October 6
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1857 - The first American Chess Congress opened in New York. The tournament was sponsored by the New York Chess Club.1863 - The first Turkish bath was opened in Brooklyn, NY. Dr. Charles Shepard was the proprietor.
1889 - The Moulin Rouge in Paris first opened its doors to the public.
1893 - Cream of Wheat was first whipped up by Emery Mapes, George Bull, George Clifford, and Tom Amidon in Grand Forks, ND.
1927 - “Mammy, how I love you, how I love you, my dear old mammy!” It was Al Jolson in blackface, singing in the first, full-length, talking picture, "The Jazz Singer", as it opened in New York City. In reality, The Jazz Singer was not a true talkie. There were only 291 spoken words in the landmark film; however, it was the first to integrate sound and this small amount of dialogue into a story through the Vitaphone disk process; and the first to entertain a large audience.
1937 - Radio’s Hobby Lobby debuted on CBS. The host was the dean of American hobbyists, Dave Elman. The show’s theme was The Best Things in Life are Free. Sponsors included Fels Naptha soap, Hudson paper products and Colgate Dental Creme.
1941 - Claude Thornhill and his orchestra recorded Autumn Nocturne on Columbia Records.
1943 - The World War II Battle of Vella Lavella began in the Solomon Islands.
1948 - Tennessee Williams introduced audiences to Summer and Smoke when the curtain rose on Broadway this night.
1949 - American-born Iva Toguri (D’Aquino), convicted of being Japanese wartime broadcaster ‘Tokyo Rose’, was sentenced in San Francisco to ten years in prison and fined $10,000 for her war crimes. She had broadcast music and Japanese propaganda to American troops in the Pacific during World War II. (D’Aquino was pardoned by President Gerald Ford in 1977.)
1956 - Dr. Albert Sabin discovered an oral polio vaccine. It was put into use in 1961 and by 1965 was widely used.
1958 - The nuclear submarine USS Seawolf surfaced after being continuously submerged for 60 days
1960 - Steve Lawrence and partner, Eydie Gorme, starred at the new Lotus Club in Washington, DC. It was their first appearance together on stage.
1962 - Robert Goulet stepped out of the role of Sir Lancelot after singing/acting the part since 1960. The fabulously successful Broadway musical, Camelot, also starred Richard Burton as King Arthur and Julie Andrews as Queen Guenevere.
1966 - The Baltimore Oriole’s Jim Palmer became the youngest pitcher (20 years, 11 months) to win a complete-game, World-Series shutout. He defeated Sandy Koufax and the Dodgers in Game Two of the 1966 Series.
1973 - War erupted in the Middle East. Egypt and Syria attacked Israel during the Yom Kippur holiday.
1976 - In his second debate with Jimmy Carter, U.S. President Gerald R. Ford asserted there was “No Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.” Ford later conceded that he had misspoken.
1978 - Ayatollah Khomeini, Iranian religious leader opposed to the Shah of Iran, was granted asylum in France after being expelled from Iran.
1981 - Nobel Peace Prize-winner Anwar el-Sadat, the President of Egypt, was assassinated. Sadat was reviewing a military parade when the attack was staged by Islamic fundamentalists.
1983 - Cardinal Terence Cooke, the spiritual head of the Archdiocese of New York, died at age 62.
1989 - Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrived in East Berlin to participate in celebrations marking the 40th anniversary of the establishment of the German Democratic Republic. The event was marked by the emigration of thousands of refugees to the West.
1989 - Academy Award-winning Actress Bette Davis (Dangerous [1935], Jezebel [1938]), died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. She was 81 years old. Davis won those two Academy Awards, but was nominated for an Oscar nine other times.
1991 - Elizabeth Taylor was married -- for the 8th time -- to construction worker Larry Fortensky. The wedding took place at Michael Jackson’s estate in California amidst a flurry of paparazzi.
1991 - University of Oklahoma professor Anita F. Hill, former aide to U.S. Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, testified before a Senate committee that Thomas sexually harassed her, and the allegations nearly undid Thomas’ nomination to the High Court.
1993 - Dancer, choreographer Agnes de Mille died. She was 88 years old. Her most famous films were Rodeo (1942), Oklahoma! (1943), Carousel (1945), Brigadoon (1947), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1949) and Paint Your Wagon (1951). She founded the Agnes de Mille Theater in 1953.
1994 - In an address to a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress, South African President Nelson Mandela warned against the lure of isolationism, saying the U.S. post-Cold War focus should be on eliminating “tyranny, instability and poverty” across the globe.
