October 6......

October 6 is the 279th day of the year (280th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 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.

● 1683 - Thirteen families from Krefeld, Germany, arrived in present-day Philadelphia to begin Germantown.

● 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.

● 1854 - The Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead was ignited a little after midnight, leading to 53 deaths and hundreds of injured.

● 1884 - The Naval War College of the United States Navy was founded in Newport, Rhode Island.

● 1889 - The Moulin Rouge cabaret opened in Paris.

● 1889 - Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.

● 1898 - Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity founded at the New England Conservatory in Boston, Massachusetts.

● 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 - The era of talking pictures arrived with the opening of ''The Jazz Singer'' starring Al Jolson.

● 1928 - Chiang Kai-Shek becomes Chairman of the Republic of China.

● 1939 - Last Polish army is defeated in World War II.

● 1939 - In an address to the Reichstag, Adolf Hitler denied having any intention of making war against France and Britain.

● 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).

● 1949 - American-born Iva Toguri D'Aquino, convicted as Japanese wartime broadcaster Tokyo Rose, was sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined $10,000.

● 1953 - Britain sends troops to Guiana; Naval and military forces are on their way to British Guiana in response to what the UK Government says is a threat to the administration of the British colony.

● 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, destroying the fortified Israeli Bar-Lev Line and starting the Yom Kippur War (named as such because it was during the Yom Kippur high holy days). Heavy fighting erupted between Arab and Israeli forces along two fronts as Egypt and Syria attempt to re-take land occupied since 1967.

● 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 - Massacre of students gathering at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand to protest the return of ex-dictator Thanom by a coalition of right-wing paramilitary and government forces, triggering the return of the military to government.

● 1976 - In a debate with Democratic candidate Jimmy Carter, President Gerald R. Ford asserted there was ''no Soviet domination of eastern Europe.'' Ford later conceded that he had misspoken.

● 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.

● 1979 - President Carter praises Pope's courage; John Paul II has become the first Pope to set foot in the White House after greeting US President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn. The meeting of the 39th President of the United States with the 264th Roman Pope broke a 200-year-old tradition which has seen few US politicians publicly courting the Catholic Church.

● 1981 - Egypt's President Anwar al-Sadat is shot to death by Islamic militants while reviewing a military parade.

● 1985 - Policeman killed in Tottenham riots; A police officer is hacked to death by a mob during riots at the Broadwater Farm housing estate in North London.

● 1986 - Nuclear technician missing after secrets leak; Fears grow for the missing nuclear technician who has disappeared in London. (Turns out he was kidnapped by Israelis.)

● 1987 - The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 9-5 against the nomination of Robert H. Bork to the Supreme Court. Bork would refuse to have his name withdrawn and go down to defeat in the whole Senate.

● 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 (an 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 - Milosevic quits, street celebrations continue; Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic resigns under mounting pressure after allegations of vote-rigging.

● 2002 - The French oil tanker Limburg is bombed off Yemen.

● 2002 - Opus Dei founder Josemaría Escrivá is canonized.

● 2004 - The top U.S. arms inspector in Iraq, Charles Duelfer, reported finding no evidence Saddam Hussein's regime had produced weapons of mass destruction after 1991.

BIRTHS

● 1289 - King Wenceslaus III of Bohemia and Hungary (1301-04) (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)

● 1744 - James McGill, Scottish-born Canadian fur trader, merchant and politician (d. 1813)

● 1769 - Sir Isaac Brock, British politician and soldier; important figure in War of 1812 (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)

● 1866 - Reginald Fessenden, Canadian-born inventor and radio pioneer (d. 1932)

● 1867 - George Horace Lorimer, American editor of the Saturday Evening Post (d. 1937)

● 1872 - Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian writer (d. 1936)

● 1876 - Ernest Lapointe, French Canadian politician (d. 1941)

● 1882 - Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer and pianist (d. 1937)

● 1886 - Edwin Fischer, Swiss pianist and conductor (d. 1960)

● 1887 - Le Corbusier, Swiss-born French 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, the world's top female tennis player for nearly a decade (d. 1998)

● 1906 - Janet Gaynor, American actress (d. 1984)

● 1908 - Carole Lombard, American actress (d. 1942)

● 1908 - Sergei Lvovich Sobolev, Russian mathematician (d. 1989)

● 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)

● 1921 - Yevgeniy Landis, Russian mathematician (d. 1997)

