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The 7t o October is the 280t day o the year (281st in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 85 days bidin.
Events
- 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
- 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
- Teacher's Day (Laos)
- Naitional Day o East Germany (until 1989)
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