1995 - Assassins opened in the U.S. The action, mystery, thriller stars Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Banderas and Julianne Moore.
1996 - The Czech film Kolya, directed by Jan Sverak, won the grand prize at the Tokyo International Film Festival. A special jury prize went to the Polish film Cwal (At Full Gallop), from Krzysztof Zanussi, and to the Spanish film Libertarias, from Vicente Aranda.
1997 - The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for 1997 was awarded to American biology professor Stanley B. Prusiner “for his discovery of Prions - a new biological principle of infection”.
1998 - Imelda Marcos was acquitted by the Philippine Supreme Court on charges of corruption, for which she had been sentenced in 1993 to at least nine years in jail.
1999 - Heavy rains sent swollen rivers raging through the streets of the Gulf coast city of Villahermosa, Mexico. The torrent caused mudslides, killing dozens of people.
2000 - Get Carter, starring Sylvester Stallone, Miranda Richardson, Michael Caine and Mickey Rourke opened in U.S. theatres. And Meet the Parents, with Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Teri Polo and Blythe Danner, also debuted this day. Get Carter did about $15,000,000 at the box office, while Meet the Parents raked in over $166,000,000.
2000 - Also debuting in the U.S.: Tigerland, with Colin Farrell, Matthew Davis, Clifton Collins Jr., Thomas Guiry, Shea Whigham, Russell Richardson And Cole Hauser.
2001 - Cal Ripken Jr. played his last game in the major leagues as his Baltimore Orioles lost to the visiting Boston Red Sox 5-1.
2002 - Pope John Paul II canonized Josemaria Escriva de Balaguer, the Spanish priest who founded the conservative Catholic organization Opus Dei. His sainthood came only 27 years after his death.
2003 - The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to Paul C. Lauterbur of the University of Illinois, and Sir Peter Mansfield of the University of Nottingham, for their work that led to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
2004 - American Irwin Rose and Israelis Aaron Ciechanover and Avram Hershko won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering a key to the way cells destroy unwanted proteins.
2004 - Sirius Satellite Radio announced plans to spend $500 million to sign shock jock Howard Stern for five years beginning in 2006.
2004 - Oil’s record-breaking rally lifted U.S. crude beyond US$52 a barrel on this day. Light crude oil for November closed in New York City at a record $52.02 per barrel. Ah, those were the days...
2005 - The European Court of Human Rights ruled that the United Kingdom’s ban on voting rights for prisoners was unlawful.
2006 - John Jordan ‘Buck’ O’Neil, baseball’s charismatic Negro Leagues ambassador, died at a Kansas City, Missouri-area hospital. He was 94 years old.
2007 - 40-year-old British adventurer Jason Lewis completed a 13-year trip around the world, powered by only his arms and legs. Lewis crossed the Atlantic and Pacific oceans in a wooden pedal boat; roller bladed across North America; kayaked from Australia to Singapore; biked from Singapore to the Himalayas, etc. etc. etc.
2008 - The U.S. Supreme Court declined a patent infringement case appeal from Dish Network, forcing the company to pay TiVo $104 million.
2008 - Stock markets around the world declined on fears that the global financial crises would worsen. The DJIA ended down 369.88 to close at 9555.50. The week came to be known as Black Week, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average closing lower 5 out of 5 sessions.
2009 - New movies in U.S. theatres: Dark Country, starring Ron Perlman, Thomas Jane, Chris Browning, Aynn Kirby, Rene Mousseux, Con Schell, Jonathan Lund and Nikki Kelly;" It’s Alive, with Bijou Phillips, James Murray, Skye Bennett, Raphaël Coleman and Arkie Reece; and Offspring, starring Art Hindle, Pollyanna McIntosh, Tommy Nelson, Spencer List and Eric Kastel.
2009 - Charles K. Kao, Willard S. Boyle and George E. Smith shared the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work developing fiber-optic cable and the sensor at the heart of digital cameras.
2009 - NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) reported that the Spitzer Space Telescope had discovered the biggest, but never-before-seen, ring around the planet Saturn. The diffuse ring does not reflect much visible light and is so huge it would take a billion Earths to fill it.
2010 - Three scientists -- two Japanese an American -- won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their findings of new ways to bond carbon atoms together. The methods are now widely used to make medicines and in agriculture and electronics. Ei-ichi Negishi, Akira Suzuki and Richard Heck were honored for their development in the 1960s and 1070s of one of the most sophisticated tools available to chemists today, called palladium-catalyzed cross coupling.
