TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – OCT 6
1014 The Byzantine Emperor Basil earns the title “Slayer of Bulgers” after he orders the blinding of 15,000 Bulgerian troops
1536 William Tyndale, the English translator of the New Testament, is strangled and burned at the stake for heresy at Vilvorde, France
1683 The first Mennonites arrived in America aboard the Concord. The German and Dutch families settled in an area that is now a neighborhood in Philadelphia, PA.
1848 The steamboat SS California left New York Harbor for San Francisco via Cape Horn. The steamboat service arrived on February 28, 1849. The trip took 4 months and 21 days.
1863 The first Turkish bath was opened in Brooklyn, NY, by Dr. Charles Shepard.
1866 The Reno brothers–Frank, John, Simeon and William–commit the country’s first train robbery near Seymore, Indiana netting $10,000
1889 The Kinescope was exhibited by Thomas Edison. He had patented the moving picture machine in 1887.
1927 “The Jazz Singer,” the first full-length talking picture, starring Al Jolson, debuted.
1939 Hitler announces plans to regulate Jewish problem
1949 Japanese-American broadcaster, Iva Toguri D’Aquino (Tokyo Rose), was sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined $10,000 for treason.
1951 Joseph Stalin proclaims the Soviet Union has the atomic bomb
1956 Dr Albert Sabin discovers oral polio vaccine
1961 President John F. Kennedy advises American families to build bomb shelters to protect them from atomic fallout in the event of a nuclear war.
1965 Patricia Harris takes post as U.S. Ambassador to Belgium, becoming the first African American U.S. ambassador.
1966 15 manufacturers of bathroom fixtures are indicted for price fixing by violating the restraint-of-trade section of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
1973 Israel is taken by surprise when Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Jordan attack on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, beginning the Yom Kippur War.
1979 President Jimmy Carter received Pope John Paul II, the first pope to visit the White House.
1981 Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat is assassinated in Cairo by Islamic fundamentalists. He is succeeded by Vice President Hosni Mubarak.
1992 Ross Perot appeared in his first paid broadcast on CBS-TV after entering the U.S. presidential race
2008 Following the bailout by the US of the American Finance Industry other countries around the world are facing similar problems From Iceland to Germany as governments around the world have to decide if they should let large and small finance companies go bust or provide bailouts
2013 Four people accused of plotting to sabotage a nuclear site were arrested in Iran
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