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Today in History ~ October 6
Events1536 - William Tyndale was burned at the stake as a heretic.
1567 - Duke of Alba becomes guardian of Netherlands
1683 - 13 Mennonite families from Germany arrive in US and later found Germantown Pa (Phila). Encouraged by William Penn's offer of 5,000 acres of land in the colony of Pennsylvania and the freedom to practice their religion
1781 - Americans & French begin siege of Cornwallis at Yorktown; last battle of Revolutionary War
1783 - Benjamin Hanks patents self-winding clock.
1853 - Antioch College opened in Yellow Springs, Ohio. It was the first non-sectarian school to offer equal opportunity for both men and women.
1857 - American Chess Association organized; 1st major US chess tournament (NYC)
1861 - Naval Engagement at Charleston, SC USS Flag vs BR Alert
1863 - Dr Charles H Sheppard opens 1st public bath, in Brooklyn
1866 - 1st train robbery in US (Reno Brothers take $13,000) [H]
1869 - Johannes Brahms' "Liebeslieder Walzes," premiere
1884 - Naval War College forms in Newport RI
1886 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Resident Patient"
1889 - Moulin Rogue opens in Paris
1889 - Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture
1893 - Nabisco Foods invents Cream of Wheat
1898 - Gustav Mahler debuts, conducting Vienna Philharmonic
1908 - Austria annexes Bosnia & Herzegovina
1918 - US ship Otranto sinks between Scotland & Ireland, 425 die
1927 - "Jazz Singer," 1st movie with a sound track, premieres in New York City.
1928 - Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek becomes Presidentissimo of China
1928 - Josip Broz (Tito) sentenced to 5 years in jail
1935 - Italian army occupies Adua, Abyssinia
1939 - Adolf Hitler denies he intends to go to war against France & Britain
1939 - Hitler announces plans to resolve "The Jewish problem"
1943 - Battle at Vella Lavella, Solomon Island
1943 - Himmler orders acceleration of "Final Solution"
1944 - Soviets march into Hungary & Czechoslovakia
1945 - Gen Eisenhower welcomed in Hague (on Hitler's train)
1946 - Pres Truman questions Great Britain Jews about Palestine
1948 - "Polonaise" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 113 performances
1949 - Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose) sentenced to 10 years & $10,000 fine
1949 - Pres Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act (for NATO)
1951 - Stalin proclaims Russia has atom bomb
1955 - LSD made illegal in US
1956 - Dr Albert Sabin discovers oral polio vaccine
1958 - US nuclear sub USS Seawolf remains record 60 days under pole
1961 - JFK advises Americans to build fallout shelters from atomic fallout in the event of a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union ('Drop and Cover').
1972 - 22-car train carrying 2,000 pilgrims derails, kills 208 in Mexico
1973 - Yom Kippur War begins as Syria & Egypt attack Israel, hoping to win back territory lost to Israel during the third Arab-Israeli war, Egyptian and Syrian forces launch a surprise attack against Israel on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur [H]
1976 - "Gang of Four" arrested in Beijing
1976 - Pres Ford says there is "no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe"
1977 - DL Coburn's "Gin Game," premieres in NYC
1978 - Iraq declares Ayatollah Khomeini an undesirable person
1979 - Pope John Paul II is 1st Pope to visit White House
1981 - Muslim extremists killed Anwar Sadat.
1985 - England's worst post-war race rioting, which began Sept. 9 in Birmingham, spread to the Tottenham section of London. One officer died and 125 people were injured, with snipers shooting at police in England for the first time.
1986 - Russian nuclear sub sinks in Atlantic Ocean
1991 - Anita Hill - a former personal assistant to Supreme Court justice nominee Clarence Thomas, accuses Thomas of sexual harassment from 1981 to 1983.
1993 - Chicago Bulls superstar Michael Jordan announced he was retiring
1994 - South African President Nelson Mandela addressed a joint session of Congress.
1996 - Bob Dole & Pres Bill Clinton meet in their 1st debate. Bob Dole said the difference between him and President Clinton was that, "I trust the people; the president trusts the government."
1997 - President Clinton used his new line-item veto power to eliminate 38 military spending projects.
2001 - Sports, durable Cal Ripkin Jr. retired after a spectacular baseball career with the Baltimore Orioles that included playing in a record 2,632 consecutive games.
2002 - Hundreds of law officers searched without success for the sniper, or snipers, blamed for six apparently random deaths in the Washington area over the past week.