2010 - The American Civil Liberties Union filed suit on behalf of Prison Legal News against a county jail in Moncks Corner, South Carolina, over its policy barring inmates from having any reading material other than the Bible. Berkeley County Detention Center officials responded by claiming they only banned materials containing staples and any degree of nudity.
2011 - Doctors Without Borders announced that it was ending its operations in Thailand after 35 years. The humanitarian group could not reach an agreement with the Thai government on conditions under which it could provide medical care to illegal migrants.
2012 - Israel scrambled fighter jets to intercept a drone that crossed deep into Israeli airspace from the Mediterranean Sea. The fighters escorted the unmanned aircraft before bringing it down in the northern Negev area, which was largely uninhabited. Suspicion quickly fell on the Iranian-backed, Lebanese Islamic militant group Hezbollah.
2013 - The United Nations reported that inspectors had begun destroying Syria’s chemical weapons and the machinery used to create them. “Today is the first day of the phase of destruction and disabling. Verification will also continue,” said a U.N. official, who worked alongside inspectors. “The plan was that two types categories of materials would be destroyed: one is equipment for making (weapons) — filling and mixing equipment, some of it mobile, and some it static. The other is actual munitions.”
2014 - A U.S.-British scientist, John O’Keefe, and a Norwegian husband-and-wife research team, May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. They discovered the human brain’s navigation system — that helps us find our way in the world.
2014 - The U.S. Supreme Court refused to review cases in five states that had limited marriage to opposite sex couples. The refusal, in effect, granted equal marriage rights to gays and lesbians in Indiana, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin.
2015 - California Governor Jerry Brown signed SB358, a bill known as the Fair Pay Act. It closed loopholes in existing antidiscrimination statutes and barred employers from paying women less than men when they do substantially similar work.
2015 - Europe’s top court ruled that data stored on U.S. servers was potentially unsafe because of government spying. The European Court of Justice (ECJ) struck down the safe-harbor privacy pact between the European Union and U.S. It was originally signed in 2000 to bridge cultural and political differences regarding online privacy.
2016 - Hurricane Matthew, the most powerful hurricane to threaten the Atlantic Coast in more than a decade, battered the Bahamas with winds of up to 125 miles per hour. At least 27 deaths had been blamed on the storm at that point.
2016 - According to research conducted by Boxed.com, an online retailer that sells products in bulk, women were often charged a substantial premium on personal care items. The retailer announced that it was taking a stand against the “pink tax” by lowering the cost of feminine products to balance out the difference.
2017 - Movies opening in the U.S. this day included: Blade Runner 2049, starring Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling and Ana de Armas; The Mountain Between Us, starring Kate Winslet, Idris Elba and Dermot Mulroney; the animated My Little Pony: The Movie, featuring the voices of Emily Blunt, Kristin Chenoweth, Liev Schreiber, Michael Peña, Taye Diggs, Andrea Libman, Ashleigh Ball, Cathy Weseluck and Tara Strong; Bad Grandmas, starring Pam Grier, Judge Reinhold and Florence Henderson; Better Watch Out, with Patrick Warburton, Virginia Madsen and Dacre Montgomery; Generational Sins, starring Daniel MacPherson, Dax Spanogle and Barrett Donner; and The Stray, with Sarah Lancaster, Michael Cassidy and Connor Corum.
2017 - Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper company agreed to pay (substantial, undisclosed) damages to Ian Hurst, a former intelligence officer, whose computer was hacked in 2006 by detectives working for Murdoch’s News of the World tabloid.
2017 - The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the Geneva-based International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), a group of mostly young activists pushing for a global treaty to ban the cataclysmic bombs.
2018 - 20 people were killed in upstate New York, including two pedestrians, when a limo carrying 18 people to a birthday party crashed in Schoharie, some 170 miles north of New York City. Investigation of the crash revealed pre-existing problems with the limousine and the driver. Company operator Nauman Hussain was later charged with criminally negligent homicide.
2018 - Conservative judge Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court. The 50-48 vote in the Senate ended months of debate over Kavanaugh’s worthiness and, worthy or not, gave Donald Trump the biggest victory of his presidency.
2019 - North Korea said that it would not meet with the United States for more “sickening negotiations” unless the U.S. abandoned its “hostile policy” against the North. Details of what exactly happened during the meetings in Sweden were unclear, but the North Korean negotiator expressed his displeasure, stating that Washington came to the talks “empty-handed” despite Kim’s demand that it approach negotiations with a “new method of calculation.” At the same time, the U.S. State Department described the talks as “good discussions” that would allow negotiators to make progress in the coming months.
