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891 Formosus became pope (b. ca. 816). After his death in 896 he was condemned as unworthy of the pontificate. His brief reign as Pope was troubled, and his remains were exhumed and put on trial in the notorious Cadaver Synod. All his measures and acts were annulled, and the orders conferred by him were declared invalid.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formosus
1520 German reformer Martin Luther, 36, published "Prelude on the Babylonian Captivity of the Church," his famous writing which attacked the entire sacramental system of the Catholic Church.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prelude_on_the_Babylonian_Captivity_of_the_Church
Francis Daniel Pastorius
1683 William Penn brings 13 German immigrant families to the colony of Pennsylvania, marking the first immigration of German people to America,religious refugees from Krefield, Germany came ashore at Philadelphia -- the first Mennonites to arrive in North America. Their pastor, F. Daniel Pastorius, was considered by many the most learned man in America at the time. This group of German settlers arrived in Philadelphia. The thirteen linen weavers and their families were Mennonite refugees. They founded Germantown, the first German settlement in America, near Philadelphia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Daniel_Pastorius
1783 The self-winding clock was patented by Benjamin Hanks.
www.definition-of.net/event-Benjamin+Hanks+patents+self-winding+clock
1836 - A second early season snowstorm produced eleven inches at Wilkes Barre PA and 26 inches at Auburn NY. All the mountains in the northeastern U.S. were whitened with snow. (David Ludlum)
1857 American Chess Association organized
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Chess_Association
1862 Dr Charles H Sheppard opens the first public bath, in Brooklyn On October 6, 1862, Dr. Charles Sheppard opened the first Victorian Turkish bath in America at Laight Street, New York, to be followed two years later by Drs Miller, Wood & Co who opened what was probably the first Turkish bath in Manhattan at 13 Laight Street.
1866 First train robbery in US. the Reno gang carries out the first robbery of a moving train in the U.S., making off with over $10,000 from an Ohio & Mississippi train in Jackson County, Indiana. Prior to this innovation in crime, holdups had taken place only on trains sitting at stations or freight yards.
This new method of sticking up moving trains in remote locations low on law enforcement soon became popular in the American West, where the recently constructed transcontinental and regional railroads made attractive targets. With the western economy booming, trains often carried large stashes of cash and precious minerals. The sparsely populated landscape provided bandits with numerous isolated areas perfect for stopping trains, as well as plenty of places to hide from the law. Some gangs, like Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch, found robbing trains so easy and lucrative that, for a time, they made it their criminal specialty. Railroad owners eventually got wise and fought back, protecting their trains' valuables with large safes, armed guards and even specially fortified boxcars. Consequently, by the late 1800s, robbing trains had turned into an increasingly tough and dangerous job.
As for the Reno gang, which consisted of the four Reno brothers and their associates, their reign came to an end in 1868 when they all were finally captured after committing a series of train robberies and other criminal offenses. In December of that year, a mob stormed the Indiana jail where the bandits were being held and meted out vigilante justice, hanging brothers Frank, Simeon and William Reno (their brother John had been caught earlier and was already serving time in a different prison) and fellow gang member Charlie Anderson.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_robbery#History
1868 A patent for nickel plating was awarded to inventor William H. Remington of Boston.
1884 Naval War College established in Newport RI The College was established on October 6, 1884 and its first president, Commodore Stephen B. Luce, was given the old building of the Newport Asylum for the Poor to house it. One of the first four faculty members was Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, who soon became famous for the scope of his strategic thinking and influence on naval leaders worldwide.
1889 Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture Edison's assistant, William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, was given the task of inventing the motion picture device in June 1889, possibly because of his background as a photographer. In October of 1889, Dickson greeted Edison's return from Paris with a new device that projected pictures and contained sound. After more work, patent applications were made in 1891 for a motion picture camera, called a Kinetograph, and a Kinetoscope, a motion picture peephole viewer.
1899 B.H. Irwin began issuing "Live Coals of Fire," official publication of the Fire Baptized Holiness Association of America. Organized in 1898, the denomination was comprised of former Methodists, Quakers and River Brethren.
1893 Cream Of Wheat, a hot cereal, was created by millers in North Dakota. During the economic depression of that year, the Diamond Mill of Grand Forks was looking to revive their business.. The head miller, Thomas S. Amidon, convinced the partners (Emery Mapes, George Bull, and George Clifford, Sr.) to try making a porridge product using farina. George Clifford’s brother, Fred Sr., came up with the name Cream of Wheat because the product was so white. Four years later to the then thriving milling city of Minneapolis, where it was produced for a century.
1908 The Ohio Art company, makers of Etch-A-Sketch, was founded by Henry Simon Winzeler.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etch-A-Sketch
1914 A U.S. patent was issued to Edwin H. Armstrong for a "Wireless Receiving System" which described his famous regenerative, or feed-back, circuit (No. 1,113,149). This invention started Armstrong's career of innovation. He went on to become a pioneer in FM radio broadasting.
1917 A new word cropped up in the American lexicon: Jazz.
1923 – The great powers of World War I withdraw from Istanbul
1923 First NL unassisted triple play (Ernie Padgett, Braves against Phillies)
1926 Babe Ruth sets a World Series record. Yankee slugger Babe Ruth hits a record three homers against the St. Louis Cardinals in the fourth game of the World Series. The Yanks won the game 10-5, but despite Ruth’s unprecedented performance, they lost the championship in the seventh game. In 1928, in the fourth game of another Yanks-Cards World Series, Ruth tied his own record, knocking three more pitches out of the same park.
The 1926 championship promised to be an exciting one. The AL champs had a powerful lineup, later called the "Murderer’s Row," that included the great Babe, the young "Columbia Lou" Gehrig, and the leadoff man Earle Combs. For their part, the Cardinals had the intimidating Rogers Hornsby along with ace pitchers Flint Rhem and Bill Sherdel.
But the Yanks were heavily favored, and they won the first game easily. They lost the second, though, thanks to an outstanding full-game performance from St. Louis pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander. The next day, Cardinal Jessie Haines pitched the whole game--and hit the only home run--in his team’s 4-0 Game 3 victory.
