A complete timeline of historical events, famous births, notable deaths, and holidays that occurred on October 6 throughout history.
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Third Battle of Ypres: Canadian troops recapture the high ground in the village of Passchendaele from the Germans in West Flanders, Belgium, during World War I; over 200,000 casualties occur on each side, and 24,000 German prisoners are taken
Earthquake in Ashgabat kills 100,000 in Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic
The Mutual Defense Assistance Act was a United States Act of Congress signed by President Harry S. Truman on October 6, 1949. For U.S. foreign policy, it was the first U.S.
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (né Dzhugashvili; 18 December [O.S. 6 December] 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian-born Soviet revolutionary and politician who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his...
Scientist Albert Sabin announces that his oral polio vaccine is ready for testing; it soon replaces Jonas Salk's vaccine in many parts of the world
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus recommends the world's first malaria vaccine, Mosquirix, for children after a pilot program proves effective in Africa [1]
"The Jazz Singer," directed by Alan Crosland and starring Al Jolson and May McAvoy, is released as the first film with a synchronized soundtrack (Honorary Academy Award 1929)
Historical drama film "Spartacus," directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Kirk Douglas and Laurence Olivier, premieres in New York City
"Faith" is a song by English singer and songwriter George Michael. Written and produced by Michael, it was released via Columbia Records as the second single from his 1987 debut solo album of the...
First World Series Baseball Game 1: Cincinnati Red Stockings (AA) beat Chicago White Stockings (NL) 4-0 at Bank Street Grounds, Cincinnati
American Simone Biles wins all-around gold at the World Championships in Antwerp, Belgium, becoming the most decorated gymnast with 34 World and Olympic medals [1]
Diana Mitford marries Oswald Mosley in the house of Joseph Goebbels with Adolf Hitler as a guest
MLB baseball player Hank Aaron (19) weds Barbara Lucas (divorced 1971)
South African politician "Kobie" Coetsee marries Helena E Malan
Oscar-winning actor Dustin Hoffman (43) divorces actress Anne Byrne (37) after 11 years of marriage
"Friends" actor Matt LeBlanc (39) divorces former model Melissa McKnight (41) due to irreconcilable differences after 3 years of marriage
BC Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict the heaviest defeat on the Roman army of Gnaeus Mallius Maximus
68 BC Battle of Artaxata: Lucullus averts the bad omen of this day by defeating Tigranes the Great of Armenia
Pope Formosus (816 – 896) was the pope and ruler of the Papal States from 6 October 891 until his death on 4 April 896.
Baldwin VII becomes Earl of Flanders
Anne de Montmorency, duc de Montmorency (1493 – 12 November 1567) was a French noble, governor, royal favourite and Constable of France during the mid to late Italian Wars and early French Wars of...
Germantown is an area in Northwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded by Palatine, Quaker, and Mennonite families in 1683 as an independent borough, it was absorbed into Philadelphia...
Pietro Ottoboni replaces Pope Innocent XI as Alexander VIII
The Kingdom of Great Britain occupied the Spanish colonial capital of Manila and the nearby port of Cavite for eighteen months, from 6 October 1762 to the first week of April 1764.
Benjamin Hanks patents the self-winding clock
The Battle of Castricum (October 6, 1799) saw a Franco-Batavian force defeat an Anglo-Russian force near Castricum, Netherlands, within the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland.
In late September 1811, French Emperor Napoleon I visited the former Kingdom of Holland; he explained to Armand-Augusti-Louis de Caulaincourt his goals: a blockade of trade with Britain, to form a...
The Thirteen Martyrs of Arad (Hungarian: tizenhárom aradi vértanú) were the thirteen Hungarian rebel generals who were executed by the Austrian Empire on 6 October 1849 in the city of Arad, then part...
4th National Women's Rights Convention opens in Cleveland, Ohio
The Great Fire of Newcastle and Gateshead starts shortly after midnight and leads to 53 deaths and hundreds injured
USS Monitor was an ironclad warship built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War and completed in early 1862, becoming the first such ship commissioned by the Navy.
The Battle of Baxter Springs, more commonly known as the Baxter Springs Massacre, was a minor battle of the American Civil War fought on October 6, 1863, near the present-day town of Baxter Springs,...
First train robbery in US: Reno Brothers take $13,000
Fisk Jubilee Singers, an African-American a cappella ensemble from Nashville's Fisk University, begin their first national tour of the US in Cincinnati, Ohio
The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally.
