Today is Monday, Oct. 7, the 281st day of 2024. There are 85 days left in the year.
Today in history:
On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led militants launched air and ground attacks on Israel, killing nearly 1,200 and taking more than 250 hostages. The attacks, followed hours later by Israeli counterattacks, marked the beginning of the current Israel-Hamas War.
Also on this date:
In 1765, the Stamp Act Congress convened in New York to draw up colonial grievances against England.
In 1913, the first moving assembly line began operation at the Ford Motor Company factory in Highland Park, Michigan.
In 1916, in the most lopsided victory in college football history, Georgia Tech defeated Cumberland University 222-0 in Atlanta.
In 1985, Palestinian gunmen hijacked the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro (ah-KEE’-leh LOW’-roh) in the Mediterranean Sea. The hijackers shot and killed Leon Klinghoffer, a Jewish American tourist in a wheelchair, and pushed him overboard, before surrendering on Oct….