By the fourth game in the series, the underdog Cards were up two games to one. The Yanks needed to pull it together, and for one game, they did. Veteran Waite Hoyt pitched all nine innings while St. Louis shuffled through its entire bullpen. And the Babe--the Sultan of Swat, the Caliph of Clout, the Wali of Wallop--hit his three homers and led the Yanks to a 10-5 victory. Unfortunately for the Bombers, that game didn’t decide the series. Though they won the next game in 10 innings, they lost the next one by eight runs. And they were losing the seventh game by one run in the ninth inning when the Bambino stepped to the plate again. With a 3-2 count, Ruth drew his eleventh walk of the series and trotted off to first base. The Yanks’ hopes plummeted as quickly as they’d risen, though, when second baseman Hornsby nabbed him as he tried somewhat ploddingly to steal second. The game was over. Thanks to the magical Bambino, the Bombers had lost.
On October 18, 1977, Yankee Reggie Jackson became only the second player to hit three homers in a single Series game.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babe_Ruth
1927 The first "talkie" opened in New York , The Jazz Singer
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jazz_Singer
1928 Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiang_Kai-Shek
1937 Radio’s "Hobby Lobby" debuted on CBS Dave Elman's hobby has been the study of unusual hobbies, a pursuit that had earned him the sobriquet of "the man of 100,000 hobbies." Once a week, he brought in a person with an unusual or particularly interesting hobby for a show he named "Hobby Lobby." Guests came from everywhere and anywhere, receiving a free trip to New York for their troubles. Elman's new show hit the airwaves in the spring of 1937 and was picked up commercially a few months later. When the Jack Benny Show went on vacation that summer, "Hobby Lobby" replaced it, and the show ended up being voted "the outstanding new idea show of 1937."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Elman
1939 World War II: The last Polish army is defeated.
1941 Claude Thornhill and his orchestra recorded "Autumn Nocturne"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Thornhill
1941 Electric photography (xerography) was patented by Chester Carlson Plagued by needs for copies of patent drawings and specifications, Carlson investigated ways of automatic text and illustration reproduction, working out of his apartment. While others sought chemical or photographic solutions to 'instant copying' problems, Carlson turned to electrostatics and in 1938 succeeded in obtaining his first 'dry-copy' and the first of many patents two years later.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerography
1945 Baseball: Billy Sianis and his pet billy goat are ejected from Wrigley Field during Game 4 of the 1945 World Series (see Curse of the Billy Goat).
1945 Pierre Laval attempts suicide. French premier and Vichy collaborator Pierre Laval tries to kill himself on the day he is to be executed for treason. He fails.
Laval served as premier of France twice, the second time from June 1935 to January 1936, but fell from power primarily because of his appeasement of Italy after the invasion and occupation of Ethiopio by Mussolini and his fascist regime in 1935. Upon the German invasion of France in 1940, Laval, ever the opportunist, saw a chance to re-establish himself in office by supporting a puppet government headed by Henri Philippe Petain, who, when he acceded to the position of premier in June 1940, rewarded Laval by making him deputy head of state and foreign minister.
Laval was always more slavish in his devotion to his German masters than was Petain; for example, Laval began secret negotiations for a formal collaboration with Germany, convinced that the future lay in the hands of the Axis power. Petain finally fired him in December 1940. But the Germans questioned Petain's double loyalty and pressured him to reinstate Laval. Petain fell further from German favor, and when Hitler's forces occupied France in 1942, Laval, wanting to reassure Germany of his loyalty, began sending French workers to Germany and stripping French Jews of their rights. He also helped the Nazis capture and deport non-French Jews. He openly announced that he wished for a German victory. "An American victory would mean victory for the Jews and the communists."
As the end for Hitler grew near, Laval fled first to Germany, then to Spain, then to Austria, where he was arrested and sent back to France and was tried, along with Petain, on the charge of treason. Laval defended his actions, believing he had done nothing wrong. He was sentenced to be shot by firing squad on October 6, 1945, but swallowed cyanide before they could come for him. A physician saved his life--just in time for Laval to be executed a little less than two weeks later.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Laval
1949 Iva Toguri d'Aquino (Tokyo Rose) sentenced to 10 years imprisonment
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo_Rose
1951 "Because of You" by Tony Bennett topped the charts
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Because_of_You_(1940_song)
1956 "Hound Dog/Don't Be Cruel" by Elvis Presley topped the charts
1956 Dr. Albert Sabin developed the oral Polio vaccine.
1959 Single game World Series attendance record set (92,706 in LA)
1962 "Sherry" by the Four Seasons topped the charts "Sherry" was originally called "Terry." The group loved it and performed it over the telephone for their producer, Bob Crewe, who liked everything about it but the name. After considering "Jackie" (after Jackie Kennedy), the group changed the name of the song to "Sherry," after Cheri Spector, the daughter of one of Crewe's best friends. Bob Gaudio wrote this. He formed The Four Seasons with Frankie Valli the previous year. This convinced Valli that Gaudio was a good songwriter. It took less time for Gaudio to compose this than it took the group to decide upon a name for the song. He wrote it in less than 15 minutes.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherry_(song)
1963 Barbra Streisand appears on "The Judy Garland Show"
1965 Supremes release "I Hear a Symphony"
1966 Orioles Jim Palmer youngest to throw a World Series shutout
1967 Haight-Ashbury hippies throw a funeral to mark the end of hippies
1973 "Half-Breed" by Cher topped the charts
1973 Egypt launches a coordinated attack against Israel to reclaim land lost in the Six Day War. The Ramadan War Yom Kippur War starts at 2:05 pm that day. Hoping to win back territory lost to Israel during the third Arab-Israeli war, Egyptian and Syrian forces launch a coordinated attack against Israel on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. Taking the Israeli Defense Forces by surprise, Egyptian troops swept deep into the Sinai Peninsula, while Syria struggled to throw occupying Israeli troops out of the Golan Heights.
Israel's stunning victory in the Six-Day War of 1967 left the Jewish nation in control of territory four times its previous size. Egypt lost the 23,500-square-mile Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip, Jordan the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and Syria the strategic Golan Heights. When Anwar el-Sadat became president of Egypt in 1970, he found himself leader of an economically troubled nation that could ill afford to continue its endless crusade against Israel. He wanted to make peace and thereby achieve stability and recovery of the Sinai, but after Israel's 1967 victory it was unlikely that Israel's peace terms would be favorable to Egypt. So Sadat conceived of a daring plan to attack Israel again, which, even if unsuccessful, might convince the Israelis that peace with Egypt was necessary.
