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Events on the 7th of October in history

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07 Oct 0336 St. Mark ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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07 Oct 1477 Uppsala University is inaugurated after receiving its corporate rights from Pope Sixtus IV in February the same year.
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07 Oct 1492 Columbus misses Florida when he changed course
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07 Oct 1506 Pope Julius II and France occupy Bologna
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07 Oct 1513 Battle of La Motta: Spanish troops under Ramón de Cardona defeat the Venetians.
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07 Oct 1520 1st public burning of books in the Netherlands, in Louvain
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07 Oct 1542 Explorer Cabrillo discovers Santa Catalina Island off of the California coast.
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07 Oct 1571 Battle at Lepanto: Saint League (Spain & Italy) destroys Turkish fleet
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07 Oct 1571 The Battle of Lepanto is fought, and the Holy League (Spain and Italy) annihilates the Turkish fleet.
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07 Oct 1579 English royal marriage of Queen Elizabeth I to Duke of Anjou
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07 Oct 1582 Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
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07 Oct 1637 Prince Frederik Henry occupies Breda
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07 Oct 1690 English attack Quebec under Louis de Buade
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07 Oct 1691 The English royal charter for the Province of Massachusetts Bay is issued.
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07 Oct 1702 English / Dutch troops under Marlborough occupy Roermond
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07 Oct 1714 People riot due to beer tax in Alkmaar Neth
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07 Oct 1737 40 foot waves sink 20,000 small craft and kill 300,000 (Bengal, India)
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07 Oct 1763 George III of Great Britain issues Proclamation of 1763, closing lands in North America north and west of Alleghenies to white settlement
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07 Oct 1763 King George III of the United Kingdom issues the Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing aboriginal lands in North America north and west of Alleghenies to white settlements.
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07 Oct 1765 Stamp Act Congress convenes in New York
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07 Oct 1776 Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg.
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07 Oct 1777 Americans beat Brits in 2nd Battle of Saratoga and Battle of Bemis Hts
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07 Oct 1777 American Revolutionary War: The Americans defeat the British in the Second Battle of Saratoga, also known as the Battle of Bemis Heights.
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07 Oct 1780 British defeated by American militia near Kings Mountain, South Carolina
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07 Oct 1780 American Revolutionary War: Battle of Kings Mountain: American Patriot militia defeat Loyalist irregulars led by British major Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina.
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07 Oct 1800 French corsair Robert Surcouf, commander of the 18-gun ship La Confiance, captures the British 38-gun Kent inspiring the traditional French song Le Trente-et-un du mois d'août.
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07 Oct 1806 Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgewood
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07 Oct 1816 1st double decked steamboat, Washington, arrives in New Orleans
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07 Oct 1826 Granite Railway (1st chartered railway in US) begins operations
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07 Oct 1826 The Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the U.S.
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07 Oct 1828 Morea expedition: The city of Patras, Greece, is liberated by the French expeditionary force in the Peloponnese under General Maison.
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07 Oct 1840 Willem I resigns as King of the Netherlands
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07 Oct 1840 Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.
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07 Oct 1856 Cyrus Chambers Jr patents folding machine that folds book and newspapers
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07 Oct 1862 Royal Columbian Hospital (RCH) opens as the first hospital in the Canadian province of British Columbia
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07 Oct 1864 Naval Engagement at Bahia Harbor Brazil - CSS Florida vs. USS Wachusett
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07 Oct 1864 American Civil War: Bahia incident: USS Wachusett illegally captures the CSS Florida Confederate raider while in port in Bahia, Brazil in violation of Brazilian neutrality.
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07 Oct 1868 Cornell University (Ithaca NY) opens
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07 Oct 1868 Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial student enrollment is 412, the highest at any American university to that date.
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07 Oct 1870 Franco-Prussian War: Siege of Paris: Léon Gambetta flees Paris in a hot-air balloon.
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07 Oct 1879 Germany and Austrian-Hungary sign Twofold Covenant
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07 Oct 1879 Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the "Twofold Covenant" and create the Dual Alliance.
