Oct 7th

Birthdates which occurred on your SELECTED date of October 07:

1728 Caesar Rodney Delaware, patriot, signed Declaration of Independence
1746 William Billings Boston Mass, hymn composer (Rose of Sharon)
1849 James Whitcomb Riley US, poet (The Raggedy Man)
1866 Martha McChesney Berry US, founded Berry School for Children
1870 Uncle Dave Macon entertainer
1879 Joe Hill Jevla Sweden, organizer (IWW)/songwriter (Union Scab)/martyr
1879 Leon Trotsky Russian revolutionary leader/writer (Diary in Exile)
1885 Niels Bohr Denmark, physicist, expanded quantum physics (Nobel 1922)
1887 Jack Mulhall Wappinger Falls NY, actor (Ken Murray Show)
1888 Henry A Wallace (D/P) 33rd VP, Progressive pres candidate
1889 Clarence Muse Balt Md, actor (Sam-Casablanca)
1896 Elijah Muhammad famous African
1898 Alfred Wallenstein Chicago Illinois, conductor (Chic Symph 1922-29)
19-- Ann Curless singer (Expos‚-What You Don't Know)
19-- Jill Larson actress (Opal Cortlandt-All My Children)
19-- John Loprieno actor (Cord Roberts-One Life to Live)
19-- Joseph Sirola NYC, actor (Magician, Montefuscos)
19-- Melinda Fee LA Calif, actress (Dr Kate Westin-Invisible Man)
1901 Frank X Boucher Ottawa, All-star NHL center (Ottawa, NY Rangers)
1904 Chuck Klein Indianapolis In, Phila Phillies (43 HRs in 1929)
1905 Andy Devine [Jeremiah Schwartz], Flagstaff Az, actor (Andy's Gang)
1906 James E Webb head of NASA (1961-68)
1911 Vaughn Monroe Akron Oh, singer/orch leader (Vaughn Monroe Show)
1914 Alfred Drake singer/actor (Kiss Me Kate)
1914 Sarah Churchill actress (All Over Town, Royal Wedding)
1916 Walt W Rostow economist (Politics & Stages of Growth)
1917 Helmut Dantine Vienna Austria, actor (Shadow of the Cloak)
1917 June Allyson Bronx, actress (Till the Clouds Roll By, Vegas)
1919 Erik Elms„ter Sweden, 1st to compete in summer & winter Oly (1948)
1919 Gabriel Dell Barbados, actor (Steve Allen Show)
1922 Martha Stewart Bardwell Ky, singer/actress (Daisy Kenyon, Doll Face)
1926 Diana Lynn actress (Annapolis Story, Easy Come Easy Go)
1927 Al Martino Phila, singer (Here in My Heart)/actor (Godfather)
1931 Desmond Tutu Anglican Archbishop of S Afr (Nobel Peace Prize 1982)
1933 Paul B Price Cataret NJ, actor (Busting Loose)
1934 Willie Naulls NBA star (NY Knicks)
1935 Thomas M Keneally Australia, novelist (Blood Red Sister Rose)
1938 Robert Drivas Chicago, actor (Cool Hand Luke, Illustrated Man)
1943 Oliver North military man (contra hearings)
1951 John Cougar Mellencamp Seymour Indiana, rocker (Jack & Diane)
1952 Ludmila Tourischeva USSR, gymnast (Olympic-gold-1972)
1953 Christopher Norris NYC, actress (Summer of '42, Eat My Dust)
1954 Tico Torres drummer (Bon Jovi-You Give Love a Bad Name)
1955 Yo-Yo Ma Paris France, world famous Chinese cellist
1956 James Van Patten Brooklyn NY, actor (Bo-Chisholms)
1958 Kim Morris San Diego Ca, playmate (Mar, 1986)
1961 Judy Landers Phila, actress (Vega$, BJ & the Bear, Madame's Place)
1974 Alexander Polinsky SF Calif, actor (Adam-Charles in Charge)

Deaths which occurred on October 07:

1849 Edgar Allen Poe poet, dies in Balt at 40
1959 Mario Lanza singer, dies at 38 of a heart attack
1988 Billy Daniels singer, dies of cancer at 73
1990 John "Cat" Thompson basketball hall of famer, dies at 84
1991 Leo Durocher baseball coach/manager (Dodgers, Giants), dies at 86

On this day...

