WHAT HAPPENED ON 7. OCTOBER
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The Helsinki Stock Exchange sees its first transaction. (7. October 1912)

Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222-0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history. (7. October 1916)

KLM, the flag carrier of the Netherlands, is founded. It is the oldest airline still operating under its original name. (7. October 1919)

Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes Prime Minister of Greece for a short period of time. (7. October 1924)

Photios II becomes Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. (7. October 1929)

Air France is inaugurated, after being formed by a merger of 5 French airlines. (7. October 1933)

World War II: the McCollum memo proposes bringing the United States into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States. (7. October 1940)

World War II: The October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal begins as United States Marine Corps forces attack Imperial Japanese Army units along the Matanikau River. (7. October 1942)

World War II: During an uprising at Birkenau concentration camp, Jewish prisoners burn down the crematoria. (7. October 1944)

The communist German Democratic Republic (East Germany) is formed. (7. October 1949)

American poet Allen Ginsberg performs his poem Howl for the first time at the Six Gallery in San Francisco. (7. October 1955)

President of Pakistan Iskander Mirza, with the support of General Ayub Khan and the army, suspends the 1956 constitution, imposes martial law, and cancels the elections scheduled for January 1959. (7. October 1958)

The U.S. manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury. (7. October 1958)

U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits the first ever photographs of the far side of the Moon. (7. October 1959)

Nigeria joins the United Nations. (7. October 1960)

John F. Kennedy signs the ratification of the Partial Test Ban Treaty. (7. October 1963)

Oman joins the United Nations. (7. October 1971)

Hua Guofeng becomes Mao Zedong's successor as chairman of Communist Party of China, following the latter's death barely a month earlier. (7. October 1976)

The adoption of the Fourth Soviet Constitution. (7. October 1977)

The Achille Lauro is hijacked by Palestine Liberation Organization. (7. October 1985)