Today in History - October 7
1765 - The Stamp Act Congress convened in New York to draw up colonial grievances against England.
1849 - Poet and writer Edgar Allan Poe died at age 40.
1868 - Cornell University in Ithaca, New York was founded.
1879 - Communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein in Yanovka, Ukraine.
1910 - A major wildfire devastated the northern Minnesota towns of Spooner and Baudette, charring at least 300,000 acres; some 40 people are believed to have died.
1949 - The Republic of East Germany was formed.
1954 - Marian Anderson became the first black singer hired by New York's Metropolitan Opera.
1963 - President John F. Kennedy signed the documents of ratification for a nuclear test ban treaty with Britain and the Soviet Union.
1968 - The Motion Picture Association of America adopted its film-rating system, ranging from "G" for general audiences to "X" for adults-only.
1981 - Egypt's parliament named Vice President Hosni Mubarak to succeed the assassinated Anwar Sadat.
1982 - Andrew Lloyd Weber's musical "Cats", the longest-running show in Broadway history with 7,485 performances, opened for the first time.
1985 - The Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked by Palestinian gunmen in the Mediterranean.
1991 - University of Oklahoma law professor Anita Hill publicly accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of making sexually inappropriate comments when she worked for him; Thomas denied Hill’s allegations.
1992 - Trade representatives of the United States, Canada and Mexico initialed the North American Free Trade Agreement during a ceremony in San Antonio, Texas, in the presence of President George H.W. Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, and Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
1996 - Fox News Channel made its broadcast debut.
1998 - Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, was beaten, robbed and left tied to a fence. He died five days later. (Russell Henderson and Aaron McKinney are serving life sentences for Shepard’s murder.)
2001 - U.S. and British forces launched a bombing campaign against the Taliban government and al-Qaeda terrorist camps in Afghanistan.
2003 - California Gov. Gray Davis was recalled and former bodybuilder and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected in his place.
2004 - President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney conceded that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction as they tried to shift the Iraq war debate to a new issue, arguing that Saddam was abusing a U.N. oil-for-food program.
2006 - Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist who had chronicled Russian military abuses against civilians in Chechnya, was found shot to death in Moscow.
2008 - The Federal Reserve annouced a radical plan to buy massive amounts of short-term debt, known as commercial paper, to get credit markets moving again.
2016 - The U.S. accused Russia of hacking American political sites and email accounts in an effort to interfere with the upcoming presidential election and also directly accused Russia of war crimes in Syria; Moscow dismissed the allegations.
2020 - President Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office for the first time since he was diagnosed with COVID-19; he credited an experimental drug treatment with helping his recovery.
2020 - Debating from behind plexiglass shields, Vice President Mike Pence and Democrat Kamala Harris zeroed in on Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, with Harris labeling it “the greatest failure of any presidential administration” while Pence defended the overall response.
Birthdays
24 - Kira Kosarin (actress)
24 - Nicole Maines (actress)
29 - Mookie Betts (baseball player)
31 - Ayla Kell (actress)
35 - Amber Stevens (actress)
35 - Holland Roden (actress)
35 - Kaitlyn (professional wrestler)
36 - Evan Longoria (baseball player)
39 - Jake McLaughlin (actor)
42 - Shawn Ashmore (actor)
43 - Omar Miller (actor)
43 - Alesha Dixon (rapper)
45 - Taylor Hicks (singer)
47 - Allison Munn (actress)
51 - Nicole Ari Parker (actress)
54 - Toni Braxton (singer)
59 - Dale Watson (country singer)
60 - Paula Newsome (actress)
62 - Simon Cowell (TV personality)
63 - Judy Landers (actress)
63 - Dylan Baker (actor)
66 - Yo-Yo Ma (musician)
66 - Christopher Norris (actor)
69 - Mary Badham (actress)
70 - John Mellencamp (singer)
72 - Kieran Kane (country singer)
74 - Jill Larson (actress)
79 - Joy Behar (TV host)
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Today in Sports History - October 7
1905 - Nebraska defeats South Dakota 42-6.
