On this day in 1949, a constitution went into effect in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany [1] that formed the country of East Germany, which existed alongside West Germany [2] until 1990 [3], when the two Germanys reunited [4].
On Octrober 7, 1765, the Stamp Act [5] Congress convened in New York City to frame resolutions of “rights and grievances” of the American colonies [6].
The Battle of Lepanto was a naval engagement taking place on 7 October, 1571 in which a fleet of the Holy League, a coalition of European Catholic maritime states arranged by Pope Pius V and led by Spanish admiral Don Juan of Austria, decisively defeated the fleet of the Ottoman Empire on the northern edge of the Gulf of Corinth, off western Greece.
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