October 6
1536 - English theologian and scholar William Tyndale, who was the first to translate the Bible into Early Modern English, was executed for heresy.
1927 - "The Jazz Singer," the first full-length talking picture, debuted.
1939 - In a speech to the Reichstag, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler spoke of his plans to reorder the ethnic layout of Europe — a plan that would entail settling the “Jewish problem.”
1949 - Japanese-American broadcaster, Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose), was sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined $10,000 for treason.
1973 - The Yom Kippur War began when Syria and Egypt attacked Israel.
1976 - President Gerald R. Ford, in his second presidential debate with Democrat Jimmy Carter, asserted that there was “no Soviet domination of eastern Europe.”
1979 - President Jimmy Carter welcomed Pope John Paul II on the first papal visit to the White House.
1981 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is assassinated in Cairo.
1989 - Bette Davis died in France at age 81.
2003 - American Paul Lauterbur and Briton Peter Mansfield won the Nobel Prize for medicine for discoveries that led to magnetic resonance imaging.
2010 - The social networking photo app Instagram was launched by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger.
2014 - The Supreme Court unexpectedly cleared the way for a dramatic expansion of gay marriage in the United States as it rejected appeals from five states seeking to preserve their bans, effectively making such marriages legal in 30 states.
2017 - The board of directors of The Weinstein Co. said movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was on indefinite leave from the company he founded amid an internal investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against him.
2018 - In the narrowest Senate confirmation of a Supreme Court justice in nearly a century and a half, Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed by a 50-48 vote; he was sworn in hours later.
2020 - President Donald Trump, recovering from COVID-19, tweeted his eagerness to return to the campaign trail and said he still planned to attend an upcoming debate with Democrat Joe Biden in Miami; Biden said there should be no debate as long as Trump remained COVID positive. (The debate would be canceled.).
2022 - A former police officer facing a drug charge burst into a daycare center in Thailand, killing at 36 people, most of them preschoolers, in the deadliest rampage in the nation’s history.
Birthdays
24 - Trevor Lawrence (football player)
33 - Stefanie Martini (actress)
33 - Scarlett Byrne (actress)
41 - Will Butler (singer)
45 - Karimah Westbrook (actress)
46 - Wes Ramsey (actor)
46 - Melinda Doolittle (singer)
47 - Brett Gelman (actor)
49 - Jeremy Sisto (actor)
52 - Emily Mortimer (actress)
53 - Amy Jo Johnson (actress)
57 - Tim Rushlow (singer)
57 - Jacqueline Obradors (actress)
59 - Matthew Sweet (singer)
60 - Elisabeth Shue (actress)
68 - Tony Dungy (football coach/sportscaster)
72 - Kevin Cronin (singer)
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Today in Sports History - October 6
1880 - The National League kicked the Cincinnati Reds out for selling beer.
1894 - Nebraska opens the season with an 8-0 exhibition win over Lincoln High.
1899 - Cockeye State defeats Nebraska 33-0.
1900 - Nebraska and a team of Alumni players play to a 0-0 tie in an exhibition game.
1906 - Nebraska defeats South Dakota 4-0.
1911 - Cy Young makes his farewell appearance in a MLB game, his 906th career game.
1917 - Nebraska opens the season with a 100-0 win over Nebraska Wesleyan.
1923 - Nebraska opens the season with a 24-7 loss to Illinois.
1928 - Nebraska opens the season with a 12-0 win over Cockeye State.
1934 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 20-0.
1936 - The New York Yankees defeat the New York Giants in six games to win the World Series.
1941 - The New York Yankees defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers in five games to win the World Series.
1945 - Tavern owner "Billy Goat" Sianis buys seat for his goat for Game 4 of Baseball World Series, is escorted out and casts goat curse on Chicago Cubs.
1945 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 61-7.
1947 - The New York Yankees defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers in seven games to win the World Series.
1951 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 1-0 (forfeit).
1956 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 9-7.
1962 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 36-22.
1963 - The Los Angeles Dodgers sweep the New York Yankees to win the World Series.
1973 - #2 Nebraska defeats Minnesota 48-7.
1979 - #5 Nebraska defeats New Mexico State 57-0.
1983 - Mike Bossy (New York Islanders) got his 25th career hat trick.
1984 - #8 Nebraska defeats #9 Oklahoma State 17-3.
1985 - Joe Montana (San Francisco 49ers) set an NFL record with 57 pass attempts. He threw for five touchdowns and 429 yards.
1990 - #8 Nebraska defeats Kansas State 45-8.
1993 - After nine seasons and three NBA championships, Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls announces his retirement to pursue a professional baseball career. (He would return to the NBA on March 18, 1995.)
1995 - The Colorado Avalanche (formerly the Quebec Nordiques) won their first NHL game when they beat the Detroit Red Wings.
1996 - Nick Lowrey of the New York Jets ties Jan Stenerud's career record with 373 NFL field goals
2001 - #4 Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 48-14.
2003 - The Indianapolis Colts became the first team in NFL history to win after trailing by 21 or more points with less than four minutes to play in regulation. The game went to an extra period where the Colts defeated the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 38-35.
2007 - #17 Missouri defeats #25 Nebraska 41-6.
2010 - Phillies ace Roy Halladay pitches only the second postseason no-hitter in MLB history in Game 1 NLDS, 4-0 v Cincinnati Reds, at Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia.
2012 - #12 Ohio State defeats #21 Nebraska 63-38.
2017 - Vegas Golden Knights make their NHL debut in Dallas, winning 2-1 over the Stars.
2018 - #16 Wisconsin defeats Nebraska 41-24.
