[Today] October 7, Franco-Prussian War etc

01) 3761 BC – The epoch reference date epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar (Proleptic Julian calendar).
02) 1406 – French troops comprising 1,000 men at arms landed on Jersey and fought a battle against 3,000 defenders.
03) 1542 – Explorer Cabrillo discovers Santa Catalina Island off of the California coast.
04) 1780 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Kings Mountain: American Patriot militia defeat Loyalist irregulars led by British major Patrick Ferguson in South Carolina.
05) 1826 – The Granite Railway begins operations as the first chartered railway in the U.S.
06) 1870 – Franco-Prussian War: Siege of Paris: Léon Gambetta flees Paris in a hot-air balloon.
07) 1918 – The Regency Council of the Kingdom of Poland declares independence from the German Empire and forms the Republic of Poland.
08) 1924 – Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes Prime Minister of Greece for a short period of time.
09) 1944 – World War II: During an uprising at Birkenau concentration camp, Jewish prisoners burn down the crematoria.
10) 1959 – U.S.S.R. probe Luna 3 transmits the first ever photographs of the far side of the Moon.
11) 2001 – The Global War on Terrorism begins as a result of the September 11 attacks. The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan initiates with an air assault and covert operations on the ground.
12) 2003 – The governor of California, Gray Davis, is recalled in favor of Arnold Schwarzenegger.