October 6
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is the 279th day of the year (280th in leap years). There are 86 days remaining.
Events
- 105 BC - Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict a major defeat on the Roman army of Gnaeus Mallius Maximus.
- 68 BC - Battle of Artaxata: Lucullus averts the bad omen of this day by defeating Tigranes the Great of Armenia.
- 891 - Formosus becomes Pope.
- 1582 - Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
- 1600 - Jacopo Peri's Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, premieres in Florence.
- 1789 - French Revolution: Louis XVI returns to Paris from Versailles after being confronted by the Parisian women on 5 October
- 1849 - The execution of the 13 Martyrs of Arad after the Hungarian war of independence.
- 1884 - The Naval War College of the United States Navy was founded in Newport, Rhode Island.
- 1889 - Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.
- 1898 - Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity founded at the New England Conservatory in Boston.
- 1903 - The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
- 1908 - Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- 1921 - International PEN is founded in London.
- 1922 - The great powers of the first world war withdraw from Istanbul
- 1927 - Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie.
- 1928 - Chiang Kai-Shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.
- 1939 - Last Polish army is defeated in World War II.
- 1945 - Baseball: Bill Sianis and his pet billy goat are ejected from Wrigley Field during Game 4 of the 1945 World Series (see Curse of the Billy Goat).
- 1955 - A United Airlines DC-4 crashes in Medicine Bow Peak, Wyoming, killing 66 people
- 1966 - LSD is declared illegal in the United States.
- 1973 - The Crossing: 80,000 Egyptian troops cross the Suez Canal, starting the Yom Kippur War. 2-28 Air Battle: 2 Israeli Phantoms shot down 7 Egyptian MiG-17s.
- 1976 - Cubana Flight 455 crashes due to a bomb placed by anti-Castrist militants, after taking off from Bridgetown, Barbados.
- 1976 - New Premier Hua Guofeng orders the arrest of the Gang of Four and their associates, putting an end to the Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China.
- 1976 - Students gathering at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand to protest the return of ex-dictator Thanom are massacred by a coalition of right-wing paramilitary and government forces, triggering the return of the military to government.
- 1977 - In Alicante, Spain, a group of MCPV militants and sympathizers were attacked by fascists while putting up posters. Miquel Grau, a 20-year old MCPV sympathizer, is killed.
- 1981 - Anwar al-Sadat is assassinated.
- 1995 - 51 Pegasi, in the constellation of Pegasus, 47.9 light-years away from Earth, was discovered to be the first major star apart from the Sun to have a planet (and extrasolar planet) orbiting around it.
- 1996 - American singers Faith Hill and Tim McGraw married after touring on their Spontaneous Combustion Tour.
- 1998 - Gay-bashing: Near Laramie, Wyoming, University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard is viciously attacked by two assailants for being gay (he died on October 12).
- 2000 - Slobodan Milošević resigns.
- 2002 - The French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen.
- 2002 - Opus Dei founder Josemaría Escrivá is canonized.
Births
- 1289 - King Wenceslaus III of Bohemia (d. 1306)
- 1459 - Martin Behaim, German navigator and geographer (d. 1507)
- 1510 - Rowland Taylor, English clergyman (d. 1555)
- 1552 - Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit missionary (d. 1610)
- 1573 - Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, English patron of the theater (d. 1624)
- 1610 - Charles de Sainte-Maure, duc de Montausier, French soldier (d. 1690)
- 1716 - George Montague-Dunk, 2nd Earl of Halifax, English statesman (d. 1771)
- 1769 - Sir Isaac Brock, British commander (d. 1812)
- 1773 - King Louis-Philippe of France (d. 1850)
- 1801 - Hippolyte Carnot, French statesman (d. 1888)
- 1803 - Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist (d. 1879)
- 1820 - Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (d. 1887)
- 1831 - Richard Dedekind, German mathematician (d. 1916)
- 1838 - Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (d. 1910)
- 1846 - George Westinghouse, American engineer and inventor (d. 1914)
- 1872 - Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian writer (d. 1936)
- 1882 - Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer and pianist (d. 1937)
- 1886 - Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (d. 1960)
- 1887 - Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (d. 1965)
- 1888 - Roland Garros, French pilot (d. 1918)
- 1900 - Stan Nichols, English cricketer (d. 1961)
