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  • 7 Oct 2008

    Swedish music streaming service Spotify was launched by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon.

  • 7 Oct 2003

    Arnold Schwarzenegger became Governor of California.

  • 7 Oct 2001

    U.S.‑led attack on Afghanistan begins.

  • 7 Oct 1998

    A gay student, Matthew Shepard, was brutally beaten and left to die in Wyoming, US.

  • 7 Oct 1996

    Fox News Channel began broadcasting.

  • 7 Oct 1993

    Author Toni Morrison won the Nobel Peace Prize for literature for her work and essays about the Black American experience.

  • 7 Oct 1986

    British Newspaper 'The Independent' was first published.

  • 7 Oct 1959

    The Soviet spacecraft Luna 3 allowed the world to look at the far side of the moon for the first time.

  • 7 Oct 1944

    The Sonderkommandos, prisoners who took care of the bodies at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, protested their pending mass murder.

  • 7 Oct 1931

    The first-ever infrared photo was taken in Rochester, New York.

  • 7 Oct 1919

    The Netherlands' flag carrier airline was founded under the name KLM Royal Dutch Airlines.

  • 7 Oct 1840

    Willem II became King of the Netherlands.

  • 7 Oct 1691

    The Massachusetts Charter was signed, which established the Province of Massachusetts Bay.

  • 7 Oct 1542

    Portuguese explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo discovers Catalina Island off the coast of California.