7 Oct 1880
- Paul Hausser was born.
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7 Oct 1889
China
China
- Chen Shaokuan was born in Chengmen Village, Min County, Fujian Province, China.
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7 Oct 1895
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia
- Ferdinand Catlos was born in Liptovsky Peter, Austria-Hungary (later Czechoslovakia, now Slovakia).
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7 Oct 1900
- Heinrich Himmler was born.
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7 Oct 1910
United Kingdom
United Kingdom
- The keel of protected cruiser Zhaohe was laid down by Armstrong-Whitworth at Elswick, England, United Kingdom.
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7 Oct 1914
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia
- Josef Frantisek was born in Otaslavice, Austria-Hungary (later Czechoslovakia).
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7 Oct 1919
United States
United States
- Joseph Rochefort reported for duty aboard tanker Cuyama as her assistant engineering officer; the ship was based out of San Diego, California, United States.
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7 Oct 1935
- The League of Nations branded Mussolini a covenant-breaker and aggressor.
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7 Oct 1937
China
China
- Kaga arrived off Guangdong Province, China.
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7 Oct 1938
- Chinese troops launched a counteroffensive in Jiangxi Province, China and enveloped elements of the Japanese 101st and 106th Divisions.
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7 Oct 1939
- Hitler appointed Himmler as Reich Commissar for the protection of the German Race and issued a decree empowering Himmler to deport all Jews from Greater Germany to the east, where they would be resettled together with almost 2 million Polish Jews now under German rule.
» In-depth article - French Prime Minister Édouard Daladier rejected Adolf Hitler's proposal for a multi-power conference for peace on the previous day.
» In-depth article - The German Army reported to Adolf Hitler that there was a general shortage of steel, ammunition, and other war materials necessary to wage war against Britain and France.
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7 Oct 1940
- Operation Lucid: British tankers War Nizam and War African, filled with oil and fuel and to be used as fire ships, departed for French channel ports to attack German invasion barges. The mission was once again canceled, this time after destroyer HMS Hambledon hit a mine off the coast near Folkestone, Kent, England.
- German submarine U-59 sank Norwegian ship Touraine 50 miles northwest of Ireland at 1600 hours; 1 was killed and 34 survived in 3 lifeboats. German submarine U-37 hit British tanker British General with two torpedoes 400 miles west of Ireland at 2000 hours after already damaging her with two torpedoes on the previous day; British General sank with all 47 hands lost.
» In-depth article - German armed merchant cruiser Pinguin stopped Norwegian tanker Storstad 500 miles northwest of Australia. With 12,000 tons of diesel oil on board, Storstad was taken as a prize ship and sent back to Germany; she would later be commissioned into German Navy service as Passat. 25 of Storstad's crew became captives aboard Pinguin, while 5 of them chose to serve the Germans aboard Storstad/Passat.
- In the morning, Hermann Göring presented Wolfgang Falck the Knight Cross medal, which was officially awarded to Falck six days prior; the medal was placed around Falck's neck by Major Bernd von Brauchitsch, son of the army chief of staff and Göring's adjutant. During the lunch after the award ceremony, Falck asked Erhard Milch to consider changing the Luftwaffe rule which stated that the family of servicemen who died with less than 10 years of service received no pension.
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- German Luftwaffe dispatched large raids of 50 to 100 aircraft against southern England, United Kingdom, with fighters being 66% to 75% of each wave. On this day, 21 German fighters and 6 bombers were shot down, while the British lost 16 fighters with 6 pilots killed. Overnight, London, Bristol, Liverpool, Firth of Forth, and other locations were bombed.
» In-depth article - James Lacey claimed a probable kill on a German Bf 109 fighter over Britain.
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7 Oct 1941
- In an effort to boost morale in the Soviet Union, Stalin lifted the ban on religion.
» In-depth article - German 10th Panzer Division captured Vyasma, Russia at 1030 hours, surrounding 5 Soviet Armies.
» In-depth article - The United Kingdom demanded Finland to stop fighting the Soviet Union; the demand was ignored.
- German submarine U-502 damaged British whaling ship Svend Foyn 100 miles south of Iceland at 1617 hours; Svend Foyn was to be towed to Liverpool, England, United Kingdom for repairs.
7 Oct 1942
- USS Copahee departed Nouméa, New Caledonia with 20 US Marine Corps aircraft for Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands.
» In-depth article - Franklin Roosevelt announced his intentions to try the "ringleaders responsible for the organized murder", referring to the Holocaust, as war criminals.
» In-depth article - Units from US 2nd, 5th, and 7th Marine Regiment crossed the Matanikau River in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands to raid Japanese positions.
» In-depth article - Heinrich Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein was presented the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross by General Josef Kammhuber.
