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Events on October 7

• 1518 Martin Luther arrives in Augsburg to answer to the papal envoy Thomas Cajetan.
• 1879 Bismarck's alliance policy leads to the conclusion of the Dual Alliance between Austria-Hungary and the German Empire.
• 1919 The Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij (KLM) is founded. It is the world's oldest airline still in existence.
• 1928 With the timetable change, the German Reich Railway no longer offers its customers a fourth class of railcars in order to generate higher revenue.
• 1949 In East Berlin, the Provisional People's Chamber puts the Constitution of the German Democratic Republic into force, thereby completing the founding of the GDR. Until 1989, the state observes Republic Day as a national holiday.
• 1955 As a result of Konrad Adenauer's trip to Moscow from 8 to 14 September 1955 and his personal efforts to secure the release of the “last 10,000” German prisoners of war, the first 600 late returnees from the Soviet Union arrive in Friedland and Herleshausen.
• 1959 With the lunar probe Lunik 3, images of the previously unknown far side of the Moon are successfully taken for the first time.
• 1979 The Bremen Green List becomes the first green party to win seats in a state parliament, with four deputies entering the Bremen Parliament.
• 1982 Cats, Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, which has been performed successfully in London since May 1981, has its Broadway premiere.
• 1989 In Plauen, the first Saturday demonstration takes place with approximately 20,000 participants. It is the first mass-supported protest event in the GDR since 1953 and the first large-scale demonstration that cannot be broken up by the security forces.
• 2003 Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Republican candidate, wins the recall election in California against the incumbent Democrat Gray Davis and thereby becomes the new governor of California.
• 2012 The West Indies win the fourth World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka by defeating Sri Lanka by 36 runs in the final.

Born on October 7

• 1885 Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1900 Heinrich Himmler, German politician and war criminal
• 1920 Georg Leber, German politician
• 1931 Desmond Tutu, South African bishop, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
• 1951 John Mellencamp, American musician
• 1961 Matthias Brandt, German actor
• 1971 Bettina Wiegmann, German footballer
• 1972 Anja Reschke, German television presenter
• 1982 Jermain Defoe, English footballer
• 1990 Marie-Laurence Jungfleisch, German high jumper

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „7. Oktober“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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