October 6th

Roy Halladay pitched the second no-hitter in postseason history, leading the Philadelphia Phillies over the Cincinnati Reds 4-0 in Game 1 of the NL division series..

The Dow Jones industrial average closed below 10,000 for the first time since 2004.

First successful human powered attempt to circumnavigate the world. Englishman Jason Lewis set out on the journey, also called Expedition 360 on July 12, 1994, from Greenwich, London. The over 46,000-mile expedition around the world took him 4,833 days, during which he used only human-powered modes of transportation including bicycles, roller blades, and a pedal powered boat.

The top U.S. arms inspector in Iraq, Charles Duelfer, reported finding no evidence Saddam Hussein's regime had produced weapons of mass destruction after 1991.

51 Pegasi discovered as the first major star, apart from the Sun, to have a planet orbiting around it.

Bette Davis died in France at age 81.

The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 9-5 against the nomination of Robert H. Bork to the Supreme Court.

Egypt's President Anwar Sadat was assassinated in Cairo.

Pope John Paul II became the first pontiff to visit the White House, where he was received by President Jimmy Carter.

In a debate with Democratic candidate Jimmy Carter, President Gerald R. Ford asserted there was "no Soviet domination of eastern Europe." Ford later conceded that he had misspoken.

Egypt and Syria attacked Israel during the Yom Kippur holiday.

Dr Albert Sabin discovers oral polio vaccine.

Stalin proclaims USSR has atomic bomb.

Japanese-American broadcaster, Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose), was sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined $10,000 for treason.

Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey finds the first partial fossil skull of Proconsul africanus, an ancestor of apes and humans on Rusinga Island, Kenya.

Hitler announces plans to regulate Jewish problem.

The era of talking pictures arrived with the opening of "The Jazz Singer" starring Al Jolson.

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

Bosnian crisis. Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary declared the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which had been nominally under the rule of the Ottoman Empire. The takeover raised tensions within the Balkan region in Europe and threatened to end in a war.

The Moulin Rouge cabaret opened in Paris.

The Naval War College was established in Newport, R.I.