The Naval War College (NWC or NAVWARCOL) is the staff college and "Home of Thought" for the United States Navy at Naval Station Newport in Newport, Rhode Island.
Moulin Rouge is a cabaret in Paris, on the Boulevard de Clichy, at the Place Blanche, the intersection and end of the Rue Blanche. In 1889, the Moulin Rouge was co-founded by Charles Zidler and...
Polygamy is the practice of having more than one spouse at the same time. Specifically, polygyny is the practice of one man taking more than one wife while polyandry is the practice of one woman...
Cream of Wheat is an American brand of farina, a type of breakfast porridge mix made from wheat middlings.
The Orange River Colony was the British colony created after Britain first occupied (1900) and then annexed (1902) the independent Orange Free State in the Second Boer War.
The High Court of Australia is the apex court of the Australian legal system. It exercises original and appellate jurisdiction on matters specified in the Constitution of Australia and supplementary...
The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran is the supreme law of Iran. It was adopted by referendum on 2 and 3 December 1979, and went into force replacing the Constitution of 1906.
Bosnia and Herzegovina fell under Austro-Hungarian rule in 1878, when the Congress of Berlin approved the occupation of the Bosnia Vilayet, which officially remained part of the Ottoman Empire.
Braves beat Phillies 20-7
Beatrix van Rijk becomes the first licensed Dutch woman pilot
Pirates' Owen "Chief" Wilson hits a record 36th triple of the season
The Battle of Galicia, also known as the Great Battle of Galicia, was a major battle between Russia and Austria-Hungary during the early stages of World War I in 1914.
US ship Otranto sinks between Scotland and Ireland, killing 425
Stamboliyski becomes premier of Bulgaria
Century Theater opens at 7th Ave & 59th St NYC (demolished in 1962)
The Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922 was fought between Greece and the Turkish National Movement during the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of World War I, between 15 May 1919 and...
Ernest Kitchen Padgett (March 1, 1899 – April 15, 1957) was an American baseball infielder who played five seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB).
Greek Premier Papanastasiou orders the arrest of General Pangulos
Verdinaso (Verbond van Dietsche Nationaal-Solidaristen, lit. 'Union of Dutch National Solidarists'), sometimes rendered as Dinaso, was a small fascist political movement active in Belgium and, to a...
Italian army occupies Adwa, Abyssinia
Zoological Gardens open at Sloat and Skyline Boulevards in San Francisco, California
German army occupies Bryansk, USSR
Allied assault on oil installations of Bula Ceram
Vella Lavella is an island in the Western Province of Solomon Islands. It lies to the west of New Georgia, but is considered one of the New Georgia Group. To its west are the Treasury Islands.
Allied aircraft accidentally bomb Vriezenveen, Overijssel
Memorial for the executed unveiled in Terbregge, Netherlands
90°F (32.22°C) is the highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in October
American citizen and radio broadcaster in Japan during the war, Iva Toguri D'Aquino, known as Tokyo Rose, is sentenced to 10 years and a $10,000 fine for treason; she is later pardoned
WTVM TV channel 9 in Columbus, GA (ABC) begins broadcasting
Novaya Zemlya, also spelled Novaja Zemlja, is an archipelago in northern Russia. It is situated in the Arctic Ocean, in the extreme northeast of Europe, with Cape Flissingsky, on the northern island,...
The USS Seawolf (SSN-575) nuclear submarine surfaces after being submerged for a record 60 days and traveling 13,700 nautical miles
Luna 3, or E-2A No.1, was a Soviet spacecraft launched in 1959 as part of the Luna programme.
US performs an atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) is first declared illegal in the state of California, and other states follow
Haight-Ashbury (San Francisco) hippies hold a funeral for "Hippie" to signify the end of "the Summer of Love"
The Beatles' promotional films (music videos) for "Hey Jude" and "Revolution" first broadcast in the US on "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour"
22-car train carrying 2,000 pilgrims derails in Mexico, killing 208
The Yom Kippur War, also known as the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, the fourth Arab–Israeli War, the October War, or the Ramadan War, was fought from 6 to 25 October 1973 between Israel and a coalition of...
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
D.L. Coburn's "The Gin Game" premieres in New York City
Hanna H. Gray is inaugurated as the first female head of a US university (University of Chicago)
George Howard Brett is an American former professional baseball third baseman, designated hitter, and first baseman who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Kansas City...