In 1972, Sadat expelled 20,000 Soviet advisers from Egypt and opened new diplomatic channels with Washington, which, as Israel's key ally, would be an essential mediator in any future peace talks. He formed a new alliance with Syria, and a concerted attack on Israel was planned.
When the fourth Arab-Israeli war began on October 6, 1973, many of Israel's soldiers were away from their posts observing Yom Kippur, and the Arab armies made impressive advances with their up-to-date Soviet weaponry. Iraqi forces soon joined the war, and Syria received support from Jordan. After several days, Israel was fully mobilized, and the Israel Defense Forces began beating back the Arab gains at a heavy cost to soldiers and equipment. A U.S. airlift of arms aided Israel's cause, but President Richard Nixon delayed the emergency military aid for seven days as a tacit signal of U.S. sympathy for Egypt. In late October, an Egyptian-Israeli cease-fire was secured by the United Nations.
Although Egypt had again suffered military defeat at the hands of its Jewish neighbor, the initial Egyptian successes greatly enhanced Sadat's prestige in the Middle East and provided him with an opportunity to seek peace. In 1974, the first of two Egyptian-Israeli disengagement agreements providing for the return of portions of the Sinai to Egypt were signed, and in 1979 Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin signed the first peace agreement between Israel and one of its Arab neighbors. In 1982, Israel fulfilled the 1979 peace treaty by returning the last segment of the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt.
For Syria, the Yom Kippur War was a disaster. The unexpected Egyptian-Israeli cease-fire exposed Syria to military defeat, and Israel seized even more territory in the Golan Heights. In 1979, Syria voted with other Arab states to expel Egypt from the Arab League. On October 6, 1981, Sadat was assassinated by Muslim extremists in Cairo while viewing a military parade commemorating the anniversary of the Yom Kippur War.
1979 "Sad Eyes" by Robert John topped the charts
1979 Pope John Paul II (1920–2005) becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House. He met with President Jimmy Carter.
1981 President of Egypt, Anwar al-Sadat is assassinated.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Sadat#Assassination
1983 NY Jets announce they are leaving Shea for the Meadowlands
1984 "Let's Go Crazy" by Prince & the Revolution topped the charts
1984 - The temperature at Honolulu, Hawaii, reached 94 degrees to establish an all-time record at that location. (The Weather Channel)
1985 - A tropical wave, later to become Tropical Storm Isabel, struck Puerto Rico. As much as 24 inches of rain fell in 24 hours, and the severe flooding and numerous landslides resulting from the rain claimed about 180 lives. (Storm Data)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Storm_Isabel_(1985)#Tropical_Storm_Isabel
1985 Yankee Phil Niekro becomes the 18th pitcher to win 300 games
1987 - The western U.S. continued to sizzle. Afternoon highs of 85 degrees at Astoria OR, 101 degrees at Tucson AZ, and 102 degrees at Sacramento CA, equalled October records. It marked the fourth time in the month that Sacramento tied their record for October. (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - Cool Canadian air prevailed across the central and eastern U.S. Toledo OH reported a record low of 27 degrees. Limestone ME received an inch of snow. Warm weather continued in the western U.S. Boise ID reported a record high of 87 degrees. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Temperatures soared into the 90s across southern Texas. Afternoon highs of 93 degrees at Houston, and 96 degrees at Austin and Corpus Christi, were records for the date. Beeville was the hot spot in the nation with an afternoon high of 101 degrees. (The National Weather Summary)
1990 "Close to You" by Maxi Priest topped the charts
1995 The first discovery of a planet around a star similar to the sun was anounced (about 160 times the mass of the Earth around the star 51 Pegasus).
1997 American biology professor Stanley B. Prusiner won the Nobel Prize for medicine for discovering "prions," described as "an entirely new genre of disease-causing agents."
2000 Yugoslav president Slobodan Miloševiæ resigns.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slobodan_Milo%C5%A1evi%C4%87
2002 - The French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen.
Births
1459 Martin Behaim, German navigator and geographer (d. 1507)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Behaim
1816 William Bradbury, American Baptist sacred music composer, in York, Maine (d 7 Jan 1868).
www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/b/r/a/bradbury_wb.htm
www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/j/e/s/jesuslme.htm
1818 Silas J. Vail, New England businessman and composer, in Brooklyn, New York (d. 20 May 1883, Brooklyn, New York).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silas_Jones_Vail
www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/v/a/i/vail_sj.htm
1820 Johanna Maria Lind (d 1887), better known as Jenny Lind, was a Swedish opera singer, often known as the "Swedish Nightingale". One of the most highly regarded singers of the 19th century, she is known for her performances in soprano roles in Sweden and across Europe, and for an extraordinarily popular concert tour of America beginning in 1850. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music from 1840.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Lind
1822 Benjamin Franklin Isherwood (d 1915) U.S. naval engineer who, during the American Civil War, greatly augmented the U.S. Navy's steam-powered fleet.
1846 George Westinghouse (d 1914) American inventor and industrialist who founded his own company to manufacturer his invention, the air brake. The son of a New York agricultural machinery maker, he began at age 21 to work on a new tool he invented to guide derailed train cars back onto the track. Before his death 46 years later, produced safer rail transportation, steam turbines, gas lighting and heating, and electricity. He founded not only namesakes Westinghouse Air Brake and Westinghouse Electric, but also Union Switch & Signal and the forerunners to Duquesne Light, Equitable Gas and Rockwell International. He was also chiefly responsible for the adoption of alternating current for electric power transmission in the United States, and held 400 patents.
1862 Albert Jeremiah Beveridge (d 1927) American historian and United States Senator from Indiana.
1871 J. Adam Rimbach, hymn translator, in Elyria, Ohio (d 14 Dec 1941, Portland, Oregon). He graduated from Concordia Seminary (Saint Louis) in 1893 and first taught in an academy (progymnasium) opened by Lutheran congregations in Cleveland, Ohio, to gain more students for the ministry and teaching professions. He later served as pastor of congregations at Avilla, Indiana; Zanesville, Ohio; Ashland, Kentucky; and Portland, Oregon, the latter from 1906 until his death. He was awarded an honorary doctor of divinity degree by Concordia Seminary in 1941. He contributed numerous articles and sermons to the periodicals of the Missouri Synod.
