6th October anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1908
  • "Birth of Carole Lombard, American actress ."
• event
  • 1769
  • Captain James Cook arrives in New Zealand
  • 1883
  • The Orient Express completed its first run from Paris to Constantinople (now Istanbul).
  • 1884
  • "The US Navys Naval War College was founded in Newport, Rhode Island"
  • 1889
  • Moulin Rouge cabaret opens in Paris
  • 1908
  • Austria annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina .
  • 1949
  • "Tokyo Rose (Iva Toguri dAquino) was found guilty of treason and sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined $10,000. She broadcast Japanese propaganda to American troops in the Pacific during World War II"
  • 1973
  • Yom Kippur War precipitates world oil crisis
  • 1978
  • "London Underground’s first female train driver, Hannah Dadds, started work."
  • 1979
  • Pope John Paul II became the first pope to visit the White House
  • 1985
  • Broadwater Farm Riots
• Death
  • 1661
  • India
  • Death of the Sikh Seventh Master Guru Har Rai. more
  • 1892
  • Great Britain
  • "Alfred Lord Tennyson dies, aged 83, at his house Aldworth, near Haslemere "
  • 1989
  • "Death of Bette Davis, award-winning American stage, film and TV actress (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, All About Eve, and many others)"