7th October anniversaries

• Birth
• event
  • 1908
  • Crete revolted against the Ottoman Empire and proclaimed union with Greece.
  • 1908
  • Serbia and Montenegro signed an anti-Austria-Hungarian pact .
  • 1919
  • Dutch airline KLM was founded
  • 1920
  • Oxford University admits Women for the 1st time
  • 1929
  • Ramsay MacDonald became the first British Prime Minister to address the US Congress
  • 1949
  • The German Democratic Republic (East Germany) was founded
  • 1959
  • "The pavilion at the shore end of Southend Pier, England, was destroyed by fire. 300 people trapped on the pier had to be rescued by boat"
  • 1959
  • Soviet space probe Luna 3 sent the first images of the far side of the Moon
  • 1968
  • The Motion Picture Association of America adopted a new film-rating system: G (suitable for ‘general’ audiences); M (‘mature’); R (‘restricted’ to.
• Death
  • 1708
  • India
  • "Death of Guru Gobind Singh, Tenth Sikh Master." more
  • 1708
  • "Death of Gobind Singh, 10th Sikh Guru 300."
  • 1959
  • "Death of Mario Lanza, American tenor and film star"