1600 Jacopo Peri and Giulio Caccini's early opera Euridice was staged at Florence's Pitti Palace on October 6, 1600 in honor of the marriage between of Maria de Medici and Henry IV of France. The work was played by a small group of strings and flutes and was nearly all recitative, but nonetheless made a grand impression. At the time of its premiere Euridice was considered revolutionary, and its success established opera as an art form of its own.
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| Peri Euridice Prologo |
1636 When the English scholar William Tyndale translated the Bible into English, he had to do so in continental Europe. His Bible was smuggled back into Britain, where the common people flocked to hear the humor, violence and suspense of the Biblical stories. In 1535 Tyndale was arrested near Brussels under the orders of the Holy Roman Emperor. On October 6, 1536 Tyndale was strangled then burnt at the stake in Vilvoord. "Lord open the eyes of the King of England" were his last words.
1683 Nederlanders and Germans fleeing religious persecution began settling in the colony of Pennsylvania at the invitation of William Penn. Fifty-four German Quaker, and Mennonite immigrant families founded Germantown in the colony of Pennsylvania on October 6, 1683, marking the first major immigration of German people to America.
1723 At the age of 17, Benjamin Franklin ran away from his New England home to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, seeking a new start in a new city, He arrived there on October 6, 1723 and got a job working for a printing house. After a few months, Franklin was convinced by Pennsylvania Governor Sir William Keith to go to London to acquire the equipment necessary for establishing his own printing business. Franklin worked there for two years as a typesetter in a printer's shop before returning to Philadelphia.
1762 The Battle of Manila during the Seven Years War between Great Britain and Spain in and around Manila concluded on October 6, 1762 with a British victory, leading to a short British occupation of the Philippine city.
1723 At the age of 17, Benjamin Franklin ran away from his New England home to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, seeking a new start in a new city, He arrived there on October 6, 1723 and got a job working for a printing house. After a few months, Franklin was convinced by Pennsylvania Governor Sir William Keith to go to London to acquire the equipment necessary for establishing his own printing business. Franklin worked there for two years as a typesetter in a printer's shop before returning to Philadelphia.
1762 The Battle of Manila during the Seven Years War between Great Britain and Spain in and around Manila concluded on October 6, 1762 with a British victory, leading to a short British occupation of the Philippine city.
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| Map of the British Conquest of Manila in 1762 |
1769 On October 6, 1769 Lieutenant James Cook sighted New Zealand for the first time, and landed at Poverty Bay two days later. thus setting the way for the colonization of the country. The Maori name for New Zealand is Aotearoa (land of the long white cloud'). It is unknown whether Māori had a name for the whole country before the arrival of Europeans (Aotearoa originally referred to just the North Island.) Cook made the first recorded circumnavigation of the two islands four years later.
1820 The Swedish songbird Johanna Maria “Jenny” Lind was born in Stockholm on October 6, 1820, the illegitimate daughter of Niclas Jonas Lind, a bookkeeper, and Anne-Marie Fellborg, a schoolteacher. When Lind was about nine years old, her singing was overheard by the maid of Mademoiselle Lundberg, the principal dancer at the Royal Swedish Opera. An audition was arranged and she was accepted into the acting school of Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theatre.
1848 If one wanted to make the trip from the U.S. East Coast to the West Coast by steamboat, one needed to be prepared for a long journey. The SS California's first voyage left New York Harbor on October 6, 1848, making the trip to San Francisco, California via Cape Horn in four months, 21 days.
1888 French aviator Roland Garros was born on October 6, 1888. He started his aviation career in 1909 flying a Demoiselle (Dragonfly) monoplane, an aircraft that only flew well with a small lightweight pilot. In September 1913, Garros became the first person to fly a plane across the Mediterranean (from St. Raphael, France to Bizerte, Tunisia). During World War I, Garros achieved the first ever shooting-down of an aircraft by a fighter firing through a tractor propeller.
1889 The Moulin Rouge, meaning "Red Mill" in French, is a famous cabaret venue located in the Pigalle district of Paris. It opened its doors on October 6, 1889, and it has since become one of the most iconic and renowned cabarets in the world. The Moulin Rouge is known for its extravagant shows, including the can-can dance, which it popularized and is often considered the birthplace of the modern form of this lively and high-energy dance.
