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This day in history: October 7

1. 1916

   Georgia Tech defeated Cumberland University 222–0 in the most lopsided college football game in American history.

2. 1944

   The Holocaust: Sonderkommando work-unit members in Auschwitz concentration camp revolted upon learning that they were due to be killed; although a few managed to escape, most were massacred on the same day.

3. 1985

   During severe floods in Puerto Rico, about 130 people died as a result of the deadliest single landslide on record in North America.

4. 1988

   Near Point Barrow in Alaska, an Iñupiat hunter discovered three gray whales trapped in pack ice, which resulted in an international effort to free them.

5. 1991

   Croatian War of Independence: The Yugoslav People's Army conducted an air strike on Banski Dvori, the official residence of the president of Croatia in Zagreb.

6. 2006

   Anna Politkovskaya, a Russian journalist and human-rights activist, was assassinated in the elevator of her apartment block in Moscow.

7. 2008

   2008 TC3 exploded above the Nubian Desert in Sudan, in the first time that an asteroid impact had been predicted prior to atmospheric entry.

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