10-07-2005, 05:07 AM
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October 7th
1571 ~ Ottoman Empire defeated at the battle of Lepanto, the last major naval battle to take place between exclusively oared galleys.
1582 ~ Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1849 ~ Death of Edgar Allan Poe, American writer.
1885 ~ Birthday of Niels Bohr, The Nobel Prize in Physics 1922.
1886 ~ Spain abolished slavery in Cuba.
1913 ~ Henry Ford introduced the moving assembly line.
1919 ~ KLM founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name.
1900 ~ Birthday of Heinrich Himmler, Nazi official and leader of the SS.
1931 ~ Birthday of Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop, The Nobel Peace Prize 1984.
1955 ~ Birthday of Yo-Yo Ma, Cellist.
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