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October 7 is the 280th day of the year (281st in leap years ). There are 85 days remaining.
Events
Up to 1900
1900-1999 1908 - Crete revolts against the Ottoman Empire and aligns with Greece .1912 - The Helsinki Stock Exchange saw its first transaction.1913 - Henry Ford introduces the assembly line .1940 - Germany invades Romania .1943 - Japan executes 100 American prisoners on Wake Island .1949 - German Democratic Republic (East Germany) formed.1949 _ One of the earliest television shows, Ford Theater debuts 1950 - United States forces invade Korea by crossing the 38th parallel .1951 - Malayan Emergency : Malay Races Liberation Army (MRLA) ambushes and kills British High Commissioner Sir Henry Gurney.1957 - Dick Clark 's American Bandstand debuts.1957 - A fire in the Windscale plutonium production reactor, north of Liverpool, England , cause the release of radioactive material, which is later blamed for 39 cancer deaths.1958 - President of Pakistan Iskander Mirza , with the support of General Ayub Khanand the army, suspends the * 1956 constitution, imposes martial law , and cancels the elections scheduled for January 1959.1960 - Kennedy & Nixon debate Cold War foreign policy - Second of four scheduled debates. 1968 - Hollywood adopts the Movie ratings system. 1970 Richard Nixon announces a new five point peace proposal to end the Vietnam War 1977 - The adoption of the Fourth Soviet Constitution .1982 _ Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years. The show closed on September 10th, 2000 1984 - Running Back Walter Payton breaks Jim Brown 's rushing record .1985 - Achille Lauro Palestinian terrorists .1992 - Tevfik Esenç , the last fluent speaker of the Ubykh language , died in his sleep.1998 - Matthew Shepard , beaten the night before, is left tied to a fence and dies in Laramie, Wyoming .
2000-2099
Births
Up to 1900
1900-1999 1900 - Heinrich Himmler, Nazi official and leader of the SS (d. 1945 )1905 - Andy Devine , actor (d. 1977 )1911 - Vaughn Monroe , singer (d. 1973 )1914 - Alfred Drake , actor (d. 1992 )1917 - June Allyson , actress1921 - Raymond Goethals , Belgian National Soccer Trainer (d. 2004 )1931 - Cotton Fitzsimmons , NBA basketball coach (d. 2004)1931 - Desmond Tutu , South African archbishop and anti-apartheid activist 1934 - Amiri Baraka , playwright, poet (born LeRoi Jones)1935 - Thomas Keneally , Australian author1936 - Charles Dutoit , Swiss conductor1939 - John Hopcroft , American theoretical computer scientist 1939 _ Harold Kroto , British chemist 1939 - Bill Snyder , football coach at Kansas State University 1943 - Oliver North , United States Marine involved in Iran-Contra affair1947 - France Gall , French singer, Eurovision Song Contest winner1950 - Jakaya Kikwete , foreign minister of Tanzania1951 - John Cougar Mellencamp , singer1952 - Vladimir Putin , Russian politician and president1954 - Kenneth Atchley , composer and noise artist1955 - Yo-Yo Ma , cellist1957 - Jayne Torvill, figure skater 1959 - Simon Cowell , Pop Idol and American Idol judge1960 - Viktor Lazlo , French singer1968 - Thomas Edward Yorke, singer1975 - Terry Gerin (Rhyno), professional wrestler1977 - Meighan Desmond , actress1979 - Simona Amanar , Romanian gymnast 1980 - Shane Kinney, American programmer
Deaths
Up to 1900
1900_1999 1919 - Alfred Deakin , second Prime Minister of Australia 1925 - Christy Mathewson , baseball star1926 - Emil Kraepelin , German psychologist 1943 - Eugeniusz Bodo , famous Polish actor, killed by the NKVD 1943 - Radclyffe Hall , British author 1959 - Mario Lanza , singer1981 - Albert Cohen , Swiss novelist1991 - Leo Durocher , Baseball Player/Manager1992 - Tevfik Esenc , last speaker of the Ubykh language
Holidays October 6 - October 8 - September 7 - November 7 -- listing of all days
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October 9 - encyclopedia article about October 9. (2771 words)
October 9 is the 282nd day of the year (283rd in Leap years A leap year (or intercalary year) is a year containing an extra day or month in order to keep the calendar year in sync with an astronomical or seasonal year. Seasons and astronomical events do not repeat at an exact number of days, so a calendar which had the same number of days in each year would over time drift with respect to the event it was supposed to track. October 9 - Founder of Rhode Island Roger Williams is banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious dissident after he spoke out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away Native American land.
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October 7th , 2001 08:14 PM YEs we are officially at war. October 7th , 2001 08:27 PM Bill, I hope they dont make the mistake of allowing him to look for another source.... October 7th , 2001 08:28 PM The British subs fired missiles at the main airport and took it out....
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