3761 -BC- Origin of Jewish Mundane Era
336 St Mark ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1571 Turkish fleet defeated by Spanish & Italians in Battle of Lepanto
1737 40 foot waves sink 20,000 small craft & kill 300,000 (Bengal, India)
1765 The Stamp Act Congress convenes in NY
1777 Americans beat Brits in 2nd Battle of Saratoga & Battle of Bemis Hts
1780 British defeated by American militia near Kings Mountain, SC
1816 1st double decked steamboat, the Washington, arrived in New Orleans
1826 Granite Railway (1st chartered railway in US) begins operations
1868 Cornell University (Ithaca NY) opens
1871 16-hour fire injures 30 of Chicago's 185 firefighters
1886 Spain abolishes slavery in Cuba
1900 The term "orienteering" is 1st used for an event
1908 Crete revolts against Turkey & aligns with Greece
1916 222 points are scored in a football game between Georgia Tech & Cumberland University of Lebanon, Tennessee
1919 1st London-Amsterdam airline service begins (Brit Aerial Transport)
1924 160 consecutive days of 100ø at Marble Bar, Australia begins
1927 Yank Herb Pennock retires 1st 22 Pirates in world series game (World Series #24)
1931 1st infra-red photograph, Rochester, NY
1933 NY Giants beat Washington Senators, 4 games to 1 in 30th World Series
1935 Detroit Tigers beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 32nd World Series
1938 Germany demands all Jewish passports stamped with the letter J
1949 German Dem Rep formed from Russian occupation zone (National Day)
1950 NY Yankees sweep Phila Phillies in 47th World Series
1950 US forces invade Korea by crossing the 38th parallel
1952 NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 3 in 49th World Series - Yankees tie their own record of 4 consecutive World Series wins
1957 "American Bandstand" premieres
1958 Potter Stewart appointed to US Supreme Court
1958 US manned space-flight project renamed Project Mercury
1959 Far side of Moon seen for 1st time, compliments of USSR's Luna 3
1960 "Route 66" premieres
1963 Bobby Baker resigns as Senate Democratic secretary
1963 Hurricane Flora hits Haiti & Dominican Republic, kills 7,190
1964 NY Yankees make 14th appearance in last 16 & 29th in 61 World Series
1965 50 mph gust carries 165 lb Robert Mitera's tee shot 447 yards to score the world's longest straight hole-in-one in Omaha
1965 Robert Mitera aces 447-yd 10th hole at Miracle Hills, Omaha, Nebraska
1967 Beatles turn down $1 million NY concert offer by Sid Berstein
1968 Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system
1972 1st season game at Nassau Coliseum, Flames-3, Islanders-2
1977 With 2 outs in top of 9th, Dodgers trailing Phillies 5-3 in playoffs, score 3 runs & win 6-5. Dodgers hold 2-1 game lead
1981 In 1st Eastern Division championship Yanks beat Brewers 5-3
1984 Walter Payton passes Jim Brown as NFL's career rushing leader
1985 21st Space Shuttle Mission (51-J)-Atlantis 1 lands at Edwards AFB
1985 KHQ-AM in Spokane Wash's final transmission
1985 Lynette Woodward, chosen as 1st woman on the Harlem Globetrotters
1985 PLO terrorists seize Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro
1988 Dallas Green replaces Lou Pinella as NY Yankee manager
1988 Latvian flag raised in Riga for 1st time since annexation by USSR
1988 Robin Givens files for divorce after 8-month marriage to Mike Tyson
1988 WNBC 660 final transmission, WFAN moves from 1050 to 660 & WUKQ begins on 1050 at 5:30 PM (NYC radio)
1989 Radio talk show host Larry King weds Julie Alexander
1989 Rickey Henderson steals a record 8 bases in a play off (5 games)
1990 Israel begins handing out gas masks to its citizens
1991 Child star Adam Rich arrested for stealing hypodermics

Holidays

Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Fiji : Deed of Cession (1874)
German Dem Rep : Constitution Day (1949)
Libya : Evacuation Day
Massachusetts : Grandparents Day - - - - - ( Sunday )
Missouri : Missouri Day - - - - - ( Monday )
World : Child Health Day, Universal Children's Day (1928) - - - - - ( Monday )

Religious History

1810 Birth of Henry Alford, Anglican scholar. He was a member of the 1881 ERV Bible translation committee, but is better remembered today for writing the hymn "Come, Ye Thankful People, Come."
1832 Birth of Charles Converse, American lawyer and sacred composer. Converse penned the hymn tune CONVERSE, to which we sing today "What a Friend We Have in Jesus."
1930 Missionary linguist Frank C. Laubach wrote in a letter: 'Beside Jesus, the whole lot of us are so contemptible.... But God is like Jesus, and like Jesus, He will not give up until we, too, are like Jesus.'
1943 While WWII was raging, the American Council of Volunteer Agencies for Foreign Service was formed. It was as an interfaith venture to bring Protestant, Catholic and Jewish agencies involved in international relief together under one roof.
1955 The religious drama 'Crossroads' first aired over ABC television. An anthology which dramatized true experiences of clergymen of all denominations, the program ran for two years.