The Impossible Planet
On October 6, 1995, two Swiss astronomers announced the first planet ever found around a Sun-like star — a scorching gas giant so close to its sun that it defied every theory of how planets form.
On October 6
America's First Train Robbery
On October 6, 1866, the Reno brothers boarded an Ohio & Mississippi train near Seymour, Indiana, and invented a brand-new American crime: robbing a moving train.
The German Mayflower
On October 6, 1683, the ship Concord landed 13 German families at Philadelphia — the 'German Mayflower' voyage that founded Germantown and opened two centuries of German immigration to America.