Harry Drake sets the long-distance footbow shot record of 2,006 yards 1 foot 9 inches (1,834.82 meters)
The Constitution of Guyana is the highest governing document in the Republic of Guyana.
Fokker Fellowship plane crashes at Moerdijk, Netherlands, killing all 17 passengers
Auburn's Al Del Greco kicks six field goals
China performs a nuclear test at Lop Nor, People's Republic of China
NHL New York Islanders' Mike Bossy's 25th career hat trick
New York Yankees knuckleballer Phil Niekro becomes the 18th pitcher to win 300 games and, at 46, becomes the oldest to pitch a shutout, beating Toronto 8-0
Russian nuclear submarine K-291 sinks in the Atlantic Ocean
Oakland A's sweep Boston Red Sox in four games for the AL pennant
Ulysses ( yoo-LISS-eez, UK also YOO-liss-eez) was a robotic space probe whose primary mission was to orbit the Sun and study it at all latitudes.
David Brian Cone is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher, and current color commentator for the New York Yankees on the YES Network and Amazon Prime as well as for ESPN on Sunday...
Ben Mokoena becomes the first black mayor of Middelburg, South Africa
51 Pegasi is discovered as the first major star, apart from the Sun, to have a planet orbiting it
Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is savagely beaten, tortured, and left to die tied to a fence in Laramie, Wyoming, and dies six days later
Pope John Paul II was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 16 October 1978 until his death in 2005.
Circumnavigation is the complete navigation around an entire island, continent, or astronomical body (e.g. a planet or moon).
MESSENGER was a NASA robotic space probe that orbited the planet Mercury between 2011 and 2015, studying Mercury's chemical composition, geology, and magnetic field.
Actor John Cusack strolls onto the stage at the Hollywood Bowl and hands singer Peter Gabriel a boombox before the performance of the song "In Your Eyes," recreating the iconic scene from the movie "Say Anything"
Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula.
John O'Keefe is an American-British neuroscientist, psychologist and a professor at University College London. O'Keefe discovered place cells in the hippocampus, and that they show a specific kind of...
Takaaki Kajita is a Japanese physicist, known for neutrino experiments at the Kamioka Observatory – Kamiokande and its successor, Super-Kamiokande.
The 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with...
Australia records the biggest comeback in Rugby Championship history by beating Argentina 45-34 in Salta; Wallabies trail 31-7 at halftime but score five second-half tries to none to overwhelm Pumas
99 Iraqis die and 4,000 are injured in protests over five days against living conditions, unemployment, and corruption, according to a human rights group
Andrea Mia Ghez is an American astrophysicist. She shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics with Reinhard Genzel "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy".
Carnegie Hall in New York City reopens after an 18-month pandemic shutdown with a concert by The Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Former police officer with a history of drug use attacks a daycare center, killing at least 37 people, including 23 children, with a gun and knife in Uthai Sawan, Thailand
Military junta in Myanmar kills dozens and injures more at a candlelight full moon vigil protesting the military by dropping a bomb on the crowd in Chaung-U Township [1]
Isaac Brock, British army officer and colonial administrator, known for british army officer and colonial administrator, was born on 1769-10-06.
George Westinghouse engineer, inventor, and businessman, known for american engineer, inventor, and businessman, was born on 1846-10-06. George Westinghouse Jr.
Hafez al-Assad is born
Gerry Adams, Irish republican politician, known for irish republican politician, was born on 1949-10-06.
Janet Gaynor, American actress, known for american actress, was born on 1906-10-06. Janet Gaynor was an American actress. She began her career as an extra in shorts and silent films.
Bruno Sammartino, American professional wrestler, known for american professional wrestler, was born on 1935-10-06.
Elisabeth Shue, American actress, known for american actress, was born on 1964-10-06. Elisabeth Shue is an American actress.
Todd Howard is born
Ioan Gruffudd, Welsh welsh actor, known for welsh actor, was born on 1974-10-06. Ioan Gruffudd is a Welsh actor.
Jeremy Sisto, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1975-10-06. Jeremy Merton Sisto is an American actor.
Tony Greig, South African athlete, known for south african born english cricketer, was born on 1946-10-06.
