World War 1 and 2 - October 6

October 6 is the 279th day of the year (280th in Leap years). There are 86 days remaining.

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1 Events

Events

105 BC - Battle of Arausio: The Cimbri inflict a major defeat on the Roman army of Mallius Maximus
891 - Formosus becomes Pope
1582 - Due to the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.
1600 - Jacopo Peri's Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, premieres in Florence
1884 - The Naval War College of the United States Navy was founded in Newport, Rhode Island.
1889 - Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.

1903 - The High Court of Australia sits for the first time.
1908 - Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina.
1921 - International PEN is founded in London.
1927 - Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent 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
1976 - Cubana CUT-1201 crashes due to sabotage, 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.
1978 - Anni-Frid "Frida" Lyngstad and Benny Andersson, members of the Swedish pop group ABBA, are married. Incidentally, this is also the day that their single "Summer Night City" hits No.1 in Sweden.
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.
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).

1962 - Tod Browning, American film director
1981 - Anwar Sadat, Egyptian president (assassinated) (b. 1918)
1983 - Terence Cardinal Cooke, tenth bishop (seventh archbishop) of the Roman Catholic diocese of New York (b. 1921)
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, suicide (b. 1949)
1989 - Bette Davis, American actress (b. 1908)
1992 - Denholm Elliott, English actor (b. 1922)
1993 - Agnes de Mille, American dancer, choreographer (b. 1905)

German-American Day (U.S. observance, since 1987)
National Day or Victory Day in Egypt; celebrates the results of the October war in 1973

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