Today is Tuesday, Oct. 6, the 279th day of 2009. There are 86 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
On Oct. 6, 1939, during World War II, as remaining military resistance in Poland crumbled, Adolf Hitler delivered a speech to the Reichstag in which he blamed the Poles for the Nazi-Soviet invasion of their country and denied having any intention of war against France and Britain.
ON THIS DATE
In 1884, the Naval War College was established in Newport, R.I.
In 1927, the era of talking pictures arrived with the opening of “The Jazz Singer,” starring Al Jolson.
In 1949, U.S.-born Iva Toguri D’Aquino, convicted of treason for being Japanese wartime broadcaster “Tokyo Rose,” was sentenced to 10 years in prison. (She ended up serving more than six, and was later pardoned by President Gerald Ford.)
In 1973, war erupted in the Middle East as Egypt and Syria attacked Israel during the Yom Kippur holiday.
In 1976, in his second debate with Jimmy Carter, President Gerald Ford asserted there was “no Soviet domination of eastern Europe.” (Ford later conceded he’d misspoken.)
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.
In 2008, President George W. Bush said the U.S. economy was going to be “just fine” in the long run, but cautioned that the massive rescue plan would take time to work. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped to 9,955, its first close below 10,000 since 2004.
Associated Press
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