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Today is October 7
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| 1995 | Mariners rally from 5-0 to force Game 5 of Division Series vs Yankees |
| 1995 | Boston's Fleet Center opens, NY Islanders & Boston Bruins tie at 4-4 |
| 1994 | China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| 1994 | Faud Guliyev appointed premier of Azerbijan |
| 1994 | Ingvar Carlsson forms Swedish govt |
| 1994 | Lu Bin swims female 200m medley world record (2:11.57) |
| 1993 | Nobel prize for literature awarded to Toni Morrison |
| 1993 | Massive Moslem demonstrate in Xining China PR, 12 killed |
| 1993 | "She Loves Me" opens at Atkinson Theater NYC for 294 performances |
| 1993 | "Les Miserables," opens at Meralco Theatre, Philippines |
| 1992 | Tampa Bay Lightning become 1st NHL expansion team to win opener (7-2) |
| 1991 | Law Professor Anita Hill accuses Supreme nominee Clarence Thomas of making sexually inappropriat comments to her |
| 1991 | Scorecard Harry, Space Appeal & Cafe Lex in 9th race at Belmont, creating 2nd triple dead heat in NY thoroughbred racing history |
| 1991 | Child star Adam Rich arrested for stealing hypodermics |
| 1990 | Israel begins handing out gas masks to its citizens |
| 1990 | Beth Daniel wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic |
| 1989 | Rickey Henderson steals a record 8 bases in a play off (5 games) |
| 1989 | Howard Stern's US Open Sores Tennis match |
| 1989 | Radio talk show host Larry King weds Julie Alexander |
| 1988 | Latvian flag raised in Riga for 1st time since annexation by USSR |
| 1988 | Dallas Green replaces Lou Pinella as NY Yankee manager |
| 1988 | Jim Fregosi is fired as manager of White Sox |
| 1988 | Robin Givens files for divorce after 8-month marriage to Mike Tyson |
| 1988 | Lou Piniella is fired as manager of Yankees for 2nd time |
| 1988 | WNBC 660 final transmission, WFAN moves from 1050 to 660 & WUKQ begins on 1050 at 5:30 PM (NYC radio) |
| 1986 | 1st edition British newspaper "Independent" begins publishing |
| 1985 | PLO terrorists sieze Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro |
| 1985 | Lynette Woodward, chosen as 1st woman on Harlem Globetrotters |
| 1985 | 21st Space Shuttle Mission (51-J)-Atlantis 1 lands at Edwards AFB |
| 1985 | KHQ-AM in Spokane Wash's final transmission |
| 1984 | Walter Payton passes Jim Brown as NFL's career rushing leader |
| 1984 | Striking umps return for Game 5 of NLCS, SD Padres win pennant |
| 1982 | Olof Palme forms Swedish government |
| 1982 | "Cats" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 5000+ performances |
| 1981 | In 1st Eastern Division championship Yanks beat Brewers 5-3 |
| 1981 | Hosni Mubarak became acting-president of Egypt |
| 1980 | Belgium 3rd govt of Martens resigns |
| 1979 | "1940's Radio Hour" opens at St James Theater NYC for 105 performances |
| 1979 | "Eubie!" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 439 performances |
| 1979 | Cleveland Browns' Dino Hall sets club records with 9 kickoff returns |
| 1979 | Debbie Massey wins LPGA Wheeling Golf Classic |
| 1979 | USSR performs underground nuclear test |
| 1978 | USSR performs nuclear test |
| 1978 | LA Dodgers win the pennant |
| 1977 | USSR adopts constitution |
| 1977 | Guitarist Steve Hackett quits Genesis |
| 1975 | Players' Assn, files a suit on behalf of Dodgers Andy Messersmith |
| 1975 | US decides John Lennon won't be deported due to UK pot conviction |
| 1974 | German DR amends constitution |
| 1973 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open |
| 1972 | 1st season game at Nassau Coliseum, Flames-3, Islanders-2 |
| 1971 | Disney World opens in Orlando |
| 1971 | T McNally's "Where has Tommy Flowers gone?," premieres in NYC |
