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 280^th 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, 29,329,920 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 ‘dihectaoctacontagon’ 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 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.

October 7 Historical Events

• 3761 BC –
  The epoch reference date epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar (Proleptic Julian calendar).
• 1776 –
  Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg.
• 1840 –
  Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.
• 1862 –
  Royal Columbian Hospital (RCH) opens as the first hospital in the Canadian province of British Columbia
• 1864 –
  American Civil War: USS Wachusett captures the Ship CSS Confederate raider while in port in Bahia, Brazil.
• 1912 –
  The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
• 1919 –
  KLM, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, is founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.
• 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.
• 1977 –
  The adoption of the Fourth Soviet Constitution.
• 1985 –
  The Achille Lauro is hijacked by Palestine Liberation Organization.

Who were born on October 7?

• 1728 –
  Caesar Rodney, American lawyer (d. 1784)
• 1744 –
  Sergey Vyazmitinov, Russian general and statesman (d. 1819)
• 1881 –
  Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general (d. 1918)
• 1885 –
  Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
• 1905 –
  Andy Devine, American actor (d. 1977)
• 1951 –
  John Mellencamp, American singer
• 1955 –
  Ralph Johnson, American computer scientist
• 1956 –
  Brian Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1975 –
  Jamie Hector, American actor
• 1977 –
  Brandon Quinn, American actor

Who died on October 7?

• 1368 –
  Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence, son of Edward III of England (b. 1338)
• 1577 –
  George Gascoigne, English poet
• 1943 –
  Eugeniusz Bodo, Polish actor (b. 1899)
• 1967 –
  Sir Norman Angell, British politician and Nobel Laureate (b. 1872)
• 1970 –
  Alphonse-Marie Parent, Canadian priest, educator and academic executive (b. 1906)
• 1991 –
  Leo Durocher, American baseball player and manager (b. 1905)
• 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)
• 2006 –
  Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist (b. 1958)
• 2007 –
  Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1975)