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1874 - Frank G. Allen, 51st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1950)
1884 Lloyd Spooner US, marksman (Olympic-4 gold/1 silver/2 bronze-1920)
1892 Jackie Saunders, American silent film actress (d. 1954)
1895 Caroline Gordon, American writer and critic (d. 1981)
1897 Florence Seibert (d 1991) American scientist who developed the protein substance used for the tuberculosis skin test, and contributed to safety measures for intravenous drug therapy. In the early 1920s, she discovered that the sudden fevers that sometimes occurred during intravenous injections were caused by bacteria in the distilled water used to make the protein solutions. She invented a distillation apparatus designed to prevent such contamination. In 1941, her improved TB skin test became the standard test in the U.S. and a year later was adopted by the World Health Organization. It is still in use today. Her later research involved the study of bacteria associated with certain cancers.
1905 - Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (d. 1998)
1906 Janet Gaynor, American actress (d. 1984)
1908 Carole Lombard, American actress (d. 1942)
1914 Thor Heyerdahl (d 2002) Norweigan ethnologist and adventurer who organized and led the famous Kon-Tiki (28 Apr 1947) and Ra (1969-70) transoceanic scientific expeditions. Both expeditions were intended to prove the possibility of ancient transoceanic contacts between distant civilizations and cultures. The Kon Tiki voyage from Peru to Polynesia was a 101-day, 4,300-mile drifting voyage on the 40-sq.ft. raft, a replica of pre-Inca vessels. He wished to show that Polynesia's first settlers could have come from South America. Few scholars at the time, and almost none today, endorsed the idea. They discount the Heyerdahl hypothesis largely on linguistic, genetic and cultural grounds, all of which point to the settlers having come from the west, not the east.
1912 Perkins Bass four term U.S. Representative from 1955 to 1963 from New Hampshire. He is the father of Charles F. Bass, a former U.S. Representative from New Hampshire, and son of Robert P. Bass, who was governor of the state from 1911 to 1913.
1915 - Carolyn Goodman, American psychologist and civil rights activist (d. 2007)
1917 Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights activist (d. 1977)
1921 Joseph Lowery, American Civil rights movement leader
1925 Shana Alexander, American columnist (d. 2005)
1926 Alan Copeland LA Calif, orch leader/singer (Your Hit Parade)
1927 - Bill King, American sports broadcaster (d. 2005)
1939 John LaFalce, American politician, former Member, US House of Representatives for New York.
1946 Lloyd Alton Doggett II American politician, Democratic politician from Texas. He has represented a district covering the state capital, Austin, in the United States House of Representatives since 1995. He represented the 10th congressional district from 1995 to 2005, and now represents the 25th congressional district.
1955 Tony Dungy, American football coach
1959 Brian Higgins, American politician, Member of US House of Representatives, Democrat from New York.
1965 Stephen Joseph "Steve" Scalise Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana's 1st congressional district. Previous to his Congressional service Scalise served in the Louisiana State Senate for five months in 2008 and the Louisiana House for the preceding twelve years. His congressional seat was vacated by Bobby Jindal, who was elected Governor of Louisiana.
Deaths
1829 Pierre Derbigny, Governor of Louisiana (b. 1769)
1880 Benjamin Peirce (b 1809) American astronomer,
mathematician and educator who computed the general perturbations of the planets Uranus and Neptune. He was Harvard's Perkins Professor of Astronomy and Mathematics for nearly 40 years, and was largely responsible for introducing mathematics as a subject for research in American institutions. He is known especially for his contributions to analytic mechanics and linear associative algebra, but he is also remembered for his early work in astronomy and for playing a role in the discovery of Neptune.
1945 George C. Stebbins (b. 26 Feb 1846), American Baptist music evangelist
www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/s/t/e/b/stebbins_gc.htm
1951 Will Keith Kellogg (b 1860) American industrialist and philanthropist who founded (1906) the W.K. Kellogg Company to manufacture cereal products as breakfast foods. His cereals have found widespread use throughout the United States.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Keith_Kellogg
1959 Bernard Berenson, American art historian (b. 1865)
1962 Tod Browning (b 1880) was an American motion picture actor, director and screenwriter.
1969 Walter Charles Hagen (b 1892) major figure in golf in the first half of the 20th century. His tally of eleven professional majors is third behind Jack Nicklaus (18) and Tiger Woods (14). He won the U.S. Open twice, and in 1922 he became the first native-born American to win the British Open, which he went on to win four times in total. He also won the PGA Championship a record-tying five times (1921, '24-'27), the Western Open five times, totalled 45 PGA wins in his career, and was a six time Ryder Cup captain.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Charles_Hagen
1983 Terence Cooke, American cardinal archbishop (b. 1921)
1984 George Gaylord Simpson (b 1902) U.S. paleontologist known for his contributions to evolutionary theory and to the understanding of intercontinental migrations of animal species in past geological times. Simpson specialized in early fossil mammals, leading expeditions on four continents and discovering in 1953 the 50-million-year old fossil skulls of dawn horses in Colorado. He helped develop the modern biological theory of evolution, drawing on paleontology, genetics, ecology, and natural selection to show that evolution occurs as a result of natural selection operating in response to shifting environmental conditions. He spent most of his career as a paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History.