68 BC Battle of Artaxata: Lucullus averts the bad omen of this day by defeating Tigranes the Great of Armenia
BC Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict the heaviest defeat on the Roman army of Gnaeus Mallius Maximus
Pope Formosus (816 – 896) was the pope and ruler of the Papal States from 6 October 891 until his death on 4 April 896.
Baldwin VII becomes Earl of Flanders
Anne de Montmorency, duc de Montmorency (1493 – 12 November 1567) was a French noble, governor, royal favourite and Constable of France during the mid to late Italian Wars and early French Wars of...
Germantown is an area in Northwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded by Palatine, Quaker, and Mennonite families in 1683 as an independent borough, it was absorbed into Philadelphia...
Pietro Ottoboni replaces Pope Innocent XI as Alexander VIII
The Kingdom of Great Britain occupied the Spanish colonial capital of Manila and the nearby port of Cavite for eighteen months, from 6 October 1762 to the first week of April 1764.
Isaac Brock, British army officer and colonial administrator, known for british army officer and colonial administrator, was born on 1769-10-06.
Benjamin Hanks patents the self-winding clock
The Battle of Castricum (October 6, 1799) saw a Franco-Batavian force defeat an Anglo-Russian force near Castricum, Netherlands, within the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland.
In late September 1811, French Emperor Napoleon I visited the former Kingdom of Holland; he explained to Armand-Augusti-Louis de Caulaincourt his goals: a blockade of trade with Britain, to form a...
George Westinghouse engineer, inventor, and businessman, known for american engineer, inventor, and businessman, was born on 1846-10-06. George Westinghouse Jr.
The Thirteen Martyrs of Arad (Hungarian: tizenhárom aradi vértanú) were the thirteen Hungarian rebel generals who were executed by the Austrian Empire on 6 October 1849 in the city of Arad, then part...
4th National Women's Rights Convention opens in Cleveland, Ohio
The Great Fire of Newcastle and Gateshead starts shortly after midnight and leads to 53 deaths and hundreds injured
USS Monitor was an ironclad warship built for the United States Navy during the American Civil War and completed in early 1862, becoming the first such ship commissioned by the Navy.
The Battle of Baxter Springs, more commonly known as the Baxter Springs Massacre, was a minor battle of the American Civil War fought on October 6, 1863, near the present-day town of Baxter Springs,...
First train robbery in US: Reno Brothers take $13,000
Fisk Jubilee Singers, an African-American a cappella ensemble from Nashville's Fisk University, begin their first national tour of the US in Cincinnati, Ohio
The American Library Association (ALA) is a nonprofit organization based in the United States that promotes libraries and library education internationally.
First World Series Baseball Game 1: Cincinnati Red Stockings (AA) beat Chicago White Stockings (NL) 4-0 at Bank Street Grounds, Cincinnati
The Naval War College (NWC or NAVWARCOL) is the staff college and "Home of Thought" for the United States Navy at Naval Station Newport in Newport, Rhode Island.
Moulin Rouge is a cabaret in Paris, on the Boulevard de Clichy, at the Place Blanche, the intersection and end of the Rue Blanche. In 1889, the Moulin Rouge was co-founded by Charles Zidler and...
Polygamy is the practice of having more than one spouse at the same time. Specifically, polygyny is the practice of one man taking more than one wife while polyandry is the practice of one woman...
Cream of Wheat is an American brand of farina, a type of breakfast porridge mix made from wheat middlings.
The Orange River Colony was the British colony created after Britain first occupied (1900) and then annexed (1902) the independent Orange Free State in the Second Boer War.
The High Court of Australia is the apex court of the Australian legal system. It exercises original and appellate jurisdiction on matters specified in the Constitution of Australia and supplementary...
The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran is the supreme law of Iran. It was adopted by referendum on 2 and 3 December 1979, and went into force replacing the Constitution of 1906.
Janet Gaynor, American actress, known for american actress, was born on 1906-10-06. Janet Gaynor was an American actress. She began her career as an extra in shorts and silent films.
Bosnia and Herzegovina fell under Austro-Hungarian rule in 1878, when the Congress of Berlin approved the occupation of the Bosnia Vilayet, which officially remained part of the Ottoman Empire.
Braves beat Phillies 20-7
Beatrix van Rijk becomes the first licensed Dutch woman pilot
Pirates' Owen "Chief" Wilson hits a record 36th triple of the season
The Battle of Galicia, also known as the Great Battle of Galicia, was a major battle between Russia and Austria-Hungary during the early stages of World War I in 1914.
