October 6

But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

Psalm 1:2

October 2000 is:

Campaign for Healthier Babies Month Cooking, Crafts, and Home Books Month Clergy Appreciation Month Computer Learning Month Family History Month Lupus Awareness Month National AIDS Awareness Month National Breast Cancer Awareness Month National Car Care Month National Caramel Month National Communicate With Your Kid Month National Cookie Month National Crime Prevention Month

Celebrate Today:

National German American Day - In 1683, 13 families from Krenfield, Germany founded Germantown, Pennsylvania. Sponsor: Society for German-American Studies.

Physician Assistant Day - This day celebrates the graduation of the first physician assistants from Duke University. Sponsor: American Academy of Physician Assistants.

Saint Faith Feast Day - Patron saint of pilgrims, prisoners and soldiers.

Born on this Day

• 1510: Dr. John Key (John Caius)
  

• 1555: Ferenc Nadasdy
  

• 1820: Jenny Lind, "the Swedish Nightingale," was born in Stockholm.
  

• 1846: Inventor and manufacturer George Westinghouse
  

• 1882: The Polish composer Karol Szymanowski was born. Szymanowski's music is tonal but very chromatic, something like Richard Strauss with a little Scriabin thrown in.
  

• 1887: The Swiss architect Le Courbousier - possibly the most influential city planner of the 20th century.
  

• 1899: Southern novelist Caroline Gordon
  

• 19??: Mylon LeFevre
  

• 19??: Wally Shaw (Deitiphobia)
  

• 1905: Tennis champion Helen Wills Moody
  

• 1908: Actress Carol Lombard (Alice Peters)
  

• 1914: Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian entomologist and adventurer whose Kon-Tiki expedition established the possibility that Polynesians may have originated in South America
  

• 1925: Author-journalist Shana Alexander
  

• 1930: The president of Syria, Hafez Assad
  

• 1942: Actress Britt Ekland
  

• 1942: Impressionist Fred Travalena
  

• 1946: Singer Millie Small
  

• 1950: Singer-musician Thomas McClary
  

• 1951: Rock singer Kevin Cronin (REO Speedwagon)
  

• 1954: Rock singer-musician David Hidalgo (Los Lobos)
  

• 1964: Singer Matthew Sweet
  

• 1971: Rapper Kitty (B-Rock and the Bizz)
  

• 1973: Actor Ioan Gruffudd

Events in History on this day
  

• 0105: Germanic tribes defeat Romans at battle of Arausio
  

• 0877: Death of Charles "the Bald," King of France; Louis "the Stammerer" succeeds him
  

• 0891: Election of Formosus as Pope
  

• 1014: The Byzantine Emperor Basil earns the title "Slayer of Bulgers" after he orders the blinding of 15,000 Bulgerian troops. See Today's History Focus
  

• 1238: Dedication of the Cathedral of St. Peter, Petersborough, England
  

• 1536: William Tyndale, the English translator of the New Testament, is strangled and burned at the stake for heresy at Vilvorde, France. His last words were "O Lord, open the King of England's eyes."
  

• 1600: "Euridice," the oldest extant opera, first performed
  

• 1683: Thirteen families from Krefeld, Germany, arrived in present-day Philadelphia to begin Germantown, one of America's oldest settlements. They were the first German-Protestant Mennonites in America, invited by William Penn.
  

• 1769: Captain Cooke landed on the coast of New Zealand.
  

• 1801: Napoleon Bonaparte imposes a new constitution on Holland.
  

• 1847: Charlotte Brontė's Jane Eyre was published.
  

• 1853: Antioch College opened in Yellow Springs, Ohio. It was the first nonsectarian school to offer equal opportunity for both men and women.
  

• 1866: The Reno brothers--Frank, John, Simeon and William--commit the country's first train robbery near Seymore, In., netting $10,000.
  

• 1884: The Naval War College was established in Newport, Rhode Island.
  

• 1889: Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture
  

• 1889: The Moulin Rouge in Paris first opened its doors to the public.
  

• 1891: Charles Stewart Parnell, the "Uncrowned King of Ireland," died in Brighton, England.
  

• 1892: Alfred, Lord Tennyson died
  

• 1909: Mark Twain's daughter, an operatic soprano, married a Russian-born conductor. You will recall that it was Mark Twain who wrote that Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
  

• 1927: The era of talking pictures arrived with the opening of "The Jazz Singer," starring Al Jolson, a movie which featured both silent and sound-synchronized scenes.
  

• 1939: In an address to the Reichstag, Adolf Hitler denied having any intention of war against France and Britain.
  

• 1941: German troops renew their offensive against Moscow.
  

• 1949: American-born Iva Toguri D'Aquino, convicted of being Japanese wartime broadcaster "Tokyo Rose," was sentenced in San Francisco to ten years in prison and fined ten-thousand dollars.
  

