October 7 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for October 7
In the headlines today:

2003	California voters recall incumbent governor Gray Davis, and elect actor Arnold Schwarzenegger to replace him.
2001	A joint US-British operation sends cruise missiles and bombs into Afghanistan in an anti-terrorism campaign.
1999	American Home Products Corporation agrees to pay up to $4.83 billion to settle claims arising from use of the diet drug fen-phen.
1995	More than 80 people die as a magnitude 7.0 earthquake shakes Indonesia.
1995	Some 130,000 people attend an open-air Mass by Pope John Paul II in New York's Central Park. (photo credit: NARA)
1985	Palestinian terrorists hijack the Italian cruise ship, Achille Lauro, killing one of the 400 passengers aboard.
1982	The Andrew Lloyd Weber musical, Cats, opens on Broadway.
1981	Hosni Mubarak is named president by the Egyptian parliament, succeeding the assassinated Anwar Sadat.
1971	Oman joins the United Nations.
1968	The film rating system is adopted by the Motion Picture Association of America.
1960	Nigeria joins the United Nations.
1954	Singer Marian Anderson becomes the first African-American to sign with the Metropolitan Opera Company.
1919	KLM Royal Dutch Airline, the first commercial airline, is founded.
1894	Physician and author Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., dies.
1849	Author Edgar Allan Poe dies in Baltimore, MD, at age 40.