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   Today in History | OnThisDay.com to All   
   Today in History for 6th October 2022   
   06 Oct 22 18:47:15   
   
   From: today.in.history.|.onthisday.com@bbs.alt119.net   
      
   Historical Events   
      
   1889 - Moulin Rogue opens in Paris   
      
   1908 - Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina   
      
   1948 - Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey finds the first partial fossil skull of   
   Proconsul africanus, an ancestor of apes and humans on Rusinga Island, Kenya   
      
   1976 - John Hathaway completes 50,600 mile bicycle tour of every continent   
      
   1991 - Orioles' last game at Baltimore's Memorial Stadium (vs Det Tigers)   
      
   2019 - Tens of thousands of Hong Kong protesters march in defiance of a new   
   ban on face masks   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1744 - James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist, born in   
   Glasgow, Scotland (d. 1813)   
      
   1887 - Le Corbusier [Charles Jeanneret], Swiss French architect, city planner   
   and artist (Urbanisme), born in La Chaux-de-Fonds (d. 1965))   
      
   1920 - Lord Donaldson of Lymington, British judge (d. 2005)   
      
   1935 - Vicente Cantatore, Argentine soccer manager (Chile, Real Valladolid,   
   Colo Colo, Real Betis, Sevilla, Sporting de Gijón), born in Rosario,   
   Argentina (d. 2021)   
      
   1970 - Matt Vogel, American puppeteer (Sesame Street, 1996-present; Kermit the   
   Frog, 2017-present; Big Bird, 2018-present), born in Kansas City, Kansas   
      
   1971 - Chris Hudson, NFL strong safety (Jacksonville Jaguars)   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1585 - Luca Cambiaso, Italian painter and sculptor, dies at 57   
      
   1874 - Thomas Tellefsen, Norwegian pianist and composer, dies at 50   
      
   1892 - Alfred Tennyson, writer and British Poet Laureate (The Charge of the   
   Light Brigade), dies at 83   
      
   1976 - Gilbert Ryle, British philosopher (b. 1900)   
      
   2002 - Claus von Amsberg, husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (b. 1926)   
      
   2017 - Terry Downes, British middleweight boxing champion (1961-62), dies at 81   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
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