1985 Nelson Riddle, American bandleader (b. 1921)
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1989 Bette Davis, American actress (b. 1908)
2000 Richard Farnsworth, American actor (b. 1920)
2006 Buck O'Neil, American baseball player (b. 1911)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_O%27Neil
Christian Feast Day
Blessed Marie-Rose Durocher
Bruno of Cologne
Faith
Mary Frances of the Five Wounds of Jesus
Sagar of Laodicea
October 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Holy and glorious Apostle Thomas
New Monk-martyr Macarius of St. Anne’s Skete, Mt. Athos, at Prusa in Bithynia (1590)
Woman-martyr Erotheis of Cappadocia
Saint Cindeus of Cyprus, monk
Other commemorations
Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "All-Hymned Mother"
Glorification (1977) of Saint Innocent, Enlightener of the Aleuts and Apostle to the Americas (1879)
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891 Formosus became pope (b. ca. 816). After his death in 896 he was condemned as unworthy of the pontificate. His brief reign as Pope was troubled, and his remains were exhumed and put on trial in the notorious Cadaver Synod. All his measures and acts were annulled, and the orders conferred by him were declared invalid.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formosus
1520 German reformer Martin Luther, 36, published "Prelude on the Babylonian Captivity of the Church," his famous writing which attacked the entire sacramental system of the Catholic Church.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prelude_on_the_Babylonian_Captivity_of_the_Church
Francis Daniel Pastorius
1683 William Penn brings 13 German immigrant families to the colony of Pennsylvania, marking the first immigration of German people to America,religious refugees from Krefield, Germany came ashore at Philadelphia -- the first Mennonites to arrive in North America. Their pastor, F. Daniel Pastorius, was considered by many the most learned man in America at the time. This group of German settlers arrived in Philadelphia. The thirteen linen weavers and their families were Mennonite refugees. They founded Germantown, the first German settlement in America, near Philadelphia.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Daniel_Pastorius
1783 The self-winding clock was patented by Benjamin Hanks.
www.definition-of.net/event-Benjamin+Hanks+patents+self-winding+clock
1836 - A second early season snowstorm produced eleven inches at Wilkes Barre PA and 26 inches at Auburn NY. All the mountains in the northeastern U.S. were whitened with snow. (David Ludlum)
1857 American Chess Association organized
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Chess_Association
1862 Dr Charles H Sheppard opens the first public bath, in Brooklyn On October 6, 1862, Dr. Charles Sheppard opened the first Victorian Turkish bath in America at Laight Street, New York, to be followed two years later by Drs Miller, Wood & Co who opened what was probably the first Turkish bath in Manhattan at 13 Laight Street.
1866 First train robbery in US. the Reno gang carries out the first robbery of a moving train in the U.S., making off with over $10,000 from an Ohio & Mississippi train in Jackson County, Indiana. Prior to this innovation in crime, holdups had taken place only on trains sitting at stations or freight yards.
This new method of sticking up moving trains in remote locations low on law enforcement soon became popular in the American West, where the recently constructed transcontinental and regional railroads made attractive targets. With the western economy booming, trains often carried large stashes of cash and precious minerals. The sparsely populated landscape provided bandits with numerous isolated areas perfect for stopping trains, as well as plenty of places to hide from the law. Some gangs, like Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch, found robbing trains so easy and lucrative that, for a time, they made it their criminal specialty. Railroad owners eventually got wise and fought back, protecting their trains' valuables with large safes, armed guards and even specially fortified boxcars. Consequently, by the late 1800s, robbing trains had turned into an increasingly tough and dangerous job.
As for the Reno gang, which consisted of the four Reno brothers and their associates, their reign came to an end in 1868 when they all were finally captured after committing a series of train robberies and other criminal offenses. In December of that year, a mob stormed the Indiana jail where the bandits were being held and meted out vigilante justice, hanging brothers Frank, Simeon and William Reno (their brother John had been caught earlier and was already serving time in a different prison) and fellow gang member Charlie Anderson.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Train_robbery#History
1868 A patent for nickel plating was awarded to inventor William H. Remington of Boston.
1884 Naval War College established in Newport RI The College was established on October 6, 1884 and its first president, Commodore Stephen B. Luce, was given the old building of the Newport Asylum for the Poor to house it. One of the first four faculty members was Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, who soon became famous for the scope of his strategic thinking and influence on naval leaders worldwide.
1889 Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture Edison's assistant, William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, was given the task of inventing the motion picture device in June 1889, possibly because of his background as a photographer. In October of 1889, Dickson greeted Edison's return from Paris with a new device that projected pictures and contained sound. After more work, patent applications were made in 1891 for a motion picture camera, called a Kinetograph, and a Kinetoscope, a motion picture peephole viewer.
1899 B.H. Irwin began issuing "Live Coals of Fire," official publication of the Fire Baptized Holiness Association of America. Organized in 1898, the denomination was comprised of former Methodists, Quakers and River Brethren.
1893 Cream Of Wheat, a hot cereal, was created by millers in North Dakota. During the economic depression of that year, the Diamond Mill of Grand Forks was looking to revive their business.. The head miller, Thomas S. Amidon, convinced the partners (Emery Mapes, George Bull, and George Clifford, Sr.) to try making a porridge product using farina. George Clifford’s brother, Fred Sr., came up with the name Cream of Wheat because the product was so white. Four years later to the then thriving milling city of Minneapolis, where it was produced for a century.
1908 The Ohio Art company, makers of Etch-A-Sketch, was founded by Henry Simon Winzeler.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etch-A-Sketch
1914 A U.S. patent was issued to Edwin H. Armstrong for a "Wireless Receiving System" which described his famous regenerative, or feed-back, circuit (No. 1,113,149). This invention started Armstrong's career of innovation. He went on to become a pioneer in FM radio broadasting.
1917 A new word cropped up in the American lexicon: Jazz.
1923 – The great powers of World War I withdraw from Istanbul
1923 First NL unassisted triple play (Ernie Padgett, Braves against Phillies)
1926 Babe Ruth sets a World Series record. Yankee slugger Babe Ruth hits a record three homers against the St. Louis Cardinals in the fourth game of the World Series. The Yanks won the game 10-5, but despite Ruth’s unprecedented performance, they lost the championship in the seventh game. In 1928, in the fourth game of another Yanks-Cards World Series, Ruth tied his own record, knocking three more pitches out of the same park.
The 1926 championship promised to be an exciting one. The AL champs had a powerful lineup, later called the "Murderer’s Row," that included the great Babe, the young "Columbia Lou" Gehrig, and the leadoff man Earle Combs. For their part, the Cardinals had the intimidating Rogers Hornsby along with ace pitchers Flint Rhem and Bill Sherdel.
But the Yanks were heavily favored, and they won the first game easily. They lost the second, though, thanks to an outstanding full-game performance from St. Louis pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander. The next day, Cardinal Jessie Haines pitched the whole game--and hit the only home run--in his team’s 4-0 Game 3 victory.
