October 6 - Eggs

Eggs

This Day In History

1600

Jacopo Peri's Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance in Florence, signifying the beginning of the Baroque Period

1683

German immigrant families found Germantown in the colony of Pennsylvania, marking the first major immigration of German people to America.

1876

The American Library Association was founded.

1889

American inventor Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.

1927

Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie.

1979

Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.

1995

51 Pegasi is discovered to be the first main sequence star apart from the Sun to have an extrasolar planet orbiting around it.

2007

Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.

Famous Birthdays

1459

Martin (von) Behaim, German mariner, artist, cosmographer, astronomer, philosopher, geographer and explorer (d. 1507)

1732

John Broadwood, Scottish founder of the piano manufacturer Broadwood and Sons (d. 1812)

1744

James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1813)

1769

Sir Isaac Brock, British soldier (d. 1812)

1820

Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (d. 1887)

1846

George Westinghouse, American engineer and inventor (d. 1914)

1887

Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (d. 1965)

1908

Carole Lombard, American actress (d. 1942)

1914

Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer (d. 2002)

1942

Britt Ekland, Swedish actress

1950

David Brin, American science fiction author

1963

Elisabeth Shue, American film actress
1973
Ioan Gruffudd, Welsh actor
1974
Jeremy Sisto, American actor