October 6
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\n October 6 is the 279th day of the year (280th in Leap years). There are 86 days remaining.
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Events
- 105 BC - Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict a major defeat on the Roman army of Mallius Maximus
- 891 - Formosus becomes Pope
- 1600 - Jacopo Peri's Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, premieres in Florence
- 1889 - Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture
- 1908 - Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 1927 - Opening of The Jazz Singer, first talking movie
- 1928 - Chiang Kai-Shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China
- 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 Yom Kippur War begins
- 1981 - Anwar al-Sadat is assassinated
- 1998 - Gay-bashing: Near Laramie, Wyoming, University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard is viciously attacked by two assailants for being gay (he dies on October 12).
- 2002 - French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen.
Births
- 1459 - Martin Behaim, navigator, geographer (d. c. 1507)
- 1773 - King Louis-Philippe of France
- 1820 - Jenny Lind, singer
- 1831 - Richard Dedekind, German mathematician (d. 1916)
- 1846 - George Westinghouse, American engineer, inventor (d. 1914)
- 1868 - George Horace Lorimer, editor of the Saturday Evening Post (d. 1937)
- 1882 - Karol Szymanowski, composer (d. 1937)
- 1886 - Edwin Fischer, pianist and conductor (d. 1960)
- 1887 - Le Corbusier, Swiss architect (d. 1965)
- 1905 - Helen Wills Moody, American tennis player (d. 1998)
- 1906 - Janet Gaynor, American actress (d. 1984)
- 1908 - Carole Lombard, American actress (d. 1942)
- 1914 - Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer, leader of the Kon-Tiki expedition (d. 2002)
- 1930 - Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (d. 2000)
- 1930 - Richie Benaud, Australian cricket player
- 1935 - Bruno Sammartino, "The Italian Strongman"
- 1948 - Gerry Adams, Irish politician
- 1950 - David Brin, science fiction author
- 1951 - Manfred Winkelhock, German auto racing driver (d. 1985)
Deaths
- 1892 - Alfred Tennyson, British poet laureate
- 1962 - Tod Browning, American film director
- 1981 - Anwar Sadat, Egyptian president (assassinated)
- 1985 - Murder of PC Keith Blakelock in the Broadwater Farm Riot, London
- 1985 - Nelson Riddle, bandleader (b. 1921)
- 1988 - Larry Walters, who used 45 helium balloons and a lawnchair to propel himself to 16,000 feet in 1982
- 1989 - Bette Davis, American actress
- 1992 - Denholm Elliott, actor
- 1993 - Agnes de Mille, dancer, choreographer
- 1996 - Seymour Cray, American computer pioneer
- 2002 - Claus von Amsberg (76), husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands
Holidays and Observances
October 5 - October 7 - September 6 - November 6 - more historical anniversaries
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