October 7: Feast day of St. Osyth
Hua Guofeng
- 1542 – Spanish explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo became the first European to set foot on Santa Catalina Island, off the coast of California.
- 1763 – Following Great Britain's acquisition of New France after the end of the Seven Years' War, King George III issued a Royal Proclamation closing most of this land to the residents of the Thirteen Colonies and reserving it for indigenous peoples.
- 1919 – KLM, the oldest airline in the world still operating under its original name, was founded.
- 1976 – Hua Guofeng succeeded Mao Zedong as Chairman of the Communist Party of China.
- 2001 – War on Terrorism: The War in Afghanistan began with an aerial bombing campaign targeting Taliban and Al-Qaeda forces.
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