What are the important events that happened on October 7? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
October 7: Facts & Myths About This Day
October 7 is the 280th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 85 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 24, 2025 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,759,795,200 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectaoctacontagon’ day.
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Libra is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 133 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,673 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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October 7 Historical Events
- 1477 –Uppsala University is inaugurated after receiving its corporate rights from Pope Sixtus IV in February the same year.
- 1542 –Explorer Cabrillo discovers Santa Catalina Island off the California coast.
- 1763 –George III of Great Britain issues British Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing aboriginal lands in North America north and west of Alleghenies to white settlements.
- 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.
- 1862 –Royal Columbian Hospital (RCH) opens as the first hospital in the Canadian province of British Columbia
- 1868 –Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial student enrollment is 412, the highest at any American university to that date.
- 1870 –Franco-Prussian War – Siege of Paris: Leon Gambetta flees Paris in a balloon.
- 1879 –Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the “Twofold Covenant” and create the Dual Alliance.
- 1960 –Nigeria joins the United Nations.
- 1991 –Bombing of Banski dvori in Zagreb.
Who were born on October 7?
- 1744 –Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and statesman (d. 1819)
- 1911 –Vaughn Monroe, American singer (d. 1973)
- 1914 –Sarah Churchill, British actress (d. 1982)
- 1921 –Raymond Goethals, Belgian football coach (d. 2004)
- 1939 –John Hopcroft, American computer scientist
- 1943 –Joy Behar, American television personality
- 1943 –Oliver North, American former military officer
- 1946 –Bernard Lavilliers, French singer
- 1959 –Lourdes Flores, Peruvian politician
- 1987 –Jeremy Brockie, New Zealand footballer
Who died on October 7?
- 1792 –George Mason, American statesman (b. 1725)
- 1919 –Alfred Deakin, second Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1856)
- 1956 –Clarence Birdseye, American inventor (b. 1886)
- 1993 –Cyril Cusack, Irish actor (b. 1910)
- 1994 –Niels Kaj Jerne, English-born Danish immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1911)
- 2001 –Christopher Adams, British-born pro wrestler and judoka (b. 1955)
- 2004 –Ken Bigley, British civil engineer, kidnapped and murdered in Iraq (b. 1942)
- 2005 –Charles Rocket, American actor (b. 1949)
- 2006 –Julen Goikoetxea, Spanish Basque cyclist (b. 1985)
- 2007 –Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1975)
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