Third Battle of Ypres: Canadian troops recapture the high ground in the village of Passchendaele from the Germans in West Flanders, Belgium, during World War I; over 200,000 casualties occur on each side, and 24,000 German prisoners are taken
US ship Otranto sinks between Scotland and Ireland, killing 425
Stamboliyski becomes premier of Bulgaria
Century Theater opens at 7th Ave & 59th St NYC (demolished in 1962)
The Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922 was fought between Greece and the Turkish National Movement during the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of World War I, between 15 May 1919 and...
Ernest Kitchen Padgett (March 1, 1899 – April 15, 1957) was an American baseball infielder who played five seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB).
Greek Premier Papanastasiou orders the arrest of General Pangulos
"The Jazz Singer," directed by Alan Crosland and starring Al Jolson and May McAvoy, is released as the first film with a synchronized soundtrack (Honorary Academy Award 1929)
Hafez al-Assad is born
Verdinaso (Verbond van Dietsche Nationaal-Solidaristen, lit. 'Union of Dutch National Solidarists'), sometimes rendered as Dinaso, was a small fascist political movement active in Belgium and, to a...
Italian army occupies Adwa, Abyssinia
Bruno Sammartino, American professional wrestler, known for american professional wrestler, was born on 1935-10-06.
Diana Mitford marries Oswald Mosley in the house of Joseph Goebbels with Adolf Hitler as a guest
Zoological Gardens open at Sloat and Skyline Boulevards in San Francisco, California
German army occupies Bryansk, USSR
Allied assault on oil installations of Bula Ceram
Vella Lavella is an island in the Western Province of Solomon Islands. It lies to the west of New Georgia, but is considered one of the New Georgia Group. To its west are the Treasury Islands.
Allied aircraft accidentally bomb Vriezenveen, Overijssel
Memorial for the executed unveiled in Terbregge, Netherlands
90°F (32.22°C) is the highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in October
Tony Greig, South African athlete, known for south african born english cricketer, was born on 1946-10-06.
Earthquake in Ashgabat kills 100,000 in Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic
The Mutual Defense Assistance Act was a United States Act of Congress signed by President Harry S. Truman on October 6, 1949. For U.S. foreign policy, it was the first U.S.
American citizen and radio broadcaster in Japan during the war, Iva Toguri D'Aquino, known as Tokyo Rose, is sentenced to 10 years and a $10,000 fine for treason; she is later pardoned
Gerry Adams, Irish republican politician, known for irish republican politician, was born on 1949-10-06.
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (né Dzhugashvili; 18 December [O.S. 6 December] 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian-born Soviet revolutionary and politician who led the Soviet Union from 1924 until his...
MLB baseball player Hank Aaron (19) weds Barbara Lucas (divorced 1971)
WTVM TV channel 9 in Columbus, GA (ABC) begins broadcasting
Scientist Albert Sabin announces that his oral polio vaccine is ready for testing; it soon replaces Jonas Salk's vaccine in many parts of the world
South African politician "Kobie" Coetsee marries Helena E Malan
Novaya Zemlya, also spelled Novaja Zemlja, is an archipelago in northern Russia. It is situated in the Arctic Ocean, in the extreme northeast of Europe, with Cape Flissingsky, on the northern island,...
The USS Seawolf (SSN-575) nuclear submarine surfaces after being submerged for a record 60 days and traveling 13,700 nautical miles
Luna 3, or E-2A No.1, was a Soviet spacecraft launched in 1959 as part of the Luna programme.
Historical drama film "Spartacus," directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Kirk Douglas and Laurence Olivier, premieres in New York City
US performs an atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island
Elisabeth Shue, American actress, known for american actress, was born on 1964-10-06. Elisabeth Shue is an American actress.
LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) is first declared illegal in the state of California, and other states follow
Haight-Ashbury (San Francisco) hippies hold a funeral for "Hippie" to signify the end of "the Summer of Love"
The Beatles' promotional films (music videos) for "Hey Jude" and "Revolution" first broadcast in the US on "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour"
Walter Hagen, American professional golfer, known for american professional golfer, died on 1969-10-06.
Todd Howard is born
22-car train carrying 2,000 pilgrims derails in Mexico, killing 208
The Yom Kippur War, also known as the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, the fourth Arab–Israeli War, the October War, or the Ramadan War, was fought from 6 to 25 October 1973 between Israel and a coalition of...
