Day's Calendar – October 7

The 280th day of the year; 85 days remain until the New Year.

Church Calendar

Commemoration of the First Woman Martyr and Equal-to-the-Apostles Thecla of Iconium (1st century); Venerable Copres (530); Saint Vladislav of Serbia (1239).

Born:

1885 – Niels Bohr, Danish physicist and Nobel Prize laureate; died in 1962.

1931 – Desmond Tutu, South African bishop, a leader in the struggle against apartheid, and Nobel Prize laureate.

1952 – Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation.

1971 – David Doiashvili, theater director.

Died:

1488 – Andrea del Verrocchio, Florentine sculptor.

1849 – Edgar Allan Poe, American writer and founder of the detective genre.

2006 – Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist. Events:

1571 – Battle of Lepanto: The Spanish-Venetian fleet destroyed the Ottoman flotilla. The great Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes was severely wounded in this battle.

1826 – The Convention of Akkerman was signed between Russia and the Ottoman Empire. Russia was granted control of Sukhumi, Redut-Kale (Kulevi), and Anaklia.

1868 – Cornell University opened in the USA.

1913 – Henry Ford launched the first assembly line.

1928 – Herbert Hoover won the US presidential election.

1951 – David Ben-Gurion formed the government of Israel.

1959 – The spacecraft Luna-3 flew around the Moon for the first time.

1981 – Mohamed Hosni Sayyid Mubarak became President of Egypt.

1988 – The Latvian national flag was flown in Riga for the first time.

1993 – Toni Morrison became a Nobel Prize laureate in Literature.

Observances:

World Architecture Day. World Habitat Day.

Jamaica — National Heroes Day.

Namibia — Day of Goodwill.

UN — International Children's Day.

GDR — Republic Day.