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- Japanese hospital ship Hikawa Maru departed Truk, Caroline Islands.
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» Tabular Record of Movement - Vice Admiral Jinichi Kusaka arrived at Truk, Caroline Islands and met with the staff of the Combined Fleet.
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- A group of seven British and Canadian commandos (captured at Glomfjord, Norway) were transferred to Oflag IV-C prisoners of war camp at Colditz Castle in Germany. Later, they would all be executed at Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp per Adolf Hitler's Commando Order.
7 Oct 1943
- 98 captured Americans were executed on Wake Island on the orders of Rear Admiral Shigematsu Sakaibara as reprisal to a 5 Oct air raid.
- A group of Auschwitz prisoners blew up one of the crematoria; all saboteurs were caught and executed.
- RAF aircraft bombed Stuttgart, Germany.
» In-depth article - The Fletcher-class destroyer USS Chevalier was sunk by a torpedo fired from the USS La Vallette following severe damage inflicted during an engagement with Japanese destroyers fought on the previous day off Vella Lavella, Solomon Islands.
» In-depth article - Joseph Stilwell met with the newly arrived Louis Mountbatten in Delhi, India.
» In-depth article - German submarine U-703 rescued survivors of sunken Russian freighter Dekabrist.
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- German defenses halted US Fifth Army on the Volturno River, Italy.
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- Air Commodore Andrew James Wray Geddes, a First World War RFC pilot who was now in command of the three airfields in 12 Base, made the first Lancaster bomber landing at the newly built RAF Kelstern in Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom. A week later No. 625 Squadron (formed from C-flight of No. 100 Squadron) relocated from nearby RAF Grimsby.
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7 Oct 1944
- USS Cod damaged a Japanese tanker.
» In-depth article - British troops captured Nauplion and the island of Samos in Greece.
- German 20.Gebirgsarmee began a fighting-withdrawal from Finland toward Norway.
- Jewish prisoners of the Sonderkommando of Auschwitz II-Birkenau Concentration Camp organized a large revolt and escape. Crematorium IV was set on fire, while SS guards came under attack. During the havoc, some of the prisoners were successful in cutting through the perimeter fencing and got outside, but the SS guard responded and successfully rounded up all escapees and killed them all. After the revolt was put down in the camp, about 250 prisoners, including leader Zalmen Gradowski and Józef Deresinski, were dead. Three SS men were also killed; ten were wounded. Four Jewish women who had stolen the explosives from their workplace at the Union-Werke armaments factory, which were used during this revolt, were later hanged.
» In-depth article - In the United Kingdom, the Cabinet decided to continue the censorship of reports of rocket attacks.
- USS Hoe fired 7 torpedoes at a Japanese convoy, scoring 3 hits on 2 freighters, sinking 1 of them.
» In-depth article - USS Baya sank a Japanese transport in the South China Sea, hitting her with 2 of 6 torpedoes fired.
» In-depth article - USS Cabrilla sank a Japanese transport in the South China Sea, hitting her with 3 of 4 torpedoes fired.
» In-depth article - USS Hawkbill detected a Japanese carrier in the South China Sea, but was driven off by destroyers.
» In-depth article - USS Ray attacked the same Japanese tanker she had been chasing since the previous day in the Southe China Sea, hitting her with another 3 torpedo hits (of 6 torpedoes fired), but could not determine whether she had been sunk.
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- General Rudolf Viest was made the commander of the Slovak National Uprising; previous commander, General Ján Golian, stepped down to become Viest's deputy.
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- British 8th Army resumed attacks on the Gothic Line in Italy.
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- USS Whale received orders to move to waters northwest of Luzon, Philippine Islands.
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- Takijiro Onishi arrived in Manila, Philippine Islands.
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- USS Astoria arrived at San Francisco, California, United States and entered the Mare Island Naval Shipyard to repair the damaged turbine.
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7 Oct 1945
- George Patton handed control of the US 3rd Army to Lucian Truscott.
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- Allied repatriation ship Hikawa Maru arrived at Uraga, Japan and disembarked troops.
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7 Oct 1950
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7 Oct 1954
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7 Oct 1964
Pacific Ocean
Pacific Ocean
- Submarine Barbero was sunk as a target off Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, United States.
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7 Oct 1981
- Poor weather forced dive support vessel Stephaniturm to end its mission to the wreck of HMS Edinburgh in the Barents Sea earlier than scheduled. This mission recovered 431 of 465 gold bars aboard the wreck.
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7 Oct 2000
- Walter Krupinski passed away in Neunkirchen-Seelscheid, Germany.
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7 Oct 2010
United States
United States
- The Board of Harbor Commissioners of Los Angeles, California, United States tentatively welcomed battleship Iowa as a museum ship in Los Angeles.
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