- 1903 - Ernest Walton, Irish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
- 1905 - Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (d. 1998)
- 1906 - Janet Gaynor, American actress (d. 1984)
- 1908 - Carole Lombard, American actress (d. 1942)
- 1910 - Barbara Castle, British politician (d. 2002)
- 1912 - Pauline Gore, mother of American Vice President Al Gore (d. 2004)
- 1914 - Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer (d. 2002)
- 1917 - Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights activist
- 1920 - Pietro Consagra, Italian sculptor (d. 2005)
- 1920 - Lord Donaldson of Lymington, British judge (d. 2005)
- 1925 - Shana Alexander, American columnist (d. 2005)
- 1930 - Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (d. 2000)
- 1930 - Richie Benaud, Australian cricket player
- 1931 - Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh, Russian astronomer (d. 2004)
- 1931 - Riccardo Giacconi, Italian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1935 - Bruno Sammartino, Italian strongman
- 1938 - Serge Nubret, French bodybuilder
- 1942 - Britt Ekland, Swedish actress
- 1943 - Michael Durrell, American actor
- 1943 - Alexander Maxovich Shilov, Russian painter
- 1945 - Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, President of Brazil
- 1946 - Lloyd Doggett, American politician
- 1946 - Tony Greig, South African-born cricketer
- 1948 - Gerry Adams, Northern Irish politician
- 1950 - David Brin, American author
- 1951 - Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (d. 1985)
- 1953 - Klaas Bruinsma, Dutch drug lord (d. 1991)
- 1963 - Chip Foose, Automobile Customizer
- 1963 - Elisabeth Shue, American film actress
- 1966 - Niall Quinn, Irish footballer
- 1969 - Troy Shaw, English snooker player
- 1972 - Mark Schwarzer, Australian footballer
- 1973 - Sylvain Legwinski, French footballer
- 1973 - Jeff Davis, American comedian
- 1973 - Ioan Gruffudd, Welsh actor
- 1973 - Rebecca Lobo, American basketball player
- 1974 - Walter Centeno, Costa Rican footballer
- 1976 - Taylor Hicks, American Idol Season 5 Winner
- 1981 - Zurab Khizanishvili, Georgian footballer
- 1981 - José Luis Perlaza, Ecuadorian footballer
- 1982 - MC Lars, American hip-hop artist
Deaths
- 1014 - Samuil, Tsar of Bulgaria (b. 958)
- 1101 - Bruno of Cologne, German founder of the Carthusian order
- 1403 - Dawit I, Emperor of Ethiopia (b. 1382)
- 1536 - William Tyndale, English Bible translator (burned at the stake)
- 1542 - Thomas Wyatt, English poet (b. 1503)
- 1641 - Matthijs Quast, Dutch explorer
- 1644 - Elisabeth of France, wife of Philip IV of Spain (b. 1602)
- 1660 - Paul Scarron, French writer
- 1661 - Guru Har Rai, seventh Sikh Guru
- 1688 - Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle, English statesman (b. 1652)
- 1762 - Francesco Manfredini, Italian composer (b. 1684)
- 1873 - Sir Paweł Edmund Strzelecki, Polish explorer and geologist (b. 1797)
- 1891 - Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish politician (b. 1846)
- 1892 - Alfred Lord Tennyson, British poet (b. 1809)
- 1912 - Auguste Marie Francois Beernaert, Belgian statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1829)
- 1946 - Johnny O'Keefe, Australian singer (b. 1935)
- 1947 - Leevi Madetoja, Finnish composer (b. 1887)
- 1951 - Otto Fritz Meyerhof, German-born physician and biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1884)
- 1959 - Bernard Berenson, American art historian (b. 1865)
- 1973 - Francois Cevert, French race car driver
- 1962 - Tod Browning, American film director (b. 1880)
- 1980 - Hattie Jacques, British comedy actress (b. 1922)
- 1981 - Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (assassinated) (b. 1918)
- 1983 - Terence Cardinal Cooke, American Catholic archbishop (b. 1921)
- 1985 - Nelson Riddle, American bandleader (b. 1921)
- 1989 - Bette Davis, American actress (b. 1908)
- 1992 - Denholm Elliott, English actor (b. 1922)
- 1992 - Bill O'Reilly, Australian cricketer (b. 1902)
- 1999 - Amalia Rodrigues, Portuguese singer and actress (b. 1920)
- 1999 - Gorilla Monsoon, Professional wrestler/commentator (b. 1937)
- 2000 - Richard Farnsworth, American actor (b. 1930)
- 2003 - Timothy Treadwell, Enviromentalist (b. 1957)
Holidays and observances
- RC Saints - Saint Bruno, St Faith
- Also see October 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Egypt - National Day or Victory Day; celebrates the results of the October war in 1973
- U.S. - German-American Day observed since 1987; Mad Hatter Day
- Judaism - Fast of Gedalia (2005)
- Ireland - Ivy Day, formerly honoring the Irish revolutionary Padraig Pearse, commemmorates the death of Charles Stewart Parnell.
- French Republican Calendar - Âne (Donkey) Day, fifteenth day in the Month of Vendémiaire
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