The US State Department asked the USSR for help, so the Soviets sent two icebreakers. A large group of whales trapped in ice in the far north of Alaska was discovered on October 7, 1988. These were gray whales (lat. Eschrichtius robustus) trapped by...
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Auschwitz-Birkenau Rebellion (1944)
The Auschwitz II camp in Birkenau was the largest in the Auschwitz complex. It was an extermination camp (Vernichtungslager), in which prisoners were killed in gas chambers using Zyklon-B gas. It is estimated that over a million people were killed in...
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Russian imperial couple who toured Europe incognito (1776)
On October 7, 1776, the wedding of Russian Tsar Paul to German Princess Sophia Maria Dorothea of Württemberg took place. At that time, the Russian Empire was ruled by the famous Empress Catherine II. Velika, to whom Tsarevich Pavao was the son and...
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Helmut Lent – night pilot with more than 100 downed aircraft – 1944.
By the end of 1942, Helmut Lent had gained a reputation as the best night fighter pilot in the Third Reich. He was also given the position of squadron commodore. On October 7, 1944, German Colonel Helmut Lent, a highly decorated night pilot of Luftwa...
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Born Vladimir Putin – 1952.
As a child, Putin lived with his family relatively modestly, in an apartment building in Leningrad located on Baskov Street. They reportedly lived on the fifth floor and the building did not have an elevator. On October 7, 1952, Vladimir Putin was bo...
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Austro-Hungarian annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1908)
On October 7, 1908, Austria-Hungary declared the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which led to the so-called annexation crises. Austro-Hungary occupied Bosnia and Herzegovina as early as 1878, but only with the aforementioned annexation did it a...
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SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer Paul Hausser – father of the Waffen-SS unit – 1880.
During his military career, Paul Hausser was wounded several times (he lost an eye and his jaw was shot). He held the second highest rank in the SS after Himmler. On October 7, 1880, Paul Hausser, one of the leading German military commanders in Worl...
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JNA planes rocketed the Banska palace in Zagreb – 1991
The President of the Republic of Croatia, Franjo Tuđman, the President of the Presidency of the SFRY, Stipe Mesić, and the Prime Minister of the Federal Government, Ante Marković, were in the Banski dvor building. Two JNA MiG-29 planes, which took of...
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The greatest Christian naval victory over the Ottomans – 1571.
Six Croatian galleys from Cres, Krk, Rab, Šibenik, Trogir and Hvar also took part in the battle. The Battle of Lepanto, when the naval forces of the Holy League clashed with the Ottoman Empire, took place on October 7, 1571, and ended in a great Chri...
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Ford and Adenauer laid the cornerstone of a large factory in Cologne
On October 2, 1930, Henry Ford laid the cornerstone of an automobile factory in the German city of Cologne. Although the American company Ford already had smaller plants in Germany for assembling cars imported from America, the decision was made to b...