Today in History: October 7, Arnold Schwarzenegger elected California governor

Today is Monday, Oct. 7, the 281st time of 2024. There are 85 days near successful the year.

Today successful history:

On Oct. 7, 2003, California voters recalled Gov. Gray Davis and elected Arnold Schwarzenegger their caller governor.

Also connected this date:

In 1765, the Stamp Act Congress convened successful New York to gully up assemblage grievances against England.

In 1913, the archetypal moving assembly enactment began cognition astatine the Ford Motor Company mill successful Highland Park, Michigan.

In 1916, successful the astir lopsided triumph successful assemblage shot history, Georgia Tech defeated Cumberland University 222-0 successful Atlanta.

In 1985, Palestinian gunmen hijacked the Italian cruise vessel Achille Lauro (ah-KEE’-leh LOW’-roh) successful the Mediterranean Sea. The hijackers changeable and killed Leon Klinghoffer, a Jewish American tourer successful a wheelchair, and pushed him overboard, earlier surrendering connected Oct. 9.

In 1992, commercialized representatives of the United States, Canada and Mexico initialed the North American Free Trade Agreement during a ceremonial successful San Antonio, Texas, successful the beingness of President George H.W. Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari.

In 1998, Matthew Shepard, a cheery assemblage student, was beaten and near tied to a woody fencepost extracurricular of Laramie, Wyoming; helium died 5 days later. Russell Henderson and Aaron McKinney are serving beingness sentences for Shepard’s murder.

In 2001, the warfare successful Afghanistan started arsenic the United States and Britain launched aerial attacks against subject targets and Osama bin Laden’s grooming camps successful the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks.

In 2023, Hamas launched aerial and crushed attacks connected Israel, sidesplitting astir 1,200 and taking much than 250 hostages. The attacks, followed hours aboriginal by Israeli counterattacks, marked the opening of the existent Israel-Hamas War.

Today’s Birthdays:

• Author Thomas Keneally is 89.
• Comedian and talk-show big Joy Behar is 82.
• Singer John Mellencamp is 73.
• Rock instrumentalist Tico Torres (Bon Jovi) is 71.
• Cellist Yo-Yo Ma is 69.
• Recording enforcement and TV property Simon Cowell is 65.
• Singer-actor Toni Braxton is 57.
• Rock singer-musician Thom Yorke (Radiohead) is 56.
• Actor Nicole Ari Parker is 54.
• Football Hall of Famer Charles Woodson is 48.
• Singer Taylor Hicks is 48.
• Actor Omar Miller is 46.
• MLB outfielder Mookie Betts is 32.