On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on October 06:
1552 Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary (China)
1819 Willem A Scholten potatochip manufacturer
1820 Jenny Lind Sweden, soprano/nightingale (Agathe-Der Freischultz)
1824 Henry Chadwick baseball pioneer, developed 1st rule book
1831 Richard Dedekind mathematician (Nature & Meaning of Numbers)
1846 George Westinghouse, prolific inventor, held over 100 patents on creations including air brakes for trains.
1849 Sir Basil Zaharoff arms dealer, "merchant of death"
1866 Reginald Aubrey Fessenden broadcast 1st program of voice & music
1884 Lloyd Spooner US, marksman (Olympic-4 gold/1 silver/2 bronze-1920)
1888 Li Ta-chao cofounder with Mao Tse-tung of Chinese Communist Party
1895 Caroline Gordon Kentucky, writer (Green Centuries)
1897 Jerome Cowan NYC, actor (Mr Dithers-Blondie, Tab Hunter Show)
1905 Helen N Moody tennis pro (8 Wimbledon titles 1927-1938)
1906 Janet Gaynor Philadelphia, actress (Sunrise, A Star Is Born)
1909 Carol Lombard actress (My Man Godfrey, In Name Only)
1914 Thor Heyerdahl Norway, anthropologist/explorer (Kon Tiki, Aku-Aku)
1917 Robert Mitchum actor (Cape Fear)
1925 Shana Alexander NYC, journalist (60 Minutes)
1930 Hafez al Assad EX "president" (Syria)
1942 Britt Ekland Stockholm Sweden, actress (Wicker Man, Asylum)
1942 Fred Travalena NYC, comedian/impressionist (Buy & Cell)
1947 Klaus Dibiasi Italy, platform diver (Olympic-gold-1968, 72, 76)
1959 [Dennis Ray] "Oil Can" Boyd baseball pitcher
Deaths which occurred on October 06:
0877 Charles II the Kale, King of France/Roman emperor (875-77), dies at 54
1014 Samuel ruler of Bulgaria, dies
1072 Sancho II, king of Castilia (1065-72), murdered
1891 Charles Stewart Parnell leader of the Irish party, dies
1892 Alfred Tennyson, writer/poet laureate,(The Charge of the Light Brigade, Crossing The Bar) dies at 83
1951 Henry Gurney British high commissioner to Malaya assassinated
1969 Walter Hagen PGA golfer (US Open 1914, 19), dies at 76
1975 Henry Calvin actor (Sgt Garcia-Zorro), dies at 57
1981 Anwar Sadat assassinated Hosnai Mubarak becomes Egytian president
1983 Terence Cooke NY's Cardinal, dies at 62
1989 Bette Davis dies at 81
1992 Denholm Elliott English actor (Raiders of Lost Ark), dies at 70
1993 Agnes de Mille US dancer/choreography (Oklahoma!), dies at 88
2003 Elisabeta Rizea (91), Romanian anti-communist resistance fighter
Take A Moment To Remember
GWOT Casualties
Iraq
06-Oct-2003 3 | US: 3 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US 2nd Lieutenant Richard Torres Baghdad (west of) Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Specialist Spencer Timothy Karol Al Haswah - Babil Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
US Private 1st Class Kerry D. Scott Al Haswah (south of Baghdad) - Babil Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
06-Oct-2004 2 | US: 2 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Private Jeungjin Na "Nikky" Kim Ramadi - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire
US Specialist Jessica L. Cawvey Fallujah (near) - Anbar Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
Afghanistan
A GOOD DAY
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On this day...
