On Oct. 6, 1889, the Moulin Rouge in Paris first opened its doors to the public.
In 1908 actress Carole Lombard was born Jane Alice Peters in Ft. Wayne, Ind.
In 1927 the era of talking pictures arrived with the opening of “The Jazz Singer,” a movie starring Al Jolson that featured both silent and sound-synchronized scenes.
In 1939, in an address to the Reichstag, Adolf Hitler denied having any intention of war against France and Britain.
In 1949 President Harry Truman signed the Mutual Defense Assistance Act, totaling $1.3 billion in military aid to NATO countries. Also in 1949 American-born Iva Toguri D’Aquino, convicted of treason for being Japanese wartime broadcaster “Tokyo Rose,” was sentenced in San Francisco to 10 years in prison. (She ended up serving more than 6 years.)
In 1973 the Yom Kippur War began as Egypt and Syria attacked Israel.
In 1976, in his second debate with Jimmy Carter, President Gerald Ford asserted there was “no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.” (Ford later conceded that he had misspoken.)
In 1987 the Senate Judiciary Committee voted 9-5 against the nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court.
In 1989 actress Bette Davis died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France; she was 81.
In 2001 Cal Ripken played his last game in the major leagues as his Baltimore Orioles lost to the visiting Boston Red Sox 5-1.
In 2004 the top U.S. arms inspector in Iraq, Charles Duelfer, reported finding no evidence Saddam Hussein’s regime had produced weapons of mass destruction after 1991.
