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Birthday October 07, 1849 James Whitcomb Riley, American poet (The Raggedy Man) |
Birthday October 07, 1879 Joe Hill, songwriter, IWW organizer, martyr |
Birthday October 07, 1885 Niels Bohr, physicist, expanded quantum physics (Nobel 1922) |
Birthday October 07, 1888 Henry A. Wallace, (D/P), 33rd VP, Progressive pres candidate |
Birthday October 07, 1905 Jean Arthur, (or 10-17-08) |
Birthday October 07, 1916 Walt W. Rostow, economist |
Birthday October 07, 1917 June Allyson, Actress |
Birthday October 07, 1926 Diana Lynn |
Birthday October 07, 1927 Al Martino, singer |
Birthday October 07, 1931 Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, (Nobel Peace Prize 1982) |
Birthday October 07, 1931 Desmond Tutu, Archbishop of South Africa |
Birthday October 07, 1943 Oliver North |
Birthday October 07, 1951 John Cougar Mellencamp, singer |
Birthday October 07, 1955 Yo-Yo Ma, cellist |
Birthday October 07, 1959 Judy Landers |
History October 07, 1571 Turkish fleet defeated by Spanish & Italians in Battle of Lepanto |
History October 07, 1765 The Stamp Act Congress convenes in NY |
History October 07, 1777 British defeated by Americans in Battle of Saratoga |
History October 07, 1780 Battle of King's Mountain |
History October 07, 1780 Patriots prevail in Carolinas |
History October 07, 1816 First double-decked steamboat, the Washington, arrives in New Orleans |
History October 07, 1826 Granite Railway (1st chartered railway in US) begins operations |
History October 07, 1849 Edgar Allen Poe dies in Balt at 40 |
History October 07, 1864 Battle of Darbytown Road (Johnson's Farm) |
History October 07, 1871 Massive fire burns in Wisconsin |
History October 07, 1886 Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba |
History October 07, 1908 Crete unites with Greece |
History October 07, 1913 Moving Assembly Line at Ford |
History October 07, 1914 Antwerp under siege |
History October 07, 1915 Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland College 222-0 in football (record) |
History October 07, 1927 Yank Herb Pennock retires 1st 22 Pirates in World Series |
History October 07, 1931 1st infra-red photograph Rochester NY |
History October 07, 1940 German troops enter Romania |
History October 07, 1943 Japanese execute nearly 100 American prisoners on Wake Island |
History October 07, 1949 East Germany created |
History October 07, 1949 Dem. Rep of Germany (East) formed |
History October 07, 1950 Yanks win 13th world championship sweeping the Phillies |
History October 07, 1950 US forces invade Korea by crossing the 38th parallel |
History October 07, 1952 Yanks beat Dodgers 4 games to 3 in the world series |
History October 07, 1955 Ginsberg reads Howl for the first time |
History October 07, 1959 Luna 3 photographs far side of moon |
History October 07, 1960 CBS broadcasts the premiere episode of Route 66″ |
History October 07, 1960 Route 66 premiers |
History October 07, 1960 Kennedy and Nixon debate Cold War foreign policy |
History October 07, 1965 Robert Mitera aces 447-yd 10th hole at Miracle Hills Omaha Nebr. |
History October 07, 1968 Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system. |
History October 07, 1969 Wheeler announces progress in the Vietnamization effort |
History October 07, 1970 Nixon announces a new peace proposal |
History October 07, 1972 1st regular gat at Coliseum Flames - 3 Islanders - 2 |
History October 07, 1975 A New York judge reverses John Lennon's deportation order |
History October 07, 1981 In 1st Eastern Division championship Yanks beat Brewers 5-3 |
History October 07, 1983 Connery plays Bond in Never Say Never Again |
History October 07, 1984 Walter Payton sets a record |
History October 07, 1985 21st Space Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 1 returns to Earth |
History October 07, 1985 Palestinian terrorists hijack an Italian cruise ship |
History October 07, 2001 U.S.-led attack on Afghanistan begins |
History October 07, 2001 President Bush announces military action in Afghanistan |