Major Events
- 1917 Battle of Passchendaele: Canadian troops capture the village of Passchendaele in the Third Battle of Ypres, after 250,000 casualties on both sides
- 1948 Earthquake in Ashgabat kills 100,000 in the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic
- 1948 Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey finds the first partial fossil skull of Proconsul africanus, an ancestor of apes and humans on Rusinga Island, Kenya
- 1949 US President Harry Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act (for NATO)
- 1951 Joseph Stalin proclaims the Soviet Union has the atomic bomb
- 1956 Scientist Albert Sabin announces that his oral polio vaccine is ready for testing; it would soon supplant Jonas Salk's vaccine in many parts of the world
- 2021 WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus recommends world's first Malaria vaccine (Mosquirix) for children after a pilot program was effective in Africa [1]
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Oct 6 in Film & TV
- 1927 "The Jazz Singer", directed by Alan Crosland, starring Al Jolson and May McAvoy, released, 1st film with a soundtrack (Honorary Academy Award 1928)
- 1960 "Spartacus", directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Kirk Douglas and Laurence Olivier, premieres in NYC
Oct 6 in Music
- 1987 "Faith" single released by George Michael (Billboard Song of the Year 1988)
Oct 6 in Sport
- 1882 1st World Series Baseball Game 1: Cincinnati Red Stockings (AA) beat Chicago White Stockings (NL), 4-0 at Bank Street Grounds, Cincinnati
- 2023 American Simone Biles wins all-round gold at the World Championships in Antwerp, Belgium, - becoming the most decorated gymnast ever with 34 world and Olympic medals [1]
Did You Know?
51 Pegasi discovered as the first major star, apart from the Sun, to have a planet orbiting around it
Isaac Brock
George Westinghouse
Le Corbusier
Thor Heyerdahl
Fannie Lou Hamer
Hafez al-Assad
Janet Gaynor
Richie Benaud
Bruno Sammartino
Elisabeth Shue
Ioan Gruffudd
Jeremy Sisto
Helen Wills Moody
Tony Greig
Fun Fact About October 6
Tavern owner "Billy Goat" Sianis buys seat for his goat for Game 4 of Baseball World Series, is escorted out and casts goat curse on Chicago Cubs
Famous Weddings
- 1936 Diana Mitford marries Oswald Mosley in the house of Joseph Goebbels with Adolf Hitler as a guest
- 1953 MLB baseball player Hank Aaron (19) weds Barbara Lucas (divorced 1971)
- 1956 South African politician "Kobie" Coetsee marries Helena E Malan
Famous Divorces
- 1980 Oscar-winning actor Dustin Hoffman (43) divorces actress Anne Byrne (37) after 11 years of marriage
- 2006 "Friends" actor Matt LeBlanc (39) divorces former model Melissa McKnight (41) due to irreconcilable differences after 3 years of marriage
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George Childress
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