By the fourth game in the series, the underdog Cards were up two games to one. The Yanks needed to pull it together, and for one game, they did. Veteran Waite Hoyt pitched all nine innings while St. Louis shuffled through its entire bullpen. And the Babe--the Sultan of Swat, the Caliph of Clout, the Wali of Wallop--hit his three homers and led the Yanks to a 10-5 victory. Unfortunately for the Bombers, that game didn’t decide the series. Though they won the next game in 10 innings, they lost the next one by eight runs. And they were losing the seventh game by one run in the ninth inning when the Bambino stepped to the plate again. With a 3-2 count, Ruth drew his eleventh walk of the series and trotted off to first base. The Yanks’ hopes plummeted as quickly as they’d risen, though, when second baseman Hornsby nabbed him as he tried somewhat ploddingly to steal second. The game was over. Thanks to the magical Bambino, the Bombers had lost.
On October 18, 1977, Yankee Reggie Jackson became only the second player to hit three homers in a single Series game.
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1927 The first "talkie" opened in New York , The Jazz Singer
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1928 Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiang_Kai-Shek
1937 Radio’s "Hobby Lobby" debuted on CBS Dave Elman's hobby has been the study of unusual hobbies, a pursuit that had earned him the sobriquet of "the man of 100,000 hobbies." Once a week, he brought in a person with an unusual or particularly interesting hobby for a show he named "Hobby Lobby." Guests came from everywhere and anywhere, receiving a free trip to New York for their troubles. Elman's new show hit the airwaves in the spring of 1937 and was picked up commercially a few months later. When the Jack Benny Show went on vacation that summer, "Hobby Lobby" replaced it, and the show ended up being voted "the outstanding new idea show of 1937."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Elman
1939 World War II: The last Polish army is defeated.
1941 Claude Thornhill and his orchestra recorded "Autumn Nocturne"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Thornhill
1941 Electric photography (xerography) was patented by Chester Carlson Plagued by needs for copies of patent drawings and specifications, Carlson investigated ways of automatic text and illustration reproduction, working out of his apartment. While others sought chemical or photographic solutions to 'instant copying' problems, Carlson turned to electrostatics and in 1938 succeeded in obtaining his first 'dry-copy' and the first of many patents two years later.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerography
1945 Baseball: Billy Sianis and his pet billy goat are ejected from Wrigley Field during Game 4 of the 1945 World Series (see Curse of the Billy Goat).
1945 Pierre Laval attempts suicide. French premier and Vichy collaborator Pierre Laval tries to kill himself on the day he is to be executed for treason. He fails.
Laval served as premier of France twice, the second time from June 1935 to January 1936, but fell from power primarily because of his appeasement of Italy after the invasion and occupation of Ethiopio by Mussolini and his fascist regime in 1935. Upon the German invasion of France in 1940, Laval, ever the opportunist, saw a chance to re-establish himself in office by supporting a puppet government headed by Henri Philippe Petain, who, when he acceded to the position of premier in June 1940, rewarded Laval by making him deputy head of state and foreign minister.
Laval was always more slavish in his devotion to his German masters than was Petain; for example, Laval began secret negotiations for a formal collaboration with Germany, convinced that the future lay in the hands of the Axis power. Petain finally fired him in December 1940. But the Germans questioned Petain's double loyalty and pressured him to reinstate Laval. Petain fell further from German favor, and when Hitler's forces occupied France in 1942, Laval, wanting to reassure Germany of his loyalty, began sending French workers to Germany and stripping French Jews of their rights. He also helped the Nazis capture and deport non-French Jews. He openly announced that he wished for a German victory. "An American victory would mean victory for the Jews and the communists."
As the end for Hitler grew near, Laval fled first to Germany, then to Spain, then to Austria, where he was arrested and sent back to France and was tried, along with Petain, on the charge of treason. Laval defended his actions, believing he had done nothing wrong. He was sentenced to be shot by firing squad on October 6, 1945, but swallowed cyanide before they could come for him. A physician saved his life--just in time for Laval to be executed a little less than two weeks later.
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1949 Iva Toguri d'Aquino (Tokyo Rose) sentenced to 10 years imprisonment
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1951 "Because of You" by Tony Bennett topped the charts
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1956 "Hound Dog/Don't Be Cruel" by Elvis Presley topped the charts
1956 Dr. Albert Sabin developed the oral Polio vaccine.
1959 Single game World Series attendance record set (92,706 in LA)
1962 "Sherry" by the Four Seasons topped the charts "Sherry" was originally called "Terry." The group loved it and performed it over the telephone for their producer, Bob Crewe, who liked everything about it but the name. After considering "Jackie" (after Jackie Kennedy), the group changed the name of the song to "Sherry," after Cheri Spector, the daughter of one of Crewe's best friends. Bob Gaudio wrote this. He formed The Four Seasons with Frankie Valli the previous year. This convinced Valli that Gaudio was a good songwriter. It took less time for Gaudio to compose this than it took the group to decide upon a name for the song. He wrote it in less than 15 minutes.
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1963 Barbra Streisand appears on "The Judy Garland Show"
1965 Supremes release "I Hear a Symphony"
1966 Orioles Jim Palmer youngest to throw a World Series shutout
1967 Haight-Ashbury hippies throw a funeral to mark the end of hippies
1973 "Half-Breed" by Cher topped the charts
1973 Egypt launches a coordinated attack against Israel to reclaim land lost in the Six Day War. The Ramadan War Yom Kippur War starts at 2:05 pm that day. Hoping to win back territory lost to Israel during the third Arab-Israeli war, Egyptian and Syrian forces launch a coordinated attack against Israel on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. Taking the Israeli Defense Forces by surprise, Egyptian troops swept deep into the Sinai Peninsula, while Syria struggled to throw occupying Israeli troops out of the Golan Heights.
Israel's stunning victory in the Six-Day War of 1967 left the Jewish nation in control of territory four times its previous size. Egypt lost the 23,500-square-mile Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip, Jordan the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and Syria the strategic Golan Heights. When Anwar el-Sadat became president of Egypt in 1970, he found himself leader of an economically troubled nation that could ill afford to continue its endless crusade against Israel. He wanted to make peace and thereby achieve stability and recovery of the Sinai, but after Israel's 1967 victory it was unlikely that Israel's peace terms would be favorable to Egypt. So Sadat conceived of a daring plan to attack Israel again, which, even if unsuccessful, might convince the Israelis that peace with Egypt was necessary.
