As we speak is Monday, Oct. 7, the 281st day of 2024. There are 85 days left within the yr.
As we speak in historical past:
On Oct. 7, 2003, California voters recalled Gov. Grey Davis and elected Arnold Schwarzenegger their new governor.
Additionally on this date:
In 1765, the Stamp Act Congress convened in New York to attract up colonial grievances towards England.
In 1913, the primary shifting meeting line started operation on the Ford Motor Firm manufacturing facility in Highland Park, Michigan.
In 1916, in essentially the most lopsided victory in faculty soccer historical past, Georgia Tech defeated Cumberland College 222-0 in Atlanta.
In 1985, Palestinian gunmen hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro (ah-KEE’-leh LOW’-roh) within the Mediterranean Sea. The hijackers shot and killed Leon Klinghoffer, a Jewish American vacationer in a wheelchair, and pushed him overboard, earlier than surrendering on Oct. 9.
In 1992, commerce representatives of the USA, Canada and Mexico initialed the North American Free Commerce Settlement throughout a ceremony in San Antonio, Texas, within the presence of President George H.W. Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
In 1998, Matthew Shepard, a homosexual faculty scholar, was crushed and left tied to a wood fencepost exterior of Laramie, Wyoming; he died 5 days later. Russell Henderson and Aaron McKinney are serving life sentences for Shepard’s homicide.
In 2001, the conflict in Afghanistan began as the USA and Britain launched air assaults towards army targets and Osama bin Laden’s coaching camps within the wake of the Sept. 11 assaults.
In 2023, Hamas launched air and floor assaults on Israel, killing practically 1,200 and taking greater than 250 hostages. The assaults, adopted hours later by Israeli counterattacks, marked the start of the present Israel-Hamas Struggle.
As we speak’s Birthdays:
- Writer Thomas Keneally is 89.
- Comic and talk-show host Pleasure Behar is 82.
- Singer John Mellencamp is 73.
- Rock musician Tico Torres (Bon Jovi) is 71.
- Cellist Yo-Yo Ma is 69.
- Recording government and TV persona Simon Cowell is 65.
- Singer-actor Toni Braxton is 57.
- Rock singer-musician Thom Yorke (Radiohead) is 56.
- Actor Nicole Ari Parker is 54.
- Soccer Corridor of Famer Charles Woodson is 48.
- Singer Taylor Hicks is 48.
- Actor Omar Miller is 46.
- MLB outfielder Mookie Betts is 32.
