Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 7
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October 7: Double Ninth Festival in the Chinese calendar (2008); Feast Day of St. Osyth
- 1542 – Explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo became the first European to set foot on Santa Catalina Island off the coast of California.
- 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).
- 1868 – Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, USA opened, with an initial enrollment of 412 students the next day.
- 1949 – East Berlin and the Soviet Zone of Occupied Germany became the German Democratic Republic.
- 1958 – Attempting to control the political instability in Pakistan, President Iskander Mirza suspended the 1956 constitution, imposed martial law, and cancelled the elections scheduled for January 1959.