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What happened in history on this day: October 6?
On October 6 in ...
- 891 - Formosus begins his reign as Catholic Pope.
- 1090 - Death of St. Adalbero von Würzburg (born about 1010 in Austria); Bishop of Würzburg (1045).
- 1459 - Birth of Martin Behaim in Nürnberg, Germany; produced oldest known globe in existence in 1492.
- 1520 - Martin Luther publishes an essay on the "Babylonian Captivity of the Church" refuting the Church's sacramental system.
- 1683 - The first German immigrants land in America. The 13 families, 35 persons, Mennonites from Krefeld, land in present-day Philadelphia.
- 1690 - The house of Rotterdam Burgomaster Jacob Suyle de Nyevelt is destroyed by an inflamed mob.
- 1769 - Birth of Isaac Brock on Guernsey; major-general (1811-12) British Army, in command of military and civil government of Upper Canada.
- 1781 - Americans and French begin siege of Cornwallis at Yorktown; last battle of the Revolutionary War.
- 1820 - Birth of Johanna Maria Lind AKA Jenny Lind in Stockholm, Sweden; soprano/nightingale (Agathe - "Der Freischultz").
- 1824 - Birth of Henry Chadwick; baseball pioneer, developed first rule book.
- 1831 - Birth of Richard Dedekind; mathematician (Nature and Meaning of Numbers).
- 1846 - Birth of George Westinghouse; responsible for alternating current in US.
- 1849 - Birth of Basil Zaharoff; arms dealer, "merchant of death".
- 1862 - Birth of Albert Jeremiah Beveridge; US politician/author (Progressive).
- 1863 - Dr Charles H Sheppard opens the first US public bath, in Brooklyn, New York.
- 1866 - First train robbery in US.
- 1866 - Birth of Reginald Aubrey Fessenden at Milton [East Bolton], Quebec, Canada; radio pioneer, made first two-way radio voice transmission (1906) between Scotland and Massachusetts, made world's first public program of music and voice transmitted to ships, holder of 300 patents.
- 1876 - American Library Association is organized in Philadelphia.
- 1882 - Birth of Karol Szymanowski in Timoshovka, Ukraine; composer (Stabatmater).
- 1884 - Birth of Lloyd Spooner; US marksman (Olympic-4 gold/1 silver/2 bronze-1920).
- 1884 - US Secretary of Navy signs order to establish Naval War College at Newport, Rhode Island.
- 1887 - Birth of Le Corbusier in Switzerland; architect/city planner/artist (Urbanisme).
- 1887 - Birth of Martín Luis Guzmán in Mexico; novelist (The Eagle and the Serpent).
- 1888 - Birth of Li Ta-chao; cofounder with Mao Tse-tung of Chinese Communist Party.
- 1889 - Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.
- 1891 - Charles Stewart Parnell, leader of the Irish party, dies.
- 1895 - Birth of Caroline Gordon in Kentucky, USA; writer (Green Centuries).
- 1897 - Birth of Jerome Cowan in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Mr Dithers - Blondie, The Tab Hunter Show, The Tycoon, Valiant Lady, Not for Publication).
- 1905 - Birth of Helen N Moody; tennis pro (8 Wimbledon titles 1927-1938).
- 1906 - Birth of Janet Gaynor in Philadelphia, USA; actress (Sunrise, A Star is Born).
- 1908 - Birth of Carole Lombard; actress (My Man Godfrey, In Name Only).
- 1908 - Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- 1914 - Birth of Thor Heyerdahl in Norway; anthropologist/explorer (Kon Tiki, Aku-Aku).
- 1923 - First National League unassisted baseball triple play (Ernie Padgett, Boston Braves against Philadelphia Phillies).
- 1925 - Birth of Shana Alexander in New York City, New York, USA; journalist (Point-Counterpoint on 60 Minutes (1975-79)).
- 1926 - Babe Ruth hits three home runs in a World Series game, New York Yankees beat Saint Louis Cardinals 10-5 (World Series #23).
- 1926 - Birth of Alan Copeland in Los Angeles, California, USA; orchestra leader/singer (Your Hit Parade).
- 1927 - Warner Brothers releases film The Jazz Singer to theaters in New York City, the first commercially-successful motion picture with sound.
- 1927 - Birth of Paul Badura-Skoda in Vienna, Austria; pianist (Mozart Interpretation).
- 1928 - Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China.
- 1930 - Birth of Hafez al Assad; president (Syria).
- 1931 - Birth of Riccardo Giacconi; Italian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
- 1936 - Birth of Anna Quayle; actress (Mistress Pamela).
- 1936 - New York Yankees beat New York Giants four games to two in 33rd World Series.
- 1939 - Adolf Hitler announces a peace plan in the Reichstag.
- 1940 - Birth of Ellen Travolta in Englewood, New Jersey, USA; actress (Louise - Joanie Loves Chachi, Charles in Charge, General Hospital).
- 1940 - Zoological Gardens opens in San Francisco, California.
- 1941 - New York Yankees beat Brooklyn Dodgers 4 games to 1, in 38th World Series.
