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, 488,832 hours 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
- 3761 BC –The epoch reference date epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar (Proleptic Julian calendar).
- 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.
- 1780 –American Revolutionary War: Battle of Kings Mountain American Patriot militia defeat Loyalist irregulars led by British colonel Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina.
- 1840 –Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.
- 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.
- 1977 –The adoption of the Fourth Soviet Constitution.
- 1982 –Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.
- 1985 –The Achille Lauro is hijacked by Palestine Liberation Organization.
- 1993 –The Great Flood of 1993 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River falls below flood stage.
Who were born on October 7?
- 1881 –Mikhail Drozdovsky, Russian general (d. 1918)
- 1895 –Maurice Grevisse, Belgian grammarian (d. 1980)
- 1954 –Kenneth Atchley, American composer
- 1959 –Lourdes Flores, Peruvian politician
- 1961 –Matthew Roloff, American reality star
- 1964 –Paul Stewart, English footballer
- 1969 –Bobbie Brown, American actress, model
- 1974 –Allison Munn, American actress
- 1978 –Jake Humphrey, English television presenter
- 1979 –Simona Amânar, Romanian gymnast
Who died on October 7?
- 336 –Pope Mark
- 1577 –George Gascoigne, English poet
- 1708 –Guru Gobind Singh, tenth Sikh Guru (b. 1666)
- 1787 –Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church (b. 1711)
- 1970 –Alphonse-Marie Parent, Canadian priest, educator and academic executive (b. 1906)
- 1991 –Leo Durocher, American baseball player and manager (b. 1905)
- 1992 –Allan Bloom, American philosopher and educator (b. 1930)
- 1994 –Niels Kaj Jerne, English-born Danish immunologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1911)
- 2003 –Wally George, American conservative TV commentator (b. 1931)
- 2007 –Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1975)
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