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, 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 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.
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." (Ford later conceded such was not the case.)
1979 - President Jimmy Carter received Pope John Paul II on the first-ever papal visit to the White House.
1981 - Egyptian president Anwar Sadat was 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 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 International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, a grassroots effort aimed at pressuring the world’s nuclear powers to give up those weapons, won the Nobel Peace Prize.
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 to the high court hours later.
2021 - A federal judge ordered Texas to suspend a new law that had banned most abortions in the state since September. (An appeals court would reinstate the law two days later.)
2021 - The Los Angeles City Council voted to enact one of the nation’s strictest vaccine mandates; it required the shots for everyone entering bars, restaurants, nail salons, gyms and even a Lakers game.
2021 - The World Health Organization endorsed the world’s first malaria vaccine and said it should be given to children across Africa in the hope that it would spur stalled efforts to curb the spread of the parasitic disease; the vaccine was developed by GlaxoSmithKline in 1987.
Birthdays
23 - Trevor Lawrence (football player)
29 - Anllela Sagra (model)
32 - Stefanie Martini (actress)
32 - Scarlett Byrne (actress)
40 - Will Butler (singer)
44 - Karimah Westbrook (actress)
45 - Wes Ramsey (actor)
45 - Melinda Doolittle (singer)
46 - Brett Gelman (actor)
48 - Jeremy Sisto (actor)
51 - Lamman Rucker (actor)
51 - Emily Mortimer (actress)
52 - Amy Jo Johnson (actress)
56 - Tim Rushlow (singer)
56 - Jacqueline Obradors (actress)
58 - Matthew Sweet (singer)
59 - Elisabeth Shue (actress)
67 - Tony Dungy (football coach/broadcaster)
71 - Kevin Cronin (singer)
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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 defeats Lincoln High 8-0 in an exhibition game.
1899 - Cockeye State defeats Nebraska 33-0.
1900 - Nebraska plays a team of alumni players to a 0-0 tie in an exhibition game.
1906 - Nebraska defeats South Dakota 4-0.
1911 - Cy Young pitches his his final career game, a loss to the Brooklyn Dodgers in what was his 906th career appearance.
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.
1926 - Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees becomes the first player in MLB history to hit three home runs in a World Series game.
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 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 61-7.
1945 - Tavern owner "Billy Goat" Sianis buys a seat for his goat for Game 4 of the World Series; he and his goat are escorted out of Wrigley Field and he casts his "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 via 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 of the New York Islanders recorded his 25th career hat trick.
1984 - #8 Nebraska defeats #9 Oklahoma State 17-3.
1985 - Phil Niekro of the New York Yankees becomes the 18th pitcher in MLB history to record 300 career wins, and, at age 46, becomes the oldest to ever pitch a shutout in an 8-0 win over the Toronto Blue Jays.
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 with the Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan announces his retirement to pursue a professional baseball career. (Jordan would return to the NBA on March 18, 1995 and would lead the Bulls to three more titles.)
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 NFL record with his 373rd career field goal.
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 of the NLDS, a 4-0 win over the Cincinnati Reds.
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.
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, 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 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.
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." (Ford later conceded such was not the case.)
1979 - President Jimmy Carter received Pope John Paul II on the first-ever papal visit to the White House.
1981 - Egyptian president Anwar Sadat was 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 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 International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, a grassroots effort aimed at pressuring the world’s nuclear powers to give up those weapons, won the Nobel Peace Prize.
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 to the high court hours later.
2021 - A federal judge ordered Texas to suspend a new law that had banned most abortions in the state since September. (An appeals court would reinstate the law two days later.)
2021 - The Los Angeles City Council voted to enact one of the nation’s strictest vaccine mandates; it required the shots for everyone entering bars, restaurants, nail salons, gyms and even a Lakers game.
2021 - The World Health Organization endorsed the world’s first malaria vaccine and said it should be given to children across Africa in the hope that it would spur stalled efforts to curb the spread of the parasitic disease; the vaccine was developed by GlaxoSmithKline in 1987.
Birthdays
23 - Trevor Lawrence (football player)
29 - Anllela Sagra (model)
32 - Stefanie Martini (actress)
32 - Scarlett Byrne (actress)
40 - Will Butler (singer)
44 - Karimah Westbrook (actress)
45 - Wes Ramsey (actor)
45 - Melinda Doolittle (singer)
46 - Brett Gelman (actor)
48 - Jeremy Sisto (actor)
51 - Lamman Rucker (actor)
51 - Emily Mortimer (actress)
52 - Amy Jo Johnson (actress)
56 - Tim Rushlow (singer)
56 - Jacqueline Obradors (actress)
58 - Matthew Sweet (singer)
59 - Elisabeth Shue (actress)
67 - Tony Dungy (football coach/broadcaster)
71 - Kevin Cronin (singer)
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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 defeats Lincoln High 8-0 in an exhibition game.
1899 - Cockeye State defeats Nebraska 33-0.
1900 - Nebraska plays a team of alumni players to a 0-0 tie in an exhibition game.
1906 - Nebraska defeats South Dakota 4-0.
1911 - Cy Young pitches his his final career game, a loss to the Brooklyn Dodgers in what was his 906th career appearance.
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.
1926 - Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees becomes the first player in MLB history to hit three home runs in a World Series game.
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 - Minnesota defeats Nebraska 61-7.
1945 - Tavern owner "Billy Goat" Sianis buys a seat for his goat for Game 4 of the World Series; he and his goat are escorted out of Wrigley Field and he casts his "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 via 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 of the New York Islanders recorded his 25th career hat trick.
1984 - #8 Nebraska defeats #9 Oklahoma State 17-3.
1985 - Phil Niekro of the New York Yankees becomes the 18th pitcher in MLB history to record 300 career wins, and, at age 46, becomes the oldest to ever pitch a shutout in an 8-0 win over the Toronto Blue Jays.
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 with the Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan announces his retirement to pursue a professional baseball career. (Jordan would return to the NBA on March 18, 1995 and would lead the Bulls to three more titles.)
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 NFL record with his 373rd career field goal.
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 of the NLDS, a 4-0 win over the Cincinnati Reds.
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.
