TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT Oct. 7, 2001

The war in Afghanistan started as the United States and Britain launched air attacks against military targets and Osama bin Laden’s training camps in the wake of the September 11 attacks.

ON THIS DATE 1954

Marian Anderson became the first Black singer hired by the Metropolitan Opera Company in New York.

1991

University of Oklahoma law professor Anita Hill publicly accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of making sexually inappropriate comments when she worked for him; Thomas denied Hill’s allegations.

1996

Fox News Channel made its debut.