TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: OCTOBER 7
1571 Battle of Lepanto: Holy League of southern European nations destroy Ottoman fleet in significant loss off Western Greece
1763 George III of Great Britain issues Proclamation of 1763, closing lands in North America north and west of Alleghenies to white settlement
1765 Nine American colonies sent a total of 28 delegates to New York City for the Stamp Act Congress. The delegates adopted the “Declaration of Rights and Grievances.”
1826 Granite Railway (1st chartered railway in US) begins operations
1870 French Minister of the Interior Leon Gambetta escapes besieged Paris by balloon, reaching the French provisional government in Tours.
1921 State officials in Texas are considering a ban on parades by the Ku Klux Klan because of their incitement of violence against any non-white Americans including Jews and African-Americans.
1913 For the first time, Henry Ford’s entire Highland Park automobile factory was run on a continuously moving assembly line when the chassis was added to the process.
1944 Prisoner uprising at Birkenau concentration camp. The revolt was quickly put down, and over 450 people were killed.
1949 The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) was formed.
1950 The U.S.-led U.N. forces crossed the 38th parallel and entered North Korea. China in November proved their threat to enter the war by sending several hundred thousand troops over the border into North Korea.
1959 Far side of Moon seen for 1st time, compliments of USSR’s Luna 3. The images sent by the probe covered about 70% of the far side of Earth’s natural satellite
1985 The United States announced that it would no longer automatically comply with World Court decisions.
1985 Four Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) hijackers seize the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro and demand the release of 50 Palestinians held by Israel.
1990 Israel begins handing out gas masks to its citizens
1994 U.S. President Clinton dispatched an aircraft carrier to the Persian Gulf when Iraqi troops were spotted moving toward Kuwait. The U.S. Army was also put on alert.
1996 Fox News Channel begins broadcasting.
2001 War in Afghanistan begins. The U.S. and Great Britain began airstrikes in Afghanistan in response to that state’s support of terrorism and Osama bin Laden. The act was the first military action taken in response to the terrorist attacks on the U.S. on September 11, 2001.
2003 The Governor of California Gray Davis becomes the second governor to be recalled (mismanagement of the state budget) in American history first was (North Dakota’s Lynn J. Frazier 1921).
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
