Today in History (October 6th):
1820: Birthdays: Singer Jenny Lind, the Swedish Nightingale.
1846: Birthdays: Inventor and manufacturer George Westinghouse.
1853: Antioch College opened in Yellow Springs, Ohio, as the first non-sectarian school to offer equal opportunity for both men and women.
1888: Birthdays: French aviator Roland Garros.
1905: Birthdays: Tennis champion Helen Wills Moody.
1906: Birthdays: Actor Janet Gaynor.
1908: Birthdays: Actor Carole Lombard.
1914: Birthdays: Norwegian ethnologist, archaeologist and adventurer Thor Heyerdahl.
1921: Sports writer Grantland Rice was at the microphone as baseball’s World Series was broadcast on radio for the first time.
1925: Birthdays: Former 60 Minutes journalist Shana Alexander.
1927: The Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson, Hollywood’s legendary first talkie, premiered in New York, ushering in the era of sound and a subsequent end of the silents.
1942: Birthdays: Actor Britt Ekland.
1948: Birthdays: Northern Ireland politician Gerry Adams.
1950: Birthdays: Writer David Brin.
1963: Birthdays: Actor Elisabeth Shue.
1976: Birthdays: Singer Taylor Hicks.
1981: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was assassinated as he reviewed a military parade in Cairo.
1985: England’s worst post-war race rioting, which began almost a month earlier in Birmingham, spread to the Tottenham section of London.
1989: Oscar-winning Hollywood legend Bette Davis died of cancer in a suburb of Paris. She was 81.
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2001: Cal Ripkin Jr. retired after a spectacular baseball career with the Baltimore Orioles that included playing in a record 2,632 consecutive games.
2004: A U.S. weapons inspector said that Iraq began destroying its illicit weapons in 1991 and had none by 1996, seven years before the United States invaded.
2005: U.S. President George W. Bush said the United States and allied forces had foiled at least three al-Qaida U.S. attacks since Sept. 11, 2001.
2007: Pervez Musharraf breezed to re-election to a third term as president of Pakistan. But, opposition continued to challenge legality of his serving as both president and army chief.
2008: Stock markets around the world lost ground on the first day of trading after the U.S. bailout bill became law with American stocks overcoming record declines and an 800-point drop in the Dow Jones industrial average. Suicide bombers killed 27 people in central Sri Lanka and 20 in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province. At least 60 people died in southern Kyrgyzstan when an earthquake rattled the central Asian country.
2010: The Troubled Asset Relief Program, known as TARP, which authorized controversial bailout funds for financial institutions, came to an end after spending an estimated $388 billion. Floods inundated more than 200 villages on the Chinese island of Hainan and trapped at least 6,000 people.
2011: A jury was selected for the Detroit trial of the so-called underwear bomber, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian accused of trying to blow up an airliner with explosives hidden in his undergarments on Christmas Day 2009.
Quotes
“Nobody can resist a ripe idea. The idea today is change.” – Tansu Ciller, the first woman prime minister of Turkey
Fannie Lou Hamer (1917-1977) US activist:
“I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.”
“There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.”
“If the white man gives you anything — just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.”
“What was the point of being scared? The only thing they could do to me was kill me and it seemed like they’d been trying to do that a little bit at a time ever since I could remember.”
“White Americans today don’t know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that’s where they made their mistake. . . . they put us behind them, and we watched every move they made.”