| 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 |
| 1967 | Beatles turn down $1 million NY concert offer by Sid Berstein |
| 1965 | 50 mph gust carries 165 lb Robert Mitera's tee shot 447 |
| 1965 | Charles Linster does 6,006 consecutive push-ups |
| 1965 | Robert Mitera aces 447-yd 10th hole at Miracle Hills, Omaha, Nebr to score world's longest straight hole-in-one |
| 1964 | NY Yankees make 14th appearance in last 16 & 29th in 61 World Series |
| 1963 | JFK signs ratification for nuclear test ban treaty |
| 1963 | Hurricane Flora hits Haiti & Dominican Republic, kills 7,190 |
| 1963 | Bobby Baker resigns as Senate Democratic secretary |
| 1962 | USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
| 1962 | 8th LPGA Championship won by Judy Kimball |
| 1961 | "Bye Bye Birdie" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 607 perfs |
| 1961 | 15th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Chicago 3-1 at Chicago |
| 1960 | 2nd JFK & Richard Nixon debate |
| 1960 | "Route 66" premieres |
| 1959 | Far side of Moon seen for 1st time, compliments of USSR's Luna 3 |
| 1959 | "Happy Town" opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 5 performances |
| 1958 | Potter Stewart appointed to US Supreme Court |
| 1958 | US manned space-flight project renamed Project Mercury |
| 1957 | Louise Suggs wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Invitational |
| 1957 | KOAC TV channel 7 in Corvallis, OR (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 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 |
| 1954 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ad Sinarum gentem |
| 1953 | Bill Veeck tells Browns stockholders he faces bankruptcy unless they drop their suit to block his move to Baltimore, they comply |
| 1952 | Yankees tie their own record of 4 consecutive World Series wins |
| 1952 | 1st "Bandstand" broadcast in Philadelphia on WFIL-TV (Dick Clark joins in 1955 as a substitute-host) |
| 1952 | NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 3 in 49th World Series |
| 1951 | David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli govt |
| 1950 | Yanks win 13th world championship sweeping Phillies |
| 1950 | William H Jackson, becomes deputy director of CIA |
| 1950 | Whitey Ford wins his 1st World Series game, 5-2 |
| 1950 | Walter Bedell Smith replaces Roscoe H Hillenkoetter as 4th CIA head |
| 1950 | US forces invade Korea by crossing 38th parallel |
| 1950 | NY Yankees sweep Phila Phillies in 47th World Series |
| 1949 | German Dem Rep formed from Russian occupation zone (National Day) |
| 1949 | Otto Greatwohl becomes 1st premier of German DR |
| 1949 | Wilhelm Pieck becomes 1st president of German DR |
| 1947 | Larry MacPhail resigns as Yank GM after final game of World Series |
| 1946 | Charles Ives' 2nd string quartet, premieres |
| 1945 | Dutch author A M de Jong's murderer Ton van Gog escapes |
| 1944 | Allies bombs sea dikes at Vlissingen |
| 1944 | Fieldmarshal Rommel gets order to return to Berlin |
| 1944 | Riots in Amersfoort/Utrecht/Strugle |
| 1944 | Uprising at Auschwitz, Jews burn down crematoriums |
| 1944 | Uprising at Birkenau concentration camp |
| 1943 | Weill/Perelman/Nash' musical "One Touch of Venus," premieres in NYC |
| 1942 | 1 salvo Katjoesja-rocket destroys nazi battalion in Stalingrad |
| 1942 | Last camouflaged German raider Komet leaves Flushing harbor (Neth) |
| 1942 | Maxwell Andersons "Eve of St Mark," premieres in NYC |
| 1942 | US & British govt announce establishment of United Nations |
| 1942 | Yvon Robert beats Bill Longson in Montreal, to become wrestling champ |
| 1941 | German army occupies Viarma, USSR |
| 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 letter J |
| 1937 | Johan Wagenaar's "Feestmars" premieres in Amsterdam |
