
Start date: Oct 07, 1985
End date: Oct 10, 1985
Location: MS Achille Lauro off the Egyptian coast
Attack type: Hijacking and hostage crisis
Deaths: 1
Weapons: Firearms and hand grenades

Freed hostages from Achille Lauro returning to the US by military aircraft
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(1985) Terrorism on the high seas as cruise ship is hijacked.
Also on this day,
1870 | Gambetta floats away from the chaos of a Parisian siege in a balloon
Also on this day,
1870 | Gambetta floats away from the chaos of a Parisian siege in a balloon
One of the greatest orators in French history, an enemy of his country’s imperial rulers, and a political dynamo par excellence, Léon Gambetta escapes a Paris under siege during the Franco-Prussian War by boarding a hot-air balloon and floating to relative safety in the city of Tours.1955 | Ginsberg reads ‘Howl’ in San Francisco art gallery
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,” begins Allen Ginsberg as he reads his new poem in public for the first time. Jack Kerouac and the crowd approve, but ‘Howl,’ a seminal Beat Generation work, will spark an obscenity trial.1993 | Flood of ’93 ends when a swollen Mississippi River finally retreats
For the first time in 103 days, the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri, falls below flood stage, marking the end to one of America’s most catastrophic disasters. Upwards of $20 billion in damage will be assessed after floodwaters recede from 30,000 square miles of the Midwest.
Today in History 10/07/17

Start date: 1993
US Army Corp of Engineers photo of the Missouri River's damage to US Highway 63, Jefferson City, Missouri, near the Missouri Capitol building during the "Great Flood of 1993". National Guardsmen created sandbag levees in the parking lot, but the building was still several feet above the water line. Unfortunately, the same could not be said of much of Jefferson City's northern area, and such scenes were repeated over a wide section of the central United States.
wiki/Great_Flood_of_1993