- 1941 - A large pocket of about 100,000 Soviet forces surrender near Kharkov and the Donets river.
- 1942 - Birth of Britt Ekland in Stockholm, Sweden; actress (Wicker Man, Asylum, Fantasy Island, Superboy).
- 1942 - Birth of Fred Travalena in New York City, New York USA; comedian/impressionist (Buy and Cell, ABC Comedy Hour, Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo).
- 1943 - Birth of Michael Durrell in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actor (Shannon, V, Alice, Chiefs).
- 1946 - Birth of Gary Gentry; baseball player (New York Mets).
- 1947 - Birth of Klaus Dibiasi in Italy; platform diver (Olympic-gold-1968, 1972, 1976).
- 1947 - New York Yankees beat Brooklyn Dodgers 4 games to 3, in 44th World Series.
- 1949 - Birth of Les Moonves; CBS president.
- 1949 - NBC premieres The Ed Wynn Show, a 30-minute comedy variety show.
- 1949 - Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Japanese wartime propaganda broadcaster Tokyo Rose) sentenced to ten years and $10,000 fine.
- 1949 - US President Harry Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act (for NATO).
- 1949 - The Allies end the Berlin airlift.
- 1950 - ABC premieres the Pulitzer Prize Playhouse 60-minute anthology TV show.
- 1950 - ABC premieres the Life With Linkletter TV variety show, with host Art Linkletter.
- 1951 - Birth of Kevin Cronin; rock singer (REO Speedwagon).
- 1951 - Henry Gurney, British high commissioner to Malaya, is assassinated.
- 1952 - A double collision of trains at Harrow and Wealdstone, England, results in 112 deaths.
- 1954 - Birth of David Hidalgo; rock singer-musician (Los Lobos).
- 1956 - Walter Herlihy, announcer (Music at Meadowbrook), dies at age 42.
- 1959 - Single game World Series (World Series #56) attendance record set (92,706 in Los Angeles).
- 1960 - Birth of Jeffrey Trachta in Staten Island, New York, USA; actor (Thorne - The Bold and the Beautiful).
- 1960 - Birth of Richard Jobson; British TV person/rocker (Skids - "Scared to Dance").
- 1963 - Birth of Elisabeth Shue; actress (Call to Glory, Amy and Isabelle).
- 1963 - Los Angeles Dodgers sweep New York Yankees in 60th World Series.
- 1964 - In Turkey, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake occurs.
- 1966 - Birth of Jacqueline Obradors; actress (NYPD Blue).
- 1966 - Birth of Tommy Stinson; rock musician (The Replacements; Soul Asylum).
- 1966 - Baltimore Orioles' player Jim Palmer, 20, is youngest to pitch a World Series shutout (World Series #63).
- 1967 - Haight-Ashbury hippies throw a funeral to mark the end of hippies.
- 1969 - Walter Hagen, PGA golfer (US Open 1914, 1919), dies at age 76.
- 1970 - Birth of Amy Jo Johnson; actress (Flashpoint, Felicity, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers).
- 1972 - 22-car train carrying 2,000 pilgrims derails, kills 208 in Mexico.
- 1972 - Death of Cliff Hall at age 78 of throat cancer; actor (Sharlie - Baron Munchausen radio show).
- 1973 - Birth of Ioan Gruffudd; actor (Horatio Hornblower, Forsyte Saga).
- 1973 - (1350 hours) Egypt launches first attack of Yom Kippur War on Israel, crossing the Suez Canal into Sinai, to establish and hold a bridgehead to show Arabs that Israel could be successfully attacked.
- 1973 - (1405 hours) Syria attacks Israel from the east, with three mechanized divisions with 900 tanks, mostly Soviet T-54 and T-55 types. In the first wave, Israelis destroy about 60 tanks of the Syrian 7th Infantry Division. Syrian air defences shoot down about 23 Israeli jets.
- 1973 - Syrian helicopter-borne commandos seize Israeli stronghold atop Mount Herman near the Lebanon border.
- 1973 - Death of Gene Krupa at age 64 from leukemia; drummer (Benny Gooodman Quartet, "Sing Sing Sing" (1934)).
- 1974 - Birth of Jeremy Sisto; actor (Law and Order, Six Feet Under).
- 1975 - Henry Calvin, actor (Sargeant Garcia - Zorro), dies at age 57.
- 1976 - John Hathaway completes a bicycle tour of every continent in the world and cycling 50,600 miles.
- 1976 - In Ecuador, a magnitude 5.7 earthquake occurs, about 90 kilometers southeast of Quito. About 60 to 70 percent of the houses destroyed in Pastocalle.
- 1976 - US President Gerald Ford says there is "no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe".
- 1977 - Birth of Melinda Doolittle; singer (American Idol TV show).
- 1977 - New York Yankees win American League pennant by rallying for three runs in 9th to beat Kansas City Royals 5-3 in 5th and deciding playoff game.
- 1978 - Kansas City Royals' George Brett hits three home runs, New York Yankees win championship game 3, 6-5.
- 1979 - Federal Reserve System changes from an interest rate target policy to a money supply target policy.