| 1936 | 7th-place Brooklyn Dodgers fire manager Casey Stengel |
| 1935 | Himmler/Hess/Heydrich bezichtigen concentration camp Dachau |
| 1935 | Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 32nd World Series |
| 1933 | NY Giants beat Washington Senators, 4 games to 1 in 30th World Series |
| 1931 | 1st infra-red photograph, Rochester, NY |
| 1929 | Ramsay MacDonald is 1st British premier to address US Congress |
| 1928 | Race Tafari Makonnen crowned king of Abyssinia |
| 1928 | Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10 miles (50:15.0) |
| 1927 | Yank Herb Pennock retires 1st 22 Pirates in World Series game |
| 1926 | Actress Theo Mann-Master resigns from stage |
| 1926 | Italian Great Fascist Council forms |
| 1924 | Greek govt of Dikalekopoulis, forms |
| 1924 | 160 consecutive days of 100ĝ at Marble Bar, Australia begins |
| 1923 | Yankees Everett Scott runs his consecutive-game streak to 1,138 |
| 1922 | 1st radio link, WNJ (Newark) & WGY (Senectady) link for World Series |
| 1922 | Landis insists Game 4 of World Series be played despite heavy rain |
| 1922 | Oud-burgem of Rotterdam Zimmerman becomes High Comm's of Austria |
| 1919 | KLM, Netherlands Airlines, established (oldest existing airline) |
| 1919 | Fritz Kreisler & F Jacobi's "Apple Blossoms," premieres in NYC |
| 1919 | 1st London-Amsterdam airline service (Brit Aerial Transport & KLM) |
| 1916 | 222 points are scored in a football game between Georgia Tech & Cumberland University of Lebanon, Tennessee |
| 1915 | Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland College 222-0 in football (record) |
| 1913 | Henry Ford institutes moving assembly line |
| 1908 | Serbia & Montenegro sign anti-Austria-Hungarian pact |
| 1908 | Crete revolts against Turkey & aligns with Greece |
| 1907 | France's Henry Farman flies 30m in a double decker plane |
| 1904 | NY Highlander Jack Chesbro wins record 41st game of season (41-12) |
| 1900 | The term "orienteering" is 1st used for an event |
| 1886 | Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba |
| 1882 | 1st World Series (game 2), Chicago (NL) beats Cincinnati (AA) 2-0 |
| 1879 | Germany & Austrian-Hungary sign Twofold Covenant |
| 1871 | 16-hour fire injures 30 of Chicago's 185 firefighters |
| 1870 | Lon Gambetta flees Paris in balloon |
| 1868 | Cornell University (Ithaca NY) opens |
| 1864 | Naval Engagement at Bahia Harbor Brazil-CSS Florida vs USS Wachusett |
| 1864 | -Oct 13th) Battle of Darbytown Road, VA |
| 1856 | Cyrus Chambers Jr patents folding machine that folds book & newspapers |
| 1840 | Willem I resigns as king of Netherlands |
| 1826 | Granite Railway (1st chartered railway in US) begins operations |
| 1816 | 1st double decked steamboat, Washington, arrives in New Orleans |
| 1806 | Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgewood |
| 1780 | British defeated by American militia near Kings Mountain, SC |
| 1777 | Americans beat Brits in 2nd Battle of Saratoga & Battle of Bemis Hts |
| 1765 | Stamp Act Congress convenes in NY |
| 1763 | George III of Great Britain issues Proclamation of 1763, closing lands in North America north & west of Alleghenies to white settlement |
| 1737 | 40 foot waves sink 20,000 small craft & kill 300,000 (Bengal, India) |
| 1714 | People riot due to beer tax in Alkmaar Neth |
| 1702 | English/Dutch troops under Marlborough occupy Roermond |
| 1690 | English attack Quebec under Louis de Buade |
| 1637 | Prince Frederik Henry occupies Breda |
| 1579 | English royal marriage of queen Elizabeth I to duke of Anjou |
| 1571 | Battle at Lepanto: Saint League (Spain & Italy) destroys Turkish fleet |
| 1542 | Explorer Cabrillo discovered Catalina Island off California coast |
| 1520 | 1st public burning of books in Netherlands, in Louvain |
| 1506 | Pope Julius II & France occupy Bologna |
