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Events from History on October 06

1111 : Boudouin VII becomes earl of Flanders
1499 : French king Louis XII occupies Milan
1567 : Duke of Alva becomes land guardian of Netherlands
1683 : 13 Mennonite families from Germany found Germantown Pa (Phila)
1689 : Pietro Ottoboni replaces Pope Innocent XI as Alexander VIII
1762 : English troops occupy Manila Philippines
1777 : Battle of Germantown; Washington defeated by British [OS=Sept 27]
1781 : Americans & French begin siege of Cornwallis at Yorktown; last
1781 : battle of Revolutionary War
1783 : Benjamin Hanks patents self-winding clock
1799 : Battle at Castricum: French & Bataafs army beats English/Russian army
1811 : French emperor Napoleon visits Utrecht
1857 : American Chess Assn organized; 1st major US chess tournament (NYC)
1861 : Naval Engagement at Charleston, SC USS Flag vs BR Alert
1861 : Revolt of Russian student shuts down university of Petersburg
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 take $13,000)
1869 : John Brahms' "Liebeslieder Walzer," premieres
1871 : Fisk Jubilee Singers begin 1st national tour
1876 : American Library Association organized in Philadelphia
1882 : 1st World Series game, Cincinnati (AA) beats Chicago (NL) 4-0
1884 : Naval War College forms in Newport RI
1886 : Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Resident Patient" (BG)
1889 : Moulin Rogue opens in Paris
1889 : Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture
1890 : J Palisa discovers asteroid #299 Thora
1890 : Mormon Church outlaws polygamy
1893 : Nabisco Foods invents Cream of Wheat
1898 : Gustav Mahler conducts 1st Wiener Philharmonic
1908 : Austria annexes Bosnia & Herzegovina
1908 : Tigers beat White Sox, 7-0 to win AL pennant
1908 : Yanks lose 100th game of year go 51-103 for season
1910 : Braves beat Phillies 20-7
1910 : E Ernst discovers asteroid #705 Erminia
1911 : Beatrix van Rijk becomes 1st licensed Dutch woman pilot
1911 : Cy Young's farewell appearance in a major league game is a letdown
1911 : 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
1913 : G Neujmin discovers asteroid #769 Tatjana
1918 : US ship Otranto sinks between Scotland & Ireland, 425 die
1919 : Stambuliski becomes premier of Bulgaria
1919 : White Sox catcher Ray Schalk is 2nd man ejected from a World Series
1920 : 1st brothers oppose each other in World Series, Cleve's Wheeler
1920 : Johnston pinch-hits as brother Jimmy plays 3rd base for Bkln
1921 : Century Theater opens at 7th Ave & 59th St NYC (demolished 1962)
1921 : Fewest hits in World Series Game, 5, Yanks (3) beat Giants (2), 3-0
1922 : Schwebla replaces Benes govt in Czechoslavakia
1923 : 1st NL unassisted triple play (Ernie Padgett, Braves against Phillies)
1923 : 2nd govt of Stresemann in Germany forms
1923 : US lt Al Williams fly 392.2 KPH (record)
1923 : USSR adopts experimental calendar
1925 : Greek premier Papanastasiou orders gen P ngulos arrested
1926 : Babe Ruth hits 3 HRs in a World Series game, Yanks beat Cards 10-5
1926 : K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1077 Campanula
1927 : "Jazz Singer," 1st movie with a sound track, premieres (NYC)
1928 : 11th PGA Championship: Leo Diegel at Five Farms CC Baltimore
1928 : E Delporte discovers asteroid #1124 Stroobantia
1928 : Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of China
1928 : Josip Broz (Tito) sentenced to 5 years in jail
1929 : 12th PGA Championship: Leo Diegel at Hillcrest CC Los Angeles
1931 : #1223 Neckar, #1782 Schneller, #1941 Wild, #3379 Oishi & #3555
1931 : C W Tombaugh discovers asteroid #3775 Ellenbeth & #4755 Nicky
1931 : Js Van Severen forms Verdinaso (Union of Flemish Natl Solidarists)
1931 : K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1204 Renzia, #1205 Ebella
1935 : Italian army occupies Adua Abyssinia
1935 : Market Street Railway starts using trackless trolley coaches
1936 : NY Yankees beat Giants 4 games to 2 in 33rd World Series
1938 : Yanks Lefty Gomez sets record of 6 World Series wins without a loss
1939 : Adolf Hitler denies he intends to go to war against France & Britain
1939 : Hitler announces plans to regulate Jewish problem
1940 : Zoological Gardens opens on Sloat & Skyline in SF
1941 : German army occupies Briansk, USSR
1941 : NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 1, in 38th World Series
1942 : Allied assault on oil installations of Bula Ceram
1943 : Battle at Vella Lavella, Solomon Island
1943 : Himmler wants acceleration of "Final Solution"
1944 : Allied aircrafts bombard per accident Fishing, Overijssel
1944 : Canadians free Austria
1944 : HM Zwaardvis sinks U168 at Java
1944 : Soviets march into Hungary & Czechoslovakia
1945 : Gen Eisenhower welcomed in Hague (on Hitler's train)
1945 : Memorial for executed unveiled in Terbregge
1945 : Tavern owner "Billy Goat" Sianis buys seat for his goat for Game 4 of
1945 : World Series & is escorted out, he casts goat curse on Cubs
1946 : Pres Truman questions Great Britain Jews about Palestine
1947 : NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 3, in 44th World Series
