History Events on October 07

The flood of '93 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River falls below flood stage.
#Great_Flood_of_1993

Uppsala University is inaugurated after receiving its corporate rights from Pope Sixtus IV in February the same year.
#Uppsala_University

Four men from the Palestine Liberation Front hijack the MS Achille Lauro off the coast of Egypt.
#Achille_Lauro_hijacking

The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
#United_States_invasion_of_Afghanistan

The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury.
#Project_Mercury

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.
#World_War_II

Morea expedition: The city of Patras, Greece, is liberated by the French expeditionary force.
#Morea_expedition

The Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the U.S.
#Granite_Railway

The communist German Democratic Republic (East Germany) is formed.
#East_Germany

The Mameyes landslide kills almost 200 people in Puerto Rico.
#1985_Puerto_Rico_floods

The Battle of Lepanto is fought, and the Ottoman Navy suffers its first defeat.
#Battle_of_Lepanto

King George III issues the Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing Indigenous lands in North America north and west of the Alleghenies to white settlements.
#Royal_Proclamation_of_1763

Franco-Prussian War: Léon Gambetta escapes the siege of Paris in a hot-air balloon.
#Léon_Gambetta

Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222-0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
#1916_Cumberland_vs._Georgia_Tech_football_game

The 1958 Pakistani coup d'état inaugurates a prolonged period of military rule.
#1958_Pakistani_coup_d'état

Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Hezbollah militants capture three Israeli Defense Force soldiers in a cross-border raid.
#Israeli-Palestinian_conflict

Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the "Twofold Covenant" and create the Dual Alliance.
#Dual_Alliance_(1879)

The charter for the Province of Massachusetts Bay is issued.
#Province_of_Massachusetts_Bay

A hunter discovers three gray whales trapped under the ice near Alaska; the situation becomes a multinational effort to free the whales.
#Operation_Breakthrough

The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-112 to continue assembly of the International Space Station.
#Space_Shuttle_Atlantis

President Kennedy signs the ratification of the Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty.
#Partial_Nuclear_Test_Ban_Treaty

Croatian War of Independence: Bombing of Banski dvori in Zagreb, Croatia.
#Bombing_of_Banski_dvori

The epoch reference date epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar.
#Hebrew_calendar

American Civil War: A US Navy ship captures a Confederate raider in a Brazilian seaport.
#American_Civil_War

Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.
#William_II_of_the_Netherlands

Mother Teresa establishes the Missionaries of Charity.
#Mother_Teresa

World War II: During an uprising at Birkenau concentration camp, Jewish prisoners burn down Crematorium IV.
#Auschwitz_concentration_camp

Asteroid 2008 TC3 impacts the Earth over Sudan, the first time an asteroid impact is detected prior to its entry into earth's atmosphere.
#2008_TC3

Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes prime minister of Greece for a short period of time.
#Andreas_Michalakopoulos

French corsair Robert Surcouf, commander of the 18-gun ship La Confiance, captures the British 38-gun Kent.
#Robert_Surcouf

In the wake of Hurricane Matthew, the death toll rises to 800.
#Hurricane_Matthew

Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial student enrollment is 412, the highest at any American university to that date.
#Cornell_University

American Revolutionary War: American militia defeat royalist irregulars led by British major Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina.
#Battle_of_Kings_Mountain
The Soviet probe Luna 3 transmits the first-ever photographs of the far side of the Moon.
#Luna_3

American Revolutionary War: The Americans defeat the British in the Second Battle of Saratoga, also known as the Battle of Bemis Heights.
#American_Revolutionary_War