6th Oct: Today In History

Today is Tuesday, October 6, the 279th day of 2015. There are 86 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
1927 - "Jazz Singer," 1st movie with a sound track, premieres (NYC) 

1948 - The 1948 Ashgabat earthquake kills 100,000 in the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic.


1951 - Stalin proclaims USSR has atom bomb.

1956 - Dr Albert Sabin discovers oral polio vaccine.

1995 - 51 Pegasi was discovered to be the first major star apart from the Sun to have a planet (and extrasolar planet) orbiting around it.

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