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==Events== *3761 BC – The epoch reference date epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar (Proleptic Julian calendar). *1477 – Uppsala University is inaugurated after receiving its corporate rights from Pope Sixtus IV in February the same year. *1513 – Battle of La Motta: Spanish troops under Ramón de Cardona defeat the Venetians. *1542 – Explorer Cabrillo discovers Santa Catalina Island off of the California coast. *1571 – The Battle of Lepanto is fought, and the Holy League (Spain and Italy) annihilates the Turkish fleet. *1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. *1691 – The English royal charter for the Province of Massachusetts Bay is issued. *1763 – King George III of the United Kingdom issues the Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing aboriginal lands in North America north and west of Alleghenies to white settlements. *1776 – Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg. *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 major Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina. *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''. *1826 – The Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the U.S. *1828 – Morea expedition: The city of Patras, Greece, is liberated by the French expeditionary force in the Peloponnese under General Maison. *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: Bahia incident: USS ''Wachusett'' illegally captures the Confederate raider while in port in Bahia, Brazil in violation of Brazilian neutrality. *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: Léon Gambetta flees Paris in a hot-air balloon. *1879 – Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the "Twofold Covenant" and create the Dual Alliance. *1912 – The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction. *1916 – Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222–0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history. *1919 – KLM, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, is founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name. *1924 – Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes Prime Minister of Greece for a short period of time. *1929 – Photios II becomes Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. *1933 – Air France is inaugurated, after being formed by a merger of 5 French airlines. *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. *1942 – World War II: The October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River. *1944 – World War II: During an uprising at Birkenau concentration camp, Jewish prisoners burn down the crematoria. *1949 – The communist German Democratic Republic (East Germany) is formed. * 1950 – Mother Teresa build an order called Missionary of Charity *1955 – American poet Allen Ginsberg performs his poem ''Howl'' for the first time at the Six Gallery in San Francisco. *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. * 1958 – The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury. *1959 – U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits the first ever photographs of the far side of the Moon. *1960 – Nigeria joins the United Nations. *1963 – John F. Kennedy signs the ratification of the Partial Test Ban Treaty. *1971 – Oman joins the United Nations. *1976 – Hua Guofeng becomes Mao Zedong's successor as chairman of Communist Party of China, following the latter's death barely a month earlier. *1977 – The adoption of the Fourth Soviet Constitution. *1985 – The ''Achille Lauro'' is hijacked by Palestine Liberation Front. * 1985 – The Mameyes landslide kills close to 300 in the worst landslide in North American history. *1987 – Sikh nationalists declares the independence of Khalistan from India; it is not internationally recognized. *1988 – An Inupiat hunter discovers three gray whales trapped under the ice in Barrow, Alaska, US; the situation becomes a multinational effort to free the whales. *1991 – Croatian War of Independence: Bombing of Banski dvori in Zagreb kills one civilian. *1993 – The flood of '93 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River falls below flood stage. *1996 – The Fox News Channel begins broadcasting. *1998 – Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming. *2001 – The Global War on Terrorism begins as a result of the September 11 attacks. The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan initiates with an air assault and covert operations on the ground. *2003 – The governor of California, Gray Davis, is recalled in favor of Arnold Schwarzenegger. *2008 – asteroid 2008 TC3 impacts the Earth over Sudan. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「October 7」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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