Refrerence on my Birthday

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On This Day: Friday October 6, 2006

This is the 279th day of the year, with 86 days remaining in 2006.

Fact of the Day: blue jeans

Blue jeans were patented by Jacob Davis and Levi Strauss in 1873 in San Francisco, California. The riveted pants became an instant success with working men because of their durability. The original name for the blue jeans was "waist overalls." In the 1950s, the baby boomers began to refer to the overalls as jeans and in 1960 Levi Strauss & Co. officially adopted the name jeans. From working pants to cowboy pants, to rebellious youth symbols, to designer jeans, in each decade since the first blue jeans were manufactured, jeans have represented their own distinct attitude. In 1885, a new pair of Levi waist overalls cost $1.25.

Holidays

• Feast day of St. Mary Frances of Naples, St. Faith of Agen, St. Nicetas of Constantinople, and St. Bruno.
• Egypt: Armed Forces Day.
• Ireland: Ivy Day.
• United Nations: Children's Day.

Events

• 1683 - The first Mennonites arrived in America aboard the Concord.
• 1769 - English naval explorer Captain James Cook, aboard the Endeavour, landed in New Zealand.
• 1847 - Charlotte Bronte's novel "Jane Eyre" was published in London.
• 1866 - The Reno brothers committed the country's first train robbery, near Seymour, Indiana.
• 1876 - The American Library Association was founded at Philadelphia.
• 1883 - The Orient Express completed its first run from Paris to Constantinople (now Istanbul); it took nearly 78 hours.
• 1884 - Naval War College was established in Newport, Rhode Island.
• 1889 - The Moulin Rouge in Paris first opened its doors to the public.
• 1889 - Thomas Edison showed his first motion pictures.
• 1908 - Austria annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• 1927 - The first successful talking picture was shown: "The Jazz Singer," starring Al Jolson (Warner Brothers), in New York City.
• 1928 - Nationalist General Chiang Kai-shek became president of China.
• 1949 - President Harry Truman signed the Mutual Defense Assistance Act, totaling $1.3 billion in military aid to NATO countries.
• 1961 - U.S. president John F. Kennedy, advised Americans to build or buy a bomb shelter to protect them from atomic fallout in the event of a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union.
• 1965 - Patricia Harris took a post as U.S. Ambassador to Belgium, becoming the first African-American U.S. ambassador.
• 1973 - War erupted in the Middle East as Egypt and Syria attacked Israel on the Jewish holy day of Yom Kippur, beginning the Yom Kippur War.
• 1974 - "Monty Python's Flying Circus" debuted on TV.
• 1979 - Pope John Paul II, on a U.S. tour, became the first pontiff to visit the White House.
• 1981 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was shot to death by extremists at a military rally.
• 1994 - Michael Jordan announced his retirement from professional basketball to play professional baseball.

Births

• 1820 - Jenny Lind, "The Swedish Nightingale" Swedish singer.
• 1846 - George Westinghouse, American inventor, developer of AC electricity, founder of Westinghouse Electric Company.
• 1887 - Le Corbusier, Swiss architect.
• 1905 - Helen Wills Moody, American professional tennis champion.
• 1906 - Janet Gaynor (Laura Gainor), American actress, winner of the first Academy Award.
• 1908 - Carole Lombard (Jane Peters), American actress.
• 1914 - Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer, anthropologist, and author.
• 1983 - MM was born ^.^
  

Deaths

• 1536 - William Tyndale, English translator of the "New Testament," burned at the stake for heresy in France.
• 1637 - Ben Jonson, English poet and dramatist.
• 1892 - Alfred Tennyson, English poet.