October 7

Scroll down for the world's holidays, annual events and a few anniversaries on October 7.

See also:  October,  Today in History,  movable October holidays,  possible October holidays

     spotlight on:  

•  Festival of the Deerk Toes (Fairy)
•  Festival of Food
•  National Frappe Day
•  Universal Children's Day (UN)
•  Victoria, Our Lady of Victories' Day a/k/a Pallas Athena (Old Roman Goddess of Triumph)

Christian holidays

•  Calendar of Saints - October 07

•  Feast of St. Artaldus
•  Feast of St. Sergius
•  St. Justina of Padua's Day
•  St. Adalgis
•  St. Apuleius
•  St. Augustus
•  St. Sergius & Bacehus
•  St. Canog
•  St. Dubtach
•  St. Helanus
•  Pope Mark
•  St. Osyth
•  St. Palladius

anniversaries

•  2008:  an asteroid's landing was predicted - discovered the day before it reached the Earth, the asteroid's impact location and time were for the first time predicted in advance
•  Happy birthday to singer John Cougar Mellencamp
•  announcement of the discovery of the Biggest World Since Pluto by the Hubble Telescope (2002)
•  address by President Bush about the September 11th attacks (2001)
  •  Stars & Stripes article
  •  WAR...October 7, 2001 - article
•  Achille Lauro hijacked by Palestinian terrorists (1985)
  •  Achille Lauro terrorist caught in Baghdad
•  Henry Ford introduces the assembly line (1913)
•  The Royal Proclamation by King George to erect four governments:  Quebec, East Florida, West Florida and Grenada (1763)
  •  Royal Proclamation
•  October 7, 1582 does not exist on the Gregorian calendar - it became October 17, 1582, when the ten-day lag of the previously used Julian calendar was corrected

directories

•  October 7
•  Politicians who died on October 7
•  Today in History- October 7 - in Nevada

October holidays & events by location

•  Africa
•  Asia & Middle East
•  Europe
•  North & Central America
•  Oceania
•  South America

Africa

•  Expulsion of Fascist Settlers Day - in Libya

Asia

•  Constitution Day in the former USSR

Middle East

Australia and Oceania

•  Deed of Cession Day - in Fiji

Europe

•  Lepanto Day - in Greece
•  St. Justina's Day (patron of Padua, Venice) - in Italy
•  Goose Fair opens - in Nottinghamshire, UK

North America

Caribbean

Central America

South America

Gregorian calendar

•  Day 280, with 85 days remaining in the year
•  2001 A. D.: Sunday
•  2002 A. D.:  Monday
•  2003 A. D.:  Tuesday
•  2004 A. D.:  Thursday
•  2005 A. D.:  Friday

•  2006 A. D.:  Saturday
•  2007 A. D.:  Sunday
•  2008 A. D.:  Tuesday
•  2009 A. D.:  Wednesday
•  2010 A. D.:  Thursday
•  2011 A. D.:  Friday

other calendars

•  Julian period & Julian Day
•  Illuminati
•  Hebrew
•  Mayan
•  Chinese
•  Erisian (Discordian) 
•  Islamic
•  French Revolutionary

season

•  Northern hemisphere:  Autumn
•  Southern hemisphere:  Spring

zodiac

•  Libra

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last edited Thursday, December 25, 2008