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07 Oct 1882 1st World Series (game 2), Chicago (NL) beats Cincinnati (AA) 2-0
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07 Oct 1886 Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba
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07 Oct 1900 The term "orienteering" is 1st used for an event
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07 Oct 1904 New York Highlander Jack Chesbro wins record 41st game of season (41-12)
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07 Oct 1908 Crete revolts against Turkey and aligns with Greece
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07 Oct 1908 Serbia and Montenegro sign anti-Austria-Hungarian pact
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07 Oct 1912 The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
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07 Oct 1913 Henry Ford institutes moving assembly line
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07 Oct 1915 Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland College 222-0 in football (record)
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07 Oct 1916 222 points are scored in a football game between Georgia Tech and Cumberland University of Lebanon, Tennessee
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07 Oct 1916 Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222–0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
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07 Oct 1919 1st London-Amsterdam airline service (Brit Aerial Transport & KLM)
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07 Oct 1919 KLM, Netherlands Airlines, established (oldest existing airline)
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07 Oct 1919 KLM, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, is founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.
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07 Oct 1922 1st radio link, WNJ (Newark) and WGY (Senectady) link for World Series
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07 Oct 1922 Landis insists Game 4 of World Series be played despite heavy rain
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07 Oct 1923 Yankees Everett Scott runs his consecutive-game streak to 1,138
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07 Oct 1924 Greek government of Dikalekopoulis, forms
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07 Oct 1924 Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes Prime Minister of Greece for a short period of time.
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07 Oct 1926 Actress Theo Mann-Master resigns from stage
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07 Oct 1926 Italian Great Fascist Council forms
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07 Oct 1927 Yank Herb Pennock retires 1st 22 Pirates in World Series game
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07 Oct 1928 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10 miles (50:15.0)
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07 Oct 1928 Race Tafari Makonnen crowned King of Abyssinia
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07 Oct 1929 Ramsay MacDonald is 1st British Premier to address US Congress
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07 Oct 1929 Photios II becomes Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
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07 Oct 1931 1st infra-red photograph, Rochester, New York
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07 Oct 1933 New York Giants beat Washington Senators, 4 games to 1 in 30th World Series
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07 Oct 1933 Air France is inaugurated, after being formed by a merger of 5 French airlines.
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07 Oct 1935 Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 32nd World Series
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07 Oct 1935 Himmler / Hess / Heydrich bezichtigen concentration camp Dachau
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07 Oct 1936 7th-place Brooklyn Dodgers fire manager Casey Stengel
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07 Oct 1938 Germany demands all Jewish passports stamped with letter J
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07 Oct 1939 HALL airship Binnendijk runs up German my
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07 Oct 1940 Reds Bucky Walters is 1st pitcher in 14 years to homer in World Series
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07 Oct 1940 World War II: The McCollum memo proposes bringing the United States into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.
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07 Oct 1941 German army occupies Viarma, USSR
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07 Oct 1942 1 salvo Katjoesja-rocket destroys Nazi battalion in Stalingrad
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07 Oct 1942 Last camouflaged German raider Komet leaves Flushing harbor (Neth)
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07 Oct 1942 Maxwell Andersons "Eve of St. Mark, " premieres in New York City
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07 Oct 1942 US and British government announce establishment of United Nations
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07 Oct 1942 Yvon Robert beats Bill Longson in Montreal, to become wrestling champ
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07 Oct 1942 World War II: The October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River.
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07 Oct 1944 Allies bombs sea dikes at Vlissingen
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07 Oct 1944 Field Marshal Rommel gets order to return to Berlin
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07 Oct 1944 Riots in Amersfoort / Utrecht / Strugle
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07 Oct 1944 Uprising at Auschwitz, Jews burn down crematoriums
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07 Oct 1944 Uprising at Birkenau concentration camp
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07 Oct 1944 World War II: During an uprising at Birkenau concentration camp, Jewish prisoners burn down the crematoria.
