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.
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| Feast day of St. Osyth | needs more footnotes |
| 1542 – Spanish explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo became the first European to set foot on Santa Catalina Island, off the coast of California. | orange unreferenced section banner |
| 1691 – The North American crown colony Province of Massachusetts Bay received its royal charter from King William and Queen Mary. | unreferenced section |
| 1868 – Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, was established, with an initial enrollment of 412 men the next day. | Too much uncited |
| 1912 – The Helsinki Stock Exchange, located in Helsinki, Finland, saw its first transaction. | refimprove |
| 1913 – The Highland Park Ford Plant in the Detroit area of Michigan became the world's first car factory to implement a moving assembly line (pictured), eventually reducing Ford Model T production time from 12 hours to 93 minutes. | many cn tags |
| 1919 – KLM, the Dutch flag-carrier airline, was founded by Albert Plesman and seven others. | inappropriate tone |
| 1933 – Five French airline companies merged to form Air France. | refimprove section, date not cited |
| 1949 – East Berlin and the Soviet zone of Occupied Germany became the German Democratic Republic. | refimprove section |
| 1958 – Attempting to control the political instability in Pakistan, President Iskander Mirza suspended the 1956 constitution, imposed martial law, and dissolved the National Assembly. | unreferenced section |
| 1959 – Soviet spacecraft Luna 3 captured the first photographs of the far side of the Moon. | refimprove |
| 1976 – Hua Guofeng succeeded Mao Zedong as Chairman of the Communist Party of China. | refimprove sections |
| 1985 – The Mediterranean ocean liner MS Achille Lauro was hijacked by Palestine Liberation Front terrorists while sailing from Alexandria to Port Said within Egypt. | refimprove |
| 1993 – The Great Mississippi and Missouri Rivers Flood came to an end after 103 days, as the Mississippi River at St. Louis finally dropped below flood stage. | refimprove section |
| 2001 – War on Terrorism: The War in Afghanistan began with an aerial bombing campaign targeting Taliban and Al-Qaeda forces. | War: section needs rewrite; Invasion: refimprove section |
| 2003 – Californians voted to recall governor Gray Davis from office and elected Arnold Schwarzenegger from a list of 135 candidates. | refimprove section |
| Charles the Simple |d|929 | lots of CN tags (8) |
Eligible
- 1513 – War of the League of Cambrai: A Venetian army under Bartolomeo d'Alviano was decisively defeated by the Spanish army commanded by Ramón de Cardona and Fernando d'Ávalos.
- 1571 – Ottoman–Habsburg wars: The Battle of Lepanto was fought near the Gulf of Corinth, a significant setback for the Ottoman Empire and the last major naval battle fought entirely with galleys.
- 1780 – American Revolutionary War: Patriots and Loyalist militias engaged each other at the Battle of Kings Mountain in South Carolina.
- 1800 – The French privateer Robert Surcouf led a 150-man crew to capture the 40-gun, 437-man East Indiaman Kent.
- 1868 – Ōdate, the last castle of the Satake clan in Japan's Tōhoku region, was captured during the Boshin War.
- 1878 – The state funeral of Mindon Min (pictured), who ruled Myanmar for 25 years, took place; his death was reportedly preceded by strange omens, and his senior princes were unable to attend as they had all been arrested.
- 1916 – Georgia Tech defeated Cumberland University 222–0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
- 1985 – During severe floods in Puerto Rico, about 130 people died as a result of the deadliest single landslide on record in North America.
- 1988 – Near Point Barrow in Alaska, an Iñupiat hunter discovered three gray whales trapped in pack ice, which resulted in an international effort to free them.
- 1991 – Croatian War of Independence: The Yugoslav People's Army conducted an air strike on Banski Dvori, the official residence of the president of Croatia in Zagreb.
- 2008 – 2008 TC3 exploded above the Nubian Desert in Sudan, in the first time that an asteroid impact had been predicted prior to atmospheric entry.
- 2023 - Palestinian nationalist groups launched armed incursions into the Gaza Strip Envelope, starting the Israel–Hamas war.
- Born/died: |Pierre Le Muet |b|1591| Stanisław Żółkiewski |d|1620| Charles XIII |b|1748|Uncle Dave Macon |b|1870| Niels Bohr |b|1885 Masumi Mitsui|d|1887|Marie Lloyd |d|1922| Mariano Gagnon |b|1929| Michelle Alexander |b|1967|Thom Yorke |b|1968| Beatrice Hutton |d|1990
Notes
- Edgar Allan Poe appears on January 19 (his birthday), so his death should not appear in the same year
- Ford Piquette Avenue Plant appears on September 27, so Highland Park Ford Plant should not appear in the same year
- Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo appears on September 28, so Santa Catalina Island should not appear in the same year
- Guru Har Rai appears on October 6, so Guru Gobind Singh should not appear in the same year
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Anna Politkovskaya
- 1763 – King George III issued a royal proclamation that forbade British settlement of much of newly acquired French territory in North America, reserving the land for indigenous peoples.
- 1849 – American writer 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.
- 1914 – Japan captured Pohnpei from Germany, eventually leading to large-scale Japanese immigration to Micronesia.
- 1944 – The Holocaust: Sonderkommando work-unit members in Auschwitz concentration camp revolted upon learning that they were due to be killed; although a few managed to escape, most were massacred on the same day.
- 2006 – Anna Politkovskaya (pictured), a Russian journalist and human-rights activist, was assassinated in the elevator of her apartment block in Moscow.
- Guru Gobind Singh (d. 1708)
- Harold Geiger (b. 1884)
- Helmut Lent (d. 1944)
- Charlotte Perrelli (b. 1974)