October 6 - What happened today?

Home What happened today in history? Blamepro's Almanac for October 6
In the headlines today:

2003	Petroleum giant ConocoPhillips announces the sale of its Circle K convenience stores to Canada's Alimentation Couche-Tard, Inc for $821 million.
2002	Prince Claus of the Netherlands, husband of Queen Beatrix, dies at age 76 in Amsterdam.
1999	Houston is awarded a franchise by the NFL, while Los Angeles is left out.
1997	American biology professor Stanley B. Prusiner wins the Nobel Prize for medicine for his discovery of the infectious, virus-like proteins known as "prions."
1995	Boeing workers begin a 69-day strike to protest the company's union contract offer.
1991	Elizabeth Taylor marries husband #8, construction worker Larry Fortensky, at Michael Jackson's California home.
1990	Country singer-guitarist Garth Brooks joins the Grand Ole Opry.
1989	Actress Bette Davis dies in France at age 81.
1981	Egyptian President Anwar Sadat is assassinated while reviewing troops on parade.
1979	Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to visit the White House. (photo credit: NARA)
1951	Soviet leader Josef Stalin announces that Russia has its own atomic bomb. (photo credit: NARA)
1927	Al Jolson stars in the premiere of the first talking motion picture, The Jazz Singer.
1892	Poet Lord Tennyson Alfred dies in Surrey, England at age 91.
1884	The Naval War College is established in Newport, RI.
1536	English priest William Tyndale is burned at stake for translating portions of the Bible from Latin into English.