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07 Oct 1947 Larry MacPhail resigns as Yank GM after final game of World Series
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07 Oct 1949 German Dem Rep formed from Russian occupation zone (National Day)
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07 Oct 1949 Otto Greatwohl becomes 1st Premier of German DR
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07 Oct 1949 Wilhelm Pieck becomes 1st President of German DR
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07 Oct 1949 The communist German Democratic Republic (East Germany) is formed.
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07 Oct 1950 New York Yankees sweep Philadelphia Phillies in 47th World Series
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07 Oct 1950 US forces invade Korea by crossing 38th parallel
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07 Oct 1950 Walter Bedell Smith replaces Roscoe H Hillenkoetter as 4th CIA head
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07 Oct 1950 Whitey Ford wins his 1st World Series game, 5-2
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07 Oct 1950 William H Jackson, becomes Deputy Director of CIA
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07 Oct 1950 Yanks win 13th world championship sweeping Phillies
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07 Oct 1950 Mother Teresa build an order called Missionary of Charity
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07 Oct 1951 David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli government
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07 Oct 1952 1st "Bandstand" broadcast in Philadelphia on WFIL-TV (Dick Clark joins in 1955 as a substitute-host)
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07 Oct 1952 New York Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 3 in 49th World Series
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07 Oct 1952 Yankees tie their own record of 4 consecutive World Series wins
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07 Oct 1953 Bill Veeck tells Browns stockholders he faces bankruptcy unless they drop their suit to block his move to Baltimore, they comply
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07 Oct 1954 Hassan el Hodeiby, leader of Moslem brothership, arrested in Egypt
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07 Oct 1954 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ad Sinarum gentem
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07 Oct 1955 Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga at Brooklyn launched
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07 Oct 1955 American poet Allen Ginsberg performs his poem Howl for the first time at the Six Gallery in San Francisco.
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07 Oct 1956 Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Open
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07 Oct 1957 "American Bandstand" premieres
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07 Oct 1957 KOAC TV channel 7 in Corvallis, OR (PBS) begins broadcasting
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07 Oct 1957 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Invitational
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07 Oct 1958 Potter Stewart appointed to US Supreme Court
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07 Oct 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.
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07 Oct 1958 The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury.
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07 Oct 1959 "Happy Town" opens at 84th St. Theater NYC for 5 performances
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07 Oct 1959 U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits the first ever photographs of the far side of the Moon.
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07 Oct 1960 "Route 66" premieres
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07 Oct 1960 2nd JFK and Richard Nixon debate
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07 Oct 1960 Nigeria joins the United Nations.
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07 Oct 1961 "Bye Bye Birdie" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 607 performances
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07 Oct 1961 15th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Chicago 3-1 at Chicago
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07 Oct 1962 8th LPGA Championship won by Judy Kimball
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07 Oct 1963 Bobby Baker resigns as Senate Democratic secretary
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07 Oct 1963 Hurricane Flora hits Haiti and Dominican Republic, kills 7,190
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07 Oct 1963 JFK signs ratification for nuclear test ban treaty
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07 Oct 1963 John F. Kennedy signs the ratification of the Partial Test Ban Treaty.
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07 Oct 1964 New York Yankees make 14th appearance in last 16 and 29th in 61 World Series
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07 Oct 1965 Charles Linster does 6,006 consecutive push-ups
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07 Oct 1967 Beatles turn down $1 million New York concert offer by Sid Berstein
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07 Oct 1967 Rolf Hochhuths "Soldaten, " premieres in West Berlin
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07 Oct 1968 Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system
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07 Oct 1969 WJMN TV channel 3 in Escanaba, MI (ABC / NBC) begins broadcasting
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07 Oct 1971 Disney World opens in Orlando
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07 Oct 1972 1st season game at Nassau Coliseum, Flames-3, Islanders-2
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07 Oct 1973 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open
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07 Oct 1974 German DR amends constitution
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07 Oct 1976 Hua Guofeng becomes Mao Zedong's successor as chairman of Communist Party of China, following the latter's death barely a month earlier.
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07 Oct 1977 Guitarist Steve Hackett quits Genesis
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07 Oct 1977 USSR adopts constitution
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07 Oct 1977 The adoption of the Fourth Soviet Constitution.
