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

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. He died five days later.

Fox News Channel begins broadcasting.

Sikh nationalists declare the independence of Khalistan from India; it is not internationally recognized.

The Fourth Soviet Constitution is adopted.

Air France is inaugurated, after being formed by a merger of five French airlines.

Photius II becomes Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.

KLM, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, is founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.

The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction.

War of the League of Cambrai: Spain defeats Venice.

Venetian-Genoese wars: The Genoese fleet under a French admiral is defeated by a Venetian fleet.