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Birthday October 06, 1820 Jenny Lind, in Sweden, soprano, nightingale |
Birthday October 06, 1831 Richard Dedekind, mathematician |
Birthday October 06, 1846 George Westinghouse, responsible for alternating current in US |
Birthday October 06, 1866 Reginald Aubrey Fessenden, broadcast 1st program of voice & music |
Birthday October 06, 1887 Mart¡n Luis Guzm n, Mexican novelist (The Eagle & the Serpent) |
Birthday October 06, 1888 Li Ta-chao, cofounder with Mao Tse-tung of Chinese Communist Party |
Birthday October 06, 1906 Janet Gaynor, in Phila (Sunrise, A Star Is Born) |
Birthday October 06, 1909 Carol Lombard |
Birthday October 06, 1914 Thor Heyerdahl, anthropologist, explorer (Kon Tiki, Aku-Aku) |
Birthday October 06, 1925 Shana Alexander, point-counterpoint journalist |
Birthday October 06, 1936 Anna Quayle |
Birthday October 06, 1942 Britt Ekland, in Sweden |
Birthday October 06, 1956 Stephanie Zimbalist, NYC (Remington Steele) |
History October 06, 1683 First Mennonites arrive in America |
History October 06, 1777 British capture Forts Montgomery and Clinton |
History October 06, 1847 Jane Eyre is published |
History October 06, 1863 Dr Charles H Sheppard opens the 1st public bath in Brooklyn |
History October 06, 1863 William Quantrill attacks Baxter Springs, Kansas |
History October 06, 1866 The Reno brothers carry out the first train robbery in U.S. history |
History October 06, 1889 Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture |
History October 06, 1908 Yanks lose 100th game of the year go 51-103 for season |
History October 06, 1908 Austria-Hungary annexes Bosnia-Herzegovina |
History October 06, 1926 Babe Ruth hits 3 homers in a world series game |
History October 06, 1926 Babe Ruth sets a World Series record |
History October 06, 1927 The Jazz Singer 1st movie with a sound track premieres |
History October 06, 1935 Market Street Railway starts using trackless trolley coaches |
History October 06, 1936 Yanks beat Giants 4 games to 2 in the world series |
History October 06, 1940 Zoological Gardens opens (on Sloat & Skyline) |
History October 06, 1941 Yanks beat Dodgers 4 games to 1 in the world series |
History October 06, 1945 Pierre Laval attempts suicide |
History October 06, 1947 Yanks beat Dodgers 4 games to 3 in the world series |
History October 06, 1959 Soviet Luna 3 1st successful photographic spacecraft impacts moon |
History October 06, 1961 Kennedy urges Americans to build bomb shelters |
History October 06, 1967 U.S. jets strike targets in North Vietnam |
History October 06, 1970 South Vietnamese forces withdraw from Cambodia |
History October 06, 1972 Train derails in Mexico |
History October 06, 1973 Yom Kippur War begins |
History October 06, 1973 Egypt & Syria invade Israel - The Yom Kippur war |
History October 06, 1973 The Yom Kippur War brings United States and USSR to brink of conflict |
History October 06, 1978 Royals' George Brett hits 3 HRs Yanks win championship game 3 6-5 |
History October 06, 1981 The president of Egypt is assassinated |
History October 06, 1981 Anwar Sadat assassinated Hosnai Mubarak becomes Egytian president |
History October 06, 1983 Islander's Mike Bossy's 25th career hat trick |
History October 06, 1991 Liz Taylor marries husband No. 7 |
History October 06, 1993 Natchez Trace Parkway arches are complete |
History October 06, 1996 Country superstars Faith Hill and Tim McGraw wed |
History October 06, 1996 Bill Clinton debates Bob Dole |