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07 Oct 1978 LA Dodgers win the pennant
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07 Oct 1979 "Eubie!" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 439 performances
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07 Oct 1979 Debbie Massey wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic
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07 Oct 1980 Belgium 3rd government of Martens resigns
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07 Oct 1981 Hosni Mubarak became acting President of Egypt
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07 Oct 1981 In 1st Eastern Division championship Yanks beat Brewers 5-3
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07 Oct 1982 "Cats" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 5000+ performances
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07 Oct 1982 Olof Palme forms Swedish government
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07 Oct 1984 Striking umps return for Game 5 of NLCS, SD Padres win pennant
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07 Oct 1985 21st Space Shuttle Mission (51-J) - Atlantis 1 lands at Edwards AFB
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07 Oct 1985 Lynette Woodward, chosen as 1st woman on Harlem Globetrotters
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07 Oct 1985 PLO terrorists sieze Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro
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07 Oct 1985 The Achille Lauro is hijacked by Palestine Liberation Front.
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07 Oct 1985 The Mameyes landslide kills close to 300 in the worst landslide in North American history.
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07 Oct 1986 1st edition British newspaper "Independent" begins publishing
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07 Oct 1987 Sikh nationalists declares the independence of Khalistan from India; it is not internationally recognized.
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07 Oct 1988 Dallas Green replaces Lou Pinella as New York Yankee manager
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07 Oct 1988 Jim Fregosi is fired as manager of White Sox
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07 Oct 1988 Latvian flag raised in Riga for 1st time since annexation by USSR
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07 Oct 1988 Lou Piniella is fired as manager of Yankees for 2nd time
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07 Oct 1988 Robin Givens files for divorce after 8-month marriage to Mike Tyson
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07 Oct 1988 WNBC 660 final transmission, WFAN moves from 1050 to 660 andWUKQ begins on 1050 at 5:30pm (NYC radio)
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07 Oct 1988 An Inupiaq hunter discovers three gray whales trapped under the ice in Barrow, Alaska, US; the situation becomes a multinational effort to free the whales.
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07 Oct 1989 Radio talk show host Larry King weds Julie Alexander
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07 Oct 1989 Rickey Henderson steals a record 8 bases in a play off (5 games)
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07 Oct 1990 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic
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07 Oct 1990 Israel begins handing out gas masks to its citizens
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07 Oct 1991 Child star Adam Rich arrested for stealing hypodermics
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07 Oct 1991 Law Professor Anita Hill accuses Supreme nominee Clarence Thomas of making sexually inappropriat comments to her
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07 Oct 1991 Scorecard Harry, Space Appeal and Cafe Lex in 9th race at Belmont, creating 2nd triple dead heat in New York thoroughbred racing history
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07 Oct 1991 Croatian War of Independence: Bombing of Banski dvori in Zagreb kills one civilian.
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07 Oct 1992 Tampa Bay Lightning become 1st NHL expansion team to win opener (7-2)
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07 Oct 1993 "Les Miserables, " opens at Meralco Theatre, Philippines
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07 Oct 1993 "She Loves Me" opens at Atkinson Theater NYC for 294 performances
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07 Oct 1993 Massive Moslem demonstrate in Xining China PR, 12 killed
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07 Oct 1993 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Toni Morrison
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07 Oct 1993 The flood of '93 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River falls below flood stage.
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07 Oct 1994 Faud Guliyev appointed Premier of Azerbijan
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07 Oct 1994 Ingvar Carlsson forms Swedish government
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07 Oct 1994 Lu Bin swims female 200m medley world record (2:11.57)
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07 Oct 1995 Mariners rally from 5-0 to force Game 5 of Division Series vs. Yankees
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07 Oct 1996 The Fox News Channel begins broadcasting.
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07 Oct 1998 Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming.
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07 Oct 2001 The Global War on Terrorism begins as a result of the September 11 attacks. The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan initiates with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
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07 Oct 2003 The governor of California, Gray Davis, is recalled in favor of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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07 Oct 3761 The epoch reference date epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar (Proleptic Julian calendar).
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