WHAT HAPPENED ON 7. OCTOBER
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The Mameyes landslide kills close to 300 in the worst landslide in North American history. (7. October 1985)

Sikh nationalists declares the independence of Khalistan from India; it is not internationally recognized. (7. October 1987)

An Inupiaq hunter discovers three gray whales trapped under the ice in Barrow, Alaska, US; the situation becomes a multinational effort to free the whales. (7. October 1988)

Croatian War of Independence: Bombing of Banski dvori in Zagreb kills 1 civilian. (7. October 1991)

The flood of '93 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River falls below flood stage. (7. October 1993)

The Fox News Channel begins broadcasting. (7. October 1996)

Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming. (7. October 1998)

The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert operations on the ground. (7. October 2001)

A historic recall election takes place in the U.S. State of California in which the sitting Governor Gray Davis, a Democrat, is overwhelmingly voted out of office. Actor, bodybuilder and Republican candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger is elected to be the 38th Governor of California over fellow Republican Tom McClintock and Democrat Cruz Bustamante who at the time was the sitting Lt. Governor of California. This is the first recall election in the history of the State of California in which a sitting Governor has been successfully recalled from office. (7. October 2003)