2019 - POTUS Trump announced his decision to pull back U.S. troops from northern Syria. The White House issued a late-night statement that it was effectively abandoning the Kurds who did most of the fighting alongside U.S. forces to drive Islamic State extremists from northern Syria. The main Kurdish-led group called the surprise U.S. move a “stab in the back.”
2020 - The Department of Homeland Security warned that violent white supremacy was the “most persistent and lethal threat in the homeland”. The warning was included in an annual assessment that a former intelligence chief had accused the agency of withholding in deference to Donald Trump.
2020 - Guitar player Eddie Van Halen died (cancer, age 65). Guitar World Magazine ranked Van Halen #1 on its list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time. See Rock legend Eddie Van Halen dies – rock world pays tribute.
2020 - Borough Park, a neighborhood in Brooklyn, erupted in protests after Governor Andrew Cuomo reinstated restrictions on houses of worship, schools and businesses in areas where coronavirus cases were spiking. Hundreds of Orthodox Jewish men gathered in the streets, in some cases setting bonfires by burning masks.
2021 - The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Benjamin List, a German chemist and director at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research in Mülheim an der Ruhr, and David W.C. MacMillan, a Scottish chemist and professor at Princeton University -- for their development of a new tool to build molecules, work that spurred advances in pharmaceutical research and lessened the impact of chemistry on the environment.
2021 - Amazon opened its first general store outside the United States. 4-star opened in a mall in Britain, selling the online retailer’s most popular products including books, toys, games and consumer electronics.
2021 - Police in Germany carried out large-scale raids in 25 cities, after a chance discovery put investigators on the trail of a money-laundering network that funneled millions in ill-gotten gains abroad. The police targeted 67 suspects, including 44 Syrians, 10 Germans, five Jordanians and four Lebanese. 11 people were arrested.
2022 - French writer Annie Ernaux was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Among her novels are A Man’s Place, A Woman’s Story and Years. (Since 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to a writer who “in the field of literature, produced the most outstanding work in an idealistic direction.”)
2022 - A former Proud Boys leader, Jeremy Bertino of North Carolina, pleaded guilty to plotting with other members of the far-right group to prevent the peaceful transfer of power to President Biden after his 2020 election victory over then-President Donald Trump. Bertino, 43, agreed to cooperate with the investigation into the extremist group’s role in the riot.
2022 - President Biden pardoned everyone convicted of ‘simple marijuana possession’ under federal law, as a first step toward broader marijuana reforms. The move affected about 6,500 people convicted on federal marijuana charges from 1992 to 2021, and thousands of others convicted in the District of Columbia. Biden urged governors to follow up by clearing the records of people convicted on state charges, and he instructed the attorney general and U.S. health secretary to review lowering marijuana from a Schedule I drug, on par with heroin, to a less illicit classification. “Too many lives have been upended because of our failed approach to marijuana,” Biden said. “It’s time that we right these wrongs.”
2023 - The Exorcist: Believer was set to open in U.S. theatres. The horror flick stars Ellen Burstyn, Jennifer Nettles, Ann Dowd and Leslie Odom Jr. The movie is the sixth installment in The Exorcist franchise, and is a sequel to the 1973 film about a 12-year-old girl who is possessed by a mysterious demonic entity, forcing her mother to seek the help of two priests to save her.
2023 - Simone Biles won the all-round gold at the World Championships in Antwerp, Belgium -- and became the most decorated gymnast ever with 34 world and Olympic medals.
2023 - Imprisoned Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for fighting the oppression of women in Iran.
