October 6
1683 - Thirteen families from Krefeld, Germany arrived in Philadelphia to begin Germantown, one of America's oldest settlements.
1884 - The Naval War College was established in Newport, Rhode Island.
1889 - The Moulin Rouge cabaret opened in Paris.
1927 - "The Jazz Singer," the first full-length talking picture, starring Al Jolson, 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 which would entail settling the “Jewish problem.”
1949 - Japanese-American radio 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. (Israel, initially caught off guard, managed to push back the Arab forces before a cease-fire finally took hold in the nearly three-week conflict.)
1976 - In a debate with Democratic candidate Jimmy Carter, President Gerald R. Ford asserted there was "no Soviet domination of eastern Europe." Ford later conceded that he had misspoken.
1979 - President Jimmy Carter welcomed Pope John Paul II on the first-ever papal visit to the White House.
1981 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is assassinated in Cairo.
1987 - The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 9-5 against the nomination of Robert H. Bork to the Supreme Court.
1989 - Actress Bette Davis died in Paris, France at age 81.
2004 - The top U.S. arms inspector in Iraq, Charles Duelfer, reported finding no evidence Saddam Hussein's regime had produced weapons of mass destruction after 1991.
2008 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed below 10,000 for the first time since 2004.
2010 - The social networking app Instagram was launched by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger.
2011 - In a poor quality audio recording, a voice identified as that of Moammar Gadhafi called on Libyans to take to the streets and wage a campaign of civil disobedience against the country’s new leader.
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.
2016 - President Barack Obama offered 102 federal inmates the chance to leave prison early, bringing to 774 the number of sentences Obama had shortened.
2018 - In the narrowest Senate confirmation of a Supreme Court justice in nearly 150 years, 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.)
2020 - Four weeks ahead of Election Day, senior national security officials provided assurances about the integrity of the elections in a video message, putting them at odds with Trump’s effort to discredit the vote.
2020 - Eddie Van Halen, the guitar virtuoso whose speed, control and innovation propelled his band Van Halen into one of hard rock’s biggest groups, died of cancer at 65.
Birthdays
22 - Trevor Lawrence (football player)
22 - Bobby Finke (swimmer)
28 - Anllela Sagra (model)
31 - Scarlett Byrne (actress)
31 - Stefanie Martini (actress)
38 - Monique Samuels (reality star)
39 - Will Butler (singer)
43 - Karimah Westbook (actor)
44 - Wes Ramsey (actor)
44 - Melinda Doolittle (singer)
45 - Brett Gelman (actor)
47 - Jeremy Sisto (actor)
50 - Lamman Rucker (actor)
50 - Emily Mortimer (actress)
51 - Amy Jo Johnson (actress)
55 - Tim Rushlow (country singer)
55 - Jacqueline Obradors (actress)
57 - Matthew Sweet (singer)
58 - Elisabeth Shue (actress)
66 - Tony Dungy (football coach/sportscaster)
70 - Kevin Cronin (singer)
72 - Thomas McClary (singer)
79 - Britt Ekland (actress)
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Today in Sports History - October 6
1880 - The National League kicked the Cincinnati Reds out of the league 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 Nebraska Alumni team play to a 0-0 exhibition tie.
1906 - Nebraska defeats South Dakota 4-0.
1911 - Cy Young makes his final major league pitching appearance, his 906th, in a 13-3 loss to the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1917 - Nebraska opens the season with a 100-0 win over Nebraska Wesleyan.
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.
1923 - Nebraska opens the season with a 24-7 loss to Illinois.
1926 - Babe Ruth becomes the first player to hit three home runs in a World Series game, leading the Yankees to a 10-5 win over the St. Louis Cardinals.
1928 - Nebraska opens the season with a 12-0 win over Cockeye State.
1934 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 20-0.
1936 - The New York Yankees beat the New York Giants in six games to win the World Series.
1941 - The New York Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers in five games to win the World Series.
1945 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 61-7.
1945 - Tavern owner "Billy Goat" Sianis buys a set for his goat for Game 4 of the World Series but is escorted out and casts a "goat curse" on the Chicago Cubs.
1947 - The New York Yankees defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers in seven games to win the World Series.
1951 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 1-0 after the Wildcats 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.
1969 - The New York Mets won the first-ever National League Championship Series, defeating the Atlanta Braves, 7-4, in Game 3; the Baltimore Orioles won the first-ever American League Championship Series, defeating the Minnesota Twins 11-2 in Game 3.
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 - Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls announces his retirement from the NBA after nine seasons and three championships. (He would return in 1995 and lead the Bulls to another three consecutive titles.)
1995 - The Colorado Avalanche (formerly the Quebec Nordiques) won their first NHL game when they beat the Detroit Red Wings.
1996 - Nick Lowery of the New York Jets ties Jan Stenerud's NFL record with 373 career field goals made.
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 - Roy Halladay pitched the second no-hitter in postseason history, leading the Philadelphia Phillies over the Cincinnati Reds 4-0 in Game 1 of the NLDS.
2012 - #12 Ohio State defeats #21 Nebraska 63-38.
2017 - The Vegas Golden Knights make their NHL debut with a 2-1 win over the Dallas Stars.
2018 - #16 Wisconsin defeats Nebraska 41-24.
