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 281st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 85 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 24, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,804,320 minutes 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 ‘dihectaoctacontahenagon’ day.
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 114 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 4,308 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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October 7 Historical Events
- 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.
- 1777 –American Revolutionary War: The Americans defeat the British in the Second Battle of Saratoga, also known as the Battle of Bemis Heights.
- 1780 –American Revolutionary War: Battle of Kings Mountain American Patriot militia defeat Loyalist irregulars led by British colonel Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina.
- 1919 –KLM, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, is founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.
- 1944 –World War II: Uprising at Birkenau concentration camp, Jewish prisoners burn down the crematoria.
- 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.
- 1959 –U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits the first ever photographs of the far side of the Moon.
- 1976 –Hua Guofeng becomes Mao Zedong’s successor as chairman of Communist Party of China.
- 2006 –Russian journalist and human rights activist Anna Politkovskaya is shot and killed outside her home in Moscow.
Who were born on October 7?
- 1769 –Solomon Sibley, American politician and former Delegate to the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan Territory (d. 1846)
- 1905 –Andy Devine, American actor (d. 1977)
- 1923 –Irma Grese, Supervisor at Nazi concentration camps (d. 1945)
- 1929 –Robert Westall, British author (d. 1993)
- 1937 –Maria Szyszkowska, Polish politician
- 1943 –Oliver North, American former military officer
- 1947 –Chris Bambridge, former Australian football referee
- 1959 –Lourdes Flores, Peruvian politician
- 1975 –Jamie Hector, American actor
- 1980 –Edison Chen, Canadian actor
Who died on October 7?
- 1553 –Cristóbal de Morales, Spanish composer (b. c.1500)
- 1772 –John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist (b. 1720)
- 1792 –George Mason, American statesman (b. 1725)
- 1903 –Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (b. 1832)
- 1904 –Isabella Bird, English explorer, writer, and natural historian (b. 1831)
- 1906 –Honoré Beaugrand, Canadian journalist and politician, mayor of Montreal (b. 1848)
- 1926 –Emil Kraepelin, German psychologist (b. 1856)
- 2006 –Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist (b. 1958)
- 2006 –Julen Goikoetxea, Spanish Basque cyclist (b. 1985)
- 2007 –Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1975)
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