Today In History - October 6

891 Cardinal-Bishop Formosus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1683 Thirteen German families arrive in present day Philadelphia
1781 The Americans and French begin the siege of Cornwallis at Yorktown, the last battle of the Revolutionary War
1863 Dr. Charles H Sheppard opens the first public bath
1866 The first train robbery in US
1876 The American Library Association is organized in Philadelphia
1884 The Naval War College is established in Newport RI
1889 Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture
1890 The Mormon Church outlaws polygamy
1908 Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina
1923 USSR adopts an experimental calendar
1926 Babe Ruth hits 3 home runs in a world series game
1927 "Jazz Singer," the first movie with a sound track, premieres in New York City
1928 Chiang Kai-Shek becomes the president of China
1935 The Market Street Railway starts using trackless trolley coaches
1939 Hitler announces he has no attention of war with Britain and France
1949 Iva Toguri D'Aquino (aka "Tokyo Rose") is sentenced to 10 years in prison and $10,000 fine
1949 President Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act
1963 Barbra Streisand appears on "The Judy Garland Show"
1965 The Supremes release "I Hear a Symphony"
1967 Haight-Ashbury hippies throw a funeral to mark the end of hippies
1972 22-car train carrying 2,000 pilgrims derails and kills 208 people in Mexico
1973 Yom Kippur War begins as Syria and Egypt attack Israel
1976 John Hathaway completes a bicycle tour of every continent in the world: cycling 50,600 miles
1979 Pope John Paul II becomes the first Pope to visit the White House
1989 Bette Davis dies at 81
1990 The US 67th manned space mission launches into orbit
1991 Elizabeth Taylor marries for the eighth time: Larry Fortensky

1820 Jenny Lind
1824 Henry Chadwick
1831 Richard Dedekind
1846 George Westinghouse
1849 Sir Basil Zaharoff (aka "merchant of death")
1884 Lloyd Spooner
1887 Le Corbusier
1895 Caroline Gordon
1897 Jerome Cowan
1905 Helen N. Moody
1906 Janet Gaynor
1909 Carol Lombard
1914 Thor Heyerdahl
1925 Shana Alexander
1926 Alan Copeland
1927 Paul Badura-Skoda
1930 Hafez al Assad
1936 Anna Quayle
1940 Ellen Travolta
1942 Britt Ekland
1942 Fred Travalena
1943 Michael Durrell
1946 Gary Gentry
1960 Jeffrey Trachta
1960 Richard Jobson