October 6

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 {b. 1944}
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

External links

BBC: On This Day

October 5 - October 7 - September 6 - November 6 – more historical anniversaries

Gourt Home::Gourt :: October 6

Events

Births

Deaths

Holidays and observances

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