Browse events, births, deaths and holidays on October 7 throughout history.
The Islamic Resistance Movement, abbreviated Hamas, is a Sunni Islamist Palestinian nationalist political organisation with a military wing known as the al-Qassam Brigades. It has…
Hamas and several other Palestinian militant groups launch an attack into Israel, which results in the deaths of…
The Creeslough explosion occurred on 7 October 2022 at an apartment above Applegreen petrol station in Creeslough, a village in north County Donegal, Ireland. It killed ten people…
Ten people are killed and eight are injured in an explosion at petrol station in Creeslough, Ireland.
Ales Viktaravich Bialiatski is a Belarusian human rights defender, pro-democracy activist, and writer. He is chair of the Viasna Human Rights Centre. He was held as a prisoner of …
Ales Bialiatski, along with two organisations, Memorial & Center for Civil Liberties, are awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Hurricane Matthew was a powerful and devastating tropical cyclone which caused catastrophic damage and a humanitarian crisis in Haiti, as well as widespread devastation across Cub…
In the wake of Hurricane Matthew, the death toll rises to over 800.
2008 TC3 was an 80-tonne (80-long-ton; 90-short-ton), 4.1-meter (13 ft) diameter asteroid that entered Earth's atmosphere on October 7, 2008. It exploded at an estimated 37 kilome…
Asteroid 2008 TC3 impacts the Earth over Sudan, the first time an asteroid impact is detected prior to its entry into…
Qantas Flight 72 (QF72) was a scheduled flight from Singapore Changi Airport to Perth Airport by an Airbus A330. On 7 October 2008, the flight made an emergency landing at Learmon…
Qantas Flight 72 experiences an in-flight upset near Exmouth, Western Australia, Australia, injuring 112.
The Battle of Mirali was a military engagement that occurred between 7 October and 10 October 2007 and involved Pakistan Armed Forces against the Afghan Taliban and the Pakistani …
The battle of Mirali begins in which the Pakistan Armed Forces and Taliban militias clash for four days.
The 2004 Sinai bombings were three bomb attacks targeting tourist hotels in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, on 7 October 2004. The attacks left 34 people dead and 171 injured.
Three bombs explode at Taba and Nuweiba in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, killing 34.
Space Shuttle Atlantis is a retired Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle which belongs to NASA, the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States. Atlantis was manufactur…
The Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-112 to continue assembly of the International Space Station.
Shortly after the September 11 attacks in 2001, the United States declared the war on terror and subsequently led a multinational military operation against Taliban-ruled Afghanis…
The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert operations on the ground, starting the longest…
Israel and the Palestinians are engaged in an ongoing military and political conflict about land and self-determination within the former territory of Mandatory Palestine. Key asp…
Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Hezbollah militants capture three Israeli Defense Force soldiers in a cross-border raid.
The Fox News Channel (FNC), often referred to as Fox News, is an American multinational conservative news and political commentary television channel and website based in New York…
Fox News Channel begins broadcasting.
The Great Flood of 1993 was a flood that occurred in the Midwestern United States, along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers and their tributaries, from April to October 1993.
The flood of '93 ends at St. Louis, Missouri, 103 days after it began, as the Mississippi River falls below flood stage.
The bombing of the Banski Dvori was a Yugoslav Air Force strike on the Banski Dvori in Zagreb—the official residence of the President of Croatia at the time of the Croatian War of…
Croatian War of Independence: Bombing of the Banski Dvori in Zagreb, Croatia.
Operation Breakthrough was a US-Soviet effort to free three gray whales from pack ice in the Beaufort Sea near Point Barrow in the U.S. state of Alaska in 1988. The whales' plight…
A hunter discovers three gray whales trapped under the ice near Alaska; the situation becomes a multinational effort…
The Khalistan movement is a separatist movement seeking to create a homeland for Sikhs by establishing an ethnoreligious sovereign state called Khalistan in the Punjab region. The…
Sikh nationalists declare the independence of Khalistan from India; it is not internationally recognized.
The 1985 Puerto Rico floods produced showers and thunderstorms across the island and the deadliest single landslide on record in North America, that killed at least 130 people in …
The Mameyes landslide kills almost 200 people in Puerto Rico.
The Achille Lauro hijacking took place on 7 October 1985, when the Italian ocean liner MS Achille Lauro was hijacked by four men representing the Palestinian Liberation Front (PLF…
Four men from the Palestine Liberation Front hijack the MS Achille Lauro off the coast of Egypt.
On 7 October 1979, a Swissair DC-8 crashed while landing at Athens-Ellinikon International Airport in Athens, Greece. Of the 154 passengers and crew on board, 14 were killed in th…
Swissair Flight 316 crashes at Ellinikon International Airport in Athens, Greece, killing 14.
Aeroflot Flight 1080 was a Soviet domestic passenger flight from Sverdlovsk, Russia, to Dzhambul, Kazakhstan, that crashed at night shortly after takeoff on 7 October 1978. All 38…
Aeroflot Flight 1080 crashes after takeoff from Koltsovo International Airport, killing 38.