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.
1499 – French King Louis XII occupies Milan
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.
1861 – Revolt of Russian student shuts down university of Petersburg
1863 – The first Turkish bath was opened in Brooklyn, NY, by Dr. Charles Shepard.
1866 – The Reno Brothers pulled the first train robbery in America near Seymour, IN. The got away with $10,000.
1880 – The National League kicked the Cincinnati Reds out for selling beer.
1889 – First known ascent of the summit of Mt Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest peak, by German climber Hans Meyer and Austrian Ludwig Purtscheller
1889 – The Kinescope was exhibited by Thomas Edison. He had patented the moving picture machine in 1887.
1908 – Bosnian crisis, Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary declared the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which had been nominally under the rule of the Ottoman Empire. The takeover raised tensions within the Balkan region in Europe and threatened to end in a war.
1919 – Chicago White Sox catcher Ray Schalk is 2nd man ejected from a Baseball World Series in Game 5 vs Cincinnati Reds; angered when pitchers Eddie Cicotte & Lefty Williams refuse to follow his signals during 5-0 loss
1939 – Adolf Hitler denied any intention to wage war against Britain and France in an address to Reichstag.
1939 – Last Polish army is defeated in World War II.
1945 – US General Eisenhower welcomed in The Hague (on Hitler’s train)
1948 – Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey finds the first partial fossil skull of Proconsul africanus, an ancestor of apes and humans on Rusinga Island, Kenya
1949 – U.S. president Harry Truman signed the Mutual Defense Assistance Act. The act provided $1.3 billion in the form of military aid to NATO countries.
1956 – Scientist Albert Sabin announces that his oral polio vaccine is ready for testing; it would soon supplant Jonas Salk’s vaccine in many parts of the world
1958 – US nuclear sub USS Seawolf remains a record 60 days under the north pole
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. JFK urges Americans to build nuclear bomb shelters, Oct. 6, 1961 – POLITICO
1966 – LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) is first declared illegal in state of California, other states follow
1966 – Partial meltdown at Detroits’s Fermi 1 nuclear reactor
1973 – Egypt and Syria attacked Israel in an attempt to win back territory that had been lost in the third Arab-Israel war. Support for Israel led to a devastating oil embargo against many nations including the U.S. and Great Britain on October 17, 1973. The war lasted 2 weeks.
1976 – Coup in Thailand, Admiral Sangad Chaloryu staged a coup ousting the civilian government of Seni Pramoj.
1976 – Cubana Flight 455 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean after two bombs, placed by terrorists with connections to the CIA, explode onboard shortly after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados, killing all 73 people on board
1976 – US President Gerald Ford says there is “no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe”
1978 – Iraq declares Ayatollah Khomeini an undesirable person
1981 – Assassination of Anwar Sadat, The third president of Egypt, Sadat was killed by members of the terrorist group Takfir Wal-Hajira during a parade held to commemorate the 8th anniversary of Operation Badr – a military operation where Egyptian forces crossed the Suez Canal and overran the Bar Lev Line in Israel. The military operation stated the Yom Kippur War between Israel and a coalition of Arab states. The assassination is thought to be a result of Sadat’s efforts to bring peace to the region which started with the Camp David Accords in 1978.
1992 – Ross Perot appeared in his first paid broadcast on CBS-TV after entering the U.S. presidential race.
1995 – First exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star discovered, Swiss astronomers Didier Queloz and Michel Mayor announced the discovered the exoplanet called 51 Pegasi B or Bellerophon. The Jupiter-like exoplanet orbits a star called 51 Pegasi, which has a magnitude of 5.49. 51 Pegasi B takes 4.23 Earth days to orbit around its star.
2010 – Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger launch Instagram
2012 – Paolo Gabriele, Pope Benedict XVI’s butler, is found guilty of leaking confidential documents and is sentenced to 18 months imprisonment
2018 – Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed and sworn onto the US Supreme Court amid protests and after an FBI investigation
2019 – 99 Iraqis have died and 4,000 injured in protests over 5 days against living conditions, unemployment and corruption according to human rights group
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