1536 - English theologian and scholar William Tyndale, who was the first to translate the Bible into Early Modern English, was executed for heresy.
1927 - "The Jazz Singer," the first full-length talking picture, debuted.
1939 - In a speech to the Reichstag, German Chancellor Adolf Hitler spoke of his plans to reorder the ethnic layout of Europe — a plan that would entail settling the “Jewish problem.”
1949 - Japanese-American broadcaster, Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose), was sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined $10,000 for treason.
1973 - The Yom Kippur War began when Syria and Egypt attacked Israel.
1976 - President Gerald R. Ford, in his second presidential debate with Democrat Jimmy Carter, asserted that there was “no Soviet domination of eastern Europe.”
1979 - President Jimmy Carter welcomed Pope John Paul II on the first papal visit to the White House.
1981 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is assassinated in Cairo.
1989 - Bette Davis died in France at age 81.
2003 - American Paul Lauterbur and Briton Peter Mansfield won the Nobel Prize for medicine for discoveries that led to magnetic resonance imaging.
2010 - The social networking photo app Instagram was launched by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger.
2014 - The Supreme Court unexpectedly cleared the way for a dramatic expansion of gay marriage in the United States as it rejected appeals from five states seeking to preserve their bans, effectively making such marriages legal in 30 states.
2017 - The board of directors of The Weinstein Co. said movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was on indefinite leave from the company he founded amid an internal investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against him.
2018 - In the narrowest Senate confirmation of a Supreme Court justice in nearly a century and a half, Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed by a 50-48 vote; he was sworn in hours later.
2020 - President Donald Trump, recovering from COVID-19, tweeted his eagerness to return to the campaign trail and said he still planned to attend an upcoming debate with Democrat Joe Biden in Miami; Biden said there should be no debate as long as Trump remained COVID positive. (The debate would be canceled.).
2022 - A former police officer facing a drug charge burst into a daycare center in Thailand, killing at 36 people, most of them preschoolers, in the deadliest rampage in the nation’s history.
Birthdays
24 - Trevor Lawrence (football player)
33 - Stefanie Martini (actress)
33 - Scarlett Byrne (actress)
41 - Will Butler (singer)
45 - Karimah Westbrook (actress)
46 - Wes Ramsey (actor)
46 - Melinda Doolittle (singer)
47 - Brett Gelman (actor)
49 - Jeremy Sisto (actor)
52 - Emily Mortimer (actress)
53 - Amy Jo Johnson (actress)
57 - Tim Rushlow (singer)
57 - Jacqueline Obradors (actress)
59 - Matthew Sweet (singer)
60 - Elisabeth Shue (actress)
68 - Tony Dungy (football coach/sportscaster)
72 - Kevin Cronin (singer)
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Today in Sports History - October 6
1880 - The National League kicked the Cincinnati Reds out for selling beer.
1894 - Nebraska opens the season with an 8-0 exhibition win over Lincoln High.
1899 - Cockeye State defeats Nebraska 33-0.
1900 - Nebraska and a team of Alumni players play to a 0-0 tie in an exhibition game.
1906 - Nebraska defeats South Dakota 4-0.
1911 - Cy Young makes his farewell appearance in a MLB game, his 906th career game.
1917 - Nebraska opens the season with a 100-0 win over Nebraska Wesleyan.
1923 - Nebraska opens the season with a 24-7 loss to Illinois.
1928 - Nebraska opens the season with a 12-0 win over Cockeye State.
1934 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 20-0.
1936 - The New York Yankees defeat the New York Giants in six games to win the World Series.
1941 - The New York Yankees defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers in five games to win the World Series.
1945 - Tavern owner "Billy Goat" Sianis buys seat for his goat for Game 4 of Baseball World Series, is escorted out and casts goat curse on Chicago Cubs.
1945 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 61-7.
1947 - The New York Yankees defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers in seven games to win the World Series.
1951 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 1-0 (forfeit).
1956 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 9-7.
1962 - Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 36-22.
1963 - The Los Angeles Dodgers sweep the New York Yankees to win the World Series.
1973 - #2 Nebraska defeats Minnesota 48-7.
1979 - #5 Nebraska defeats New Mexico State 57-0.
1983 - Mike Bossy (New York Islanders) got his 25th career hat trick.
1984 - #8 Nebraska defeats #9 Oklahoma State 17-3.
1985 - Joe Montana (San Francisco 49ers) set an NFL record with 57 pass attempts. He threw for five touchdowns and 429 yards.
1990 - #8 Nebraska defeats Kansas State 45-8.
1993 - After nine seasons and three NBA championships, Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls announces his retirement to pursue a professional baseball career. (He would return to the NBA on March 18, 1995.)
1995 - The Colorado Avalanche (formerly the Quebec Nordiques) won their first NHL game when they beat the Detroit Red Wings.
1996 - Nick Lowrey of the New York Jets ties Jan Stenerud's career record with 373 NFL field goals
2001 - #4 Nebraska defeats Cockeye State 48-14.
2003 - The Indianapolis Colts became the first team in NFL history to win after trailing by 21 or more points with less than four minutes to play in regulation. The game went to an extra period where the Colts defeated the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 38-35.
2007 - #17 Missouri defeats #25 Nebraska 41-6.
2010 - Phillies ace Roy Halladay pitches only the second postseason no-hitter in MLB history in Game 1 NLDS, 4-0 v Cincinnati Reds, at Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia.
2012 - #12 Ohio State defeats #21 Nebraska 63-38.
2017 - Vegas Golden Knights make their NHL debut in Dallas, winning 2-1 over the Stars.
2018 - #16 Wisconsin defeats Nebraska 41-24.