In 1972, Sadat expelled 20,000 Soviet advisers from Egypt and opened new diplomatic channels with Washington, which, as Israel's key ally, would be an essential mediator in any future peace talks. He formed a new alliance with Syria, and a concerted attack on Israel was planned.
When the fourth Arab-Israeli war began on October 6, 1973, many of Israel's soldiers were away from their posts observing Yom Kippur, and the Arab armies made impressive advances with their up-to-date Soviet weaponry. Iraqi forces soon joined the war, and Syria received support from Jordan. After several days, Israel was fully mobilized, and the Israel Defense Forces began beating back the Arab gains at a heavy cost to soldiers and equipment. A U.S. airlift of arms aided Israel's cause, but President Richard Nixon delayed the emergency military aid for seven days as a tacit signal of U.S. sympathy for Egypt. In late October, an Egyptian-Israeli cease-fire was secured by the United Nations.
Although Egypt had again suffered military defeat at the hands of its Jewish neighbor, the initial Egyptian successes greatly enhanced Sadat's prestige in the Middle East and provided him with an opportunity to seek peace. In 1974, the first of two Egyptian-Israeli disengagement agreements providing for the return of portions of the Sinai to Egypt were signed, and in 1979 Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin signed the first peace agreement between Israel and one of its Arab neighbors. In 1982, Israel fulfilled the 1979 peace treaty by returning the last segment of the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt.
For Syria, the Yom Kippur War was a disaster. The unexpected Egyptian-Israeli cease-fire exposed Syria to military defeat, and Israel seized even more territory in the Golan Heights. In 1979, Syria voted with other Arab states to expel Egypt from the Arab League. On October 6, 1981, Sadat was assassinated by Muslim extremists in Cairo while viewing a military parade commemorating the anniversary of the Yom Kippur War.
1979 "Sad Eyes" by Robert John topped the charts
1979 Pope John Paul II (1920–2005) becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House. He met with President Jimmy Carter.
1981 President of Egypt, Anwar al-Sadat is assassinated.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Sadat#Assassination
1983 NY Jets announce they are leaving Shea for the Meadowlands
1984 "Let's Go Crazy" by Prince & the Revolution topped the charts
1984 - The temperature at Honolulu, Hawaii, reached 94 degrees to establish an all-time record at that location. (The Weather Channel)
1985 - A tropical wave, later to become Tropical Storm Isabel, struck Puerto Rico. As much as 24 inches of rain fell in 24 hours, and the severe flooding and numerous landslides resulting from the rain claimed about 180 lives. (Storm Data)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Storm_Isabel_(1985)#Tropical_Storm_Isabel
1985 Yankee Phil Niekro becomes the 18th pitcher to win 300 games
1987 - The western U.S. continued to sizzle. Afternoon highs of 85 degrees at Astoria OR, 101 degrees at Tucson AZ, and 102 degrees at Sacramento CA, equalled October records. It marked the fourth time in the month that Sacramento tied their record for October. (The National Weather Summary)
1988 - Cool Canadian air prevailed across the central and eastern U.S. Toledo OH reported a record low of 27 degrees. Limestone ME received an inch of snow. Warm weather continued in the western U.S. Boise ID reported a record high of 87 degrees. (The National Weather Summary)
1989 - Temperatures soared into the 90s across southern Texas. Afternoon highs of 93 degrees at Houston, and 96 degrees at Austin and Corpus Christi, were records for the date. Beeville was the hot spot in the nation with an afternoon high of 101 degrees. (The National Weather Summary)
1990 "Close to You" by Maxi Priest topped the charts
1995 The first discovery of a planet around a star similar to the sun was anounced (about 160 times the mass of the Earth around the star 51 Pegasus).
1997 American biology professor Stanley B. Prusiner won the Nobel Prize for medicine for discovering "prions," described as "an entirely new genre of disease-causing agents."
2000 Yugoslav president Slobodan Miloševiæ resigns.
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2002 - The French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen.
Births
1459 Martin Behaim, German navigator and geographer (d. 1507)
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1816 William Bradbury, American Baptist sacred music composer, in York, Maine (d 7 Jan 1868).
www.hymntime.com/tch/bio/b/r/a/bradbury_wb.htm
www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/j/e/s/jesuslme.htm
1818 Silas J. Vail, New England businessman and composer, in Brooklyn, New York (d. 20 May 1883, Brooklyn, New York).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silas_Jones_Vail
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1820 Johanna Maria Lind (d 1887), better known as Jenny Lind, was a Swedish opera singer, often known as the "Swedish Nightingale". One of the most highly regarded singers of the 19th century, she is known for her performances in soprano roles in Sweden and across Europe, and for an extraordinarily popular concert tour of America beginning in 1850. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music from 1840.
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1822 Benjamin Franklin Isherwood (d 1915) U.S. naval engineer who, during the American Civil War, greatly augmented the U.S. Navy's steam-powered fleet.
1846 George Westinghouse (d 1914) American inventor and industrialist who founded his own company to manufacturer his invention, the air brake. The son of a New York agricultural machinery maker, he began at age 21 to work on a new tool he invented to guide derailed train cars back onto the track. Before his death 46 years later, produced safer rail transportation, steam turbines, gas lighting and heating, and electricity. He founded not only namesakes Westinghouse Air Brake and Westinghouse Electric, but also Union Switch & Signal and the forerunners to Duquesne Light, Equitable Gas and Rockwell International. He was also chiefly responsible for the adoption of alternating current for electric power transmission in the United States, and held 400 patents.
1862 Albert Jeremiah Beveridge (d 1927) American historian and United States Senator from Indiana.
1871 J. Adam Rimbach, hymn translator, in Elyria, Ohio (d 14 Dec 1941, Portland, Oregon). He graduated from Concordia Seminary (Saint Louis) in 1893 and first taught in an academy (progymnasium) opened by Lutheran congregations in Cleveland, Ohio, to gain more students for the ministry and teaching professions. He later served as pastor of congregations at Avilla, Indiana; Zanesville, Ohio; Ashland, Kentucky; and Portland, Oregon, the latter from 1906 until his death. He was awarded an honorary doctor of divinity degree by Concordia Seminary in 1941. He contributed numerous articles and sermons to the periodicals of the Missouri Synod.
