Today is Thursday, Oct. 6, the 280th day of 2016. There are 86 days left in the year.

Today’s birthdays: Gerry Adams, the president of Sinn Fein, is 68. CBS chief executive officer Les Moonves is 67. Pro Football Hall of Famer Tony Dungy is 61. Actress Amy Jo Johnson is 46.

In 1683, thirteen families from Krefeld, Germany, arrived in Philadelphia to begin Germantown, one of America’s oldest settlements.

In 1884, the Naval War College was established in Newport, R.I.

In 1939, in a speech to the Reichstag, Chancellor Adolf Hitler of Germany spoke of his plans to reorder the ethnic layout of Europe — a plan that would entail settling the ‘‘Jewish problem.’’

In 1949, Iva Toguri D’Aquino, convicted of treason for being Japanese wartime broadcaster ‘‘Tokyo Rose,’’ was sentenced in San Francisco to 10 years in prison.

In 1973, war erupted in the Middle East as Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack on Israel during the Yom Kippur holiday.

In 1981, President Anwar Sadat of Egypt was shot to death by extremists while reviewing a military parade.

In 1989, actress Bette Davis died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, at age 81.

In 2011, in a poor quality audio recording, a voice identified as that of Moammar Gadhafi called on Libyans to take to the streets and wage a campaign of civil disobedience against the country’s new leader.