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3761 BC – The epoch reference date epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar (Proleptic Julian calendar).
1477 – Uppsala University is inaugurated after receiving its corporate rights from Pope Sixtus IV in February the same year.
1513 – Battle of La Motta: Spanish troops under Ramón de Cardona defeat the Venetians.
1542 – Explorer Cabrillo discovers Santa Catalina Island off of the California coast.
1571 – The Battle of Lepanto is fought, and the Holy League (Spain and Italy) annihilates the Turkish fleet.
1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1691 – The English royal charter for the Province of Massachusetts Bay is issued.
1763 – King George III of the United Kingdom issues the Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing aboriginal lands in North America north and west of Alleghenies to white settlements.
1776 – Crown Prince Paul of Russia marries Sophie Marie Dorothea of Württemberg.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: The Americans defeat the British in the Second Battle of Saratoga, also known as the Battle of Bemis Heights.
1780 – American Revolutionary War: American Patriot militia under Colonel William Campbell defeat Loyalist irregular militia led by British major Patrick Ferguson at the Battle of King's Mountain in North Carolina near the border with Blacksburg, South Carolina.
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.
1816: First double-decked steamboat, the Washington, arrives in New Orleans
1826 – The Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the U.S.
1828 – Morea expedition: The city of Patras, Greece, is liberated by the French expeditionary force in the Peloponnese under General Maison.
1840 – Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.
1862 – Royal Columbian Hospital (RCH) opens as the first hospital in the Canadian province of British Columbia.
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.
1864: American Civil War: A Confederate attempt to regain ground that had been lost around Richmond, Virginia, is thwarted when Union troops turn back General Robert E. Lee's assault at the Battle of Darbytown.
1868 – Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial student enrollment is 412, the highest at any American university to that date.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Siege of Paris: Léon Gambetta flees Paris in a hot-air balloon.
1871: The most devastating fire in United States history is ignited in Wisconsin on this day in 1871. Over the course of the next day, 1,200 people lost their lives and 2 billion trees were consumed by flames. Despite the massive scale of the blaze, it was overshadowed by the Great Chicago Fire, which began the next day about 250 miles away.
1879 – Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the "Twofold Covenant" and create the Dual Alliance.
1912 – The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
1913: For the first time, Henry Ford's entire Highland Park, Michigan automobile factory is run on a continuously moving assembly line when the chassis--the automobile's frame--is assembled using the revolutionary industrial technique
1914: Advancing German forces bombard the Belgian city of Antwerp, as Belgian troops and their British allies struggle to resist the onslaught.
1916 – Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222–0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
1919 – KLM, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, is founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.
1924 – Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes Prime Minister of Greece for a short period of time.
1929 – Photios II becomes Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
1933 – Air France is inaugurated, after being formed by a merger of 5 French airlines.
1940: World War II: Hitler occupies Romania as part of his strategy of creating an unbroken Eastern front to menace the Soviet Union.
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.
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.
1943: Rear Adm. Shigematsu Sakaibara, commander of the Japanese garrison on the island, orders the execution of 96 Americans POWs, claiming they were trying to make radio contact with U.S. forces.
1944 – World War II: During an uprising at Birkenau concentration camp, Jewish prisoners burn down the crematoria.
1945: President Harry S. Truman announced that the secret of the atomic bomb would be shared only with Britain and Canada.
1816: First double-decked steamboat, the Washington, arrives in New Orleans
1826 – The Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the U.S.
1828 – Morea expedition: The city of Patras, Greece, is liberated by the French expeditionary force in the Peloponnese under General Maison.
1840 – Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.
1862 – Royal Columbian Hospital (RCH) opens as the first hospital in the Canadian province of British Columbia.
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.
1864: American Civil War: A Confederate attempt to regain ground that had been lost around Richmond, Virginia, is thwarted when Union troops turn back General Robert E. Lee's assault at the Battle of Darbytown.
1868 – Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial student enrollment is 412, the highest at any American university to that date.
1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Siege of Paris: Léon Gambetta flees Paris in a hot-air balloon.
1871: The most devastating fire in United States history is ignited in Wisconsin on this day in 1871. Over the course of the next day, 1,200 people lost their lives and 2 billion trees were consumed by flames. Despite the massive scale of the blaze, it was overshadowed by the Great Chicago Fire, which began the next day about 250 miles away.
1879 – Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the "Twofold Covenant" and create the Dual Alliance.
1912 – The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.
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1914: Advancing German forces bombard the Belgian city of Antwerp, as Belgian troops and their British allies struggle to resist the onslaught.
1916 – Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222–0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
1919 – KLM, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, is founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.
1924 – Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes Prime Minister of Greece for a short period of time.
1929 – Photios II becomes Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
1933 – Air France is inaugurated, after being formed by a merger of 5 French airlines.
