October 7

Learn the most interesting events and historical facts that happened throughout history on October 7. From 1900 until now. October 7 is under the sign of Libra. Famous birthdays on this day include Vladimir Putin (1952), Simon Cowell (1959) and Thom Yorke (1968). Several movies were released around October 7 over the years, such as Limelight in 1952 directed by Charles Chaplin and The Devil's Advocate in 1997 directed by Taylor Hackford.
But much more happened on October 7 over the years: find out below

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2018 War in Afghanistan: Afghan officials say that the Taliban destroyed highway bridges in Maidan Wardak Province, cutting off road traffic between the capital Kabul and the provinces of Ghazni, Zabul and Kandahar. Electricity was cut off in four provinces, and fighting was reported in Ghazni Province. At least ten Afghan police officers were killed. Parliamentary elections are scheduled to be held in two weeks. (AP via Tampa Times) (Reuters via The National)
2017 A Saudi national opens fire at the Al-Salam Royal Palace in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, killing two guards and injuring three others. Security guards shoot and kill the gunman. (Arab News), (BBC)
2016 Insurgency in Balochistan: Two bombs explode on a train near the town of Machh, Pakistan, killing at least six people with nineteen more injured. (AP via The New York Times)
2015 Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant: An FBI investigation has reportedly found that criminal networks specializing in nuclear smuggling in Eastern Europe, particularly in the nation of Moldova, have shipped radioactive material to 'Middle Eastern extremists', including the Islamic State (which in the recent past has threatened to unleash a nuclear holocaust to 'wipe the West off the face of the Earth'). (AP via The Huffington Post)
2014 Korean maritime border incidents: There is an exchange of gunfire as a North Korean patrol boat breaches the South Korean western sea border. (AFP, NewsCorp via Sydney Daily Telegraph)
2013 Islamist protests in Egypt (July 2013–present): Six Egyptian soldiers are killed in an ambush west of Ismaïlia, close to the Suez Canal. In the South Sinai, a suicide bomber kills 3 and injures 55 others after an attack against security buildings in the provincial capital El-Tor. (Reuters) (Al Jazeera)
2012 A Mark Rothko Seagram mural on display at the Tate Modern is attacked at about 15:25 BST. (BBC) (The Guardian) (Yellowism)
2011 The ongoing allied war in Afghanistan marks its tenth anniversary, with the death toll among ISAF personnel reaching 2,670. (AFP via ''Sydney Morning Herald'')
2010 Six gangsters died and one soldier was injured when an army patrol clashed with suspected gang members in northeastern Mexico state Tamaulipas. (People Daily)
2009 The 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas A. Steitz, and Ada E. Yonath, ampquotfor studies of the structure and function of the ribosomeampquot. (Nobel Foundation)
2008 New York stocks drop for a fifth straight day, resulting in the Dow Jones Industrial Average's biggest five-day point loss ever, more than 1400 points, or nearly 13 percent.
2007 War in Afghanistan: Sixteen militants fighting under wanted Uzbek warlord Tahir Yuldash are killed in eastern Afghanistan. (AP via Google)
2006 New Guinea volcano Rabaul caldera erupts. Two hundred people are evacuated but favourable winds help protect nearby towns from the impact. (ABC News Australia)
2005 Conflict in Afghanistan: U.S. Troops kill four Afghan police, after mistaking them for militants in the Girishk district of the Helmand Province. (BBC)
2004 King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia abdicates.
2003 Voters recall California Governor Gray Davis from office and elect actor Arnold Schwarzenegger to succeed him.
2002 Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Israeli troops raid Khan Yunis in the Gaza Strip, killing 13 (10 from a helicopter missile) and wounding as many as 100, after Palestinians fire a rocket at a Jewish settlement in the area. Later Palestinians kidnap and kill Rajeh Abu Lehiya, chief of the Palestinian riot police, and two others die in gunfire during a police-Hamas supporters conflict.
2001 The United States armed forces invade Afghanistan, with participation from the United Kingdom.
1999 The 1999 Connecticut quarter dollar is introduced.
1998 The United States Congress passes the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, which gives copyright holders 20 more years of copyright privilege on work they control. This effectively freezes the public domain to works created before 1923 in the United States.
