7 October

The **7t o October** is the 280t day o the year (281st in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 85 days bidin.

## Events

* 1477 - The Varsity o Uppsala in Swaden is foondit.
* 1737 - 40-fit waves kill 300,000 fowk in Bengal, Indie.
* 1756 - Floods on the Reiver Elbe kill 600 fowk.
* 1769 - James Cook lands in New Zealand.
* 1886 - Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba.
* 1908 - Crete rebels against the Ottoman Empire an aligns isself wi Greece.
* 1910 - Absinthe is banned in Swisserland.
* 1933 - Air France is creatit.
* 1940 - Warld War II: Germany invades Romanie.
* 1949 - The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) is foondit.
* 1960 - Nigerie joins the Unitit Naitions.
* 1962 - The Soviet Union performs its first nuclear bomb test, on the isle o Novaya Zemlya.
* 1963 - Hurricane Flora kills 7,190 fowk in Haiti.
* 1971 - Oman jyns the Unitit Naitions.
* 1976 - Hua Guofeng succeeds Mao Zedong as Chairman o the Cheenese Communist Pairty.
* 1985 - Palestinian gunmen attack the cruise ship "Achille Lauro".
* 1985 - Floods in Puerto Rico kill ower 130 fowk.
* 2000 - Fitbaa: Germany defeats Ingland 1-0 in the last match at the Auld Wembley Stadium in Lunnon.
* 2001 - The Unitit States stairts tae go tae war in Afghanistan.
* 2003 - Arnold Schwarzenegger is electit Govrenor o Californie.
* 2004 - Norodom Sihanouk abdicates as King o Cambodie.
* 2006 - Palau moves its caipital frae Koror tae Ngerulmud in the state o Melekeok. It is the least-populatit caipital o ony sovereign state in the warld.
* 2006 - Roushie jurnalist an writer Anna Politkovskaya is murthert.
* 2006 - Fitbaa: Scotland defeats Fraunce 1-0 in a surprise result at Hampden Park in Glesga, wi a goal bi Gary Caldwell.
* 2011 - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Leymah Gbowee an Tawakkol Karman win the Nobel Peace Prize.
* 2016 - Juan Manuel Santos wins the Nobel Peace Prize.
* 2019 - Saturn owertaks Jupiter as the planet in the Solar Seestem wi the maist-kent nummer o muins, at 82, as opposed tae Jupiter's 79.
* 2019 - A lorry-rammin attack in Limburg an der Lahn, Germany, injures 8 fowk.

## Births

* 1471 - Frederick I o Denmark (d. 1533)
* 1734 - Ralph Abercromby, Scots sodger an politeecian (d. 1801)
* 1748 - Charles XIII o Swaden (d. 1818)
* 1877 - Thomas Archibald Sprague, Scots botanist (d. 1958)
* 1885 - Niels Bohr, Dens pheesicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1962)
* 1888 - Henry A. Wallace, 33rd Vice Preses o the Unitit States (d. 1965)
* 1900 - Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi offeecial (d. 1945)
* 1927 - R. D. Laing, Scots psychologist (d. 1989)
* 1931 - Desmond Tutu, Sooth African airchbeeshop an activist, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
* 1935 - Thomas Keneally, Australian writer
* 1939 - Harry Kroto, Inglis chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 2016)
* 1939 - Enrique Pinti, Argentine actor, comedian, theatre director an writer
* 1950 - Jakaya Kikwete, umwhile Preses o Tanzanie
* 1952 - Vladimir Putin, Preses o Roushie
* 1955 - Yo-Yo Ma, French-American cellist
* 1959 - Simon Cowell, Inglis muisic mogul an telly personality
* 1968 - Thom Yorke, Inglis muisicker
* 1974 - Charlotte Perrelli, Swadish sangster
* 1978 - Alesha Dixon, Inglis sangster
* 1982 - Jermain Defoe, Inglis fitbawer
* 1987 - Lauren Mayberry, Scots sangster
* 1987 - James McArthur, Scots fitbawer
* 1987 - Paul McGowan, Scots fitbawer
* 1987 - Sam Querrey, American tennis player
* 1988 - Diego Costa, Brazilian-Spaingie fitbawer
* 1993 - Rory McKenzie, Scots fitbawer
* 1996 - Lewis Capaldi, Scots sangster an sangwriter

## Daiths
* 929 - Charles the Simple, Frankish King (b. 879)
* 1637 - Victor Amadeus I, Duke o Savoy (b. 1587)
* 1796 - Thomas Reid, Scots philosopher (b. 1710)
* 1849 - Edgar Allan Poe, American writer (b. 1809)
* 1959 - Mario Lanza, American sangster (b. 1921)
* 1967 - Norman Angell, Inglis jurnalist, author an politeecian (b. 1872)
* 1992 - William Serle, Scots fitbawer (b. 1912)
* 2001 - Stewart Imlach, Scots fitbawer (b. 1932)
* 2006 - Anna Politkovskaya, Roushie jurnalist an writer (b. 1958)
* 2011 - Ramiz Alia, Preses o Albanie (b. 1925)

## Halidays
* The **7t o October** is the eat day o the follaein saunts:
:St. Artaldus
:St. Sergius
:St. Justina o Padua
:St. Adalgis
:St. Apuleius
:St. Augustus
:St. Sergius & Bacehus
:St. Canog
:St. Dubtach
:St. Helanus
:Pape Mark
:St. Osyth
:St. Palladius
* Teacher's Day (Laos)
* Naitional Day o East Germany (until 1989)