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October 7

Mindon Min

1571 – Ottoman–Habsburg wars: The Battle of Lepanto was fought near the Gulf of Corinth, a significant setback for the Ottoman Empire and the last major naval battle fought entirely with galleys.
1878 – The state funeral of Mindon Min (pictured), who ruled Myanmar for 25 years, took place; his death was reportedly preceded by strange omens, and his senior princes were unable to attend as they had all been arrested.
1916 – Georgia Tech defeated Cumberland University 222–0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.
1991 – Croatian War of Independence: The Yugoslav People's Army conducted an air strike on Banski Dvori, the official residence of the president of Croatia in Zagreb.
2008 – 2008 TC₃ exploded above the Nubian Desert in Sudan, in the first time that an asteroid impact had been predicted prior to atmospheric entry.

Pierre Le Muet (b. 1591)
Charles XIII (b. 1748)
Mariano Gagnon (b. 1929)
Beatrice Hutton (d. 1990)

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