Today in History
October 6 - Today in History
By Staff
Oct 6, 2008 - 12:00:00 AM

0891 - Formosus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1499 - French king Louis XII occupies Milan
1683 - 13 German families arrive in present day Philadelphia
1689 - Pietro Ottoboni replaces Pope Innocent XI as Alexander VIII
1777 - Battle of Germantown; Washington defeated by British [OS=Sept 27]
1781 - Americans & French begin siege of Cornwallis at Yorktown; last battle of the Revolutionary War
1783 - Benjamin Hanks patents self-winding clock
1857 - American Chess Association organized; first major US chess tournament (NYC)
1863 - Dr Charles H Sheppard opens the first public bath, in Brooklyn
1866 - First train robbery in US
1876 - American Library Association organized in Philadelphia
1884 - Naval War College established in Newport RI
1886 - Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Resident Patient" (BG
1889 - Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture
1890 - Mormon Church outlaws polygamy
1908 - Austria annexes Bosnia & Herzegovina
1908 - Yanks lose 100th game of the year go 51-103 for season
1910 - Braves beat Phillies 20-7
1911 - Cy Young's farewell appearance in a major league game is a letdown as he loses to Brooklyn 13-3 in a Braves uniform in his 906th game
1912 - Pirates Owen "Chief" Wilson hits record 36th triple of season
1919 - Stambuliski becomes premier of Bulgaria
1920 - First brothers oppose each other in World Series, Cleve's Wheeler Johnston pinch-hits as brother Jimmy plays 3rd base for Brooklyn
1923 - First NL unassisted triple play (Ernie Padgett, Braves against Phillies)
1923 - USSR adopts experimental calendar
1926 - Babe Ruth hits 3 HRs in a world series game, Yanks beat Cards 10-5 (World Series #23)
1927 - "Jazz Singer," first movie with a sound track, premieres (NYC)
1928 - Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China
1935 - Market Street Railway starts using trackless trolley coaches
1936 - NY Yankees beat Giants 4 games to 2 in 33rd World Series
1939 - Hitler announces he has no attention of war with Britain & France 1940 - Zoological Gardens opens on Sloat & Skyline in SF
1941 - NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 1, in 38th World Series
1945 - Tavern owner "Billy Goat" Sianis buys seat for his goat for Game 4 of World Series & is escorted out, he casts goat curse on Cubs
1947 - NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 3, in 44th World Series
1949 - Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose) sentenced to 10 years & $10,000 fine
1949 - President Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act (for NATO)
1959 - Single game World Series (World Series #56) attendance record set (92,706 in LA)
1959 - Soviet Luna 3, first successful photographic spacecraft, impacts Moon
1963 - Barbra Streisand appears on "The Judy Garland Show"
1963 - LA Dodgers sweep NY Yankees, in 60th World Series
1965 - Supremes release "I Hear a Symphony"
1966 - Oriole 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
1972 - 22-car train carrying 2,000 pilgrims derails, kills 208 in Mexico
1973 - Yom Kippur War begins as Syria & Egypt attack Israel
1976 - John Hathaway completes a bicycle tour of every continent in the world & cycling 50,600 miles
1976 - President Ford says there is "no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe"
1977 - Yankees win AL pennant by rallying for 3 runs in 9th to beat KC Royals 5-3 in 5th & deciding playoff game
1978 - Royals' George Brett hits 3 HRs, Yanks win championship game 3, 6-5
1979 - Harry Drake set long distance footbow shot record of 2,006 yds 1'9"
1979 - Pope John Paul II is first Pope to visit the White House
1982 - Auburn's Al Del Greco kicks 6 field goals
1983 - Buffalo Bill QB Joe Ferguson passes 419 yards with 5 TDs
1983 - Islander's Mike Bossy's 25th career hat trick
1983 - NY Jets announce they are leaving Shea for the Meadowlands
1985 - Marita Koch of Germany sets 400m women's record (47.6) in Australia
1985 - Yankee Phil Niekro becomes the 18th pitcher to win 300 games & also at 46 becomes the oldest to pitch a shut-out beating Toronto 8-0
1988 - Oakland A's sweep Boston Red Sox in 4 games for AL pennant
1990 - US 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) launches into orbit
1991 - Elizabeth Taylor weds for the 8th time (Larry Fortensky)
1991 - NY Met David Cone ties NL record by striking out 19 Phillies
1996 - Lois & Clark (fictional characters) wed