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October 7 Historical Events

The following events took place on October 7. The list is arranged in chronological order.

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  • 1950
    Mother Teresa build an order called Missionary of Charity
  • 1955
    American poet Allen Ginsberg performs his poem Howl for the first time at the Six Gallery in San Francisco.
  • 1958
    President of Pakistan Iskander Mirza, with the support of General Ayub Khan and the army, suspends the 1956 constitution, imposes martial law, and cancels the elections scheduled for January 1959.
  • 1958
    The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury.
  • 1959
    U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits the first ever photographs of the far side of the Moon.
  • 1960
    Nigeria joins the United Nations.
  • 1963
    John F. Kennedy signs the ratification of the Partial Test Ban Treaty.
  • 1971
    Oman joins the United Nations.
  • 1976
    Hua Guofeng becomes Mao Zedong’s successor as chairman of Communist Party of China, following the latter’s death barely a month earlier.
  • 1977
    The adoption of the Fourth Soviet Constitution.
  • 1985
    The Achille Lauro is hijacked by Palestine Liberation Front.
  • 1985
    The Mameyes landslide kills close to 300 in the worst landslide in North American history.
  • 1987
    Sikh nationalists declares the independence of Khalistan from India; it is not internationally recognized.
  • 1988
    An Inupiat hunter discovers three gray whales trapped under the ice in Barrow, Alaska, US; the situation becomes a multinational effort to free the whales.
  • 1991
    Croatian War of Independence: Bombing of Banski dvori in Zagreb kills one civilian.
  • 1993
    The flood of '93 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River falls below flood stage.
  • 1996
    The Fox News Channel begins broadcasting.
  • 1998
    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.
  • 2001
    The Global War on Terrorism begins as a result of the September 11 attacks. The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan initiates with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
  • 2003
    The governor of California, Gray Davis, is recalled in favor of Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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