1911 - Nebraska opens the season under new coach Ewald O. "Jumbo" Stiehm with a 117-0 win over Kearney State.
1916 - Nebraska opens the season under new coach E.J. "Doc" Stewart with a 53-0 win over Drake.
1918 - The Georgia Tech football team defeated Cumberland College 222-0. Georgia Tech carried the ball for 978 yards and never threw a pass.
1922 - Nebraska opens the season with a 66-0 win over South Dakota.
1933 - Nebraska opens the season with a 26-0 in over Texas.
1933 - The New York Giants defeated the Washington Senators in five games to win the World Series.
1935 - The Detroit Tigers defeated the Chicago Cubs in six games to win the World Series.
1939 - Nebraska defeats Minnesota 6-0.
1950 - Nebraska defeats Minnesota 32-26.
1950 - The New York Yankees sweep the Philadelphia Phillies to win the World Series.
1952 - The New York Yankees defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers in seven games to win the World Series.
1956 - Al Carmichael (Green Bay Packers) returned a kickoff 106 yards to set an NFL record.
1961 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 24-0.
1967 - #7 Nebraska defeats Kansas State 16-14.
1978 - #10 Nebraska defeats #15 Cockeye State 23-0.
1984 - Walter Payton of the Chicago Bears surpasses Jim Brown as the NFL's career rushing leader.
1989 - #4 Nebraska defeats Kansas State 58-7.
1993 - #7 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma State 27-13.
2000 - #2 Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 49-27.
2001 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants ended the regular season by hitting his record 73rd home run of the season, breaking the record of 70 set in 1998 by Mark McGwire.
2006 - #22 Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 28-14.
2010 #7 Nebraska defeats Kansas State 48-13.
2012 - Drew Brees of the New Orleans Saints breaks Johnny Unitas' NFL record for consecutive games with a TD pass (48).
2017 - #9 Wisconsin defeats Nebraska 38-17.
1765 - The Stamp Act Congress convened in New York to draw up colonial grievances against England.
1849 - Poet and writer Edgar Allan Poe died at age 40.
1868 - Cornell University in Ithaca, New York was founded.
1879 - Communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein in Yanovka, Ukraine.
1910 - A major wildfire devastated the northern Minnesota towns of Spooner and Baudette, charring at least 300,000 acres; some 40 people are believed to have died.
1949 - The Republic of East Germany was formed.
1954 - Marian Anderson became the first black singer hired by New York's Metropolitan Opera.
1963 - President John F. Kennedy signed the documents of ratification for a nuclear test ban treaty with Britain and the Soviet Union.
1968 - The Motion Picture Association of America adopted its film-rating system, ranging from "G" for general audiences to "X" for adults-only.
1981 - Egypt's parliament named Vice President Hosni Mubarak to succeed the assassinated Anwar Sadat.
1982 - Andrew Lloyd Weber's musical "Cats", the longest-running show in Broadway history with 7,485 performances, opened for the first time.
1985 - The Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked by Palestinian gunmen in the Mediterranean.
1991 - University of Oklahoma law professor Anita Hill publicly accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of making sexually inappropriate comments when she worked for him; Thomas denied Hill’s allegations.
1992 - Trade representatives of the United States, Canada and Mexico initialed the North American Free Trade Agreement during a ceremony in San Antonio, Texas, in the presence of President George H.W. Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, and Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
1996 - Fox News Channel made its broadcast debut.
1998 - Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, was beaten, robbed and left tied to a fence. He died five days later. (Russell Henderson and Aaron McKinney are serving life sentences for Shepard’s murder.)
2001 - U.S. and British forces launched a bombing campaign against the Taliban government and al-Qaeda terrorist camps in Afghanistan.
2003 - California Gov. Gray Davis was recalled and former bodybuilder and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected in his place.
2004 - President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney conceded that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction as they tried to shift the Iraq war debate to a new issue, arguing that Saddam was abusing a U.N. oil-for-food program.