1683 - Thirteen families from Krefeld, Germany arrived in Philadelphia to begin Germantown, one of America's oldest settlements.
1884 - The Naval War College was established in Newport, Rhode Island.
1889 - The Moulin Rouge cabaret opened in Paris.
1927 - "The Jazz Singer," the first full-length talking picture, starring Al Jolson, 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 which would entail settling the “Jewish problem.”
1949 - Japanese-American radio 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. (Israel, initially caught off guard, managed to push back the Arab forces before a cease-fire finally took hold in the nearly three-week conflict.)
1976 - In a debate with Democratic candidate Jimmy Carter, President Gerald R. Ford asserted there was "no Soviet domination of eastern Europe." Ford later conceded that he had misspoken.
1979 - President Jimmy Carter welcomed Pope John Paul II on the first-ever papal visit to the White House.
1981 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is assassinated in Cairo.
1987 - The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 9-5 against the nomination of Robert H. Bork to the Supreme Court.
1989 - Actress Bette Davis died in Paris, France at age 81.
2004 - The top U.S. arms inspector in Iraq, Charles Duelfer, reported finding no evidence Saddam Hussein's regime had produced weapons of mass destruction after 1991.
2008 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed below 10,000 for the first time since 2004.
2010 - The social networking app Instagram was launched by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger.
2011 - In a poor quality audio recording, a voice identified as that of Moammar Gadhafi called on Libyans to take to the streets and wage a campaign of civil disobedience against the country’s new leader.
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.
2016 - President Barack Obama offered 102 federal inmates the chance to leave prison early, bringing to 774 the number of sentences Obama had shortened.
2018 - In the narrowest Senate confirmation of a Supreme Court justice in nearly 150 years, 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.)
2020 - Four weeks ahead of Election Day, senior national security officials provided assurances about the integrity of the elections in a video message, putting them at odds with Trump’s effort to discredit the vote.
2020 - Eddie Van Halen, the guitar virtuoso whose speed, control and innovation propelled his band Van Halen into one of hard rock’s biggest groups, died of cancer at 65.
Birthdays
22 - Trevor Lawrence (football player)
22 - Bobby Finke (swimmer)
28 - Anllela Sagra (model)
31 - Scarlett Byrne (actress)
31 - Stefanie Martini (actress)
38 - Monique Samuels (reality star)
39 - Will Butler (singer)
43 - Karimah Westbook (actor)
44 - Wes Ramsey (actor)
44 - Melinda Doolittle (singer)
45 - Brett Gelman (actor)
47 - Jeremy Sisto (actor)
50 - Lamman Rucker (actor)
50 - Emily Mortimer (actress)
51 - Amy Jo Johnson (actress)
55 - Tim Rushlow (country singer)
55 - Jacqueline Obradors (actress)
57 - Matthew Sweet (singer)
58 - Elisabeth Shue (actress)
66 - Tony Dungy (football coach/sportscaster)
70 - Kevin Cronin (singer)
72 - Thomas McClary (singer)
79 - Britt Ekland (actress)
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Today in Sports History - October 6
1880 - The National League kicked the Cincinnati Reds out of the league 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 Nebraska Alumni team play to a 0-0 exhibition tie.
1906 - Nebraska defeats South Dakota 4-0.
1911 - Cy Young makes his final major league pitching appearance, his 906th, in a 13-3 loss to the Brooklyn Dodgers.
1917 - Nebraska opens the season with a 100-0 win over Nebraska Wesleyan.
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.
1923 - Nebraska opens the season with a 24-7 loss to Illinois.
1926 - Babe Ruth becomes the first player to hit three home runs in a World Series game, leading the Yankees to a 10-5 win over the St. Louis Cardinals.
1928 - Nebraska opens the season with a 12-0 win over Cockeye State.
1934 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 20-0.
1936 - The New York Yankees beat the New York Giants in six games to win the World Series.
1941 - The New York Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers in five games to win the World Series.
1945 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 61-7.
1945 - Tavern owner "Billy Goat" Sianis buys a set for his goat for Game 4 of the World Series but is escorted out and casts a "goat curse" on the Chicago Cubs.
1947 - The New York Yankees defeat the Brooklyn Dodgers in seven games to win the World Series.
1951 - Nebraska defeats Kansas State 1-0 after the Wildcats 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.
1969 - The New York Mets won the first-ever National League Championship Series, defeating the Atlanta Braves, 7-4, in Game 3; the Baltimore Orioles won the first-ever American League Championship Series, defeating the Minnesota Twins 11-2 in Game 3.
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 - Michael Jordan of the Chicago Bulls announces his retirement from the NBA after nine seasons and three championships. (He would return in 1995 and lead the Bulls to another three consecutive titles.)
1995 - The Colorado Avalanche (formerly the Quebec Nordiques) won their first NHL game when they beat the Detroit Red Wings.
1996 - Nick Lowery of the New York Jets ties Jan Stenerud's NFL record with 373 career field goals made.
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 - Roy Halladay pitched the second no-hitter in postseason history, leading the Philadelphia Phillies over the Cincinnati Reds 4-0 in Game 1 of the NLDS.
2012 - #12 Ohio State defeats #21 Nebraska 63-38.
2017 - The Vegas Golden Knights make their NHL debut with a 2-1 win over the Dallas Stars.
2018 - #16 Wisconsin defeats Nebraska 41-24.
