The 7t o October is the 280t day o the year (281st in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 85 days bidin.
Events
1949 : Coat o airms o East Germany
1477 - The Varsity o Uppsala in Swaden is foondit.
1737 - 40-fit waves kill 300,000 fowk in Bengal , Indie .
1756 - Floods on the Reiver Elbe kill 600 fowk.
1769 - James Cook lands in New Zealand .
1886 - Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba .
1908 - Crete rebels against the Ottoman Empire an aligns isself wi Greece .
1910 - Absinthe is banned in Swisserland .
1933 - Air France is creatit.
1940 - Warld War II : Germany invades Romanie .
1949 - The German Democratic Republic (East Germany ) is foondit.
1960 - Nigerie joins the Unitit Naitions .
1962 - The Soviet Union performs its first nuclear bomb test, on the isle o Novaya Zemlya .
1963 - Hurricane Flora kills 7,190 fowk in Haiti .
1971 - Oman jyns the Unitit Naitions .
1976 - Hua Guofeng succeeds Mao Zedong as Chairman o the Cheenese Communist Pairty.
1985 - Palestinian gunmen attack the cruise ship "Achille Lauro".
1985 - Floods in Puerto Rico kill ower 130 fowk.
2000 - Fitbaa : Germany defeats Ingland 1-0 in the last match at the Auld Wembley Stadium in Lunnon .
2001 - The Unitit States stairts tae go tae war in Afghanistan .
2003 - Arnold Schwarzenegger is electit Govrenor o Californie .
2004 - Norodom Sihanouk abdicates as King o Cambodie .
2006 - Palau moves its caipital frae Koror tae Ngerulmud in the state o Melekeok . It is the least-populatit caipital o ony sovereign state in the warld.
2006 - Roushie jurnalist an writer Anna Politkovskaya is murthert.
2006 - Fitbaa : Scotland defeats Fraunce 1-0 in a surprise result at Hampden Park in Glesga , wi a goal bi Gary Caldwell .
2011 - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf , Leymah Gbowee an Tawakkol Karman win the Nobel Peace Prize .
2016 - Juan Manuel Santos wins the Nobel Peace Prize .
2019 - Saturn owertaks Jupiter as the planet in the Solar Seestem wi the maist-kent nummer o muins, at 82, as opposed tae Jupiter's 79.
2019 - A lorry-rammin attack in Limburg an der Lahn , Germany , injures 8 fowk.
Births
Niels Bohr
Desmond Tutu
1471 - Frederick I o Denmark (d. 1533 )
1734 - Ralph Abercromby , Scots sodger an politeecian (d. 1801 )
1748 - Charles XIII o Swaden (d. 1818 )
1877 - Thomas Archibald Sprague , Scots botanist (d. 1958 )
1885 - Niels Bohr , Dens pheesicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1962 )
1888 - Henry A. Wallace , 33rd Vice Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1965 )
1900 - Heinrich Himmler , German Nazi offeecial (d. 1945 )
1927 - R. D. Laing , Scots psychologist (d. 1989 )
1931 - Desmond Tutu , Sooth African airchbeeshop an activist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
1935 - Thomas Keneally , Australian writer
1939 - Harry Kroto , Inglis chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2016 )
1939 - Enrique Pinti , Argentine actor, comedian, theatre director an writer
1950 - Jakaya Kikwete , umwhile Preses o Tanzanie
1952 - Vladimir Putin , Preses o Roushie
1955 - Yo-Yo Ma , French-American cellist
1959 - Simon Cowell , Inglis muisic mogul an telly personality
1968 - Thom Yorke , Inglis muisicker
1974 - Charlotte Perrelli , Swadish sangster
1978 - Alesha Dixon , Inglis sangster
1982 - Jermain Defoe , Inglis fitbawer
1987 - Lauren Mayberry , Scots sangster
1987 - James McArthur , Scots fitbawer
1987 - Paul McGowan , Scots fitbawer
1987 - Sam Querrey , American tennis player
1988 - Diego Costa , Brazilian-Spaingie fitbawer
1993 - Rory McKenzie , Scots fitbawer
1996 - Lewis Capaldi , Scots sangster an sangwriter
Daiths
929 - Charles the Simple , Frankish King (b. 879 )
1637 - Victor Amadeus I, Duke o Savoy (b. 1587 )
1796 - Thomas Reid , Scots philosopher (b. 1710 )
1849 - Edgar Allan Poe , American writer (b. 1809 )
1959 - Mario Lanza , American sangster (b. 1921 )
1967 - Norman Angell , Inglis jurnalist, author an politeecian (b. 1872 )
1992 - William Serle , Scots fitbawer (b. 1912 )
2001 - Stewart Imlach , Scots fitbawer (b. 1932 )
2006 - Anna Politkovskaya , Roushie jurnalist an writer (b. 1958 )
2011 - Ramiz Alia , Preses o Albanie (b. 1925 )
Halidays
The 7t o October is the eat day o the follaein saunts:
St. Artaldus
St. Sergius
St. Justina o Padua
St. Adalgis
St. Apuleius
St. Augustus
St. Sergius & Bacehus
St. Canog
St. Dubtach
St. Helanus
Pape Mark
St. Osyth
St. Palladius
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