Talk:October 7
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October 7: Feast Day of St. Osyth
- 3761 BCE - The epoch of the modern Hebrew calendar.
- 1571 - The Ottoman Empire was decisively defeated by the Christian West for the first time, as a multinational fleet led by Don John of Austria crushed the Turkish navy near the Gulf of Corinth in the Battle of Lepanto (painting by Paolo Veronese pictured).
- 1949 - The German Democratic Republic was proclaimed in East Berlin.
- 1959 - Soviet spacecraft Luna 3 captured the first photographs of the far side of the Moon.
- 1985 - The Mediterranean ocean liner Achille Lauro was hijacked by Palestine Liberation Front terrorists while sailing from Alexandria to Port Said.
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