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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Model T production at the Highland Park Ford Plant
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 1691 – The North American crown colony Province of Massachusetts Bay received its royal charter from William and Mary. | unreferenced section |
| 1912 – The Helsinki Stock Exchange, located in Helsinki, Finland, saw its first transaction. | refimprove |
| 1944 – The Holocaust: When members of the Sonderkommando—Jewish work units in Auschwitz—learned that they were due to be murdered, they staged a revolt. | original research |
| 1949 – East Berlin and the Soviet zone of Occupied Germany became the German Democratic Republic. | refimprove sections |
| 1959 – Soviet spacecraft Luna 3 captured the first photographs of the far side of the Moon. | refimprove |
| 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 |
| 2001 – War on Terrorism: The War in Afghanistan began with an aerial bombing campaign targeting Taliban and Al-Qaeda forces. | unreferenced section |
| 2003 – Californians voted to recall Governor Gray Davis from office and elected Arnold Schwarzenegger from a list of 135 candidates. | refimprove section, external links |
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'Avalos.
- 1542 – Spanish explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo became the first European to set foot on Santa Catalina Island, off the coast of California.
- 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.
- 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 residents of the Thirteen Colonies and reserving it for indigenous peoples.
- 1777 – American Revolutionary War: The British suffered a decisive defeat at the Second Battle of Saratoga, generally regarded as a turning point in the war.
- 1780 – American Revolutionary War: Patriots and Loyalist militias engaged each other at the Battle of Kings Mountain in South Carolina.
- 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.
- 1868 – Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, was inaugurated, with an initial enrollment of 412 students the next day.
- 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, eventually reducing Ford Model T production time from 728 minutes to 93 minutes.
- 1919 – KLM, the Dutch flag carrier and the oldest airline in the world still operating under its original name, was founded.
- 1933 – Five French airline companies merged to form Air France.
- 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.
- 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.
Notes
- Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo appears on September 28, so Santa Catalina Island should not appear in the same year
October 7: Feast day of St. Osyth
- 1800 – The French privateer Robert Surcouf led a 150-man crew to capture the 40-gun, 437-man East Indiaman Kent.
- 1916 – Georgia Tech defeated Cumberland University 222–0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
- 1976 – Hua Guofeng succeeded Mao Zedong as Chairman of the Communist Party of China.
- 1991 – Croatian War of Independence: The Yugoslav People's Army conducted an air strike on Banski dvori, the official residence of the Government of Croatia in Zagreb.
- 2006 – Russian journalist and human rights activist Anna Politkovskaya (pictured) was assassinated in the elevator of her apartment block in central Moscow.