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Events from History on October 07

1492 : Columbus misses Florida when he changed course
1506 : Pope Julius II & France occupy Bologna
1520 : 1st public burning of books in Netherlands, in Louvain
1542 : Explorer Cabrillo discovered Catalina Island off California coast
1571 : Battle at Lepanto: Saint League (Spain & Italy) destroys Turkish fleet
1579 : English royal marriage of queen Elizabeth I to duke of Anjou
1637 : Prince Frederik Henry occupies Breda
1690 : English attack Quebec under Louis de Buade
1702 : English/Dutch troops under Marlborough occupy Roermond
1714 : People riot due to beer tax in Alkmaar Neth
1737 : 40 foot waves sink 20,000 small craft & kill 300,000 (Bengal, India)
1763 : George III of Great Britain issues Proclamation of 1763, closing
1763 : lands in North America north & west of Alleghenies to white settlement
1765 : Stamp Act Congress convenes in NY
1777 : Americans beat Brits in 2nd Battle of Saratoga & Battle of Bemis Hts
1780 : British defeated by American militia near Kings Mountain, SC
1806 : Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgewood
1816 : 1st double decked steamboat, Washington, arrives in New Orleans
1826 : Granite Railway (1st chartered railway in US) begins operations
1840 : Willem I resigns as king of Netherlands
1856 : Cyrus Chambers Jr patents folding machine that folds book & newspapers
1864 : -Oct 13th) Battle of Darbytown Road, VA
1864 : Naval Engagement at Bahia Harbor Brazil-CSS Florida vs USS Wachusett
1868 : Cornell University (Ithaca NY) opens
1870 : L‚on Gambetta flees Paris in balloon
1871 : 16-hour fire injures 30 of Chicago's 185 firefighters
1879 : Germany & Austrian-Hungary sign Twofold Covenant
1882 : 1st World Series (game 2), Chicago (NL) beats Cincinnati (AA) 2-0
1882 : Series ends abruptly as AA plans to expel Cin for participating
1886 : Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba
1900 : The term "orienteering" is 1st used for an event
1902 : Max Wolf discovers asteroid #494 Virtus
1904 : NY Highlander Jack Chesbro wins record 41st game of season (41-12)
1907 : France's Henry Farman flies 30m in a double decker plane
1908 : A Kopff discovers asteroid #3687
1908 : Crete revolts against Turkey & aligns with Greece
1908 : Serbia & Montenegro sign anti-Austria-Hungarian pact
1913 : Henry Ford institutes moving assembly line
1915 : Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland College 222-0 in football (record)
1916 : 222 points are scored in a football game between Georgia Tech &
1916 : Cumberland University of Lebanon, Tennessee
1919 : 1st London-Amsterdam airline service (Brit Aerial Transport & KLM)
1919 : Fritz Kreisler & F Jacobi's "Apple Blossoms," premieres in NYC
1919 : KLM, Netherlands Airlines, established (oldest existing airline)
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
1923 : Yankees Everett Scott runs his consecutive-game streak to 1,138
1924 : 160 consecutive days of 100ø at Marble Bar, Australia begins
1924 : Greek govt of Dikalekopoulis, forms
1926 : Actress Theo Mann-Master resigns from stage
1926 : Italian Great Fascist Council forms
1927 : Yank Herb Pennock retires 1st 22 Pirates in World Series game
1928 : G Neujmin discovers asteroid #2484 Parenago
1928 : Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10 miles (50:15.0)
1928 : Race Tafari Makonnen crowned king of Abyssinia
1929 : Ramsay MacDonald is 1st British premier to address US Congress
1931 : 1st infra-red photograph, Rochester, NY
1933 : NY Giants beat Washington Senators, 4 games to 1 in 30th World Series
1935 : Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 32nd World Series
1935 : Himmler/Hess/Heydrich bezichtigen concentration camp Dachau
1936 : 7th-place Brooklyn Dodgers fire manager Casey Stengel
1936 : H L Giclas discovers asteroid #2347
1937 : Johan Wagenaar's "Feestmars" premieres in Amsterdam
1938 : Germany demands all Jewish passports stamped with letter J
1939 : #2679 Kittisvaara, #2716 Tuulikki, #2885 & #2972
1939 : HALL airship Binnendijk runs up German my
1939 : Y Vaisala discovers asteroids #1526 Mikkeli, #2258 Viipuri,
1940 : Reds Bucky Walters is 1st pitcher in 14 years to homer in World Series
1941 : German army occupies Viarma, USSR
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
1943 : Weill/Perelman/Nash' musical "One Touch of Venus," premieres in NYC
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
1945 : Dutch author A M de Jong's murderer Ton van Gog escapes
1946 : Charles Ives' 2nd string quartet, premieres
1947 : Larry MacPhail resigns as Yank GM after final game of 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
1950 : NY Yankees sweep Phila Phillies in 47th World Series
1950 : US forces invade Korea by crossing 38th parallel
1950 : Walter Bedell Smith replaces Roscoe H Hillenkoetter as 4th CIA head
1950 : Whitey Ford wins his 1st World Series game, 5-2
1950 : William H Jackson, becomes deputy director of CIA
1950 : Yanks win 13th world championship sweeping Phillies
1951 : David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli govt
1952 : 1st "Bandstand" broadcast in Philadelphia on WFIL-TV (Dick Clark
1952 : NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 3 in 49th World Series
1952 : Yankees tie their own record of 4 consecutive World Series wins
1952 : joins in 1955 as a substitute-host)
1953 : Bill Veeck tells Browns stockholders he faces bankruptcy unless they
