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov (b. 25 Jun 1928~) and Anthony James Leggett (b. 26 Mar 1938~), of the US, and Vitaly L. Ginzburg (b.04 Oct 1916~) of Russia "for pioneering contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids".
2004 - King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia abdicates.
2004 - Elfriede Jelinek (b. 20 Oct 1946), Austrian writer won The 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature "for her musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays that with extraordinary linguistic zeal reveal the absurdity of society's clichés and their subjugating power". She is best known for her autobiographical novel The Piano Teacher.

2005 - Mohamed ElBaradei and the International Atomic Energy Agency that he heads won the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their efforts to stop the spread of nuclear weapons (updated).
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