Major Events
- 1917 Third Battle of Ypres: Canadian troops recapture the high ground in the village of Passchendaele from the Germans in West Flanders, Belgium, during World War I; over 200,000 casualties occur on each side, and 24,000 German prisoners are taken
- 1948 Earthquake in Ashgabat kills 100,000 in Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic
- 1948 Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey finds the first partial fossil skull of Proconsul africanus, an ancestor of apes and humans, on Rusinga Island, Kenya
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- 1882 First World Series Baseball Game 1: Cincinnati Red Stockings (AA) beat Chicago White Stockings (NL) 4-0 at Bank Street Grounds, Cincinnati
- 2023 American Simone Biles wins all-around gold at the World Championships in Antwerp, Belgium, becoming the most decorated gymnast with 34 World and Olympic medals [1]
Did You Know?
51 Pegasi is discovered as the first major star, apart from the Sun, to have a planet orbiting it
Fun Fact About October 6
Tavern owner “Billy Goat” Sianis buys a seat for his goat for Game 4 of the Baseball World Series, is escorted out, and casts a goat curse on the Chicago Cubs
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