0891 Formosus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1014 The Byzantine Emperor Basil earns the title 'Slayer of Bulgers' after he orders the blinding of 15,000 Bulgerian troops
1536 William Tyndale was burned at the stake as a heretic.
1683 13 German families (Mennonites) arrive in present day Philadelphia. William Penn offers 5,000 acres of land in the colony of Pennsylvania and the freedom to practice their religion
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 Assn organized; 1st major US chess tournament (NYC)
1863 Battle at Baxter Springs Kansas
1863 Dr Charles H Sheppard opens 1st public bath, in Brooklyn
1866 1st train robbery in US (Reno Brothers, Frank, John, Simeon and William take $13,000)
1876 American Library Association organized in Philadelphia
1884 Naval War College established in Newport RI
1889 Thomas Edison shows his 1st 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
1923 1st NL unassisted triple play (Ernie Padgett, Braves against Phillies)
1923 USSR adopts experimental calendar
1927 "Jazz Singer," 1st movie with a sound track, premieres (NYC)
1928 Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China
1935 Market Street Railway starts using trackless trolley coaches
1939 Hitler announces plans to resolve "The Jewish problem"
1943 Battle at Vella Lavella, Solomon Island
1949 Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose) sentenced to 10 years & $10,000 fine
1949 Pres Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act (for NATO)
1955 LSD was made illegal in US
1959 Single game World Series (World Series #56) attendance record set (92,706 in LA)
1959 Soviet Luna 3, 1st successful photographic spacecraft, impacts Moon
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
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 Pres Ford says there is "no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe"
1976 "Gang of Four" arrested in Beijing
1979 Pope John Paul II is 1st Pope to visit the White House
1981 Egyptian Pres. Anwar Sadat was killed by Islambouli, an Islamic fundamentalist group (Takfir wal Hijra)
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
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
1989 Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev joins in festivities in East Berlin marking the 40th anniversary of East Germany, while thousands of refugees migrated to the West.
1991 Elizabeth Taylor weds for the 8th time (Larry Fortensky)
1991 Anita Hill a former personal assistant to Supreme Court justice nominee Clarence Thomas, accuses Thomas of sexual harassment from 1981 to 1983.
1996 An explosion at the Copenhagen headquarters of the Hells Angels killed 2 and injured 16.
1997 President Clinton used his new line-item veto power to eliminate 38 military spending projects.
2001 Cal Ripkin Jr. retires after a spectacular baseball career with the Baltimore Orioles that included playing in a record 2,632 consecutive games.
2002 Pope John Paul II raised to sainthood Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer the Spanish priest who founded the conservative Catholic organization Opus Dei (1928), only 27 years after his death.
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Egypt : Military Day
National Chimney Sweep Week (Day 3)
Mental Illness Awareness Week (Day 3)
National Pickled Pepper Week (Day 5)
American Magazine Month
Arizona Book Month
Pizza Festival Time Month!!
Religious Observances
Yom Kippur
Ang : St Faith's Day
Christian : St Bruno, Blsd Marie-Rose Durocher
RC : Memorial of St Bruno, patron of the possessed CE (opt)
Ang, Luth : Commemoration of St William Tyndale, priest
RC-US : Memorial of Bl Marie-Rose Durocher, Canadian virgin (opt)
Religious History
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.
1552 Birth of Matteo Ricci, an Italian Jesuit who was sent as a missionary to China in 1583. His complete adoption of Chinese customs raised the issue of the limits of "accommodation" to other cultures, in the preaching of the gospel.
1683 A band of 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.
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.
1982 In his daily radio broadcast, American Bible expositor Derek Prince declared: 'God accepts responsibility for the maintenance of his appointed temple -- our body.'
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Goose Gets Revenge Against Swedish Hunter
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - A Swedish hunter spent two days in bed after being knocked unconscious by a Canada goose that landed on his head moments after his son shot it dead, news reports said Wednesday.
The goose had been flying about 66 feet up in the air when it was shot by Carl Johan Ilback, who was hunting with his father, Ulf, along a stream in eastern Sweden in August.
When the goose dropped from the sky, it hit Ulf Ilback in the head and knocked him out, he said.
"It wanted to extract its revenge, I assume," Ulf Ilback told local newspaper Extra Ostergotland. "If it had gotten a better hit, it could have broken my neck."
Ilback spent two days in bed with severe headaches before returning to work.
"The story brought about a lot of laughter at work," he was quoted as saying, adding that during this month's moose hunt, he may wear a helmet.
Thought for the day :
"There just isn't any pleasing some people. The trick is to stop trying."
Robert Mitchum