1948 : "Polonaise" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 113 performances
1948 : KHJ TV channel 9 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
1949 : Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose) sentenced to 10 years & $10,000 fine
1949 : Pres Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act (for NATO)
1951 : Stalin proclaims Russia has atom bomb
1953 : WTVM TV channel 9 in Columbus, GA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 : LSD made illegal in US
1956 : Dmitri Shostakovitch's 6th Iron quartet premieres in Leningrad
1956 : Dr Albert Sabin discovers oral polio vaccine
1956 : South African politician "Kobie" Coetsee marries Helena E Malan
1957 : USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1957 : Wiffi Smith wins LPGA United Voluntary Services Golf Open
1958 : US nuclear sub USS Seawolfe remains record 60 days under pole
1959 : Single game World Series attendence record set (92,706 in LA)
1959 : Soviet Luna 3, 1st successful photographic spacecraft, impacts Moon
1961 : JFK advises Americans to build fallout shelters
1961 : USSR performs nuclear tests at Kapustin Yar & Novaya Zemlya USSR
1962 : 16th NHL All-Star Game: Toronto beat All4-Stars -1 at Toronto
1962 : US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
1963 : Barbra Streisand appears on "Judy Garland Show"
1963 : LA Dodgers sweep NY Yankees, in 60th World Series
1964 : "Cambridge Circus" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 23 performances
1965 : Supremes release "I Hear a Symphony"
1965 : William Goodhart's "Generation," premieres in NYC
1966 : Oriole Jim Palmer, 20, is youngest to pitch a World Series shutout
1966 : Partial meltdown at Detroits's Fermi 1 nuclear reactor
1967 : Haight-Ashbury hippies throw a funneral to mark end of hippies
1967 : USSR performs nuclear test
1969 : WMPB TV channel 67 in Baltimore, MD (PBS) begins broadcasting
1972 : 22-car train carrying 2,000 pilgrims derails, kills 208 in Mexico
1973 : Yom Kippur War begins as Syria & Egypt attack Israel
1974 : "Mack & Mabel," opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 66 performances
1974 : Carole Jo Skala wins LPGA Sacramento Union Ladies Golf Classic
1976 : "Gang of Four" arrested in Beijing
1976 : Cubans DC-8 crashes after bomb attack
1976 : John Hathaway completes 50,600 mile bicycle tour of every continent
1976 : Pres Ford says there is "no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe"
1977 : DL Coburns "Gin Game," premieres in NYC
1977 : Royals 5-3 in 5th & deciding playoff game
1977 : Yankees win AL pennant by rallying for 3 runs in 9th to beat KC
1978 : Hannah H Gray inaugurated as 1st female head of US university (Chic)
1978 : Iraq declares Ayatollah Khomeini an undesirable person
1978 : Mick Jagger apologizes for racist lyrics in "Some Girls"
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 1st Pope to visit White House
1980 : Guyana adopts constitution
1980 : John Lydon sentenced to 3 months on assault charges
1981 : T Smirnova discovers asteroid #3652
1981 : Z Vavrova discovers asteroid #7384
1982 : Auburn's Al Del Greco kicks 6 field goals
1982 : Fokker's Fellowship crashes at Moerdijk Neth, 17-22 die
1983 : Buffalo Bill QB Joe Ferguson passes 419 yards with 5 TDs
1983 : China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1983 : Islander's Mike Bossy's 25th career hat trick
1983 : NY Jets announce they are leaving Shea for Meadowlands
1983 : USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1984 : Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Hitachi Ladies British Golf Open
1985 : Marita Koch of Germany sets 400m woman's record (47.6) in Australia
1985 : Yankee Phil Niekro becomes 18th pitcher to win 300 games & also
1985 : at 46 becomes oldest to pitch a shut-out beating Toronto 8-0
1986 : L G Karachkina discovers asteroid #4997 Ksana
1986 : Russian nuclear sub sinks in Atlantic Ocean
1987 : Milt coup leader Maj-Gen Sitiveni Rabuka declares Fiji a republic
1988 : Oakland A's sweep Boston Red Sox in 4 games for AL pennant
1990 : Spacecraft Ulysses launched towards pole of Sun
1990 : US 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) launches into orbit
1990 : Ulysses launched (Solar Polar Orbiter)
1991 : Elizabeth Taylor weds for 8th time (Larry Fortensky)
1991 : Meg Mallon wins LPGA Daikyo World Golf Championship
1991 : NY Met David Cone ties NL record by striking out 19 Phillies
1991 : Orioles last game at Baltimore's Memorial Stadium (vs Det Tigers)
1993 : Sydney Australia Stock Market index above 2000, for 1st time
1994 : -9] European Campaign against Racism confers in Austria
1994 : Ben Mokoena becomes 1st black mayor of Middelburg South Africa
1995 : BPAA US Women's Open won by Cheryl Daniels
1995 : Colorodo Avalanche (former Que Nordiques) 1st NHL game, beat Detroit
1996 : Bob Dole & Pres Bill Clinton meet in their 1st debate
1996 : Caroline Pierce wins JAL Big Apple Golf Classic
1996 : Lois & Clark (fictional characters) wed
1996 : NY Jet Nick Lowrey ties Jan Stenerud with 373 NFL field goals
1997 : K Endate & K Watanabe discover asteroid #8231

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