- 1979 - Harry Drake sets long distance footbow shot record of 2,006 yards 1 foot 9 inches.
- 1979 - Pope John Paul II is first Pope to visit the White House.
- 1980 - Death of Hattie Jacques, star of Carry On films, of a heart attack (born 1922).
- 1981 - Egyptian president Anwar Sadat is assassinated during a parade by army members who were part of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad organization; they opposed his negotiations with Israel.
- 1982 - Auburn's Al Del Greco kicks six field goals.
- 1983 - The San Luis Potosi Mint is established in Mexico.
- 1983 - Buffalo Bills' quarterback Joe Ferguson passes 419 yards with five touchdowns.
- 1983 - New York Islander's Mike Bossy's earns 25th career hat trick.
- 1983 - New York Jets announce they are leaving Shea Stadium for the Meadowlands Coliseum.
- 1983 - Death of Terence Cardinal Cooke, American Catholic archbishop, at age 62 (born 1921).
- 1985 - Marita Koch of Germany sets 400m women's record (47.6) in Australia.
- 1985 - New York Yankees' Phil Niekro becomes the 18th pitcher to win 300 games and also at 46 becomes the oldest to pitch a shut-out beating Toronto Blue Jays 8-0.
- 1985 - Death of Nelson Riddle at age 64 of liver ailments; musician, arranger/composer (Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Judy Garland, Peggy Lee, Nat Cole).
- 1987 - Microsoft announces Microsoft Windows 2.0, and Microsoft Windows/386, priced at US$195.
- 1987 - Microsoft unveils the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet software for Microsoft Windows 2.0, the first major application for Windows.
- 1988 - Oakland Athletics sweep Boston Red Sox in four games for American League pennant.
- 1988 - NBC debuts the TV sitcom Dear John, starring Judd Hirsch.
- 1990 - US 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) launches into orbit.
- 1991 - New York Mets' David Cone ties National League record by striking out 19 Philadelphia Phillies players.
- 1991 - Death of Igor Talkov, Russian singer, poet and composer, author of many anti-soviet songs (born 1956).
- 1992 - Lennart Meri becomes the first president of re-independent Estonia.
- 1992 - Death of Denholm Elliott at age 70 of AIDS; actor (Noble House, Bleak House).
- 1993 - After nine years of playing in the NBA, Michael Jordan retires from basketball.
- 1993 - Premier Cruise Lines announces it is dropping the appearance of Disney characters from its cruise ships as of April 1, 1994.
- 1995 - Michael Mayor and Didier Queloz announce the discovery of 51 Pegasi b, the first confirmed Extrasolar planet.
- 1995 - In Southern Sumatera, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurs. Eighty-four people killed, 2,178 injured, nearly 65,000 homeless and over 18,900 homes and buildings damaged or destroyed in Jambi Province.
- 1995 - Death of Walter "Crash" Morgan at age 35 from an aneurysm while performing in Iowa, USA; drummer (Big Sugar).
- 1996 - Death of Ted Bessell at age 61 of an aneurism; actor/director (That Girl).
- 2000 - The last Mini automobile is produced in Longbridge, England.
- 2000 - CBS debuts the first episode of TV show CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.
- 2001 - The Seattle Mariners tie the 1906 Chicago Cubs with 116 wins in a single season for winningest team in major league history.
- 2002 - Death of Claus von Amsberg, husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (born 1926).
- 2002 - The Catholic Church declares José María Julian Mariano Escribá, AKA Josémaria Escrivá a saint (founder of Opus Dei).
- 2006 - Hazardous waste plant near Apex, North Carolina explodes releasing chlorine gas, resulting in the evacuation of thousands and the hospitalization of over 100 residents.
- 2007 - Presidential election occurs in Pakistan. General Pervez Musharraf is re-elected president.
- 2008 - Iceland's banks collapse.
- 2008 - NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes its second of three flybys of Mercury, decreasing the velocity for orbital insertion on March 18, 2011.
- 2008 - An earthquake measuring 6.6 magnitude kills at least 65 in Kyrgyzstan.
- 2008 - The UK's FTSE 100 stock market index records its biggest ever one-day points fall since 1984, 391.1 points, or 7.85 percent, representing a drop of 93.4 billion pounds sterling.
- 2012 - Death of Chadli Bendjedid, 3rd President of Algeria (born 1929).
- 2017 - Death of Roberto Anzolin, Italian footballer (born 1938).
- 2019 - US President Donald Trump orders US troops out of north-eastern Syria.
- 2019 - General election in Portugal. Socialist party with prime minister António Costa receives 36% of votes and 106 seats in parliament.
- 2021 - The World Health Organization endorses the first malaria vaccine.
- 2021 - (to October 10) The 2021 UEFA Nations League Finals is held in Italy, and is won by France. The games were originally scheduled for 2-6 June 2021, but were moved following the rescheduling of UEFA Euro 2020 to June and July 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
- 2022 - At the Child Development Center Uthai Sawan in Thailand, Panya Kamrap kills 36 people using a handgun and knife, then kills his wife, child, and himself.
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