History for October 6

History for October 6 - On-This-Day.com
George Westinghouse 1846 - Founder of Westinghouse Electric Company and invented railway braking systems, Carole Lombard 1908, Shana Alexander 1925


Hafez Assad (Syria) 1930, Millie Small 1946, Elisabeth Shue 1963

1939 - Adolf Hitler denied any intention to wage war against Britain and France in an address to Reichstag.


1961 - U.S. president John F. Kennedy advised American families to build or buy bomb shelters to protect them in the event of a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union.