On This Day in History October 6, 2018

Historical Events 1917  Battle of Passchendaele: Canadian troops capture the village of Passchendaele in the Third Battle of Ypres, after 250,000 casualties on both sides 1939  Adolf Hitler announces plans to regulate Jewish problem 1948  The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake kills 100,000 in the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic 1948  Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey finds the first partial fossil skull of Proconsul africanus, an ancestor of apes and humans on Rusinga Island, Kenya 1951  Joseph Stalin proclaims the Soviet Union has the atomic bomb 1956  Dr Albert Sabin discovers oral polio vaccine More Historical Events Famous Birthdays George Westinghouse (1846 - 1914) Helen Wills Moody (1905 - 1998) Richie Benaud (1930 - 2015) Thor Heyerdahl (1914 - 2002) More Famous Birthdays Famous Deaths Bette Davis (1908 - 1989) Walter Hagen (1892 - 1969) More Famous Deaths