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October 7

In Memory of Theo Faiss

1513 – War of the League of Cambrai: A Venetian army under Bartolomeo d'Alviano was decisively defeated by the Spanish army commanded by Ramón de Cardona and Fernando d'Ávalos.
1780 – American Revolutionary War: Patriots and Loyalist militias engaged each other at the Battle of Kings Mountain in South Carolina.
1914 – Seven-year-old Theo Faiss dies in an accident that Rudolf Steiner terms a voluntary sacrifice, and that inspires Edith Maryon's relief In Memory of Theo Faiss (pictured).
1985 – During severe floods in Puerto Rico, about 130 people died as a result of the deadliest single landslide on record in North America.
2023 – The military wing of the Palestinian nationalist Islamist political organization Hamas massacred people attending an open-air music festival in southern Israel.

Stanisław Żółkiewski (d. 1620)
Niels Bohr (b. 1885)
Tang Wei (b. 1979)
Miki Matsubara (d. 2004)

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"former"?

What does "former" mean after "Justina of Padua" in Holidays and Observances? --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 12:08, 7 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

articles which lack notability and seem to have been created just to be added to this list

the deaths linked to 2023 seem to be pages made in violation of the blp. 814jjs (talk) 14:57, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@814jjs - you would need to delete/propose for deletion these articles. Once done, then they can be removed from this article. Kiwipete (talk) 18:27, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

complicatingly, each of those pages also has extended protection, which seems like an abuse of the policy. 814jjs (talk) 19:59, 5 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Slang

Some use the Hebrew term shiv'a be'oktober as a general term for hypothetical future massacre or a tragic event, any disaster. This term follows the terrors of the Black Saturday in Israel during this date in 2023

הראש (talk) 08:08, 3 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 29 October 2024

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change Palestinian militant groups to terrorist groups NmotOliviaSJ48 (talk) 15:25, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: both Israel–Hamas war and 7 October Hamas-led attack on Israel have "Hamas-led Palestinian militant groups" and "Palestinian nationalist militant groups", respectively, in their leads. Skynxnex (talk) 18:36, 29 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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On October 7, 2023, all 1200 deaths were not due to Hama or Palestinians. Israel issued the Hanibal directive ordering soldiers to fire on their own people. Only mentioning Hamas and resistance groups is not the whole story.

The source for this edit is ISRAELI NEWSPAPER: HAARETZ: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-07-07/ty-article-magazine/.premium/idf-ordered-hannibal-directive-on-october-7-to-prevent-hamas-taking-soldiers-captive/00000190-89a2-d776-a3b1-fdbe45520000 2600:4041:5412:6400:C112:96E1:96E3:61D1 (talk) 16:00, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not done for now: There is currently no consensus on including the Hannibal Directive. See the discussion at Talk:Gaza war#Hannibal directive in the lead. Yeshivish613 (talk) 20:55, 15 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Please add Mills Darden to 1799 under Birthdays. (He has a preexisting Wikipedia Page) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mills_Darden Inaan2010 (talk) 13:34, 10 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done Good day—RetroCosmos ^talk 00:03, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Undone - a citation needs to be provided, as stated in WP:DOYCITE. Kiwipete (talk) 02:52, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done Added with source Ilovefood123123 (talk) 13:26, 13 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 28 July 2025

Please add a tag at the top like this: This page is about the date 7 October in general. For the events of 7 October 2023 in Israel, see the page October 7th attacks. Candidyeoman55 (talk) 11:56, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Edit request 7 October 2025

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97.116.124.175 (talk) 14:24, 7 October 2025 (UTC) hope I did that the way you want it[reply]

replace more than 240 hostages with 251 hostages 97.116.124.175 (talk) 14:25, 7 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. I note that the hostage crisis article says 251 but I'm unable to find that specific number in the sources there either. tony 14:49, 7 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

that is what i am going off of the linked article. Here is the BBC https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgqyj268ljo The 7 October attacks killed around 1,200 people, mostly Israeli civilians, and 251 were taken hostage. The Israelis estimate that 20 hostages are still alive and they want the return of the bodies of 28 others. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.116.124.175 (talk) 15:54, 7 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Edit Request

Minor edit - Franco-Prussian War should have a wiki-link in the entry for 1870. Richo98118 (talk) 19:28, 7 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Edit Request

Himmler (1900 birthday) should have his role in the Holocaust described. The current description is far too wishy-washy.

I would change the description to: head of the SS and one of the key architects of the Holocaust

Of course, I would add a citation and wiki-links Richo98118 (talk) 19:35, 7 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ulrike Meinhof as a "Far-left Terrorist"

Blatant MOS:Terrorism violation, on her page she is describeded as a "left-wing militant". can this please be altered? JaxsonR (talk) 03:36, 8 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Done, changed to match the lead of her article. Day Creature (talk) 17:24, 4 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Add Request

First request. New to this. Just removed "1982 – After its London premiere, Cats opens on Broadway and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000." from Events on October 8 (not cited) since it happed on October 7th as listed here.

Please add it if you feel it's relevant. BjornClason (talk) 10:41, 8 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

New catholic observance

Pope Francis called to have October's seventh as a fasting day

🧡🎗🙏 הראש (talk) 13:03, 11 October 2025 (UTC) HAROSH[reply]

Edit Request

According to his article, the attack on Matthew Shepard occurred on October 6, not the 7th, so the entry about it in the "Events" section should be moved there. 2603:7000:26F0:9690:BCBB:9520:5843:3BB7 (talk) 13:51, 16 October 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Edit request to this talk page, 2 January 2026

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Description of suggested change: Update the CTOP talk notice since only parts of this page fall into WP:PIA.

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Thanks. ~2026-28899 (talk) 19:42, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Done Day Creature (talk) 22:15, 2 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Opinion

It’s fucking ridiculous this page is extended protected. 🤷‍♂️ ~2026-24259-69 (talk) 06:00, 20 April 2026 (UTC)[reply]