1892 Alfred Tennyson continued writing poetry into his eighties. He died on October 6, 1892 at Aldworth, aged 83, with his hand resting on a copy of his hero Shakespeare's Cymbeline. His last words were, "Oh that press will have me now!" Lord Alfred Tennyson's death was widely mourned, and he was buried at Westminster Abbey.
1910 Born in Crete, Eleftherios Venizelos came to prominence in the Cretan movement against Turkish rule, aiming at union with Greece. Venizelos was elected Prime Minister of Greece on October 6, 1910, a title he'd hold for six more terms. He had such profound influence on the internal and external affairs of his country that Venizelos is credited with being "the maker of modern Greece."
1919 The world’s oldest existing airline, KLM of the Netherlands was established on October 6, 1919. The first KLM flight took place on May 17, 1920 when KLM's first pilot, Jerry Shaw, flew from Croydon Airport, London, to Amsterdam. On board were two journalists, a letter from the Mayor of London to his Amsterdam counterpart, and a stack of newspapers.
1927 The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie, opened on October 6, 1927. There were only two talking sequences, during which 354 words were spoken. The film’s star, Al Jolson, said 340 of them. One of his lines was the famous: "You ain’t heard nothing yet."
1928 The young George Orwell spent five years in Burma as an officer in the Indian Imperial Police fighting crime in the jungle. He quit in 1927 to become a writer after suffering a bout of dengue fever.
His first article as a professional writer, "La Censure en Angleterre", appeared in Monde, a political/literary journal edited by Henri Barbusse, on October 6, 1928.
1952 The Mousetrap had its premiere at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham, on October 6, 1952. The Agatha Christie play began its run in London the following month at the Ambassadors Theatre. The longest-running West End show, it celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2002 and its 27,500th performance taking place in September 2018. The audience are traditionally asked not to reveal its twist ending after leaving the theatre.
1820 The Swedish songbird Johanna Maria “Jenny” Lind was born in Stockholm on October 6, 1820, the illegitimate daughter of Niclas Jonas Lind, a bookkeeper, and Anne-Marie Fellborg, a schoolteacher. When Lind was about nine years old, her singing was overheard by the maid of Mademoiselle Lundberg, the principal dancer at the Royal Swedish Opera. An audition was arranged and she was accepted into the acting school of Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theatre.
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| Lind as Amina in La sonnambula in the 1840s |
1848 If one wanted to make the trip from the U.S. East Coast to the West Coast by steamboat, one needed to be prepared for a long journey. The SS California's first voyage left New York Harbor on October 6, 1848, making the trip to San Francisco, California via Cape Horn in four months, 21 days.
1888 French aviator Roland Garros was born on October 6, 1888. He started his aviation career in 1909 flying a Demoiselle (Dragonfly) monoplane, an aircraft that only flew well with a small lightweight pilot. In September 1913, Garros became the first person to fly a plane across the Mediterranean (from St. Raphael, France to Bizerte, Tunisia). During World War I, Garros achieved the first ever shooting-down of an aircraft by a fighter firing through a tractor propeller.
1889 The Moulin Rouge, meaning "Red Mill" in French, is a famous cabaret venue located in the Pigalle district of Paris. It opened its doors on October 6, 1889, and it has since become one of the most iconic and renowned cabarets in the world. The Moulin Rouge is known for its extravagant shows, including the can-can dance, which it popularized and is often considered the birthplace of the modern form of this lively and high-energy dance.
1892 Alfred Tennyson continued writing poetry into his eighties. He died on October 6, 1892 at Aldworth, aged 83, with his hand resting on a copy of his hero Shakespeare's Cymbeline. His last words were, "Oh that press will have me now!" Lord Alfred Tennyson's death was widely mourned, and he was buried at Westminster Abbey.
1910 Born in Crete, Eleftherios Venizelos came to prominence in the Cretan movement against Turkish rule, aiming at union with Greece. Venizelos was elected Prime Minister of Greece on October 6, 1910, a title he'd hold for six more terms. He had such profound influence on the internal and external affairs of his country that Venizelos is credited with being "the maker of modern Greece."
