Historical Events for 6th October 2023

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1683 - 13 Mennonite families from Germany found Germantown, Philadelphia
1917 - Battle of Passchendaele: Canadian troops capture the village of Passchendaele in the Third Battle of Ypres, after 250,000 casualties on both sides
1925 - Greek premier Papanastasiou orders gen Pangulos arrested
1948 - Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey finds the first partial fossil skull of Proconsul africanus, an ancestor of apes and humans on Rusinga Island, Kenya
1958 - US nuclear sub USS Seawolf remains a record 60 days under the north pole
1978 - Terrence Malick's "Days of Heaven" film premieres starring Richard Gere
1988 - Oakland A's sweep Boston Red Sox in 4 games for AL pennant
1996 - Lois and Clark (fictional characters) wed
2002 - Pope John Paul II canonizes Opus Dei founder Josemaría Escrivá as a Catholic saint
2015 - Nobel prize for Physics awarded to Takaaki Kajita (Japan) and Arthur McDonald (Canada) for work on neutrinos

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