1996 President Bill Clinton wins the first TV debate with Republican rival Bob Dole.
1995 Mariners rally from 5-0 to force Game 5 of Division Series vs. Yankees
1994 Faud Guliyev appointed Premier of Azerbijan
1993 Les Miserables, opens at Meralco Theatre, Philippines
1992 Tampa Bay Lightning become 1st NHL expansion team to win opener (7-2)
1991 Child star Adam Rich arrested for stealing hypodermics
1990 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic
1989 Rickey Henderson steals a record 8 bases in a play off (5 games).
1988 Dallas Green replaces Lou Pinella as New York Yankee manager
1986 1st edition British newspaper Independent begins publishing
1985 21st Space Shuttle Mission (51-J) - Atlantis 1 lands at Edwards AFB
1984 Striking umps return for Game 5 of NLCS, SD Padres win pennant
1983 In New York, a magnitude 5.3 earthquake occurs.
1982 Olof Palme forms Swedish government
1981 Hosni Mubarak became acting President of Egypt
1980 Belgium 3rd government of Martens resigns
1979 Eubie! closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 439 performances
1978 LA Dodgers win the pennant
1977 Guitarist Steve Hackett quits Genesis
1974 German DR amends constitution
1973 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open
1971 Disney World opens in Orlando
1970 General Juan José Torres becomes the new President of Bolivia.
1969 WJMN TV channel 3 in Escanaba, MI (ABC / NBC) begins broadcasting
1968 Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system.
1967 Rolf Hochhuths Soldaten, premieres in West Berlin
1966 The Soviet Union declares that all Chinese students must leave the country before the end of October.
1965 Charles Linster does 6,006 consecutive push-ups
1964 New York Yankees make 14th appearance in last 16 and 29th in 61st World Series.
1963 JFK signs ratification for nuclear test ban treaty
1962 8th LPGA Championship won by Judy Kimball
1961 Bye Bye Birdie closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 607 performances
1960 Route 66 premieres
1959 Happy Town opens at 84th St. Theater NYC for 5 performances
1958 Potter Stewart appointed to US Supreme Court.
1957 American Bandstand premieres
1956 Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Open
1955 Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga at Brooklyn launched
1954 Hassan el Hodeiby, leader of Moslem brothership, arrested in Egypt
1953 Bill Veeck tells Browns stockholders he faces bankruptcy unless they drop their suit to block his move to Baltimore, they comply
1952 1st Bandstand broadcast in Philadelphia on WFIL-TV (Dick Clark joins in 1955 as a substitute-host)
1951 David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli government.
1950 Walter Bedell Smith replaces Roscoe H Hillenkoetter as 4th CIA head
1949 Otto Greatwohl becomes 1st Premier of German DR
1947 Larry MacPhail resigns as Yank GM after final game of World Series
1944 Riots in Amersfoort / Utrecht / Strugle
1943 WWII: The Naples post office explosion kills 100.
1942 1 salvo Katjoesja-rocket destroys Nazi battalion in Stalingrad
1941 German army occupies Viarma, U.S.S.R.
1940 Reds Bucky Walters is 1st pitcher in 14 years to homer in World Series
1939 HALL airship Binnendijk runs up German my
1938 Germany demands all Jewish passports stamped with the letter J.
1936 7th-place Brooklyn Dodgers fire manager Casey Stengel
1935 Himmler / Hess / Heydrich bezichtigen concentration camp Dachau
1933 New York Giants beat Washington Senators, four games to one in 30th World Series.
1931 First infra-red photograph, Rochester, New York.
1929 Ramsay MacDonald is the first British premier to address the U.S. Congress.
1928 Race Tafari Makonnen crowned King of Abyssinia
1927 Yank Herb Pennock retires 1st 22 Pirates in World Series game
1926 Actress Theo Mann-Master resigns from stage
1924 Greek government of Dikalekopoulis forms.
1923 Yankees Everett Scott runs his consecutive-game streak to 1,138
1922 Landis insists Game 4 of World Series be played despite heavy rain
1919 KLM, Netherlands Airlines, established (oldest existing airline)
1916 Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222-0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
1915 Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland College 222-0 in football (record)
1914 Joseph Patrick Kennedy Sr. marries Rose Fitzgerald in Boston.
1913 Henry Ford institutes moving assembly line
1912 The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
1908 Serbia and Montenegro sign anti-Austria-Hungarian pact.
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