Birthdays Today
1552 - Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary (China)
1819 - Willem A Scholten, Dutch potato flour manufacturer
1820 - Jenny (Johanna) Lind ('The Swedish Nightingale': singer)
1820 - Jenny Lind, Sweden, soprano/nightingale (Agathe, in Der Freischutz)
1846 - George Westinghouse (inventor: railway braking systems; developer: alternating current [AC] electricity; founder: Westinghouse Electric Company)
1846 - George Westinghouse, responsible for alternating current in US
1849 - Basil Zaharoff, arms dealer, "merchant of death"
1882 - Karol Maciej Szymanowski, Timoshovka Ukraine, composer (Stabat Mater)
1887 - Le Corbusier, Switzerland, architect/city planner/artist (Urbanisme)
1887 - Maria Jeritza, [Jedlicka], Austria, singer (Vienna Opera, Met Opera)
1897 - Jerome Cowan (actor: The West Point Story, Blondie Hits the Jackpot, June Bride, The Maltese Falcon, The Tycoon, The Tab Hunter Show, Not for Publication)
1902 - Jack Sharkey (boxer: World Heavyweight Champion [1932])
1905 - Helen Wills Moody (International Tennis Hall of Famer: French Open [1928, 1929, 1930, 1932], Wimbledon [1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1932, 1933, 1935, 1938], U.S. Open [1923, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1931])
1906 - Janet Gaynor (Laura Gainor) (first Academy Award-winning actress [1927-28]: [3 films]: Seventh Heaven, Street Angel, Sunrise; A Star is Born, The Young in Heart)
1908 - Carole Lombard (Jane Peters) was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana (actress: My Man Godfrey, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Made for Each Other; wife of actor Clark Gable)
1914 - Thor Heyerdahl, Norway, anthropologist/explorer (Kon Tiki, Aku-Aku)
1917 - Robert Mitchum, actor (2 for the Seesaw, Ryan's Daughter)
1920 - H.R. (Bum) Bright (football executive)
1925 - Shana Alexander (Ager) (journalist: 60 Minutes: Point Counterpoint)
1927 - Paul Badura-Skoda, Vienna Austria, pianist (Mozart specialist)
1930 - Hafez al Assad, president (Syria)
1931 - Fred Graham (attorney, newscaster: CBS News, Court TV)
1936 - Anna Quayle (Tony Award-winning actress: Stop the World, I Want to Get Off [1963]; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Mistress Pamela)
1942 - Britt Ekland (actress: The Night They Raided Minsky's, The Man with the Golden Gun, Cold Heat, The Children, Scandal)
1942 - Fred Travalena (actor: ABC Comedy Hour, Keep on Truckin'; TV host: Baby Races)
1942 - Jerry Grote (baseball: NY Mets catcher)
1946 - Gary Gentry (baseball)
1946 - Gene Clines (baseball)
1946 - Millie Small (Smith) (singer: My Boy Lollipop; known as 'The Blue Beat Girl' in her native Jamaica)
1947 - Klaus Dibiasi (Olympic diver: high board gold medalist [1968, 1972, 1976], silver medalist [1964], springboard silver medalist [1968])
1947 - Steve Kline (baseball)
1948 - Wendell Ladner (basketball)
1950 - Ken Payne (football)
1950 - Thomas McClary (musician: guitar: group: The Commodores: Three Times a Lady, Still, Just to be Close to You, Sweet Love, Easy)
1951 - Kevin Cronin (singer: group: REO Speedwagon: Keep on Lovin' You, Take It on the Run, Can't Fight this Feeling)
1959 - Dennis 'Oilcan' Boyd (baseball pitcher)
1965 - Ruben Sierra (baseball: Oakland A's)
Famous deaths
0877 - Charles II the Kale, King of France/Roman emperor (875-77), dies at 54
1072 - Sancho II, king of Castilia (1065-72), murdered
1651 - Heinrich Albert, German composer (Arien oder Melodien), dies at 47
1762 - Francesco Onofrio Manfredini, composer, dies at 78
1868 - Leon Charles Francois Kreutzer, composer, dies at 51
1891 - Charles S Parnell, English/Irish Home Rule Party leader, dies at 45
1892 - Alfred Tennyson, writer/poet laureate, dies at 83
1964 - Richard Scheibe, German sculptor (Adler mit Hakenkreuz), dies at 85
1981 - [Mohammed] Anwar al-Sadat, pres Egypt (1970-81), assassinated at 62 by Muslim extremists in Cairo. Sadat and Begin were awarded a joint Nobel Peace Prize.
1983 - Terence Cooke, cardinal/archbishop of NY, dies at 62
1989 - Bette [Ruth E] Davis, Oscar-winning Hollywood legend,(All About Eve, White Mama), died of cancer in a suburb of Paris, France at 81
1993 - Agnes de Mille, US dancer/choreographer (Oklahoma!), dies at 88
If you have other Birthdays or events to add for this day please E-mail me
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