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1874 - Frank G. Allen, 51st Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1950)
1884 Lloyd Spooner US, marksman (Olympic-4 gold/1 silver/2 bronze-1920)
1892 Jackie Saunders, American silent film actress (d. 1954)
1895 Caroline Gordon, American writer and critic (d. 1981)
1897 Florence Seibert (d 1991) American scientist who developed the protein substance used for the tuberculosis skin test, and contributed to safety measures for intravenous drug therapy. In the early 1920s, she discovered that the sudden fevers that sometimes occurred during intravenous injections were caused by bacteria in the distilled water used to make the protein solutions. She invented a distillation apparatus designed to prevent such contamination. In 1941, her improved TB skin test became the standard test in the U.S. and a year later was adopted by the World Health Organization. It is still in use today. Her later research involved the study of bacteria associated with certain cancers.
1905 - Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (d. 1998)
1906 Janet Gaynor, American actress (d. 1984)
1908 Carole Lombard, American actress (d. 1942)
1914 Thor Heyerdahl (d 2002) Norweigan ethnologist and adventurer who organized and led the famous Kon-Tiki (28 Apr 1947) and Ra (1969-70) transoceanic scientific expeditions. Both expeditions were intended to prove the possibility of ancient transoceanic contacts between distant civilizations and cultures. The Kon Tiki voyage from Peru to Polynesia was a 101-day, 4,300-mile drifting voyage on the 40-sq.ft. raft, a replica of pre-Inca vessels. He wished to show that Polynesia's first settlers could have come from South America. Few scholars at the time, and almost none today, endorsed the idea. They discount the Heyerdahl hypothesis largely on linguistic, genetic and cultural grounds, all of which point to the settlers having come from the west, not the east.
1912 Perkins Bass four term U.S. Representative from 1955 to 1963 from New Hampshire. He is the father of Charles F. Bass, a former U.S. Representative from New Hampshire, and son of Robert P. Bass, who was governor of the state from 1911 to 1913.
1915 - Carolyn Goodman, American psychologist and civil rights activist (d. 2007)
1917 Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights activist (d. 1977)
1921 Joseph Lowery, American Civil rights movement leader
1925 Shana Alexander, American columnist (d. 2005)
1926 Alan Copeland LA Calif, orch leader/singer (Your Hit Parade)
1927 - Bill King, American sports broadcaster (d. 2005)
1939 John LaFalce, American politician, former Member, US House of Representatives for New York.
1946 Lloyd Alton Doggett II American politician, Democratic politician from Texas. He has represented a district covering the state capital, Austin, in the United States House of Representatives since 1995. He represented the 10th congressional district from 1995 to 2005, and now represents the 25th congressional district.
1955 Tony Dungy, American football coach
1959 Brian Higgins, American politician, Member of US House of Representatives, Democrat from New York.
1965 Stephen Joseph "Steve" Scalise Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Louisiana's 1st congressional district. Previous to his Congressional service Scalise served in the Louisiana State Senate for five months in 2008 and the Louisiana House for the preceding twelve years. His congressional seat was vacated by Bobby Jindal, who was elected Governor of Louisiana.
Deaths
1829 Pierre Derbigny, Governor of Louisiana (b. 1769)
1880 Benjamin Peirce (b 1809) American astronomer,
mathematician and educator who computed the general perturbations of the planets Uranus and Neptune. He was Harvard's Perkins Professor of Astronomy and Mathematics for nearly 40 years, and was largely responsible for introducing mathematics as a subject for research in American institutions. He is known especially for his contributions to analytic mechanics and linear associative algebra, but he is also remembered for his early work in astronomy and for playing a role in the discovery of Neptune.
1945 George C. Stebbins (b. 26 Feb 1846), American Baptist music evangelist
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1951 Will Keith Kellogg (b 1860) American industrialist and philanthropist who founded (1906) the W.K. Kellogg Company to manufacture cereal products as breakfast foods. His cereals have found widespread use throughout the United States.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Keith_Kellogg
1959 Bernard Berenson, American art historian (b. 1865)
1962 Tod Browning (b 1880) was an American motion picture actor, director and screenwriter.
1969 Walter Charles Hagen (b 1892) major figure in golf in the first half of the 20th century. His tally of eleven professional majors is third behind Jack Nicklaus (18) and Tiger Woods (14). He won the U.S. Open twice, and in 1922 he became the first native-born American to win the British Open, which he went on to win four times in total. He also won the PGA Championship a record-tying five times (1921, '24-'27), the Western Open five times, totalled 45 PGA wins in his career, and was a six time Ryder Cup captain.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Charles_Hagen
1983 Terence Cooke, American cardinal archbishop (b. 1921)
1984 George Gaylord Simpson (b 1902) U.S. paleontologist known for his contributions to evolutionary theory and to the understanding of intercontinental migrations of animal species in past geological times. Simpson specialized in early fossil mammals, leading expeditions on four continents and discovering in 1953 the 50-million-year old fossil skulls of dawn horses in Colorado. He helped develop the modern biological theory of evolution, drawing on paleontology, genetics, ecology, and natural selection to show that evolution occurs as a result of natural selection operating in response to shifting environmental conditions. He spent most of his career as a paleontologist at the American Museum of Natural History.
1985 Nelson Riddle, American bandleader (b. 1921)
1989 Bette Davis, American actress (b. 1908)
2000 Richard Farnsworth, American actor (b. 1920)
2006 Buck O'Neil, American baseball player (b. 1911)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_O%27Neil
Christian Feast Day
Blessed Marie-Rose Durocher
Bruno of Cologne
Faith
Mary Frances of the Five Wounds of Jesus
Sagar of Laodicea
October 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Holy and glorious Apostle Thomas
New Monk-martyr Macarius of St. Anne’s Skete, Mt. Athos, at Prusa in Bithynia (1590)
Woman-martyr Erotheis of Cappadocia
Saint Cindeus of Cyprus, monk
Other commemorations
Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "All-Hymned Mother"
Glorification (1977) of Saint Innocent, Enlightener of the Aleuts and Apostle to the Americas (1879)
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