• 1965: Patricia Harris takes post as U.S. Ambassador to Belgium, becoming the first African-American U.S. ambassador.
  

• 1966: Hanoi insists the United States must end its bombings before peace talks can begin.
  

• 1973: War erupted in the Middle East as Egypt and Syria attacked Israel during the Yom Kippur holiday.
  

• 1976: In his second debate with Jimmy Carter, President Ford asserted there was "no Soviet domination of eastern Europe." (Ford later conceded he'd misspoken.)
  

• 1979: Pope John Paul the Second, on a week-long US tour, became the first pontiff to visit the White House, where he was received by President Carter.
  

• 1981: Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat is assassinated in Cairo by Islamic fundamentalists while reviewing a military parade.. He is succeeded by Vice President Hosni Mubarak.
  

• 1983: Cardinal Terence Cooke, the spiritual head of the Archdiocese of New York, died at age 62.
  

• 1986: A crippled Soviet nuclear submarine sank in the Atlantic Ocean about 1,200 miles east of New York, three days after a fire and explosion that the Soviets said had killed three crew members.
  

• 1987: The Senate Judiciary Committee voted nine-to-five against the nomination of Robert H. Bork to the Supreme Court, and both supporters and opponents predicted rejection by the full Senate.
  

• 1988: General Augusto Pinochet, the president of Chile, conceded defeat in a referendum held the day before to determine whether he should receive a new eight-year term of office. Pinochet, however, stayed president until his term ran out in 1990.
  

• 1989: Two Swiss Red Cross workers were kidnapped by terrorists in Lebanon.
  

• 1989: Actress Bette Davis died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, at age 81.
  

• 1989: Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev joined in festivities in East Berlin marking the 40th anniversary of East Germany, a celebration marred by the recent emigration of thousands of refugees to the West.
  

• 1990: President Bush vetoed stopgap spending legislation passed by Congress following the collapse of a deficit-reducing budget agreement.
  

• 1990: The space shuttle Discovery blasted off on a four-day mission.
  

• 1991: Reports surfaced that a former personal assistant to Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, University of Oklahoma law professor Anita Hill, had accused Thomas of sexually harassing her.
  

• 1991: Cable News Network obtained and aired a videotape made in Beirut, Lebanon, of American hostage Terry Anderson, who quoted his captors as saying they would have "very good news."
  

• 1991: Elizabeth Taylor married for the 8th time. She wed construction worker Larry Fortensky, whom she met in 1988 in the Betty Ford Center. She was married at the Michael Jackson estate.
  

• 1992: For the first time since formally entering the presidential race, Ross Perot appeared in a paid, 30-minute broadcast on CBS-TV in which he appealed for Americans to join his independent bid.
  

• 1992: The UN Security Council voted unanimously to establish a war crimes commission for Bosnia-Herzegovina.
  

• 1992: President Bush appointed Mary Fisher to the National Commission on AIDS, replacing Magic Johnson.
  

• 1993: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chief Yasser Arafat held their first official meeting in Cairo, Egypt, to begin work on realizing terms of the Israeli-PLO accord.
  

• 1993: Basketball superstar Michael Jordan announced his retirement. (Jordan attempted a minor-league baseball career, but returned to the Chicago Bulls in March 1995.)
  

• 1994: In an address to a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress, South African President Nelson Mandela warned against the lure of isolationism, saying the post-Cold War focus of the United States should be on eliminating tyranny, instability and poverty.
  

• 1995: Boeing Company's largest group of union workers went on a 69-day strike after voting down a new three-year contract offer.
  

• 1995: President Clinton delivered an address in which he defended his stewardship of U.S. foreign policy and spoke out against what he said was a spreading mood of isolationism.
  

• 1996: President Clinton and Bob Dole clashed vigorously over taxes, trustworthiness and spending priorities in a prime-time debate in Hartford, Connecticut.
  

• 1997: In a blow to both Democrats and Republicans, President Clinton used his line-item veto to kill 38 military construction projects.
  

• 1997: The space shuttle "Atlantis" returned to Earth, bringing home American astronaut Michael Foale after a tumultuous four and a-half months aboard "Mir."
  

• 1997: American biology professor Stanley B. Prusiner won the Nobel Prize for medicine for discovering "prions," described as "an entirely new genre of disease-causing agents."
  

• 1998: With a House vote set on launching an open-ended impeachment inquiry, Democrats rushed to counter Republican plans while still underscoring their disapproval of President Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky.
  

• 1999: In Mexico, furious rains sent swollen rivers raging through the streets of the Gulf coast city of Villahermosa and caused mudslides; dozens of deaths were reported in eastern Mexico's coastal mountain ranges.
  

• 1999: The NFL awarded its newest franchise to Houston instead of Los Angeles, leaving the second-largest TV market in the nation without a football team.
  
  

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