Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 7
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).
- 1949: The German Democratic Republic was proclaimed in East Berlin.
- 1985: The Mediterranean ocean liner Achille Lauro was hijacked by Palestine Liberation Front terrorists while sailing from Alexandria to Port Said.
- 2001: War on Terrorism: The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan began at 16:30 UTC with an aerial bombing campaign targeting Taliban and Al-Qaida forces.
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