Lennox hammers Morrison in sixth
1995 - Lennox Lewis of Britain took a major step in his campaign to regain the heavyweight crown by stopping American Tommy “The Duke” Morrison at one minute and 34 seconds of the sixth round in Atlantic City. Lewis used a piercing jab and solid combination punching in outclassing the smaller Morrison, who hit the canvas four times against the former World Boxing Council heavyweight champion. Lewis effectively jabbed Morrison repeatedly during the fight, opening a nasty cut near the corner of his right eye in the second round. Lewis’s heavy-handed barrage forced Morrison to wilt to a knee three times, once in the fifth and twice in the sixth.
October 7
1769 - Captain James Cook lands in New Zealand for the first time, at Poverty Bay.
1826 - The first gravity-powered American railroad runs from Quincy to Milton, Massachusetts, carrying granite rock.
1840 - William I, the first King of the Netherlands, abdicates and is succeeded by his son, William II.
1879 - Britain invades Afghanistan.
1935 - League of Nations declares Italy the aggressor in Ethiopia.
1949 - The Democratic Republic of Germany is formed.
1950 - China invades Tibet.
1954 - Marian Anderson becomes the first black singer to be hired by the New York Metropolitan Opera House.
1958 - President Iskander Mirza proclaims martial law in Pakistan.
1963 - US President John F. Kennedy signs nuclear test ban treaty between the US, Britain and Soviet Union.
1971 - Oman joins United Nations.
1985 - The Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro is hijacked off the Egyptian coast.
1990 - Shaikh Rashid Bin Saeed Al Maktoum passes away.
1998 - Pakistan Chief of Army Staff, General Jehangir Karamat resigns.
2000 - Vojislav Kostunica takes oath of office as Yugoslav president.
2001 - US and Britain launch powerful air and missile strikes on Afghanistan.
2005 - Mohammad Al Baradei and International Atomic Energy Agency win the Nobel Peace Prize.
2011 - Tawakul Karman becomes the first Arab woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
2013 - Four Saudi women make history by becoming the first women to be allowed to practice law in the kingdom’s courts.
