October 6
Today in America's Present Past
1841 | Pioneer George Childress died.
1846 | Entrepreneur George Westinghouse was born.
1857 | First American Chess Congress opens.
1863 | Civil War: Battle at Baxter Springs, Kansas
1866 | First train robbery in the U.S.
1876 | The American Library Association was formed.
1880 | Mathematician Benjamin Pierce died.
1884 | The Naval War College was formed in Newport, Rhode Island.
1893 | Nabisco Foods invents Cream of Wheat.
1911 | Baseball’s Cy Young retires.
1917 | Activist Fannie Lou Hamer was born.
1927 | Film: “The Jazz Singer” debuted.
1940 | Entrepreneur John Warnock was born.
1949 | POTUS: Democrat President Truman signs the Mutual Defense Assistance Act (NATO).
1950 | Author David Brin was born.
1951 | Entrepreneur Will Keith Kellogg died.
1953 | Baseball Pro Hank Aaron wed Barbara Lucas.
1956 | Scientist Albert Sabin released his oral polio vaccine.
1956 | Entrepreneur Charles E. Merrill died.
1960 | Film: “Spartacus” debuted.
1961 | POTUS: Democrat President Kennedy encourages Americans to build fallout shelters.
1963 | Actress Elisabeth Shue was born.
1965 | Rodeo rider Jim Sharp was born.
1966 | A partial meltdown at Detroit’s Fermi 1 nuclear reactor occurred.
1969 | Golfer Walter Hagen died.
1978 | Civil Rights: Hanna H. Gray was inaugurated as the first female head of a US university (University of Chicago).
1979 | Poet Elizabeth Bishop died.
1989 | Actress Bette Davis died.
2018 | SCOTUS: Justice Brett Kavanaugh was sworn in.
2010 | Entrepreneurs Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger launched Instagram.
2019 | Comedian Rip Taylor died.
2020 | Musician Eddie Van Halen died.