On This Day - Back in time on 6 October
In 1536, English religious reformer and translator of the Bible's New Testament, William Tyndale, was strangled and burned at the stake for heresy at Vilvorde, France.
In 1809, poet Alfred 'Lord' Tennyson is born in Lincolnshire.
In 1847, Jane Eyre is published by Smith, Elder and Co. Charlotte Bronte, the book's author, used the pseudonym Currer Bell.
In 1866, the brothers John and Simeon Reno stage the first train robbery in American history, making off with $13,000 from an Ohio and Mississippi railroad train in Jackson County, Indiana.
In 1889, Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.
In 1914, Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian anthropologist and explorer, is born in Larvik, Norway.
In 1927, "Jazz Singer,"starring Al Jolson, the first movie with a sound track, premieres in New York City.
In 1959, Soviet Luna 3, the first successful photographic spacecraft, impacts with the Moon.
In 1961, President John F. Kennedy, speaking on civil defence, advises American families to build bomb shelters to protect them from atomic fallout in the event of a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union.
In 1976, John Hathaway completes a bicycle tour of every continent in the world, cycling 50,600 miles in the process.
In 1978, Ayatolloh Khomeini, Iranian religious leader opposed to the Shah, is granted asylum in France after being expelled from Iran.
In 1981, Egyptian president and Nobel Peace Prize recipient Anwar Sadat is killed by Muslim extremists while he is reviewing a military parade commemorating the 1973 Egyptian-Israeli War.
In 1989, actress and Oscar-winning Hollywood legend Bette Davis dies at the age 81 from breast cancer in a suburb of Paris, France. During a career that spanned more than three decades, Davis appeared in some 80 films.
In 1994, South African President Nelson Mandela addresses a joint session of US Congress.
In 2002, Mick Jagger donates £100,000 to his old Grammar school in Dartford to help pay for a music director and buy musical instruments.
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