Hankering for History's TODAY IN HISTORY, OCTOBER 7TH

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

A few of the great historical events that happened today in history, October 7th!

1571	In the last great clash of galleys, the Ottoman navy is defeated at Lepanto, Greece, by a Christian naval coalition under the overall command of Spain’s Don Juan de Austria.
1765	Delegates from nine of the American colonies meet in New York to discuss the Stamp Act Crisis and colonial response to it.
1849	Edgar Allan Poe, aged 40, dies a tragic death in Baltimore. Never able to overcome his drinking habits, he was found in a delirious condition outside a saloon that was used as a voting place. Edgar Allan Poe
1868	Cornell University was inaugurated in Ithaca, N.Y.
1870	French Minister of the Interior Leon Gambetta escapes besieged Paris by balloon, reaching the French provisional government in Tours.
1879	Communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein in Yanovka, Ukraine.
1913	In attempting to find ways to lower the cost of the automobile and make it more affordable to ordinary Americans, Henry Ford took note of the work of efficiency experts like Frederick Taylor, the “father of scientific management.” The result was the assembly line that reduced the time it took to manufacture a car, from 12 hours to 93 minutes.
1944	Prisoner uprising at Birkenau concentration camp.
1949	Iva Toguri D’Aquino, better known as Tokyo Rose, is sentenced to 10 years in prison for treason.
1949	East Germany, the German Democratic Republic, is formed.
1954	Marian Anderson became the first black singer hired by New York’s Metropolitan Opera.
1957	A fire in the Windscale plutonium production reactor (later called Sellafield) north of Liverpool, England, spreads radioactive iodine and polonium through the countryside and into the Irish Sea. Livestock in the immediate area were destroyed, along with 500,000 gallons of milk. At least 30, and possibly as many as 1,000, cancer deaths were subsequently linked to the accident.
1963	President John F. Kennedy signed the documents of ratification for a nuclear test ban treaty with Britain and the Soviet Union.
1968	The Motion Picture Association of America adopted a film-rating system.
1976	Hua Guofeng, premier of the People’s Republic of China, succeeds the late Mao Zedong as chairman of the Communist Party of China.
1981	Egypt’s parliament named Vice President Hosni Mubarak to succeed the assassinated Anwar Sadat.
1982	The musical “Cats” opened on Broadway, beginning its record run of 7,485 performances.
1985	Four Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) hijackers seize the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro and demand the release of 50 Palestinians held by Israel.
1993	The Great Flood of 1993 on the Mississippi and Missouri rivers ends, the worst US flood since 1927.