CoM Moderators Posted October 6 Posted October 6 Historical Events 1683 - 13 Mennonite families from Germany found Germantown, Philadelphia 1912 - Pirates' Owen "Chief" Wilson hits a record 36th triple of the season 1961 - USSR performs nuclear tests at Kapustin Yar and Novaya Zemlya, USSR 1969 - MLB American League Championship: Baltimore Orioles beat Minnesota Twins, 3 games to 0 1978 - Iraq declares Ayatollah Khomeini an undesirable person More Historical Events » Famous Birthdays 1706 - Pieter Steyn, Dutch grand pensionary (1749-72), born in Haarlem, Netherlands (d. 1772) 1926 - Cyril Reuben, Welsh classical and session violinist (London Symphony), born in Splott, Cardiff, Wales (d. 1996) 1936 - Anna Quayle, British actress (A Hard Day's Night, Stop the World - I want to Get Off), born in Birmingham, England (d. 2019) 1960 - Richard Jobson, Scottish filmmaker (New Town Killers), art-punk rock singer-songwriter (Skids - "Scared to Dance"), and TV presenter, born in Kirkcaldy, Scotland 1986 - Olivia Thirlby, American actress (Juno, Dredd), born in New York City More Famous Birthdays » Famous Deaths 1979 - Elizabeth Bishop, American poet (North and South, Pulitzer Prize 1956), dies of a cerebral aneurysm at 68 1981 - Anwar Sadat, 3rd President of Egypt (1970-81, Nobel 1978), assassinated by fundamentalist army officers at 62 1999 - Patrick Reilly, British diplomat, ambassador to Paris and Moscow who stopped double agent Kim Philby becoming head of the UK Secret Service, dies at 90 2006 - Puck Brouwer, Dutch athlete (b. 1930) 2009 - Douglas Campbell, Scottish born Canadian actor (b. 1922) More Famous Deaths »
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