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Today in HISTORY

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YEARDAYEVENT
1492Oct 7Columbus changed course to the southwest. As a result he missed Florida.
1520Oct 7The 1st public burning of books took place in Louvain, Netherlands.
1542Oct 7Explorer Cabrillo discovered Catalina Island off the Southern California coast.
1582Oct 7This day was one of ten skipped to bring the calendar into sync. by order of the Council of Trent. Oct 5-14 were dropped.
1690Oct 7The English attacked Quebec under Louis de Buade.
1763Oct 7George III of Great Britain issued a royal proclamation reserving for the crown the right to acquire land from western tribes. This closed lands in North America north and west of Alleghenies to white settlement and ended the acquisition efforts of colonial land syndicates. The Royal Proclamation of 1763 guaranteed Indian rights to land and self-government.
1777Oct 7Simon Fraser, English general, died in the battle of Saratoga, NY.
1800Oct 7Gabriel, slave revolt leader in Virginia, was hanged. Gabriel Prosser had mounted a slave rebellion.
1806Oct 7Carbon paper was patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgewood.
1815Oct 7Marshal Ney, one of Napoleon’s most trusted field commanders, was condemned to death and shot for having left the services of the King.
1816Oct 7The 1st double decked steamboat, Washington, arrived in New Orleans.
1826Oct 7The first railway in the United States opened at Quincy, Massachusetts.
1856Oct 7Cyrus Chambers Jr. patented a folding machine that folded books and newspapers.
1858Oct 7Lincoln and Douglas held their 5th debate in Galesburg, Ill., on the Knox College campus.
1864Oct 7General Phil Sheridan wired General Ulysses Grant that he had destroyed so much between Winchester and Staunton that the area “will have little in it for man or beast.”
1868Oct 7Cornell University was inaugurated in Ithaca, N.Y.
1886Oct 7Spain abolished slavery in Cuba.
1896Oct 7 Nicholas and Alexandra of Russia made a state visit to France and with Pres. Felix Faure laid the cornerstone for the Pont Alexandre III.
1918Oct 7C. Hubert H. Parry, English musicologist and composer (Jerusalem), died at 70.
1919Oct 7Fritz Kreisler’s and F. Jacobi’s “Apple Blossoms,” premiered in NYC.
1935Oct 7Himmler, Hess and Reinhard Heydrich agreed to build a concentration camp at Dachau.
1938Oct 7Germany demanded all Jewish passports stamped with letter J.
1940Oct 7Artie Shaw and his Orchestra recorded Hoagy Carmichael’s “Stardust” for RCA Victor
1942Oct 7A single salvo Katyusha rocket destroyed a Nazi battalion in Stalingrad.
1943Oct 7Approximately 100 U.S. prisoners of war remaining on Wake Island were executed by the Japanese.
1944Oct 7Field marshal Rommel got orders to return to Berlin.
1947Oct 7French troops in Indochina launched Operation Lea, to capture Viet Minh positions near the Chinese border.
1950Oct 7The United Nations General Assembly approved an advance by UN forces north of the 38th Parallel in the Korean Conflict.
1951Oct 7Will Kellogg (91), founder of Kellogg’s Corn Flakes, died in Battle Creek, Mich.
1954Oct 7Marian Anderson became the first black singer hired by the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
1955Oct 7The aircraft carrier USS Saratoga was launched at Brooklyn.
1963Oct 7President Kennedy signed the documents of ratification for a limited nuclear test ban treaty with Britain and the Soviet Union. Testing was outlawed in the atmosphere, underwater and in outer space.
1979Oct 7Pope John Paul II concluded a week-long tour of the United States with a Mass on the Mall in Washington, DC.
1981Oct 7Egypt’s parliament named Vice President Hosni Mubarak to succeed the assassinated Anwar Sadat. He tolerated the Muslim Brotherhood.
1982Oct 7Olof Palme was sworn in as Sweden’s prime minister.
1989Oct 7Hungary’s Communist Party renounced Marxism in favor of democratic socialism during a party congress in Budapest.
1990Oct 7The US House and Senate Democrats put together a modified budget proposal, following the failure of an earlier plan and the veto of stopgap spending legislation by President Bush.
1991Oct 7Former assistant secretary of state Elliott Abrams pleaded guilty to withholding information from Congress in the Iran-Contra scandal.
1992Oct 7Trade representatives of the United States, Canada and Mexico initialed the North American Free Trade Agreement during a ceremony in San Antonio, Texas.
1993Oct 7President Clinton ordered more troops, heavy armor and naval firepower to Somalia, but also announced he would pull out all Americans by the end of March 1994.
1994Oct 7At an East Room news conference, Clinton expressed frustration over failures in his legislative agenda, blaming Republicans for “trying to stop it, slow it, kill it or just talk it to death.”
1995Oct 7New York’s Central Park was transformed into a giant open-air cathedral as Pope John Paul the Second celebrated Mass before a flock of 130,000.
1996Oct 7The effects of a Canadian Auto Workers strike against General Motors spread across the border as 1,850 workers were laid off at two U.S. parts plants.
1997Oct 7From Mexico it was reported that at least 100 people were reported as disappeared in the state of Chihuahua, mostly around Ciudad Juarez, the base for Mexico’s largest drug cartel.
1998Oct 7Robert McDonough (76) donated $30 million to Georgetown Univ. He made his fortune in the temporary employment business.
1999Oct 7It was reported that American fighter jets had begun using non-explosive concrete bombs to destroy military targets in northern Iraq.
2001Oct 7A scheduled peace demonstration in NYC drew some 10,000 people. Anti-war demonstrations in SF and Chicago drew some 1,000 each.
2002Oct 7Space shuttle Atlantis carried 6 astronauts and a 14-ton girder for installation on the int’l. space station.
2003Oct 7The US dollar fell to 7-year lows against the Canadian dollar and near a six-year trough against the Australian dollar.
2004Oct 7It was reported that municipal tax shelters would cost the US government an estimated $4.4 billion in uncollected taxes for fiscal year 2004.
2005Oct 7The Senate voted to give President Bush $50 billion more for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and US military efforts against terrorism, money that would push total spending for the operations beyond $350 billion.
2006Oct 7The NY Yankees were eliminated from the first round of the AL playoffs, losing to Detroit 8-3 in Game 4. It was the second straight year New York lost in the opening round.
2007Oct 7A Cessna 208 Grand Caravan crashed in the Cascade Mountains after it left Star, Idaho, near Boise, en route to Shelton, Wash., northwest of Olympia. 9 skydivers and the pilot were killed. Searchers found the wreckage the next day.
2008Oct 7The UN food agency (WFP) said it is resuming free breakfasts for hundreds of thousands of poor Cambodian schoolchildren after securing new funds for a program suspended due to high food prices.
2010Oct 7Australian PM Julia Gillard dropped her unpopular “citizens’ assembly” to guide climate change policy after the plan drew fierce criticism during the recent election campaign.
2011Oct 7Federal authorities in California vowed to shut down dozens of pot growing and sales operations in a major crackdown, saying the worst offenders are using the cover of medical marijuana to act as storefront drug dealers.
2012Oct 7US health officials reported an additional 27 cases in a fungal meningitis outbreak linked to steroid injections that has killed seven people and now infected 91 in nine states.
2013Oct 7SF announced that Marc Benioff, head of Salesforce.com, will donate $2.7 million to the city’s 12 middle schools.
2014Oct 7A US federal appeals court in San Francisco struck down Nevada and Idaho’s bans on same-sex marriage. The ruling also applies to all nine states in the court’s territory and will overturn marriage bans in Montana, Alaska and Arizona.

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