CHICKEN BUCKETS: TODAY IN HISTORY

Sunday, October 7, 2012

TODAY IN HISTORY

Sunday, October 07, 2012

AP Highlight in History:
On Oct. 7, 2001, the United States and Britain launched air strikes against Taliban positions and Osama bin Laden's training camps in Afghanistan; bin Laden praised God for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in a videotaped statement aired on the Arabic satellite station Al-Jazeera.

AP Photo/Alexander Merkushev

On this date in:
1765	The Stamp Act Congress convened in New York to draw up colonial grievances against England.
1849	Author Edgar Allan Poe died at age 40.
1868	Cornell University was inaugurated in Ithaca, N.Y.
1879	Communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky was born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein in Yanovka, Ukraine.
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 a film-rating system.
1981	Egypt's parliament named Vice President Hosni Mubarak to succeed the assassinated Anwar Sadat.
1982	The musical "Cats" opened on Broadway, beginning its record run of 7,485 performances.
1985	Palestinian gunmen hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in the Mediterranean with more than 400 people aboard.
1996	Fox News Channel made its debut.
1998	Matthew Shepard, a gay college student, was beaten, robbed and left tied to a wooden fence post outside Laramie, Wyo.; he died five days later.
2001	Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants wrapped up his record-breaking season with his 73rd home run.
2003	California voters recalled Gov. Gray Davis and elected actor Arnold Schwarzenegger to replace him.
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.