| 1492 | Columbus misses Florida when he changed course |
| 336 | St Mark ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
These people died on October 7
| 1996 | Charles Wegg Solicitor-Prosser, dies at 86 |
| 1995 | Louis Meyer, Indie 500 racer (3 wins), dies at 91 |
| 1995 | Ariston Muguranayanga Chambati, politician/businessman, dies at 59 |
| 1994 | Paul Swift, US actor (Egg Man in Pink Flamingo), dies of AIDS at 60 |
| 1994 | Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish immunologist (Nobel prize 1984), dies at 82 |
| 1994 | James Hill, director, dies at 75 |
| 1993 | Cyril Cusack, actor (Fahrenheit 451), dies of neuron disease at 82 |
| 1993 | Agnes de Mille, choreographer (Oklahoma!, Rodeo), dies at 88 |
| 1993 | Kenneth Nelson, US/English actor (Boys in the Band), dies at 63 |
| 1992 | Ed Blackwell, US jazz drummer (Quartet), dies |
| 1992 | Allan Bloom, author (Closing of the American Mind), dies at 62 |
| 1991 | Leo Durocher, baseball coach/manager (Dodgers, Giants), dies at 86 |
| 1990 | Juan Jose Arevalo, president of Guatemala (1945-51), dies |
| 1990 | J Teengs Gerritsen, resistance fighter, dies |
| 1990 | John "Cat" Thompson, basketball hall of famer, dies at 84 |
| 1988 | Billy Daniels, singer, dies of cancer at 73 |
| 1981 | Wouter Paap, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1976 | Nikolai Lopatnikoff, composer, dies at 73 |
| 1969 | Wim of Nuland, [Willem C Mhlmann], priest/writer (Doorstep), dies |
| 1967 | Norman Angell (Lane), English journalist/pacifist (Nobel 1933), dies |
| 1966 | Johnny Kidd, rocker (Johnny Kidd & Pirates), dies at 26 in a car crash |
| 1966 | Smiley Lewis, [Overton Amos Lemons], rocker, dies at 46 |
| 1964 | Eugen Varga, Hungarian/Russian economist/politician, dies at 84 |
| 1963 | Gustaf Grndgens, actor/director/theatre director (M), dies at 63 |
| 1963 | Grace Darmond, silent screen actress (Below the Surface), dies at 69 |
| 1962 | Mauritius Dekker, [Boris Robazki], writer (Boots in Jail), dies at 66 |
| 1959 | PM Kassem of Iraq, assassinated |
| 1959 | Mario Lanza, opera singer, dies at 38 of a heart attack |
| 1951 | Anton F Philips, CEO (Philips), dies at 77 |
| 1939 | Harvey (William) Cushing, US neurologist, dies at 70 |
| 1925 | Hubert Platt Main, composer, dies at 86 |
| 1924 | Clemens Baeumker, German historian (Christian Philosophy), dies at 71 |
| 1918 | C Hubert H Parry, Engl musicologist/composer (Jerusalem), dies at 70 |
| 1915 | Samuel Prowse Warren, composer, dies at 74 |
| 1890 | John Hill Hewitt, composer, dies at 89 |
| 1887 | George James Webb, composer, dies at 84 |
| 1864 | John Gregg, US judge/Confederate brig-general, dies in battle at 36 |
| 1864 | Alexander Gardiner, US Union brig-general, dies in battle |
| 1849 | Edgar Allen Poe, poet (Raven), dies in Balt at 40 |
| 1811 | August R van Hekeren van Suideras, Dutch orangist, dies at 68 |
| 1800 | Gabriel, slave revolt leader (Virginia), hanged |
| 1780 | Patrick Ferguson, English major in SC, dies in battle at 36 |
| 1777 | Simon Fraser, English general, dies in battle |
| 1766 | Andre Cheron, composer, dies at 71 |
| 1681 | Nicolaas Heinsius, Dutch philological/diplomat, dies at 61 |
| 1660 | Paul Scarron, French, stagewriter (Le Roman Comique), dies at 50 |
| 1639 | John I Pontanus, physicist/historian (Amsterdam), dies at 68 |
| 1612 | Menso Alting, Dutch reformed vicar/theologist, dies at 70 |
| 1571 | Ali Pasha, Turkish fleet commander, dies in battle |
| 1488 | Andrea del Verrochio, sculptor/painter/goldsmith, dies at about 52 |
| 929 | Charles III, the Plain, King of France (893-929), dies |
| 336 | Marcus, bishop of Rome (336), dies |
| 290 | [Christian] Sergius, roman soldier/martyred saint, decapitated |
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