October 7 ā Some important events on this day.
3761 BC šš¼ The epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar (Proleptic Julian calendar).
1571 šš¼ Battle of Lepanto: Holy League of southern European nations destroy Ottoman fleet in significant loss off Western Greece.
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1737 šš¼ A cyclone causes 40 foot waves that are believed to have killed 300,000 in Calcutta, India
1763 šš¼ George III of Great Britain issues Proclamation of 1763, closing lands in North America north and west of Alleghenies to white settlement
1806 šš¼ Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgwood
1916 šš¼ Georgia Tech, coached by John Heisman, defeats Cumberland, 222-0; most lopsided score in the history of US college football
1919 šš¼ KLM, Royal Dutch Airlines, established (oldest existing airline)
1959 šš¼ Far side of Moon seen for the 1st time.
In 1959 the Soviet spacecraft Luna 3 was the first to record images of the far side of the Moon. The images were of poor quality compared to later efforts but still generated excitement around the world at a view never previously seen by human eyes.
Twenty-nine photos were taken by a specially designed AFA-E1 camera and immediately transmitted back to earth. The images were later published in an atlas by the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1960, and revealed a landscape quite different from the near side facing earth. The surface was far more pock-marked, with chains of craters, hundreds of kilometers wide and without the maria (plains) so common on the near side.
1988 šš¼ Latvian flag raised in Riga for first time since annexation by USSR
2001 šš¼ The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan starts with an air assault and covert operations on the ground