1940: World War II: Hitler occupies Romania as part of his strategy of creating an unbroken Eastern front to menace the Soviet Union.
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.
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.
1943: Rear Adm. Shigematsu Sakaibara, commander of the Japanese garrison on the island, orders the execution of 96 Americans POWs, claiming they were trying to make radio contact with U.S. forces.
1944 – World War II: During an uprising at Birkenau concentration camp, Jewish prisoners burn down the crematoria.
1945: President Harry S. Truman announced that the secret of the atomic bomb would be shared only with Britain and Canada.
1949: Less than five months after Great Britain, the United States, and France established the Federal Republic of Germany in West Germany, the Democratic Republic of Germany is proclaimed within the Soviet occupation zone
1950 – Mother Teresa build an order called Missionary of Charity.
1952 – The first broadcast of “Bandstand” airs in Philadelphia.
1955 – American poet Allen Ginsberg performs his poem Howl for the first time at the Six Gallery in San Francisco.
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.
1958 – The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury.
1959 – U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits the first ever photographs of the far side of the Moon.
1960 – Nigeria joins the United Nations.
1963 – John F. Kennedy signs the ratification of the Partial Test Ban Treaty.
1971 – Oman joins the United Nations.
1976 – Hua Guofeng becomes Mao Zedong's successor as chairman of Communist Party of China, following the latter's death barely a month earlier.
1977 – The adoption of the Fourth Soviet Constitution.
1985: Four Palestinian terrorists board the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro shortly after it left Alexandria, Egypt, in order to hijack the luxury liner.
1985 – The Mameyes landslide kills close to 300 in the worst landslide in North American history.
1987 – Sikh nationalists declares the independence of Khalistan from India; it is not internationally recognized.
1988 – An Inupiaq hunter discovers three gray whales trapped under the ice in Barrow, Alaska, US; the situation becomes a multinational effort to free the whales.
1991 – Croatian War of Independence: Bombing of Banski dvori in Zagreb kills one civilian.
1993 – The flood of '93 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River falls below flood stage.
1996 – The Fox News Channel begins broadcasting.
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.
2001: The Global War on Terrorism begins as a result of the September 11 attacks. A U.S.-led coalition begins the invasion of Taliban-controlled Afghanistan with an intense bombing campaign by American and British forces and covert operations on the ground.
2003 – The governor of California, Gray Davis, is recalled in favor of Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Mark, Pope of Rome, Confessor.
Commemoration of SS. Sergius and his Companions, Martyrs.
Commemoration of SS. Sergius and his Companions, Martyrs.
Contemporary Western
Blessed Giuseppe Toniolo
Justina of Padua (former)
Osgyth
Our Lady of the Rosary
Pope Mark
Sergius and Bacchus
Justina of Padua (former)
Osgyth
Our Lady of the Rosary
Pope Mark
Sergius and Bacchus
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Henry Muhlenberg (Episcopal Church (USA))
Eastern Orthodox
October 7 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Martyrs Sergius and Bacchus in Syria (290, 303)
Venerable Sergius of Nurma in Vologda, abbot (1412)
Martyrs Julian, presbyter, and Caesarius, deacon, at Terracina (1st century)
Martyr Polychronius, presbyter, priest of Gamphanitus (4th century)
Virgin-martyr Pelagia of Tarsus (290)
Saint Sergius the Obedient of the Kiev Caves Monastery (13th century)
Martyrs Eusebius and Felix at Terracina
Saint Leontius the Governor
St. John the Hermit and 98 Fathers of Crete
St. Joseph, elder of Khevi, wonderworker of Georgia (1763)
The Holy Hierarch and Wonderworker Jonah of Manchuria (1925)
Russian New martyr Valentine Sventitsky, priest in Moscow (1931)
Uncovering (1514) of the relics of Saint Martinian of Byelozersk,
abbot of Ferapontov Monastery (1483)
Martyrs Sergius and Bacchus in Syria (290, 303)
Venerable Sergius of Nurma in Vologda, abbot (1412)
Martyrs Julian, presbyter, and Caesarius, deacon, at Terracina (1st century)
Martyr Polychronius, presbyter, priest of Gamphanitus (4th century)
Virgin-martyr Pelagia of Tarsus (290)
Saint Sergius the Obedient of the Kiev Caves Monastery (13th century)
Martyrs Eusebius and Felix at Terracina
Saint Leontius the Governor
St. John the Hermit and 98 Fathers of Crete
St. Joseph, elder of Khevi, wonderworker of Georgia (1763)
The Holy Hierarch and Wonderworker Jonah of Manchuria (1925)
Russian New martyr Valentine Sventitsky, priest in Moscow (1931)
Uncovering (1514) of the relics of Saint Martinian of Byelozersk,
abbot of Ferapontov Monastery (1483)
Coptic Orthodox
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