Today is Thursday, October 6, the 279th day of 2011. There are 86 days left in the year.
1863 ― Dr. Charles H. Sheppard opens the first public bath, in Brooklyn
1889 ― Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture
1890 ― Mormon Church outlaws polygamy
1908 ― Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina
1923 ― First NL unassisted triple play (Ernie Padgett, Braves against Phillies)
1923 ― USSR adopts experimental calendar
1928 ― Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of China
1939 ― Hitler announces he has no attention of war with Britain and France
1959 ― Soviet Luna 3, first successful photographic spacecraft, impacts Moon
1991 ― Elizabeth Taylor weds for the eighth time (Larry Fortensky)