● 1922 - Joe Frazier, baseball player

● 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 and professional wrestler

● 1938 - Serge Nubret, French bodybuilder

● 1942 - Britt Ekland, Swedish actress

● 1942 - Millie Small, Jamaican singer

● 1942 - Fred Travalena, Comedian

● 1943 - Michael Durrell, American actor

● 1943 - Alexander Maxovich Shilov, Russian painter

● 1946 - Lloyd Doggett, American politician

● 1946 - Tony Greig, South African-born cricketer

● 1946 - Millie Small, Singer

● 1948 - Gerry Adams, Northern Irish politician

● 1950 - David Brin, American author

● 1950 - Thomas McClary, American guitarist (Commodores)

● 1951 - Manfred Winkelhock, German race car driver (d. 1985)

● 1951 - Kevin Cronin, Rock musician (REO Speedwagon)

● 1952 - Ayten Mutlu, Turkish poet and writer

● 1953 - Klaas Bruinsma, Dutch drug lord (d. 1991)

● 1954 - David Hidalgo, Rock musician (Los Lobos)

● 1955 - Tony Dungy, head football coach (Indianapolis Colts)

● 1963 - Chip Foose, Automobile Customizer

● 1963 - Elisabeth Shue, American film actress

● 1964 - Matthew Sweet, Rock singer

● 1965 - Ruben Sierra, baseball player

● 1966 - Niall Quinn, Irish footballer

● 1966 - Jacqueline Obradors, Actress

● 1966 - Tim Rushlow, Country singer

● 1966 - Tommy Stinson, Rock musician

● 1969 - Troy Shaw, English snooker player

● 1969 - Adrienne Armstrong, wife of Billie Joe Armstrong

● 1970 - Darren Oliver, baseball 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

● 1977 - Daniel Brière, National Hockey League player

● 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

● 1413 - 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)

● 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)

● 1951 - Will Keith Kellogg, American food manufacturer (Kellogg Company) (b. 1860)

● 1959 - Bernard Berenson, American art historian (b. 1865)

● 1973 - François Cevert, French race car driver {b. 1944}

● 1973 - Sidney Blackmer, American actor (b. 1895)

● 1978 - Johnny O'Keefe, Australian singer (b. 1935)

● 1962 - Tod Browning, American film director (b. 1880)

● 1980 - Hattie Jacques, British comedy actress (b. 1922)

● 1980 - Jean Robic, French cyclist (b. 1921)

● 1981 - Anwar Sadat, President of Egypt, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (assassinated, shot to death by Islamic militants while reviewing a military parade) (b. 1918)

● 1983 - Terence Cardinal Cooke, American Catholic archbishop (b. 1921)

● 1985 - Nelson Riddle, American bandleader (b. 1921)

● 1986 - Alexander Kronrod, Russian mathematician (b. 1921)

● 1989 - Bette Davis, American actress (b. 1908)

● 1992 - Denholm Elliott, English actor (b. 1922)

● 1992 - Bill O'Reilly, Australian cricketer (b. 1902)

● 1997 - Johnny Vander Meer, baseball player (b. 1914)

● 1998 - Mark Belanger, Major League Baseball player (b. 1944)

● 1999 - Amalia Rodrigues, Portuguese singer and actress (b. 1920)

● 1999 - Gorilla Monsoon, Professional wrestler/commentator (b. 1937)

● 2000 - Richard Farnsworth, American actor (b. 1930)

● 2002 - Claus von Amsberg, Prince of the Netherlands and husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands (b. 1926)

● 2003 - Timothy Treadwell, Enviromentalist (b. 1957)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic Saints
● Saint Bruno
● St Faith

● Eastern Orthodox Saints and observances
● Holy and glorious Apostle Thomas
● Martyr Macarius at Kion in Bithynia (1590)
● Woman-martyr Erotheis of Cappadocia
● Saint Cindeus of Cyprus, monk
● Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "All-Hymned Mother"
● Glorification of Saint Innocent, Enlightener of the Aleuts and Apostle to the Americas

● Egypt - Armed Forces Day; commemorates the October war of 1973.

● U.S. - German-American Day observed since 1987

● Judaism - Fast of Gedalia (2005)

● Ireland - Ivy Day commemorates the death of Charles Stewart Parnell.

● French Republican Calendar - Âne (Donkey) Day, fifteenth day in the Month of Vendémiaire


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Additional facts taken from:

The BBC Take on the day

On this day in the New York Times