1919 The world’s oldest existing airline, KLM of the Netherlands was established on October 6, 1919. The first KLM flight took place on May 17, 1920 when KLM's first pilot, Jerry Shaw, flew from Croydon Airport, London, to Amsterdam. On board were two journalists, a letter from the Mayor of London to his Amsterdam counterpart, and a stack of newspapers.
1927 The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie, opened on October 6, 1927. There were only two talking sequences, during which 354 words were spoken. The film’s star, Al Jolson, said 340 of them. One of his lines was the famous: "You ain’t heard nothing yet."
1928 The young George Orwell spent five years in Burma as an officer in the Indian Imperial Police fighting crime in the jungle. He quit in 1927 to become a writer after suffering a bout of dengue fever.
His first article as a professional writer, "La Censure en Angleterre", appeared in Monde, a political/literary journal edited by Henri Barbusse, on October 6, 1928.
1952 The Mousetrap had its premiere at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham, on October 6, 1952. The Agatha Christie play began its run in London the following month at the Ambassadors Theatre. The longest-running West End show, it celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2002 and its 27,500th performance taking place in September 2018. The audience are traditionally asked not to reveal its twist ending after leaving the theatre.
1968 The flag of Swaziland was adopted on October 6, 1968 after the country gained independence from the UK on September 6, 1968. Its design is based on a flag given by King Sobhuza II to the Swazi Pioneer Corps in 1941.
1973 The 1973 Yom Kippur War began, as the name suggests, on the Jewish High Holy Day (October 6, 1973). A coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack, assuming that the Israeli army's defenses would be down. They made quick gains in the disputed Palestinian regions but within a couple of days Israel launched smashing counter-attacks that negated Arab progress.
1979 Pope Saint John Paul II, born Karol Józef Wojtyła, was one of the most widely traveled world leaders in history during his papacy. He served as Pope from 1978 until his passing in 2005, totaling 27 years as the leader of the Roman Catholic Church. On October 6, 1979, Pope John Paul II made a historic visit to the White House, marking the first time a Pope had visited the official residence of the President of the United States.
1981 Muhammad Anwar el-Sadat was the third President of Egypt, serving from 1970 until his fatal shooting by fundamentalist army officers on October 6, 1981. Bill Foley's photograph "The Last Smile" shows Anwar Sadat only moments before his assassination.
1989 The American actress Bette Davis died on October 6, 1989, of metastasized breast cancer, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France. She was interred in Forest Lawn—Hollywood Hills Cemetery in Los Angeles. On her tombstone is written: "She did it the hard way," an epitaph that she mentioned in her memoir Mother Goddam as having been suggested to her by Joseph L. Mankiewicz shortly after they had filmed All About Eve.
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| Bette Davis as Margo Channing in All about Eve |
1990 Garth Brooks became the 65th member of the Grand Ole Opry on October 6, 1990, just 18 months after his debut album was released. Brooks' second album, No Fences, released five weeks earlier reigned for 23 weeks at #1 on the Billboard Country music chart and eventually became his highest-selling album.
1993 Michael Jordan retired from pro basketball on October 6, 1993, because he did not "have anything else to prove." In 1994 he signed on to play for a minor league baseball team in the Chicago White Sox's system, the Birmingham Barons. However, Jordan hit only one home run during his whole baseball career. After one season playing baseball, Jordan announced that he would return to the NBA with a two word announcement: "I'm back" He retired for the final time in 2003.
1995 The first confirmed discovery of an extrasolar planet orbiting a major star occurred on October 6, 1995, when Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz of the University of Geneva announced the detection of an exoplanet around 51 Pegasi. There are an estimated 17 billion Earth-sized planets in the Milky Way, based on data from Nasa’s Kepler telescope.
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| Artist impression of the exoplanet 51 Pegasi b |
2007 On July 12, 1994 English adventurer Jason Lewis set off to complete the world's first human-powered circumnavigation of the Earth. He successfully ended his 4,833-day expedition on October 6, 2007, having traveled 46,505 miles (74,842 kilometers).
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