Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 7
This is a list of selected October 7 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.
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| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 1542 – Explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo became the first European to set foot on Santa Catalina Island off the coast of California. | date not cited |
| 1763 – Following Great Britain's acquisition of New France after the end of the Seven Years' War, King George III issued a Royal Proclamation closing most of this land to the colonists of the Thirteen Colonies. | refimprove section |
| 1912 – The Helsinki Stock Exchange located in Helsinki, Finland, saw its first transaction. | refimprove |
| 1919 – KLM, the oldest airline in the world still operating under its original name, was founded. | tagged for expansion |
| 1949 – East Berlin and the Soviet Zone of Occupied Germany became the German Democratic Republic. | unreferenced section |
| 1958 – Attempting to control the political instability in Pakistan, President Iskander Mirza suspended the 1956 constitution, imposed martial law, and cancelled the elections scheduled for January 1959. | Tagged with {{or}}, refimprove |
| 1959 – Soviet spacecraft Luna 3 captured the first photographs of the far side of the Moon. | unreferenced |
| 1985 – The Mediterranean ocean liner MS Achille Lauro was hijacked by Palestine Liberation Front terrorists while sailing from Alexandria to Port Said within Egypt. | Tagged with {{refimprove}} |
| 2001 – War on Terrorism: The War in Afghanistan began with an aerial bombing campaign targeting Taliban and Al-Qaeda forces. | too long, not neutral |
Eligible
- 1691 – The North American crown colony Province of Massachusetts Bay received its royal charter from William and Mary.
- 1780 – American Revolutionary War: The Patriots defeated the Loyalists at the Battle of Kings Mountain in South Carolina.
- 1849 – American writer and poet Edgar Allan Poe died under mysterious circumstances at Washington Medical College four days after being found on the streets of Baltimore, Maryland, in a delirious and incoherent state.
October 7: Feast Day of St. Osyth; Yom Kippur begins at sunset (Judaism, 2011)
- 1513 – War of the League of Cambrai: A Venetian army under Bartolomeo d'Alviano (pictured) was decisively defeated by the Spanish army commanded by Ramón de Cardona and Fernando d'Avalos.
- 1571 – A Western Christian coalition inflicted a significant defeat upon the Ottoman Navy near the Gulf of Corinth in the Battle of Lepanto, the first major Ottoman loss to European powers.
- 1868 – Cornell University in Ithaca, New York opened, with an initial enrollment of 412 students the next day.
- 1933 – Five French airline companies merged to form Air France.
- 2003 – Californians voted to recall Governor Gray Davis from office and elected Arnold Schwarzenegger from a list of 135 candidates.