Events on October 7 49
Year 1403
Battle of Modon: Genoese fleet under Jean Le Maingre (Marshal Boucicaut) is defeated by the Republic of Venice at Modon in the Peloponnese.
Year 1406
French troops comprising 1,000 men at arms landed on Jersey and fought a battle against 3,000 defenders.
Year 1477
Uppsala University is inaugurated after receiving its corporate rights from Pope Sixtus IV in February the same year.
Year 1582
Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
Year 1763
King George III of the United Kingdom issues the Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing aboriginal lands in North America north and west of the Alleghenies to white settlements.
Year 1777
American Revolutionary War: The Americans defeat the British in the Second Battle of Saratoga, also known as the Battle of Bemis Heights.
Year 1780
American Revolutionary War: Battle of Kings Mountain: American Patriot militia defeat Loyalist irregulars led by British major Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina.
Year 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.
Year 1826
The Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the U.S.
Year 1828
Morea expedition: The city of Patras, Greece, is liberated by the French expeditionary force in the Peloponnese under General Maison.
Year 1862
Royal Columbian Hospital (RCH) opens as the first hospital in the Colony of British Columbia
Year 1864
American Civil War: Bahia incident: USS Wachusett illegally captures the CSS Florida Confederate raider while in port in Bahia, Brazil in violation of Brazilian neutrality.
Year 1868
Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial student enrollment is 412, the highest at any American university to that date.
Year 1870
Franco-Prussian War: Siege of Paris: Léon Gambetta flees Paris in a hot-air balloon.
Year 1879
Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the "Twofold Covenant" and create the Dual Alliance.
Year 1916
Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222-0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
Year 1918
The Regency Council of the Kingdom of Poland declares independence from the German Empire and forms the Republic of Poland.
Year 1919
KLM, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, is founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.
Year 1924
Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes Prime Minister of Greece for a short period of time.
Year 1933
Air France is inaugurated, after being formed by a merger of five French airlines.
Year 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.
Year 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.
Year 1944
World War II: During an uprising at Birkenau concentration camp, Jewish prisoners burn down Crematorium IV.
Year 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.
Year 1959
U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits the first ever photographs of the far side of the Moon.
Year 1987
Sikh nationalists declares the independence of Khalistan from India; it is not internationally recognized.
Year 1988
An Iñupiat hunter discovers three gray whales trapped under the ice in Barrow, Alaska, US; the situation becomes a multinational effort to free the whales.
Year 1993
The flood of '93 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River falls below flood stage.
Year 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.
Year 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.
Year 2003
The governor of California, Gray Davis, is recalled in favor of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Year 2008
Asteroid 2008 TC3 impacts the Earth over Sudan, the first time an asteroid impact is detected prior to its entry into earth's atmosphere.
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