The Goodyear-Zeppelin Airship Contract — Flying Aircraft Carriers
On October 6, 1928, the U.S. Navy awarded the Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation of Akron, Ohio, a landmark fixed-price contract of about $7.8 million to build two enormous rigid airships. Formed through ...
The Krefeld Emigrants: Founders of Germantown
On October 6, 1683, the ship Concord arrived in Philadelphia carrying thirteen immigrant families—about thirty-three people—from Krefeld in the Lower Rhine region of what is now Germany. Earlier that summer, ...
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Lt. Alford J. Williams — High-Speed Triumph at the Pulitzer Air Races
On October 6, 1923, Lieutenant Alford J. Williams of the United States Navy won the Pulitzer Trophy Race at St. Louis, Missouri, one of America’s premier aviation speed contests. Flying ...
USS Seawolf — A Record-Breaking Undersea Patrol
On October 6, 1958, the nuclear-powered submarine USS Seawolf surfaced about 15 miles south of Block Island after completing an extraordinary 60-day submerged voyage. Having gone beneath the surface on ...
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The SS California: An Epic Transit to the Gold Rush
On the evening of October 6, 1848, the pioneering U.S. steamship California cleared New York Harbor and began an extraordinary maiden voyage to the Pacific Coast. Built by noted New ...
The Jazz Singer — The Dawn of the “Talkie”
On October 6, 1927, Warner Bros. premiered The Jazz Singer at its Warner Theatre in New York City. Starring vaudeville superstar Al Jolson, the film adapted the popular Broadway play ...
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The Battle of Forts Clinton and Montgomery — The Hudson Highlands Diversion
On October 6, 1777, during the Saratoga campaign, British forces commanded by Lieutenant General Sir Henry Clinton launched a coordinated assault on Forts Clinton and Montgomery in New York’s Hudson ...
The Apalachee Resistance at Anhaica
On October 6, 1539, Hernando de Soto’s Spanish expedition reached Anhaica, the principal town of the Apalachee people, in what is now Tallahassee, Florida. Earlier that year, de Soto had ...
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The Resolute Desk Moves to the Broadcast Room
Following the Truman renovation of the White House from 1948 to 1952, the Resolute Desk was moved to the Broadcast Room on the Ground Floor. The move placed one of ...
Derbigny — Legal Architecture and a Sudden Demise
On October 6, 1829, Pierre Auguste Charles Bourguignon Derbigny, Louisiana’s sixth elected governor, died in Gretna after injuries sustained three days earlier in a carriage accident. Born in France in ...
George Westinghouse — Revolutionizing Railway Safety
Born on October 6, 1846, in Central Bridge, New York, American inventor and industrialist George Westinghouse became one of the most consequential technological pioneers of the industrial age. After serving ...
George Hopkins — The Castaway of Devils Tower
On October 6, 1941, professional parachutist George Hopkins was rescued from the summit of Devils Tower in Wyoming, ending a six-day ordeal atop America’s first national monument. What began as ...
General Howe’s Dog — A Moment of Revolutionary Courtesy
On October 6, 1777, two days after the Battle of Germantown, General George Washington sent an unusual message to his British adversary, General Sir William Howe. A dog that had ...
Benjamin Franklin’s Humble Arrival in Philadelphia
On October 6, 1723, seventeen-year-old Benjamin Franklin arrived at Philadelphia’s Market Street wharf exhausted, hungry, and nearly penniless. He had run away from an unhappy apprenticeship under his older brother, ...
Carole Lombard — The Sparkle of Screwball Comedy
Born Jane Alice Peters on October 6, 1908, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Carole Lombard became one of the great comic stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age. After making her film debut ...
Bette Davis — Artistry and Activism of a Hollywood Legend
On October 6, 1989, the legendary American actress Bette Davis died of cancer at the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine, outside Paris, at the age of eighty-one. Her death marked the ...
Dr. J. W. Gidley — Excavating the Deep Past
On October 6, 1924, a photograph captured Dr. James Williams Gidley examining a massive fossil tooth from an extinct elephant. Gidley, a vertebrate paleontologist at the Smithsonian’s United States National ...
