ON THIS DAY

October 6

1889 – Moulin Rogue opens in Paris.

1948 – Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey finds the first partial fossil skull of Proconsul africanus, an ancestor of apes and humans.

1958 – US nuclear sub USS Seawolf remains a record 60 days under the north pole.

1976 – Cubana Flight 455 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean after two bombs, placed by terrorists with connections to the CIA, explode onboard shortly after taking off from Bridgetown. 73 people died.