Events Of October 7

EVENTS OF OCTOBER 7

2003 : American gubernatorial recall election is held in California. Governor Gray Davis is recalled and Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes governor.

2008 : Music, podcast, and video streaming service Spotify is launched by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon

2013 : Mulatu Teshome becomes president of Ethiopia

2014 : Isamu Akasaki, Hiroshi Amano and Shuji Nakamura win the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing blue light emitting diodes

2014 : Spanish nurse diagnosed with Ebola, the first case outside west Africa

2015 : US President Barack Obama apologises to Doctors without Borders President and the President of Afghanistan for the bombing of a hospital in Kunduz

2015 : Nobel prize in Chemistry awarded to Tomas Lindahl (Sweden), Paul Modrich (US) and Aziz Sancar (Turkey) for work on cells DNA repair

2016 : Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos wins the Nobel Peace Prize for attempts to end conflict with FARC