Important Events From This day in History October 6th

 

1961 U.S.A. Build Bomb Shelters

1961 : President John F. Kennedy advises American families to build bomb shelters to protect them from atomic fallout in the event of a nuclear war. Many Americans did prepare for nuclear war by buying up canned goods and building backyard bomb shelters. Also at the time many home builders offered a bomb shelter as part of new home packages.

1926 U.S.A. Babe Ruth

1926 : Babe Ruth sets new record in World Series with three home runs and a 10-5 win over the Cardinals.

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1927 U.S.A. "The Jazz Singer"

1927 : The Jazz Singer premiered in New York bringing to a close the era of silent movies and the sound and music era begins.

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1933 Yugoslavia Balkans

1933 : In a meeting that would have been considered historic before changes, the Kings of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Romania are to meet to discuss problems in the Balkans.

1949 East Germany Created

1949 : The Soviet Union creates the Democratic Republic of Germany (East Germany) within the Soviet occupation zone.

1953 British Guiana Uprising

1953 : Naval and military forces are on their way to British Guiana in response to a threat to the administration of the British colony after the left-wing People's Progressive Party victory. British Guiana was granted independence in May 1966, when it changed the countries name to Guiana.

1955 U.S.A. Plane Crash

1955 : A United Airlines DC-4 crashed into a Wyoming mountain peak, killing all 66 people on board.

1966 U.S.A. Price Fixing

1966 : 15 manufacturers of bathroom fixtures are indicted for price fixing by violating the restraint-of-trade section of the Sherman Antitrust Act.

1966 U.S.A. LSD

1966 : The hallucinogenic drug LSD is declared illegal in the United States. LSD is a Schedule I drug making it illegal to manufacture, buy, possess, process or distribute LSD without a DEA license.

1968 Czechoslovakia Soviet Pull Out

1968 : The Czechoslovakia defense minister has announced after meeting the Soviet Union defense minister that most of the Soviet led occupation force in Czechoslovakia will be pulled out by the end of October.

1973 Israel Yom Kippur War

1973 : Egyptian and Syrian forces launch a coordinated attack against Israel on Yom Kippur, beginning the Yom Kippur War. They were hoping to gain back territory lost during the earlier Arab Israeli war in 1967.

1976 Thailand Rioting

October 6th, 1976 : The Thailand defense minister seized power today after fighting between leftist and rightist forces following the return of Thailand former military dictator caused mass rioting on the streets with a number of public hangings by rioters, in a press statement he said he took power to stop communist agitators from continuing the unrest, and marshal law will now be instituted to bring back law and order to the streets signalling the return to military rule.

1979 U.S.A. Pope John Paul II

1979 : Pope John Paul II visits the White House meeting the US President Carter and his family.

1981 Egypt Anwar Sadat Assassinated

1981 : President Anwar Sadat was assassinated while viewing a military parade in a Cairo suburb.

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1985 UK Rioting Broadwater Farm

1985 : Rioting continues at the Broadwater Farm housing estate in Tottenham, North London after the death of a local resident Cynthia Jarrett who died of heart failure after four policemen burst into her home during a raid. For the first time in the UK shots have been fired during a riot. The violence continued throughout the night between hundreds of black and white youths and 500 police with riot shields, helmets and truncheons. One Policeman was killed during a knifing incident and one officer has been shot and is seriously wounded.

1985 French Polynesia Greenpeace

October 6th, 1985 : Greenpeace are to take their new flagship which replaces the Rainbow Warrior blown up by French agents on July 10th in New Zealand to lead a number of other protesters to Mururoa Atoll, protesting against the French Nuclear testing in the South Pacific, a number of French warships are also patrolling the area.

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