This Week in History

October 6

Tommy Nestor was born.

1927 – “The Jazz Singer,” the first full-length talking picture, starring Al Jolson, debuted.

1973 – The Yom Kippur War began when Syria and Egypt attacked Israel.

October 7

Kaitlin McVeigh was born.

Leo Fahey was born.

1849 – Poet-writer Edgar Allan Poe died at age 40.

2003 – California governor Gray Davis was recalled and former bodybuilder and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected in his place.

October 8

John McCann was born.

John McFadden was born.

Kenny Pena was born.

1956 – Don Larsen of the New York Yankees pitched the first and only perfect game in a World Series.

2004 – Martha Stewart began her prison sentence at Alderson Federal Prison Camp.

October 9

Rowan Powell was born.

1888 – For the first time the public was admitted to the Washington Monument.

1930 – Aviator Laura Ingalls became the first woman to make a solo transcontinental flight across the United States.

October 10

Linda Peavey was born.

Paul King was born.

1886 – The tuxedo dinner jacket made its debut at a ball in Tuxedo Park, N.Y.

1973 – Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned after being charged with tax evasion.

October 11

James Tubridy was born.

Marilyn Cowhey was born.

1962 – The first session of Vatican II was convened by Pope John XXIII.

1984 – Space shuttle Challenger astronaut, Kathryn Sullivan, became the first American woman to walk in space.

October 12

Daniel Twomey was born.

Tommy Greene was born.

1492 – Columbus landed in present-day Bahamas.

2000 – 17 U.S. sailors killed with the terrorist attack on the USS Cole in Yemen.