2006 - Anna Politkovskaya, a journalist who had chronicled Russian military abuses against civilians in Chechnya, was found shot to death in Moscow.
2008 - The Federal Reserve annouced a radical plan to buy massive amounts of short-term debt, known as commercial paper, to get credit markets moving again.
2016 - The U.S. accused Russia of hacking American political sites and email accounts in an effort to interfere with the upcoming presidential election and also directly accused Russia of war crimes in Syria; Moscow dismissed the allegations.
2020 - President Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office for the first time since he was diagnosed with COVID-19; he credited an experimental drug treatment with helping his recovery.
2020 - Debating from behind plexiglass shields, Vice President Mike Pence and Democrat Kamala Harris zeroed in on Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, with Harris labeling it “the greatest failure of any presidential administration” while Pence defended the overall response.
Birthdays
24 - Kira Kosarin (actress)
24 - Nicole Maines (actress)
29 - Mookie Betts (baseball player)
31 - Ayla Kell (actress)
35 - Amber Stevens (actress)
35 - Holland Roden (actress)
35 - Kaitlyn (professional wrestler)
36 - Evan Longoria (baseball player)
39 - Jake McLaughlin (actor)
42 - Shawn Ashmore (actor)
43 - Omar Miller (actor)
43 - Alesha Dixon (rapper)
45 - Taylor Hicks (singer)
47 - Allison Munn (actress)
51 - Nicole Ari Parker (actress)
54 - Toni Braxton (singer)
59 - Dale Watson (country singer)
60 - Paula Newsome (actress)
62 - Simon Cowell (TV personality)
63 - Judy Landers (actress)
63 - Dylan Baker (actor)
66 - Yo-Yo Ma (musician)
66 - Christopher Norris (actor)
69 - Mary Badham (actress)
70 - John Mellencamp (singer)
72 - Kieran Kane (country singer)
74 - Jill Larson (actress)
79 - Joy Behar (TV host)
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Today in Sports History - October 7
1905 - Nebraska defeats South Dakota 42-6.
1911 - Nebraska opens the season under new coach Ewald O. "Jumbo" Stiehm with a 117-0 win over Kearney State.
1916 - Nebraska opens the season under new coach E.J. "Doc" Stewart with a 53-0 win over Drake.
1918 - The Georgia Tech football team defeated Cumberland College 222-0. Georgia Tech carried the ball for 978 yards and never threw a pass.
1922 - Nebraska opens the season with a 66-0 win over South Dakota.
1933 - Nebraska opens the season with a 26-0 in over Texas.
1933 - The New York Giants defeated the Washington Senators in five games to win the World Series.
1935 - The Detroit Tigers defeated the Chicago Cubs in six games to win the World Series.
1939 - Nebraska defeats Minnesota 6-0.
1950 - Nebraska defeats Minnesota 32-26.
1950 - The New York Yankees sweep the Philadelphia Phillies to win the World Series.
1952 - The New York Yankees defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers in seven games to win the World Series.
1956 - Al Carmichael (Green Bay Packers) returned a kickoff 106 yards to set an NFL record.
1961 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 24-0.
1967 - #7 Nebraska defeats Kansas State 16-14.
1978 - #10 Nebraska defeats #15 Cockeye State 23-0.
1984 - Walter Payton of the Chicago Bears surpasses Jim Brown as the NFL's career rushing leader.
1989 - #4 Nebraska defeats Kansas State 58-7.
1993 - #7 Nebraska defeats Oklahoma State 27-13.
2000 - #2 Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 49-27.
2001 - Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants ended the regular season by hitting his record 73rd home run of the season, breaking the record of 70 set in 1998 by Mark McGwire.
2006 - #22 Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 28-14.
2010 #7 Nebraska defeats Kansas State 48-13.
2012 - Drew Brees of the New Orleans Saints breaks Johnny Unitas' NFL record for consecutive games with a TD pass (48).
2017 - #9 Wisconsin defeats Nebraska 38-17.
