SomeFacts | October 7

On this day - October 7

The epoch reference date (start) of the modern Hebrew calendar.

1403 — Venetian–Genoese wars: The Genoese fleet under a French ...

1477 — Uppsala University is inaugurated after receiving its ...

1513 — War of the League of Cambrai: Spain defeats Venice.

1571 — The Battle of Lepanto is fought, and the Ottoman Navy suffers ...

1691 — The charter for the Province of Massachusetts Bay is issued.

1763 — King George III issues the Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing ...

1777 — American Revolutionary War: The Americans defeat British ...

1780 — American Revolutionary War: American militia defeat royalist ...

1800 — French corsair Robert Surcouf, commander of the 18-gun ship La ...

1826 — The Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered ...

1828 — Morea expedition: The city of Patras, Greece, is liberated by ...

1840 — Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.

1864 — American Civil War: A US Navy ship captures a Confederate ...

1868 — Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial ...

1870 — Franco-Prussian War: Léon Gambetta escapes the siege of Paris ...

1879 — Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the "Twofold ...

1912 — The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.

1913 — Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving vehicle ...

1916 — Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222–0 in the most ...

1919 — KLM, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, is founded. It is ...

1924 — Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes prime minister of Greece for a ...

1929 — Photius II becomes Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.

1940 — World War II: The McCollum memo proposes bringing the United ...

1944 — World War II: The Sonderkommando Revolt in Auschwitz was an ...

1949 — The communist German Democratic Republic (East Germany) is ...

1950 — Mother Teresa establishes the Missionaries of Charity.

1958 — The U.S. crewed space-flight project is renamed to Project ...

1958 — The 1958 Pakistani coup d'état inaugurates a prolonged ...

1959 — The Soviet probe Luna 3 transmits the first-ever photographs ...

1961 — A Douglas Dakota IV operated by Derby Aviation (later renamed ...

1963 — Buddhist crisis: Amid worsening relations, outspoken South ...

1963 — President Kennedy signs the ratification of the Partial ...

1977 — The Fourth Soviet Constitution is adopted.

1978 — Aeroflot Flight 1080 crashes after takeoff from Koltsovo ...

1979 — Swissair Flight 316 crashes at Ellinikon International Airport ...

1985 — Four men from the Palestine Liberation Front hijack the MS ...

1985 — The Mameyes landslide kills almost 200 people in Puerto Rico.

1987 — Sikh nationalists declare the independence of Khalistan from ...

1988 — A hunter discovers three gray whales trapped under the ice ...

1991 — Croatian War of Independence: Bombing of the Banski Dvori in ...

1993 — The flood of '93 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days ...

1996 — Fox News Channel begins broadcasting.

2000 — Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Hezbollah militants capture ...

2001 — The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault ...

2002 — The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-112 to continue ...

2004 — Three bombs explode at Taba and Nuweiba in the Sinai ...

2008 — Qantas Flight 72 experiences an in-flight upset near ...

2008 — Asteroid 2008 TC3 impacts the Earth over Sudan, the first time ...

2016 — In the wake of Hurricane Matthew, the death toll rises to over ...

2022 — Ales Bialiatski, along with two organisations, Memorial & ...

2022 — Ten people are killed and eight are injured in an explosion at ...

2023 — Hamas and several other Palestinian militant groups launch an ...