Ioan Gruffudd, Welsh welsh actor, known for welsh actor, was born on 1974-10-06. Ioan Gruffudd is a Welsh actor.
Jeremy Sisto, American actor, known for american actor, was born on 1975-10-06. Jeremy Merton Sisto is an American actor.
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
D.L. Coburn's "The Gin Game" premieres in New York City
Hanna H. Gray is inaugurated as the first female head of a US university (University of Chicago)
George Howard Brett is an American former professional baseball third baseman, designated hitter, and first baseman who played 21 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Kansas City...
Harry Drake sets the long-distance footbow shot record of 2,006 yards 1 foot 9 inches (1,834.82 meters)
Oscar-winning actor Dustin Hoffman (43) divorces actress Anne Byrne (37) after 11 years of marriage
The Constitution of Guyana is the highest governing document in the Republic of Guyana.
Fokker Fellowship plane crashes at Moerdijk, Netherlands, killing all 17 passengers
Anwar Sadat dies
Auburn's Al Del Greco kicks six field goals
China performs a nuclear test at Lop Nor, People's Republic of China
NHL New York Islanders' Mike Bossy's 25th career hat trick
New York Yankees knuckleballer Phil Niekro becomes the 18th pitcher to win 300 games and, at 46, becomes the oldest to pitch a shutout, beating Toronto 8-0
Russian nuclear submarine K-291 sinks in the Atlantic Ocean
"Faith" is a song by English singer and songwriter George Michael. Written and produced by Michael, it was released via Columbia Records as the second single from his 1987 debut solo album of the...
Oakland A's sweep Boston Red Sox in four games for the AL pennant
Ulysses ( yoo-LISS-eez, UK also YOO-liss-eez) was a robotic space probe whose primary mission was to orbit the Sun and study it at all latitudes.
David Brian Cone is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) pitcher, and current color commentator for the New York Yankees on the YES Network and Amazon Prime as well as for ESPN on Sunday...
Ben Mokoena becomes the first black mayor of Middelburg, South Africa
51 Pegasi is discovered as the first major star, apart from the Sun, to have a planet orbiting it
Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is savagely beaten, tortured, and left to die tied to a fence in Laramie, Wyoming, and dies six days later
Pope John Paul II was head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of Vatican City from 16 October 1978 until his death in 2005.
"Friends" actor Matt LeBlanc (39) divorces former model Melissa McKnight (41) due to irreconcilable differences after 3 years of marriage
Circumnavigation is the complete navigation around an entire island, continent, or astronomical body (e.g. a planet or moon).
MESSENGER was a NASA robotic space probe that orbited the planet Mercury between 2011 and 2015, studying Mercury's chemical composition, geology, and magnetic field.
Actor John Cusack strolls onto the stage at the Hollywood Bowl and hands singer Peter Gabriel a boombox before the performance of the song "In Your Eyes," recreating the iconic scene from the movie "Say Anything"
Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula.
John O'Keefe is an American-British neuroscientist, psychologist and a professor at University College London. O'Keefe discovered place cells in the hippocampus, and that they show a specific kind of...
Takaaki Kajita is a Japanese physicist, known for neutrino experiments at the Kamioka Observatory – Kamiokande and its successor, Super-Kamiokande.
The 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with...
Australia records the biggest comeback in Rugby Championship history by beating Argentina 45-34 in Salta; Wallabies trail 31-7 at halftime but score five second-half tries to none to overwhelm Pumas
99 Iraqis die and 4,000 are injured in protests over five days against living conditions, unemployment, and corruption, according to a human rights group
Andrea Mia Ghez is an American astrophysicist. She shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics with Reinhard Genzel "for the discovery of a supermassive compact object at the centre of our galaxy".
WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus recommends the world's first malaria vaccine, Mosquirix, for children after a pilot program proves effective in Africa [1]
Carnegie Hall in New York City reopens after an 18-month pandemic shutdown with a concert by The Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin
Former police officer with a history of drug use attacks a daycare center, killing at least 37 people, including 23 children, with a gun and knife in Uthai Sawan, Thailand
American Simone Biles wins all-around gold at the World Championships in Antwerp, Belgium, becoming the most decorated gymnast with 34 World and Olympic medals [1]
Military junta in Myanmar kills dozens and injures more at a candlelight full moon vigil protesting the military by dropping a bomb on the crowd in Chaung-U Township [1]