Once Upon A Time – October 6 – 1882 – 1st World Series Baseball Game Holds In Cincinnati, U.S.A

1917 Battle of Passchendaele: Canadian troops capture the village of Passchendaele in the Third Battle of Ypres, after 250,000 casualties on both sides.

1939 Adolf Hitler announced his intention to solve the Jewish problem

1948 Ashgabat earthquake kills 100,000 in Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic

1949 US President Harry Truman signs the Mutual Defense Assistance Act (to NATO)

1951 Joseph Stalin announced that the Soviet Union had an atomic bomb

1956 Scientist Albert Sabin announces that his oral polio vaccine is ready for testing; it will soon replace Jonas Salk’s vaccine in many areas of the world

1882 1st World Series Baseball Game Holds In Cincinnati, U.S.A