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Today in History: October 6

105 BC
Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict the heaviest defeat on the Roman army of Gnaeus Mallius Maximus.

1014
The Byzantine Emperor Basil earns the title "Slayer of Bulgers" after he orders the blinding of 15,000 Bulgerian troops.

1536
William Tyndale, the English translator of the New Testament, is strangled and burned at the stake for heresy at Vilvorde, France.

1847
Charlotte Bronte's novel Jane Eyre is published in London.

1927
The first "talkie," The Jazz Singer, opens with popular entertainer Al Jolson singing and dancing in black-face. By 1930, silent movies were a thing of the past.

1973
Israel is taken by surprise when Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Jordan attack on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, beginning the Yom Kippur War.

1995
Astronomers discover 51 Pegasi is the second star known to have a planet orbiting it.

2007
Explorer and author Jason Lewis becomes the first person to complete a human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.

2018
Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed and sworn onto the US Supreme Court amid protests and after an FBI investigation

2021
Los Angeles votes in some of the strictest COVID-19 vaccine mandates in the country, requiring vaccinations before people can enter indoor businesses and events

2023
New research confirms fossil footprints 23,000-21,000 years old at White Sands National Park, New Mexico, probably the oldest evidence of humans in the Americas


Today in History: Born on October 6

1846
George Westinghouse, prolific inventor, held over 100 patents on creations including air brakes for trains.

1914
Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian anthropologist and explorer.

1931
Riccardo Giacconi, Italian astrophysicist ; won Nobel Prize in Astrophysics for his pioneering contributions that led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources.

JOTD

A mob dragged a man into a police station for running over 11 people, while shouting "Monster!" "Murderer!" "Killer! ".

The policeman dispersed the crowd and began to interrogate the suspect.

The policeman : Tell me what happened.

The suspect : Sir I was driving home within the speed limit when my brakes failed. I had no choice but to either crash the car into a group of 10 people or to swerve into the direction of a single person. Am I a monster for deciding to swerve into the single person?

Policeman : No, that sounds like a difficult yet reasonable decision to make. But tell me how did you end up killing 11 people?

Suspect : Well that a-hole ran towards the other 10.