📜 This Day in History

October 7

• 1513War of the League of Cambrai: A Venetian army under Bartolomeo d'Alviano was decisively defeated by the Spanish army commanded by Ramón de Cardona and Fernando d'Ávalos.
• 1800The French privateer Robert Surcouf led a 150-man crew to capture the 40-gun, 437-man East Indiaman Kent.
• 1868Ōdate, the last castle of the Satake clan in Japan's Tōhoku region, was captured during the Boshin War.
• 1916Georgia Tech defeated Cumberland University 222–0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
• 1988Near Point Barrow in Alaska, an Iñupiat hunter discovered three gray whales trapped in pack ice, which resulted in an international effort to free them.
• 2023In the October 7 attacks, Hamas and other Palestinian militant groups killed nearly 1,200 people in southern Israel and took 251 hostages, starting the Gaza war.

Born on this day

• 1885Niels Bohr, Danish physicist and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1962)
• 1900Heinrich Himmler, Nazi politician, head of the SS and senior official responsible for the Holocaust (died 1945)
• 1931Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2021)
• 1952Vladimir Putin, Russian colonel and politician, 4th President of Russia