■ On Oct. 6, 1976, President Gerald R. Ford, in his second debate with Democrat Jimmy Carter, asserted that there was “no Soviet domination of eastern Europe.” (Ford later conceded such was not the case.) ■ In 1683, 13 families from Krefeld, Germany, arrived in Philadelphia to begin Germantown, one of America’s oldest settlements. ■ In 1927, the era of talking pictures arrived with the opening of “The Jazz Singer” starring Al Jolson, a movie featuring both silent and sound-synchronized sequences. read more
Today In History For Thursday, Oct. 6, 2016
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Wed, 10/05/2016 - 6:25pm
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