TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: OCTOBER 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 Dr Charles H Sheppard opens the 1st public bath, in Brooklyn
1866 The Reno brothers–Frank, John, Simeon and William–commit the country’s first train robbery near Seymore, Indiana netting $10,000.
1880 The National League kicked the Cincinnati Reds out for selling beer.
1890 Polygamy was outlawed by the Mormon Church.
1949 Japanese-American broadcaster, Iva Toguri D’Aquino (Tokyo Rose), was sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined $10,000 for treason.
1961 U.S. president John F. Kennedy advised American families to build or buy bomb shelters to protect them in the event of a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union.
1967 Haight-Ashbury hippies throw a funeral to mark the end of hippies
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. https://www.history.com/topics/middle-east/yom-kippur-war
1976 Coup in Thailand. Admiral Sangad Chaloryu staged a coup ousting the civilian government of Seni Pramoj.
1976 Pres Ford says there is “no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe”
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.
1995 Astronomers discover 51 Pegasi is the second star known to have a planet orbiting it.
2003 A new report by UN-Habitat provides startling numbers of the number of Slum Dwellers around the world with 3.5 billion (31.6%) of the worlds population living in slum conditions.
2007 Jason Lewis completes the self-powered trip to circumnavigate the globe which he had begun from Greenwich, London in July, 1994.
2013 Four people accused of plotting to sabotage a nuclear site were arrested in Iran. The arrests came just after moves by Iran and the United States to come to terms with the country’s nuclear program.
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