1953 : Indiana University discovers asteroid #4046 Swain
1953 : drop their suit to block his move to Baltimore, they comply
1954 : Hassan el Hodeiby, leader of Moslem brothership, arrested in Egypt
1954 : Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ad Sinarum gentem
1955 : Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga at Brooklyn launched
1956 : Mary Lena Faulk wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Open
1957 : "American Bandstand" premieres
1957 : KOAC TV channel 7 in Corvallis, OR (PBS) begins broadcasting
1957 : Louise Suggs wins LPGA Heart of America Golf Invitational
1958 : Potter Stewart appointed to US Supreme Court
1958 : US manned space-flight project renamed Project Mercury
1959 : "Happy Town" opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 5 performances
1959 : Far side of Moon seen for 1st time, compliments of USSR's Luna 3
1960 : "Route 66" premieres
1960 : 2nd JFK & Richard Nixon debate
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
1961 : S Arend discovers asteroid #2866
1962 : 8th LPGA Championship won by Judy Kimball
1962 : USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1963 : Bobby Baker resigns as Senate Democratic secretary
1963 : Hurricane Flora hits Haiti & Dominican Republic, kills 7,190
1963 : JFK signs ratification for nuclear test ban treaty
1964 : NY Yankees make 14th appearance in last 16 & 29th in 61 World Series
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
1965 : to score world's longest straight hole-in-one
1967 : Beatles turn down $1 million NY concert offer by Sid Berstein
1967 : Rolf Hochhuths "Soldaten," premieres in West Berlin
1968 : Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system
1969 : L Chernykh discovers asteroid #3577
1969 : WJMN TV channel 3 in Escanaba, MI (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1971 : Disney World opens in Orlando
1971 : T McNally's "Where has Tommy Flowers gone?," premieres in NYC
1972 : 1st season game at Nassau Coliseum, Flames-3, Islanders-2
1973 : Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Lincoln-Mercury Golf Open
1974 : German DR amends constitution
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
1977 : Down 5-3 with 2 outs in 9th, Dodgers Vic Davalillo beats out 2-strike
1977 : Guitarist Steve Hackett quits Genesis
1977 : USSR adopts constitution
1977 : drag bunt & Manny Mota double's to beat Phillies 6-5
1978 : LA Dodgers win the pennant
1978 : USSR performs nuclear test
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
1980 : Belgium 3rd govt of Martens resigns
1980 : Purple Mountain Observatory discovers asteroid #2631 Zhejiang
1981 : Hosni Mubarak became acting-president of Egypt
1981 : In 1st Eastern Division championship Yanks beat Brewers 5-3
1981 : L I Chernykh discovers asteroid #4244 Zakharchenko & #6764
1981 : T M Smirnova discovers asteroid #7222
1982 : "Cats" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 5000+ performances
1982 : Olof Palme forms Swedish government
1983 : A Mrkos discovers asteroid #4691
1984 : Striking umps return for Game 5 of NLCS, SD Padres win pennant
1984 : Walter Payton passes Jim Brown as NFL's career rushing leader
1985 : 21st Space Shuttle Mission (51-J)-Atlantis 1 lands at Edwards AFB
1985 : KHQ-AM in Spokane Wash's final transmission
1985 : Lynette Woodward, chosen as 1st woman on Harlem Globetrotters
1985 : PLO terrorists sieze Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro
1986 : E Bowell discovers asteroid #3783 Morris, #3831 Pettengill,
1986 : #3850 Peltierm, #4091 Lowe, #4859 Frakno, #5951 Alicemonet & #7561
1986 : 1st edition British newspaper "Independent" begins publishing
1986 : E F Helin discovers asteroid #4629 Walford
1988 : Dallas Green replaces Lou Pinella as NY Yankee manager
1988 : Jim Fregosi is fired as manager of White Sox
1988 : Latvian flag raised in Riga for 1st time since annexation by USSR
1988 : Lou Piniella is fired as manager of Yankees for 2nd time
1988 : Robin Givens files for divorce after 8-month marriage to Mike Tyson
1988 : WNBC 660 final transmission, WFAN moves from 1050 to 660 & WUKQ
1988 : begins on 1050 at 5:30 PM (NYC radio)
1989 : Howard Stern's US Open Sores Tennis match
1989 : Radio talk show host Larry King weds Julie Alexander
1989 : Rickey Henderson steals a record 8 bases in a play off (5 games)
1990 : Beth Daniel wins LPGA Centel Golf Classic
1990 : Israel begins handing out gas masks to its citizens
1991 : Scorecard Harry, Space Appeal & Cafe Lex in 9th race at Belmont,
1991 : Child star Adam Rich arrested for stealing hypodermics
1991 : Law Professor Anita Hill accuses Supreme nominee Clarence Thomas of
1991 : ccreating 2nd triple dead heat in NY thoroughbred racing history
1991 : making sexually inappropriat comments to her
1992 : Tampa Bay Lightning become 1st NHL expansion team to win opener (7-2)
1993 : "Les Miserables," opens at Meralco Theatre, Philippines
1993 : "She Loves Me" opens at Atkinson Theater NYC for 294 performances
1993 : Massive Moslem demonstrate in Xining China PR, 12 killed
1993 : Nobel prize for literature awarded to Toni Morrison
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)
1995 : Boston's Fleet Center opens, NY Islanders & Boston Bruins tie at 4-4
1995 : Mariners rally from 5-0 to force Game 5 of Division Series vs Yankees
3761 : BC Origin of Jewish Mundane Era

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