óæå ïðîøëî 07 October

1944 : Uprising of the Sonderkommandos at Auschwitz-Birkenau


On October 7, 1944, there was an uprising of the Sonderkommandos, the commandos of the crematoria of Auschwitz-Birkenau. They partly destroyed the crematorium and fought against the SS. As the camp did not rise up to support the revolt, the Sonderkommandos were mostly killed. Only a few survive the camps and could talk about the tasks assigned to them: shaving hair, recovery of gold teeth and jewelry on the body in the gas chambers, destruction of bodies in the ovens or on outdoor pyres...

1985 : An Italian ship hijacked by terrorists


On October 7, 1985, the Italian cruise ship, the Achille Lauro, was attacked by Palestinian terrorists of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (FLP), organization led by Abu Abbas. Syria refused to welcome the ship, therefore the terrorists lost control of the situation and killed an wheelchair-bound American passenger. With this event, the PLO leader, Arafat, broke relations with the FLP and Abbas made ​​contact with the terrorists and asked them not to kill hostages anymore and negotiated for the ship to land in Egypt. The hostage-takers fled to Libya by plane but it is intercepted by U.S. F-14 which forced it to land in Italy where the hostage-takers were judged.

2001 : Beginning of the intervention of the United States in Afghanistan


On October 7, 2001, the U.S. and the UK began their intervention in Afghanistan in response to the September 11 attacks: Operation Enduring Freedom. They were helped locally by the United Islamic Front or Northern Alliance, which had been led by Ahmad Shah Massoud until his assassination on 9 September 2001.

2003 : Arnold Schwarzenegger elected governor of California


On October 7, 2003, actor Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor of California, with a million votes ahead of his Democratic rival. California is the richest state of the United States and the sixth world power. This did not prevent it from near bankruptcy in 2009 with a deficit of 40 billion dollars. Civil service salaries were lowered and the opening hours of the public services were reduced.

2006 : Anna Politkovskaïa murdered


On October 7, 2006, the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya was murdered outside her home in Moscow. Human rights activist and opponent to the policy of Russian President Vladimir Putin and the Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov, she had drawn the wrath of the authorities of both countries.

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Heinrich Himmler, Chief of Police of Nazi Germany (1900)
Andy Devine, American actor (1905)
June Allyson, American actress (1917)
Raymond Goethals, Belgian football coach (1921)
Al Martino, American singer and actor (1927)
Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop, Nobel Peace Prize (1931)
Harry Kroto, English chemist, Nobel Laureate (1939)
Oliver North, Retired U.S. Marine Corps officer (1943)
Bernard Lavilliers, French singer (1946)
Vladimir Putin, Second President of Russia, Prime Minister of Russia (1952)
Tico Torres, American musician (Bon Jovi) (1953)
Yo-Yo Ma, American cellist (1955)
Jayne Torvill, English ice dancer (1957)
Viktor Lazlo, Belgian singer (1960)
Toni Braxton, American singer (1968)
Nélson de Jesus Silva (Dida), Brazilian footballer (1973)
Jamie Hector, American actor (1975)
Gilberto Silva, Brazilian footballer (1976)
Santiago Solari, Argentine footballer (1976)
Brandon Quinn, American actor (1977)
Aaron Ashmore, American actor (1979)
Shawn Ashmore, American actor (1979)
Jermain Defoe, English footballer (1982)

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Radclyffe Hall, English poet (1943)
Norman Angell, English politician, Nobel Peace Prize (1967)
Niels Kaj Jerne, Danish immunologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1994)
Herbert Lawrence Block (Herblock), American cartoonist (2001)
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