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Birthdays on This Day October 6
1820 - Jenny (Johanna) Lind
‘The Swedish Nightingale’: singer; died Nov 2, 18871846 - George Westinghouse
inventor: railway braking systems; developer: alternating current [AC] electricity; founder: Westinghouse Electric Company; died March 12, 19141882 - Karol Szymanowski
Polish composer: King Roger, Harnasie, Salome, Penthesilea, Love-Songs of Hafiz, Litany of the Virgin, Myths, La fontaine d’Aréthuse, Masques, Metopes; died March 29, 19371887 - Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret)
architect: Chapel at Ronchamp, France, Philips Pavilion at Brussels World’s Fair, Carpenter Center for Visual Arts at Harvard; author: Towards a New Architecture, Urbanisme; publisher: L’Esprit Nouveau; died Aug 27, 19651897 - Jerome Cowan
actor: The West Point Story, Blondie Hits the Jackpot, June Bride, The Maltese Falcon, The Tycoon, The Tab Hunter Show, Not for Publication; died Jan 24, 19721897 - Florence Seibert
physician, scientist: developed process that removed all bacteria from water in a single distillation; perfected test used worldwide for tuberculosis; died Aug 23, 19911905 - Helen Wills Moody
International Tennis Hall of Famer: French Open [1928, 1929, 1930, 1932], Wimbledon [1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1932, 1933, 1935, 1938], U.S. Open [1923, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1931]; died Jan 1, 19981906 - Janet Gaynor (Laura Gainor)
first Academy Award-winning actress [1927-1928, 3 films]: Seventh Heaven, Street Angel, Sunrise; A Star is Born, The Young in Heart; died Sep 14, 19841908 - Carole Lombard (Jane Alice Peters)
actress: My Man Godfrey, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Made for Each Other; wife of actor Clark Gable; killed in plane crash Jan 16, 19421914 - Thor Heyerdahl
explorer, author: Kon Tiki; died Apr 18, 20021920 - H.R. ‘Bum’ Bright
tycoon: oil, real estate, ranching, banking, football team owner: Dallas Cowboys; died Dec 11, 20041925 - Shana Alexander (Ager)
journalist: 60 Minutes: Point Counterpoint; died June 23, 20051931 - Fred Graham
attorney, newscaster: CBS News court reporter/law correspondent, Court TV; died Dec 28, 20191932 - Anna Quayle
Tony Award-winning actress: Stop the World, I Want to Get Off [1963]; Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Mistress Pamela; died Aug 16, 20191935 - Bruno Sammartino
pro wrestler: longest-running champ of the World Wide Wrestling Federation [WWWF], held title across two reigns for over 12 years; longest World Heavyweight Championship reign in professional wrestling history; died Apr 18, 20181940 - Jerry Heller
music manager: Elton John, Pink Floyd, Journey, Marvin Gaye, Van Morrison, War, Eric Burdon, Crosby Stills and Nash, Ike & Tina Turner, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Otis Redding, The Who, REO Speedwagon, Black Sabbath, Humble Pie, Styx, The Grass Roots, The Standells; died Sep 2, 20161940 - Ellen Travolta
actress: Happy Days, Waitin’ to Live, Detour, The Basket, Circle of Violence: A Family Drama, Human Experiments, Are You in the House Alone?; sister of actor John Travolta1942 - Britt Ekland
actress: The Night They Raided Minsky’s, The Man with the Golden Gun, Cold Heat, The Children, Scandal1942 - Jerry Grote
baseball: catcher: Houston Colt .45’s, NY Mets [all-star: 1968, 1974/World Series: 1969, 1973], LA Dodgers World Series: 1977, 1978], KC Royals1942 - Fred Travalena
actor: ABC Comedy Hour, Keep on Truckin’; TV host: Baby Races; died Jun 28, 20091943 - Michael Durrell
actor: The Guiding Light, Beverly Hills, 90210, Barry Munday, Straight Flush, Menendez: A Killing in Beverly Hills, From the Dead of Night, Access Code, Bayou Romance1946 - Gene (Eugene Anthony) Clines
baseball: Pittsburgh Pirates [World Series: 1971], NY Mets, Texas Rangers, Chicago Cubs1946 - Gary (Edward) Gentry
baseball: pitcher: NY Mets [World Series: 1969], Atlanta Braves1946 - Millie Small (Smith)
singer: My Boy Lollipop; known as ‘The Blue Beat Girl’ in her native Jamaica1947 - Klaus Dibiasi
Olympic diver: high board gold medalist [1968, 1972, 1976], silver medalist [1964], springboard silver medalist [1968]1947 - Steve Kline
