Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/October 7
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[edit] Events
- 1492 - Christopher Columbus misses Florida when he changes course.
- 1763 - George III of Great Britain issues British Royal Proclamation of 1763, closing aboriginal lands in North America north and west of Alleghenies to white settlements.
- 1769 - English explorer, Captain Cook, discovers New Zealand.
- 1840 - Willem II becomes King of the Netherlands.
- 1928 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10 miles (50:15.0).
- 1944 - Fieldmarshal Erwin Rommel ordered to return to Berlin.
- 1951 - David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli government.
- 1963 - John F. Kennedy signs ratification for Partial Test Ban Treaty.
- 1970 - Richard Nixon announces a new five-point peace proposal to end the Vietnam War.
- 2003 - California governor Gray Davis is recalled and replaced by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
[edit] Births
- 1885 - Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d.1962)
- 1931 - Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop and Nobel Laureate
- 1951 - John Cougar Mellencamp, American singer
- 1952 - Vladimir Putin, 2nd President of Russia
- 1955 - Yo-Yo Ma, French-born cellist
- 1959 - Simon Cowell, English recording executive
- 1966 - Toni Braxton, American singer
[edit] Deaths
- 1577 - George Gascoigne, English poet
- 1792 - George Mason, American patriot (b. 1725)
- 1849 - Edgar Allan Poe, American writer (b. 1809)
- 1894 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, American writer (b. 1809)
- 1903 - Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (b. 1832)