baseball: pitcher: NY Yankees, Cleveland Indians, Atlanta Braves; died Jun 4, 20181948 - Wendell Ladner
‘Mr. Excitement’: basketball: Southern Mississippi, Kentucky Colonel, NY Nets; died in plane crash in New York June 24, 19751949 - Bobby Farrell
singer: group: Boney M: Daddy Cool, Brown Girl in the Ring, Rivers of Babylon; died Dec 30, 20101949 - Leslie Moonves
TV executive: President and CEO of CBS Corporation [2003-2018]1950 - Thomas McClary
musician: guitar: group: The Commodores: Three Times a Lady, Still, Just to Be Close to You, Sweet Love, Easy1950 - Ken Payne
football: Green Bay Packers; died Aug 1, 20111951 - Kevin Cronin
singer: group: REO Speedwagon: Keep on Lovin’ You, Take It on the Run, Can’t Fight This Feeling1955 - Tony Dungy
football: NFL: Pittsburgh Steelers, San Francisco 49ers; coach: Tampa Bay Buccaneers [1996-2001], Indianapolis Colts [2002-2008; Super Bowl XLI]; TV: NBC football analyst; more1956 - Mike McLaughlin
NASCAR race car driver: six 1st-place finishes, 111 in top-ten1956 - Helmut Zierl
actor: Flight Into Hell, Der Vulkan, Tischlein deck dich, Wink des Himmels, Wie tauscht man seine Eltern um?, Florida Lady, Singles1959 - Dennis ‘Oil Can’ Boyd
baseball: pitcher: Boston Red Sox [World Series: 1986], Montreal Expos, Texas Rangers1959 - Barry Darsow
pro wrestler/actor: Wrestlemania IV, Summerslam, WWF Superstars of Wrestling, Royal Rumble, WCW Saturday Night, Raw is War, WWF Smackdown!1963 - Elisabeth Shue
actress: CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, The Trigger Effect, Leaving Las Vegas, Blind Justice, Heart and Souls, Back to the Future: Part 2 and Part 3, Cocktail, Adventures in Babysitting, The Karate Kid Call to Glory, The Boys1964 - Matthew Sweet
musician: guitar, singer, songwriter: Girlfriend1965 - Rubén (Angel) Sierra
baseball: Texas Rangers [all-star: 1989 1991, 1992, 1994], Oakland Athletics, NY Yankees, Detroit Tigers1966 - Jacqueline Obradors
actress: Six Days Seven Nights, A Man Apart, NYPD Blue, Tortilla Soup, Freddie, George Lopez, NCIS1968 - Bob May
golf pro: finished second on PGA Tour three times, including the playoff duel w/Tiger Woods at PGA Championship [2000], FedEx St. Jude Classic [2000], B.C. Open [2006]1970 - Amy Jo Johnson
actress: Flashpoint, Wildfire, The Division, Felicity, Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Susie Q, Killing Mr. Griffin, Perfect Body, Sweetwater, Magma: Volcanic Disaster, Covert Affairs1970 - Darren Oliver
baseball [pitcher]: Texas Rangers, St. Louis Cardinals, Boston Red Sox, Colorado Rockies, Houston Astros, Florida Marlins, Chicago Cubs1972 - Benji Gil
baseball: Texas Rangers, Anaheim Angels, New York Mets1973 - Ioan Gruffudd
actor: Forever, Fantastic Four, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, Mariah Mundi and the Midas Box, King Arthur, Amazing Grace, W., Ringer, Castle, Necessary Roughness1974 - Tebucky Jones
football: Univ of Syracuse; NFL: New England Patriots, New Orleans Saints, Miami Dolphins1974 - Jeremy Sisto
actor: Six Feet Under, Law & Order, Jesus, Clueless, Thirteen, Suburgatory, Kidnapped, The Nickel Children, The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things1977 - Lindsay Alcock
Canadian Olympic skeleton racer [competed since 1998]; silver medal in the women’s skeleton event at the 2004 FIBT World Championships in Königssee; won women’s Skeleton World Cup overall title in 2003-20041979 - Richard Seymour
football [defensive tackle]: Univ of Georgia; NFL: New England Patriots [2001–2008]: 3× Super Bowl champs [XXXVI: 2002], [XXXVIII: 2004], [XXXIX: 2005]); Oakland Raiders [2009–2012]1986 - Olivia Thirlby
actress: Juno, Good Vibes, The Darkest Hour, Breaking Upwards, Kidnapped, United 931989 - Chris Matthews
football [wide receiver]: NFL: Cleveland Browns [2011]; Seattle Seahawks [2014–2015]: 2015 Super Bowl XLIX; Baltimore Ravens [2015–2017]1990 - Scarlett Byrne Heffner
actress: Harry Potter film series, Falling, The Vampire Diaries, Runaways2000 - Addison Rae
songwriter, singer: Obsessed, AR, Von Dutch, Diet Pepsi; actress: He’s All That, Thanksgiving
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Hit Music on This Day October 6
1952You Belong to Me (facts) - Jo Stafford
Wish You Were Here (facts) - Eddie Fisher
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